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Bottom Feeders: The Ass End of the ’90s, Vol. 15

Bottom Feeders: The Ass End of the ’90s, Vol. 15

Dave Steed April 16, 2012 20

Marc Cohn and the slurricane in the same story? Wow.

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Song for the Soundtrack of Your Date (No Date) Tonight

Song for the Soundtrack of Your Date (No Date) Tonight

Leslie Liberatore February 24, 2012 0

Tonight's date song tips the hat to a Tom Moulton remix of little known soul singer Patti Jo. Ms. Jo's "Make Me Believe in You" was also covered by Curtis Mayfield a year after

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Greatest Un-Hits: Carly Simon’s “Let the River Run” (1988)

Greatest Un-Hits: Carly Simon’s “Let the River Run” (1988)

Brian Boone February 8, 2012 5

Carly Simon's song from Working Girl was the first Oscar-winning song in a decade not to be a smash hit, and also it was by the iconic Carly Simon. What gives

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Bootleg City: Only the Good Die Young (The Rest Pray for Early Parole)

Robert Cass April 1, 2011 1

The incarcerated mayor of Bootleg City was deeply disappointed to hear that HarperCollins has canceled the publication of Billy Joel's memoir, The Book of Joel, but a 1976 bootleg of the Piano Man in

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Versionality: “Into the Mystic”

Kelly Stitzel March 17, 2011 7

To celebrate St. Patrick's Day, Kelly Stitzel discusses her favorite Van Morrison song and its many cover versions

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CD Review: Delaney & Bonnie, “On Tour With Eric Clapton” (Deluxe Edition)

Matt Wardlaw September 13, 2010 7

By the time On Tour with Eric Clapton was released in 1970, the husband/wife pairing of Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett could loosely be placed in the category of “seasoned veterans” within the music industry,

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Bottom Feeders: The Rock End of the ’80s, Part 10

Dave Steed July 21, 2010 19

This week we continue on with the letter C and visit some more tracks that hit the rock charts but never crossed over to the Billboard Hot 100 in the 1980s. Tom Cochrane &

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Soundtrack Saturday: “Bull Durham”

Scott Malchus July 11, 2009 22

Scott Malchus pinch-hits for Kelly Stitzel with a post on Ron Shelton's classic baseball film, Bull Durham (1988)

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DVD Review: “Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace and Music Director’s Cut”

Ken Shane June 19, 2009 6

There’s a well-known saying that if you think Woodstock was great, you weren’t there. The point is that the mud, drugs, lack of food and water, and often bad music made the whole thing

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Popdose Flashback: Michael Bolton, “Soul Provider”

Rob Smith April 13, 2009 7

In Bull Durham, Kevin Costner’s character Crash Davis chides Nuke LaLoosh (Tim Robbins) for his laziness and lack of focus on the game of baseball. “You got a gift,” he says. “When you were

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