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Who’s More Evil: The Doors Or The Eagles?

Who’s More Evil: The Doors Or The Eagles?

Popdose Staff September 14, 2011 41

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

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The Popdose Interview: Garland Jeffreys Returns from “In Between”

Jim Morrison June 20, 2011 0

“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

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TV Review: “When You’re Strange: A Film About the Doors” (PBS American Masters)

Ken Shane May 12, 2010 12

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

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CD Review: The Doors, “Live in New York”

Ken Shane November 17, 2009 1

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

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Lost in the ’80s: Fields of the Nephilim

Ben Wiser September 1, 2009 9

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

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Popdose Flashback: The Cult, “Sonic Temple”

Dw. Dunphy July 27, 2009 5

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

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Unsolicited Career Advice for… Scott Weiland

Rob Smith March 23, 2009 1

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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Sugar Water: Break On Through (To Another Side of Acting)

Robert Cass February 10, 2009 27

“A liar lies and a thief steals from you, but a hustler gives you something that you don’t mind parting with your money for. You’re entertained by the meal or the sex or the

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