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Styx Confuses “Re-Recorded” with “Regeneration”
Turns out they really do have too much time on their hands
Read More »Podcast: The Matt ‘N’ Jeff Radio Hour – Episode 1
Matt Wardlaw and Jeff Giles launch a brand new podcast with 35 minutes of Bruce Hornsby worship as they discuss Hornsby's new live album
Read More »Here’s Something Else!: Sorting Through The Curious Mysteries of Styx
A band suspended forever between the formalism of Dennis DeYoung’s Broadway pretentions and the harder-edged banalities of James Young and Tommy Shaw, Styx sounded different every time it came on the radio. Yet, critics
Read More »Bottom Feeders: The Rock End of the ’80s, Part 47
Grace Slick takes us down the "Sea of Love" which Tommy Shaw reminds us there's "No Such Thing" as bad '80s music. Oh, how wrong that statement is.
Read More »Bootleg City: Merry Styxmas!
It's Styxmas in Bootleg City, which means lots of heartfelt yet bombastic pop-rock caroling, tons of Mr. Roboto action figures under the tree, and a bootleg from October 31,
Read More »The Popdose Podcast: Episode 13
What happens when pop culture forces collide, and why do they almost always suck? Matt Wardlaw, Michael Parr, and Dave Lifton discuss it on the Popdose Podcast!
Read More »Popdose Flashback ’90: Damn Yankees, “Damn Yankees”
In the spring of 1990, I was in the middle of the first long-term relationship of my adolescent life. By “long-term,” I mean “six months,” but hey, when you’re teetering on the cusp of
Read More »The Twenty-Second Day of Mellowmas: DeYoungmas
This Mellowmas, we've heard bluegrass, tween pop, and Lemmy, but precious little in the way of old-fashioned Mellow Gold -- until now. It's Dennis DeYoung!
Read More »Bottom Feeders: The Ass End of the ’80s, Part 79
Glad you stopped by for the third week of artists whose names begin with the letter S, as we continue looking at the bottom three-fifths of the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1980s.
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