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Desert Island Discs With John Common

Popdose Staff January 4, 2012 0

A little classical, a little jazz, a little Leonard Cohen...singer/songwriter John Common gives us his five Desert Island Discs

Ticket Stub: Ry Cooder in Sausalito, July ’74

Jeff Giles January 12, 2011 1

I love Ry Cooder’s music in almost all of its many guises, as you may already know, so I was thrilled to find this terrific in-studio set lurking in Wolfgang’s Vault. Recorded on Cooder’s

DVD Review: Revisiting “Paris, Texas”

Bob Cashill February 4, 2010 2

1984 was a great year for foreign-language and independent cinema in the U.S. Off the top of my head I can recall seeing the following at Chicago’s Fine Arts Theater, sadly defunct by the

CD Review: Various Artists, “Where the Action Is! L.A. Nuggets 1965 – 1968″

Ken Shane October 13, 2009 6

Just a week or so after tackling Rhino’s massive Big Star release, Keep An Eye on the Sky, I’m back writing about another huge effort from Rhino, Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets

The Popdose Interview: Joachim Cooder

Mojo Flucke January 1, 2009 1

Joachim Cooder produced his dad Ry’s new retrospective double disc The UFO Has Landed; he got to make the ultimate mixtape by picking which cuts would represent the elder Cooder’s four decades’ worth of

Listening Booth: Ry Cooder, “The UFO Has Landed”

Jeff Giles October 29, 2008 6

Ry Cooder – The UFO Has Landed (2008) purchase this album (Amazon) It’s a hundred degrees in the shade, easy, and you’ve been hiding from the worst of the heat in this tiny bordertown

(Vinyl Record Day) Mix Six: “Soundtrack Sounds of the ’80s”

Ted Asregadoo August 12, 2008 16

DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE When you’re a young adult and trying to find your way in the world, it can be a very liberating period.Â It’s a time when your tastes aren’t solidified,

Listening Booth: Ry Cooder, “I, Flathead”

Ken Shane July 30, 2008 1

The final entry in Ry Cooder’s California trilogy, I, Flathead finds Cooder exploring the Southern California drag-racing culture that centered on the state’s salt flats. Much like the first entry in the series, 2005’s

Freshly Unwrapped: New Music Releases, 6/24/08

Jeff Giles June 23, 2008 8

Gerald Albright, Sax for Stax (Peak) purchase this album (Amazon) He’s become known mainly for his smooth jazz sides, but Albright’s chops are too big for any single genre — and this collection, which