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Unsolicited Career Advice for … David Lee Roth

Rob Smith August 10, 2009 8

Does this man look like he needs career advice? Rob Smith's Uncle Donnie Skwatzenschitz thought so

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Death by Power Ballad: A Tribute to Marcel Jacob

Rob Smith August 3, 2009 4

Our DbPB salute to Jim Peterik will conclude in two weeks. We interrupt that series to mark the recent passing of one of the cornerstones of modern melodic rock, bassist Marcel Jacob. My long

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L.A.-Area Benefit Alert: Kelly Buchanan

Rob Smith July 29, 2009 4

Last September, the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) held a benefit in New York City for Kelly Buchanan, an independent singer/songwriter who suffered a traumatic brain injury and has been unable

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Unsolicited Career Advice for … Billy Squier

Rob Smith July 27, 2009 19

Uncle Donnie apparently had a short-lived career in producing music videos, back in the early days of MTV. Lev let that one slip one night while we were doing shots of Dubra in Cassie

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The Friday Mixtape: 7/17/09

Rob Smith July 17, 2009 9

“Favorite Zeroes” “Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.”—Sergei Rachmaninov “Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.”—Plato “A wop-bop-a-loo-bomp. Alop-bam-boo.” —Little

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The Night We All Agreed on Michael Jackson

Rob Smith June 27, 2009 14

Stay tuned throughout the weekend as we continue our tribute to Michael Jackson, with reflections and remembrances from the Popdose staff

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Death by Power Ballad: Jimi Jamison, “As Is”

Rob Smith June 22, 2009 7

The next few DbPB installments will feature the work of a man who, to these ears, has contributed as much as if not more than any other artist to the power ballad arts and

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Bride of Popdose: A Wedding Songs Mixtape

Jon Cummings May 29, 2009 49

The Popdose Staff, led by the intrepid Jon Cummings, has banded together to present a mixtape full of songs from our own weddings. Walk down the aisle with us, won't you

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Unsolicited Career Advice for … Lou Reed

Rob Smith May 18, 2009 8

Lou Reed has a way of polarizing lovers of rock and roll, breaking up marriages, sending brothers off to war against one another, etc.  Uncle Donnie gets Lou, though, at least enough to be

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Unsolicited Career Advice for… Jandek

Rob Smith May 4, 2009 4

To know the unknowable is one of the great pursuits of sentient beings everywhere.  Has been for as long as there’s been sentient beings.  But to truly know the unknowable (or at least be

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