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CD Review: Michael Jackson, “Michael”
In time travel movies, the big difficulty the characters are always concerned about is the paradox. Don’t do this, this or that or else you’ll bring on a paradox, it’ll destroy time-space and we’ll
Read More »Friday Night Videos!: The Hits of 1989
If you’re holding your breath for the day MTV starts playing music videos again, let it go. It’s never going to happen, not while there’s still a heart-rending story, about some brat that didn’t
Read More »The Popdose Podcast: Episode 13
What happens when pop culture forces collide, and why do they almost always suck? Matt Wardlaw, Michael Parr, and Dave Lifton discuss it on the Popdose Podcast!
Read More »Soul Serenade: Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers, “Does Your Mama Know About Me”
In 1968, the guitarist for an obscure group wrote a song that became a Top 30 hit. He went on to legendary success, but not as a songwriter
Read More »Uncovered: Randy Newman, “Born Again”
Artist Mike Salisbury reflects on an amazing career, and discusses his work on Randy Newman's Born AgainRead More »
Bootleg City: Who’s Bad?
Yesterday morning I decided to take a leisurely bike ride along Whiskey River, the main waterway that runs through Bootleg City. (Technically, the river is one-tenth moonshine due to a leak from Matthew Boles’s
Read More »Bootleg City: It Is Not Matt Wardlaw’s Destiny to Experience the Triumph of Victory
In addition to letting perennial electoral bridesmaid Matt Wardlaw write a chapter of my autobiography in exchange for bailing me out of an Arizona jail, I had to agree to give him “equal time”
Read More »The Popdose Guide to Michael Jackson, Part Four
On the one-year anniversary of Michael Jackson's death, Mike Heyliger concludes his four-part guide to Jackson's music
Read More »The Popdose Guide to Michael Jackson, Part Three
Mike Heyliger's tribute to the King of Pop moves into the Jackson 5's post-Motown era -- and some of their greatest success
Read More »The Popdose Guide to Michael Jackson, Part Two
Mike Heyliger continues his guide to Michael Jackson's discography with a look at the King of Pop's early solo years
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