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Random Play: The Smiths, “The Queen Is Dead”
Bigmouth strikes again: Robin Monica meets you at the cemetry gates to observe the 25th anniversary of the seminal British album
Read More »The Friday Mixtape: 10/29/10 — Fiendishly Yours
This week, The Friday Mixtape has been specially super-sized in order to provide you with 31 fiendishly good songs to keep you grim and grinning throughout the Halloween weekend.
Read More »CD Review: “Inception: Music from the Motion Picture”
Warner Bros. Records sent me Hans Zimmer’s soundtrack to this week’s much-anticipated blockbuster Inception. Cards on the table: While I certainly respect writer-director Christopher Nolan, I wasn’t crazy about The Dark Knight, and his
Read More »Vinyl Review: 7 Worlds Collide, “The Sun Came Out”
7 Worlds Collide, spearheaded by Crowded House’s Neil Finn, is a loose collective formed with friends, acquaintances and contemporaries coming together in a studio to hash out some songs. It’s a nice concept, though
Read More »Pop Goes the World: “Ruby Trax,” Disc 3
This week, David Medsker reaches the third and final disc of the NME's 40th birthday compilation, featuring covers both ridiculous and sublime
Read More »CD Review: 7 Worlds Collide, “The Sun Came Out”
The coolest thing about 7 Worlds Collide’s The Sun Came Out is also its biggest flaw: Namely, that “group” founder Neil Finn brought the whole damn thing together — all two discs and 24
Read More »Popdose Flashback: Kirsty MacColl, “Kite”
In this week's installment of Popdose Flashback, Jack Feerick reminds us why no home should be without a copy of Kirsty MacColl's KiteRead More »
Lost in the ’90s: Kirsty MacColl, “Walking Down Madison”
She’s the voice you hear on the Smiths’ “Ask” and Morrissey’s “Interesting Drug.” She’s the salty dame calling Shane McGowan a “cheap lousy faggot” on the Pogues’ “Fairtytale Of New York.” And she’s one
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