Ken Shane
October 9, 2008
John Lennon would have been 68 years old today. God bless you, John. We miss you, and we need you more than ever. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/I-NRriHlLUk" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent"
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Ken Shane
October 8, 2008
Like many other people, I welcomed Lucinda Williams into my life with the release of the Grammy-winning Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, in 1998. Over the course of the last 10 years, I’ve
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Ken Shane
October 2, 2008
I guess it’s true: absence does make the heart grow fonder. Of course, there’s always the “out of sight, out of mind” risk. Fortunately for My Bloody Valentine, the former is the case, as
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Ken Shane
October 1, 2008
Work or play. Family or friends. Protein or carbohydrates. Life is about seeking balance. Lindsey Buckingham has been seeking balance too. In his case, the challenge is to balance his intriguing, but sometimes erratic
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Ken Shane
September 17, 2008
Christmas Eve, 1970. I was at the Fillmore East to see Laura Nyro. A month earlier, Nyro had released her fourth album, Christmas and the Beads of Sweat, and it had taken up more
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Ken Shane
September 3, 2008
Brian Wilson – That Lucky Old Sun purchase this album (Amazon) “Genius is the ability to make something very complex seem very simple.” There goes my lead. Brian Wilson speaks to The Guardian, and
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Ken Shane
August 15, 2008
A song comes on the radio. It’s one of those songs that has defined your life. It could be Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, or Wilson Pickett. If your romantic life has been like mine,
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Ken Shane
August 13, 2008
Tepoztlan, Morelas, Mexico is a place known for Aztec magic and extra-terrestrial sightings — so it only seems natural that Conor Oberst would head down there to record his latest album, his first solo
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Ken Shane
August 6, 2008
Randy Newman will be 65 years old in November. On his first album of new material since 1999’s Bad Love, he emphatically demonstrates that he has not lost one bit of his rather unique
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Popdose Staff
August 4, 2008
The Popdose staff was sitting around the other day, doing what we do best — namely, talking about records that most people wish they didn’t remember — when a discussion about the Moody Blues’
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