Meet the rarest of beasts: the heavy metal dance mix. After the Á¢€Å“disappointingÁ¢€ sales figures for Judas PriestÁ¢€™s 1984 album Defenders of the Faith (it merely went platinum), CBS Records…
David Medsker
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David Medsker used to be "with it." But then they changed what "it" was. Now what he's "with" isn't "it," and what's "it" seems weird and scary to him. He is available for children's parties.
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For many rock acts that made their mark in the Á¢€Ëœ70s, 1985 was the year they faced off against what could be called the New Wave Borg. The rules were…
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You donÁ¢€™t get much more Á¢€Ëœright place, right timeÁ¢€™ than Bryan Ferry and his sole Top 40 entry, Á¢€Å“Kiss and Tell.Á¢€ Despite his superstar status in his native England Á¢€”…
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The music industry is quick to tell you how piracy is killing them, and it surely is. What they’re not as vocal about is their tendency to kill themselves. This…
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Simply put, those Á¢€Å“U1Á¢€ jokes about Simple Minds that Py Korry referred to in his most recent Mix Six installment began here. Á¢€Å“Produced by Steve Lillywhite.Á¢€ For most bands, those…
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People are making a big deal out of Fatboy Slim and Soulwax doing remixes of tracks from the Rolling StonesÁ¢€™ back catalog, but this is truly much ado about nothing….
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Duran Duran, The Comeback: Take One The late ’80s were strange and hostile times for the ‘and then there were three’ incarnation of Duran Duran. Yes, their 1986 album Notorious…
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Á‚ Or, the very first 12Á¢€ mix I ever heard and saw with my own eyes. My sister brought it home with her from college one Christmas. I was 14,…
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Los Angeles, September 1987. The director of A&R at Virgin Records rolls out of bed at three in the afternoon, his mind a fog after a three-day bender of booze,…
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No band wants their video legacy to trump their musical legacy, but in the case of Go West, chances are that when one of their songs comes on the radio…
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My club-friendly tendencies are clearly lost on the majority of PopdoseÁ¢€™s AOR-loving rock hounds, so letÁ¢€™s shake things up this week by putting Jimmy Page under the remix knife. Truth…
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Penelope made its debut at the Toronto Film Festival. The 2006 Toronto Film Festival. Not a good sign that the movie has languished this long without being released. The story…
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If you know me, then you know that I loves me some Duran Duran. Even when they make an album as unlistenable as Liberty, Pop Trash or Red Carpet Massacre…
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There was one movie that my movie critic peers and I were looking forward to seeing in these dog days of winter, and it was Be Kind Rewind, Michel Gondry’s…
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There is just no other way to say it: 1990 was an awful, awful year for music. The first #1 single of the year belonged to a certain no-talent ass…
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You have to give the makers of Vantage Point credit for one thing: what the movie lacks in plausibility, it makes up for with raw enthusiasm. They think their movie…
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Two weeks ago, Dead Milkmen tried to insult us by saying, “You’ll dance to anything by Book of Love.” Today, we officially respond: Goddamn right we will. It’s hard to…
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For a genre that makes its living by cutting up other peopleÁ¢€â„¢s records, hip-hop artists are notoriously touchy about other people touching theirs. Eric B. and Rakim reportedly hated ColdcutÁ¢€â„¢s…
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In the mid Á¢€Ëœ80s, Dead Milkmen were a college radio programmerÁ¢€™s wet dream. They were smart, snotty, and loud at a time when most bands were polished and pre-recorded. They…
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It has been said that Kurt Cobain later complained about the slick sheen that mixer Andy Wallace gave to Nevermind. While it is unknown whether Essex industrialists Nitzer Ebb feel…
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The late Á¢€Ëœ80s caused rock bands to do many a strange thing in order to maintain their broad appeal. There were three surefire ways to reach the youth of the…
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Greetings, gamers. Scraps is taking a much-needed break from his editing duties — we’d like to thank the good people at Pleasant Palms Resort and Rehabilitation Center for taking him…
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Popdose raids the Nettwerk vaults once again and unearths a dandy little electro-pop track from a band better known for making more, um, challenging music. Not even AllMusic could resist…
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Greetings, Popdosers. Lord Jefito has bestowed me with the honor of running the weekly shake-ya-ass column, and I, for lack of a better word, am positively geeked out by it….
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