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Like, Omigod! Digging Through the ’80s Pop Culture Box, Part 13

Like, Omigod! Digging Through the ’80s Pop Culture Box, Part 13

Popdose Staff May 8, 2013 11

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

Confessions of a Steampunk Siren: Jody Ellen of Abney Park

Keith Creighton September 11, 2012 1

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”

Album Review: TalkFine, “Lesser Known Hits”

Michael Fortes May 22, 2012 3

Brooklyn synth pop duo TalkFine revel in the comic absurdity of urban awkwardness on their new album, Lesser Known Hits

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2011 Outlook: Thomas Dolby, the Raveonettes, and More

Dw. Dunphy February 9, 2011 9

More music news from Popdose, including Thomas Dolby, Greg Dulli's Twilight Singers, and Queens of Dogtown, from the Showtime series CalifornicationRead More »

The Friday Mixtape: 10/29/10 — Fiendishly Yours

Will Harris October 29, 2010 9

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.

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Bottom Feeders: The Rock End of the ’80s, Part 14

Dave Steed August 18, 2010 39

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

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The Friday Mixtape: 10/2/09

Dw. Dunphy October 2, 2009 6

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

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Pop Goes the World: Thomas Dolby, “Eastern Bloc”

David Medsker May 20, 2009 17

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

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Bottom Feeders: The Ass End of the ’80s, Part 26

Dave Steed September 24, 2008 36

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

Why You Should Like… Thomas Dolby

John C. Hughes February 27, 2008 253

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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