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Popdose Flashback ’91: Big Audio Dynamite II, “The Globe”
No one could top the Clash, so Mick Jones didn't try...instead, he forged his own path with the brainy dance music of Big Audio Dynamite. Robin Monica Alexander looks back at "The Globe."
Read More »Bottom Feeders: The Rock End of the ’80s, Part 27
Dave Steed takes a Journey into the "Electric Eye" of the '80s with more of your favorite and least favorite rock hits of the decade.
Read More »Cratedigger: The Clash, “The Clash”
The self-titled debut album from the Clash knocked the music world on its ass in 1977, but it took two more years to reach US shores
Read More »Popdose Flashback ’90: Cheap Trick, “Busted”
In a very personal Flashback '90, Popdose writer Michael Fortes revisits the lows and highs of Cheap Trick's Busted, song by song
Read More »CD Review: Big Audio Dynamite, “This Is Big Audio Dynamite (Legacy Edition)”
“Big Audio Dynamite was born from the ashes of the Clash, something Mick (Jones) was never allowed to forget (hell, why should he!), and I was always aware of the shadow that the Clash
Read More »Ticket Stub: Foreigner in Atlanta, November ’79
Some times you have to give in to nostalgia, which is why I found myself at a St. Louis area casino a few weeks ago to see Foreigner. A note had been left with
Read More »You Again?: Foreigner, “Can’t Slow Down”
Hey, who are those dudes? Believe it or not, it's the 2009 version of Foreigner -- and they've got a new album, Can't Slow Down, that leaves Jeff Giles repeating his now-familiar query: "You
Read More »Dw. Dunphy On… An Open Letter to Mick Jones
This week, I’m taking a cue from Popdose’s own Uncle Donnie (and not from my cousin Donnie, thank you very much) to offer up a little pre-emptive career advice. It was made known recently
Read More »Basement Songs: Big Audio Dynamite II, “Rush”
I’m running through the streets of industrial Los Angeles cursing to myself. My eyes are searching, desperately scanning the sidewalk and disintegrating asphalt for a coat hanger. The sun beats down on me, I’m
Read More »The Popdose Interview: Dave Wakeling
This is how the history of Dave Wakeling goes: The English Beat, General Public, solo career, then back to General Public, and then to bring it nicely full circle, back to the English Beat
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