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Greatest Un-Hits: Daft Punk’s “Da Funk” (1997)
Daft Punk is a household name for music nerds now, and all the kids on the playground wear helmets and robot suits and speak French. Their sophomore album Discovery was a massive hit with
Read More »Greatest Un-Hits: Fretblanket’s “Into the Ocean” (1997)
In the post-Nirvana, post-grunge rock landscape, dominance by a new genre was totally up for grabs. Would it be power pop, a la Matthew Sweet? Lite grunge, or “mallternative”? Britpop? Mallternative (Candlebox, Collective Soul, Seven
Read More »CD Review: Oasis, “Time Flies … 1994 – 2008
As often happens these days, this collection is being released in several formats. This is a review of the standard, two-CD set that has been released in the United States … “Oasis will become
Read More »Bootleg City: The Political Scandal of the Decade of the Week!
A few weeks ago, concerned (i.e. nosy, spiteful, possibly dating archnemesis Matt Wardlaw) citizen-journalist Annie Zaleski leaked a letter I wrote, one that would let all of my constituents know where I’d been since
Read More »Bootleg City: Ride in Cambridge, March ’91
Last week in Bootleg City, it was discovered that Mayor Cass had gone missing after what appeared to be a New Year’s Eve celebration in his office. The only clue to his whereabouts was
Read More »Mix Six: “Beatlesque”
DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE Call this mix the postscript of Beatles Week at Popdose … a postscript that’s a couple of weeks late! But better late than never, right? There’s been a lot
Read More »Pop Goes the World: Attic Lights
Welcome to my brand-new column Pop Goes the World, which aims to serve as an antidote of sorts to the sad, sad, sad world of Mope Like Me. (That scream you just heard is
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