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The New Release Report: 2/26/13
The latest Thom Yorke side project, Atoms for Peace, is one of several quality new releases out this week!
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Orianthi Finds Heaven at the Gates of Hell: The Popdose Interview
Most people only know axe shredder Orianthi for the company she keeps: Carrie Underwood on the 2009 Grammys, Michael Jackson’s doomed This Is It tour and Alice Cooper’s current jaunt around the world. Still,
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World’s Worst Songs: The Michael Bolton Lifetime Achievement Award
We probably shouldn’t even go here. We should probably listen to the small voice inside that keeps us from playing with matches, drinking and driving, and buying short shorts. But we will not. Twenty
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Digging for Gold: The Time-Life “AM Gold” Series, Part 7
Put your headphones on and your cares away, and come back with us once again to the world of Time-Life's "AM Gold" -- 1963 style!
Read More »Bottom Feeders: The Rock End of the ’80s, Part 6
It’s another week for the letter B as we take a look at songs that hit the Billboard Rock charts but failed to cross over into the Hot 100 in the 1980s. Rock ‘n’
Read More »Rob Smith Can’t Say No: Michael Bolton, “Live at the Royal Albert Hall”
Much as he might want to, Popdose's Rob Smith Can't Say No to the new live DVD from Michael Bolton. Check out his review at Popdose.com
Read More »Ticket Stub: Emerson, Lake & Palmer in Wheeling, November ’77
For those of you that read my Ticket Stub piece last week regarding Michael Bolton, I should tell you that good portions of that were nothing more than an April Fool’s joke. I think
Read More »Ticket Stub: Michael Bolton in Dallas, May ’83
There are some oddities in the Concert Vault. Oddities like a 1983 Michael Bolton gig from Dallas, TX, when Bolton was hanging on the frayed edges of a failed attempt at success as a
Read More »You Again?: Michael Bolton, “One World, One Love”
Some albums defy the usual judgments of good or bad—they’re just wrong. I’m thinking of Liz Phair’s major label records (with the exception of the chorus of “Extraordinary”); or Sonny Bono’s post-divorce nervous breakdown
Read More »CD Review: Kiss, “Sonic Boom”
Any good label manager would tell you: don’t name your album something a reviewer could turn into a catchy, snarky counterpoint. But as we know far too well, most of the labels are hanging
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