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Basement Songs: Marshall Crenshaw, “Someday, Someway”
Begin 2012 with a new Basement Song and some vintage Marshall Crenshaw
Read More »Digging for Gold: The Time-Life “AM Gold” Series, Part 2
The second installment of Digging for Gold explores more of 1962's hippest tunes. And Gene Pitney
Read More »Greatest Un-Hits: Graham Parker’s “Local Girls” (1979)
Not that it’s a bad thing at all, but Graham Parker sounds almost exactly like Joe Jackson, Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, the Jam, and Marshall Crenshaw. Parker had been toiling as a quirky and
Read More »Basement Songs: Marshall Crenshaw, “Right on Time”
You don’t come across many throwback love songs like this one, with a driving beat that beckons the open road and your hands pounding on the dashboard.
Read More »The Friday Mixtape: 9/18/09
Remember that mixtape from last week? One hundred Beatles covers? That thing was EPIC! It was freaking magnificent! Yup… That was… really something. Well, then. Midnight Oil – Under The Overpass from Capricornia (2002)
Read More »Bootleg City: Lindsey Buckingham, 12/10/92
I was beginning to think I’d never find a tough lawman to clean up Bootleg City, especially after my faux pas-filled interview with Marshall Crenshaw. (I won’t bore you with the details of my
Read More »Bootleg City: Marshall Crenshaw
When the economy’s bad, crime get worse. That’s why I decided to hire a new lawman to clean up this one-horse-because-of-all-the-horse-thieves town. I know what you’re thinking: “It’s called Bootleg City. If you outlaw
Read More »The Popdose Interview: Marshall Crenshaw
It’s been a busy time lately for Marshall Crenshaw: He released his 10th studio album, Jaggedland, last month; it’s his first proper release in six years, and his first for the Santa Monica-based label
Read More »The Friday Mixtape: 6/19/09
You guys give up, or you thirsty for more? Bobby Jimmy & the Critters – Roaches from Look at All These Roaches [12"] (1986) Bread – The Guitar Man from Guitar Man (1972) George
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