On the occasion of its 20th anniversary, Kelly Stitzel revisits Deee-Lite’s sophomore effort, Infinity Within.
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D.X. Ferris
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Welcome to Suburban Metal Dad, Popdose’s resident webcomic. It runs every Monday and Friday. Each edition of SMD features Sort-Of Soundtrack, an optional metal song that plays in a new window. Click…
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J.A. Bartlett
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If you like music and you like to write, challenge yourself with this task: Say something fresh about Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. When the album’s 40th anniversary was celebrated…
Keith Creighton
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My favorite album of the 2011, by a landslide, was only recently released in the United States. I ordered it last May from Amazon.co.uk and it was worth every pound….
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Popdose Staff
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The Popdose staff weighs in on the departure of vocalist Geoff Tate from venerable progressive metal band QueensrÁ¿che.
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Ken Shane
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The O’Jays are best known as a hit-making trio, but they started as a quintet, and had one of their earliest hits as a quartet.
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Jeff Giles
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While Paul Simon’s Graceland celebrates its 25th anniversary, a group of musicians rediscovers the bonds between Appalachia and Nepal.
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Brian Boone
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Warm milk. A bath in lavender soap. An old episode of the 80s TV adaptation of Babar. These are the three things that every parent knows can relax and put to sleep even the fussiest of toddlers. Glory be, as Nelvana’s Babar, long a mainstay of VHS, the early morning hours of family-friendly cable channels,
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Jeff Giles
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I’ve reached the point where I’ve stopped watching most trailers, because A) my kids won’t be quiet long enough for me to hear anything and B) every movie gets at least half a dozen of the damn things before it reaches theaters, so if you want to be surprised by anything that happens during the
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Jeff Giles
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The latest single from the band’s latest album, The Echo Show, arrives in my inbox just in time for 90-degree heat and a couple of kids out of school. This sounds…
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Jeff Giles
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If, like me, you shed a silent Gen X tear when Reading Rainbow was forced off the air a few years ago, and if, like me, you felt bad for longtime host LeVar Burton, whose public quest to drum up funding for his (utterly worthwhile) show came to naught, you’ll be happy to learn that
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Popdose Staff
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We’re up to week #50 in our AM Gold series. That’s half of 100!
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J.A. Bartlett
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There’s a volume of Time-Life’s AM Gold series called Teen Idols of the 70s, which features many of the usual suspects: the Partridge Family, Bobby Sherman, the Osmonds, the Jackson…
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Jeff Giles
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It’s no secret we love Brandon Schott around here — we’ve interviewed the man, and we gave his latest album, 13 Satellites, a
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Scott Malchus
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Seann William Scott is sweet and charming in the otherwise predictable, “Goon.”
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Matthew Bolin
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A day late and more than a dollar short, here are my choices for the Top 10 Paul McCartney solo deep cuts.
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Jeff Giles
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Would you want to be stranded with Recess Monkey
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Drew Holloway
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First off. Love that this is talking about “records.” I have so many fond memories of being in my basement with full access to my dad’s collection of LP’s and 45s. I loved the giant sleeves and artwork, the act of getting the record out and putting the arm down on one of my favorite
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Chris Jennings
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Revisiting the writing process behind the band’s debut album, “Yossi.”
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Popdose Staff
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If you could only listen to five albums, which ones would you choose? In this edition of Desert Island Discs, the Sun Parade make their picks.
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Kelly Stitzel
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Watch a video collaboration between Dar Williams and progressive website The Message.
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Kelly Stitzel
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Kelly Stitzel is obsessed with 1980s cinematic dance battles. So, she decided to rank her favorites.
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Keith Creighton
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Glen Hansard is an Oscar-winning songwriter, actor, lead singer of the Frames, half of the Swell Season and inspiration for Once, this season’s top Broadway musical. He’s also one hell…
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Keith Creighton
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“The Comeback Album” is one of rock’s great traditions, right up there with the sophomore slump, selling out, breaking-up and cashing in for a reunion tour. Every new Prince album…
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Jack Feerick
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For almost 80 years, Kirkus Reviews has served as the industry bible for bookstore buyers, librarians, and ordinary readers alike. Now Popdose joins the Kirkus Book Bloggers Network to explore…
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Matt Springer
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What’s most surprising about Out of the Game is that in spite of the presence of auteur producer Mark Ronson, it’s still a Rufus Wainwright record. And that’s a good…
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Dave Steed
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Miss E, Eazy and E-40 bring you Bottom Feeders, gangsta style.