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Soundtrack Saturday: “The Sure Thing”
John Cusack goes on a cross-country journey with Daphne Zuniga to find The Sure Thing and Kelly Stitzel finally decides to go along for the ride
Read More »CD Review: Billy Squier, “Don’t Say No: 30th Anniversary Edition”
30 years. Jesus. Really? I was in Chicago earlier this summer and had a brief visit with my longtime frenemy and Popdose colleague Robert Cass. During conversation, I was expressing to Cass how many
Read More »DVD Review: Chickenfoot, “Get Your Buzz On Live”
Chickenfoot. When word of the band name of Sammy Hagar’s new “supergroup” leaked out, half the internet responded by saying “that’s the dumbest band name I’ve ever heard…..and just when I thought Sammy couldn’t
Read More »Death by Power Ballad: Van Halen, “Love Walks In”
Rob Smith gets back into the "Dave vs. Sammy" argument in this week's Death by Power Ballad column on Van Halen's "Love Walks In," on on Popdose.com
Read More »Ticket Stub: Sammy Hagar in San Francisco, May ’79
Walking through the mobile home that functioned as the broadcast headquarters for the West Texas radio station KWES-FM, we made a stop in the middle room, which was the “promotions department” for the station.
Read More »Bootleg City: Night Ranger in Los Angeles, September ’85
This holiday season will offer you 7 Wishes. But what will you wish for first? Will it be the Jack Blades posable action figure? Dressed in authentic Midnight Madness-era stage attire, this incredibly lifelike replica
Read More »CD Review: Kiss, “Sonic Boom”
Any good label manager would tell you: don’t name your album something a reviewer could turn into a catchy, snarky counterpoint. But as we know far too well, most of the labels are hanging
Read More »Basement Songs: Sammy Hagar, “Marching to Mars”
Scott Malchus returns to the basement for another week, and regales us with the story of how Sammy Hagar sparked a personal epiphany
Read More »The Friday Mixtape: 7/17/09
“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
Read More »Mix Six: “Supergroup … or Superdud?”
DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE On paper, it sounds like a moneymaking formula: take individual members from successful bands, put them together in a supergroup to make music, record the magic, and watch album
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