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Who’s More Evil: The Doors Or The Eagles?
On the surface, it wouldn’t seem like these two bands have a lot in common, but look beyond that: These mainstays of classic rock radio into a Deathmatch were both from LA, did mountains
Read More »The Popdose Interview: Garland Jeffreys Returns from “In Between”
“I’m on the 90-year-plan,” Garland Jeffreys cracks. When you’re helping to raise a 15-year-old daughter and your first album in 13 years is hitting the market this week, there’s a reason to map out
Read More »TV Review: “When You’re Strange: A Film About the Doors” (PBS American Masters)
You probably decided whether you are going to watch the latest installment of the great PBS series American Masters tonight when you saw the title. Because when it comes to the Doors, opinion is
Read More »CD Review: The Doors, “Live in New York”
Earlier this week, I posted an item to Twitter (sorry, I refuse to use the word ‘tweeted’ in regard to any action I’ve ever taken) saying that I was listening to Rhino’s latest box
Read More »Lost in the ’80s: Fields of the Nephilim
My colleague John Hughes has graciously let me take the wheel today for this edition of Lost in the ’80s. Fields of the Nephilim were the gothedelic deathrock cowboys of the apocalypse – dressed
Read More »Popdose Flashback: The Cult, “Sonic Temple”
Things should have been going swimmingly for The Cult. Their album Electric had succeeded in becoming the biker-rock record they hoped it would be – raw, straight-ahead and helmed by a fledgling production wunderkind
Read More »Unsolicited Career Advice for… Scott Weiland
Uncle Donnie gets pissed very rarely, but when he does he can certainly lay into you. I wonder what Scott Weiland thought when he got this. —RS TO: Scott Weiland FROM: Don Skwatzenschitz RE:
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