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CD Review: Lifehouse, “Smoke and Mirrors”
Lifehouse fascinates me in many ways, none of them musical. For instance, who would have guessed these guys would still be around ten years after “Hanging by a Moment,” let alone have enough major
Read More »Whoops!: Wilson Pickett, “American Soul Man”
Everyone makes mistakes -- even a soul legend like Wilson Pickett, as Jeff Giles discovers in the inaugural edition of a new series looking at the worst albums from respected artists
Read More »CD Review: Ringo Starr, “Y Not”
I know that I have a tendency to dwell on the past, but it seems somehow sad to me that the release of a new album by a member of the Beatles no longer
Read More »The Twenty-Second Day of Mellowmas: DeYoungmas
This Mellowmas, we've heard bluegrass, tween pop, and Lemmy, but precious little in the way of old-fashioned Mellow Gold -- until now. It's Dennis DeYoung!
Read More »CHART ATTACK!: 12/2/89
Hello again, everybody, and welcome to the final CHART ATTACK! of 2009! In case you haven’t noticed, Popdose has been pretty much taken over by horrible, horrible holiday music, and I’m smack in the
Read More »Letter from the Editor: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Kind of Like the Fray
Earlier this year, on my Twitter feed, I said something to the effect of “I can think of no argument against Demi Lovato’s music career.” It was a statement I thought twice about making
Read More »White Label Wednesday: Animotion, “Obsession”
Rockwell once said he felt like somebody was watching him. Odds are, it was Animotion. Have you taken a close look at the lyrics to “Obsession” lately? This gives “Every Breath You Take” and
Read More »CHART ATTACK!: 8/19/89
Hello, everybody! I’ll be honest with you — this chart kind of stinks. I mean, it’s not “wretched,” but I wouldn’t say it’s “good by any stretch of the imagination,” either. But you know
Read More »Dw. Dunphy On… The Tubes
In a recent smackdown bitch slap Chartburn discussion that will be published tomorrow, we had cause to discuss the merits of “She’s a Beauty” by the Tubes. I won’t disclose the consensus, because we’d
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