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Popdose Roundtable: Artists We Used to Love (And Why We Stopped Loving Them)
The Popdose staff sits down for an in-depth discussion of how much it hurts to break up with a favorite artist
Read More »The Weekly Mixtape: 3/11/11 (Paving Memory Lane)
Fall into a Memory Lane pothole of Nineties goodness, in the Popdose Weekly Mixtape
Read More »Greatest Un-Hits: The Go-Go’s, “The Whole World Lost Its Head” (1994)
A look at songs that aren’t necessarily good or bad, merely ones that, because of the climate of the music world during their release, somehow, someway, were not the massive hit songs they should
Read More »Numberscruncher: Music, Books, and Liz Phair
I admit it. I’m one of the people who loved Liz Phair in the early days and who is confused by the choices she has made. It’s an old and tired story, though, so
Read More »DVD Review: The Rolling Stones, “Stones in Exile” — Win a Copy!
On May 18 of this year, the Rolling Stones released a remastered and expanded edition of what is arguably the greatest rock and roll album ever made, Exile On Main Street. You can read
Read More »CD Review: Liz Phair’s “Funstyle” — Great, When It’s Not Shit
The news spread across my Twitter feed late yesterday afternoon like a pixelated wildfire: 1) Liz Phair had a new single out; 2) It was fucking horrible. These things are true. Liz Phair does
Read More »Soundtrack Saturday: “Stealing Beauty”
I have a thing for films about a woman’s journey of self-discovery that take place against the backdrop of scenic Italy. There’s Under the Tuscan Sun, the 2003 film based on Frances Mayes’s memoir
Read More »Hooks ‘N’ You: Gary Clark, Songwriter-Producer at Large
When we last left our hero, Gary Clark, he was discussing his career as a recording artist…and if you missed it, then you must immediately haul yourself over to Part One, which can be
Read More »Dw. Dunphy On… The New Indie Stereotypes
I posted an unsympathetic, knee-jerk response to a review on an indie-rock site, not to the review but to the band and the name of their album. The band is Rabbit Is A Sphere
Read More »Freshly Unwrapped: New Music Releases, 6/24/08
Gerald Albright, Sax for Stax (Peak) purchase this album (Amazon) He’s become known mainly for his smooth jazz sides, but Albright’s chops are too big for any single genre — and this collection, which
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