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Like, Omigod! Digging Through the ’80s Pop Culture Box, Part 13
Here’s where we start digging into Disc 4 of the seven-disc box set Like, Omigod! The ’80s Pop Culture Box (Totally). Let’s waste no time — grab your shovels and let’s go! #1 Greg
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Confessions of a Steampunk Siren: Jody Ellen of Abney Park
If you believe the legends, mad scientists, aviators, steamship captains and brave warriors have been adventuring between the past, present and future for more than a century. Jules Verne was the first to chronicle
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Album Review: TalkFine, “Lesser Known Hits”
Brooklyn synth pop duo TalkFine revel in the comic absurdity of urban awkwardness on their new album, Lesser Known Hits
Read More »The Friday Mixtape: 10/29/10 — Fiendishly Yours
This week, The Friday Mixtape has been specially super-sized in order to provide you with 31 fiendishly good songs to keep you grim and grinning throughout the Halloween weekend.
Read More »Bottom Feeders: The Rock End of the ’80s, Part 14
It’s the last week for the letter D, as we take a look at more tracks that hit the Rock charts but failed to cross over to the Billboard Hot 100. Dire Straits “Expresso
Read More »The Friday Mixtape: 10/2/09
The important thing to remember is that I didn’t set out to make this mix as it is. The initial concept was to pull out the box of CDs I seldom listen to and
Read More »Pop Goes the World: Thomas Dolby, “Eastern Bloc”
Our Lord Jefito surely has a dozen stories on Giant Records and the litany of mistakes they made as a company – he seems to have at least one story for every label, further
Read More »Bottom Feeders: The Ass End of the ’80s, Part 26
One of the things I just love doing that doesn’t happen much anymore is laying on the couch, in the dark, listening to an album. As I get older, I’m going to bed earlier,
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Why You Should Like… Thomas Dolby
Ah, Thomas Dolby. No, please don’t instantly yell “SCIENCE!” Yes, he’s primarily pigeonholed as a one-hit wonder, with “She Blinded Me With Science” still getting played nearly daily on ’80s flashback radio, but that
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