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The Popdose Podcast: Episode 23 – R.I.P., Phil Ramone
Dave, Jeff and Jason return with a look at the career of producer Phil Ramone, who passed away on March
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bLISTerd: The 100 Best Albums of the ’70s: Part Two
Will the second installment of our list of the '70s best albums leave your knickers in a bunch? Don't worry, the Popblerd team won't take you on the highway to hell!
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The Popdose Interview: Sixto Rodriguez
Ken Shane sits down with newly rediscovered superstar Sixto Rodriguez
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Boxed In: The Top Music Reissues of 2012
Every year, while lording over an impressive amount of music catalogue news and views at my site, The Second Disc, I think the same thing at the end of every year: this is it.
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The #1 Albums: Simon and Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water”
Several songs on Simon and Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water seem so perfect it’s as though they must always have existed. Surely the title song, “El Condor Pasa,” and “The Boxer” waited somewhere in
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The #1 Albums: Simon and Garfunkel’s “The Graduate” and “Bookends”
There was nothing hippie about Simon and Garfunkel, really. Among the general run of late 60s pop stars, they were remarkably straight. That’s not to say they didn’t appeal to stoners. On the contrary:
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The Popblerd Halftime Report: Mike D.’s Best Reissues of the Year (So Far)
The best reissues, remasters and box sets of the first half of 2012, picked by Mike Duquette of The Second Disc
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New Music: Jason Myles Goss, “Radio Dial”
Singer-songwriter Jason Myles Goss will release his fourth album, “Radio Dial” on June 17, and it’s a surefire candidate to place high on my Top Ten list. I first heard of Goss when he
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A Fan’s Notes: Peter Gabriel, “New Blood – Live In London” (Blu-ray)
A new setting for some classic songs makes for one of the finest concert films in recent memory
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SXSW: It’s Not All About Music, But Almost
Austin’s SXSW festival has earned its unruly reputation for the five-day bacchanal of live music that ends this spring event each year. Many people who’ve come to town in past years seemed truly surprised
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