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The Popdose Guide to Utopia

Anthony Hansen June 17, 2009 56

Missing the Popdose Guides? You'll be pleased to make the acquaintance of Anthony Hansen, who makes his debut with the Popdose Guide to Todd Rundgren's Utopia

The Popdose Guide to Jimmy Smith

Mojo Flucke May 25, 2009 13

For all the Hammond-deficient Memorial Day barbecues out there, Mojo Flucke has prepared a treat: The Popdose Guide to Jimmy Smith

The Popdose Guide to Marti Jones

Jon Cummings March 2, 2009 21

To fans of her four albums of marvelous acoustic pop in the mid-to-late ’80s, Marti Jones seemed on the cusp of becoming the next (albeit far hipper) Linda Ronstadt. Jones had inherited La Ronstadt’s

The Popdose Guide to Juliana Hatfield

Michael Fortes August 18, 2008 18

Listening to rock radio in the early ’90s — particularly the college and ‘alternative’ varieties — was an experience like no other. The ratio of tolerable to intolerable music was so high that no

The Popdose Guide to the Pogues

Jack Feerick July 29, 2008 12

In The Pogues’ breakthrough 1988 single “Fairytale of New York” (download), songwriter Shane MacGowan and guest vocalist Kirsty MacColl portray a codependent couple. He’s an aging alcoholic, gone beyond repentance, no longer even able

The Popdose Guide to Del Amitri

David Eastman July 22, 2008 29

A drunk, an atheist and a poet walk into a bar. They’re all the same guy, and there is no punchline. Welcome to Del Amitri! Anchored by the stereotypically “dour Scot” Justin Currie, Del

The Popdose Guide to Badfinger

Michael Fortes April 15, 2008 20

Few bands in the history of rock n’ roll have been simultaneously as lucky and doomed as Badfinger. Lucky because they were not only one of the wildly eclectic assortment of artists the Beatles

The Popdose Guide to Matthew Ryan

Jeff Giles April 1, 2008 16

Yes, gentle readers, we treated you to an interview with Matthew Ryan on Monday, and today — which just happens to be the day his new album comes out — we’re giving him the

The Popdose Guide to Chris Whitley

Jeff Giles March 25, 2008 18

(This guide was originally published in 2005, before Chris Whitley’s passing. It’s been expanded and edited, but may still contain a few vestiges of its original form. Apologies in advance.) Let’s talk about the

The Popdose Guide to David Mead

Jeff Giles March 18, 2008 15

He hasn’t released nearly as many albums as most (all?) of our previous subjects, but David Mead is a perfect Popdose Guide artist — which is to say that vast portions of his catalog

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