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Digging for Gold: The Time-Life “AM Gold” Series, Part 28
Ready to wrap up our discussion of Time-Life's "AM Gold: 1968"? Too bad, we're going to talk about "American Pie" instead
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Greatest Un-Hits: The Slits’ “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” (1979)
The Slits’ cover of “I Heard it Through the Grapevine” should have been that one song from the weird, still-breaking genre of punk that got some radio play and introduced the mainstream to something
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The Popdose Podcast – Popdose Presents: Songs of Freedom, Episode One
In the first episode of "Popdose Presents: Songs of Freedom", Popdose music contributor Matthew Bolin and Lyana Fernandez look at R.E.M., P.J. Harvey, and how the internet changes the way we look at political
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Digging for Gold: The Time-Life “AM Gold” Series, Part 11
Another Wednesday, another batch of AM Gold for your listening pleasure. This week rolls on with the third installment from
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The Weekly Mixtape: Songs for a Weary Land
Rob Smith looks back at music that provided some small comfort after 9/11/2001, in this week's "Weekly Mixtape."
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Soul Serenade: Marvin Gaye, “Baby Don’t You Do It”
The Holland-Dozier-Holland song "Baby Don't You Do It" had some great cover versions, but it's hard to to to the Marvin Gaye original
Read More »Soul Serenade: The Marvelettes, “Playboy”
The Marvelettes were Motown's first successful female group, and they scored the company's first number one pop hit. In all they scored 21 hits in eight years
Read More »Soul Serenade: The Ronettes, “Be My Baby”
In which our own Ken Shane and Jim Fusilli of the Wall Street Journal debate the merits of Phil Spector's work in light of his murder conviction
Read More »Here’s Something Else!: Kicking It Old School, Marvin Gaye edition
Marvin Gaye’s 1971 masterpiece What’s Going On doesn’t simply boast the gospel influence that marks so much of America’s most transformative works in blues and R&B. The album actually has the consistently challenging depth
Read More »Soul Serenade: Marvin Gaye, “What’s Going On”
May 21 marked the 40th anniversary of the release of Marvin Gaye's landmark album What's Going On. Ken Shane has an appreciation
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