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The Weekly Mixtape: Popdose Flashback ’91 — The Beat Mix
In between more timely projects and content, the Popdose staff are dissecting albums from 1991, which happens to be one of my favorite years of music. It was also right around the time
Read More »Bootleg City: It Is Not Matt Wardlaw’s Destiny to Experience the Triumph of Victory
In addition to letting perennial electoral bridesmaid Matt Wardlaw write a chapter of my autobiography in exchange for bailing me out of an Arizona jail, I had to agree to give him “equal time”
Read More »Bootleg City: Ride in Cambridge, March ’91
Last week in Bootleg City, it was discovered that Mayor Cass had gone missing after what appeared to be a New Year’s Eve celebration in his office. The only clue to his whereabouts was
Read More »Bottom Feeders: The Ass End of the ’80s, Part 81
We soldier on this week with more songs from the bottom three-fifths of the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1980s, made by artists whose names begin with the letter S. Enjoy. Simply Red
Read More »Redeeming Rod: Soulbook, the Faces, and Further Nails in the Coffin
One minute, twenty-two seconds. That’s how long Rod Stewart’s new album, Soulbook, actually gave me some hope that it might be something more than the latest in a series of cash-grab albums that started
Read More »White Label Wednesday: Medsker’s 2000 Beat Mix
First and foremost, I would like to extend a hearty thank you to frequent Popdose reader and commenter King of Grief, who volunteered to take my individual mp3 files for these mixes and stitch
Read More »Mope Like Me: PhD, “I Won’t Let You Down”
I will not rest until Simply Red covers this song. For someone who has gotten almost as cover-friendly in his autumn years as UB40, I’m frankly surprised this hasn’t happened yet. After all, once
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