Below are magnified fragments of album covers. Most of them are well-known albums, but there are a few obscure covers (or lesser-known albums from well-known artists) mixed in to keep…
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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Think you know music? Well, get ready to put your knowledge to the test with another edition of Name That Tune!
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I’ve written literally hundreds of pieces for various web sites and newspapers, but nothing I have ever written has produced as much reader feedback as the piece I did in…
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Below are magnified fragments of album covers. Most of them are well-known albums, but there are a few obscure covers (or lesser-known albums from well-known artists) mixed in to keep…
David Medsker
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Throw together Alan White of Yes, a VW Golf, and a little girl with a chainsaw, and what have you got? Find out as David Medsker goes close (to the edit) with this week’s White Label Wednesday!
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It’s back, bitches! David Medsker takes a break from Cover Me this week to briefly resurrect Scraps’ dearly loved, much-missed feature, Name That Tune.
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To say that I have a soft spot for musical melodrama would be a great understatement. “Unfinished Sympathy” by Massive Attack, for example. “In Denial” by the Pet Shop Boys…
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After a Memorial Day break, David Medsker’s Cover Me is back and better than ever! (Or at least as good as ever.) Test your album art mojo in this week’s quiz!
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Today’s special: pink vapor stew. Yummy yum. To say that Fishbone was exploring uncharted waters when they dropped their eponymous EP in 1985 is a great understatement. They were five…
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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…
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Below are magnified fragments of album covers. Most of them are well-known albums, but there are a few obscure covers (or lesser-known albums from well-known artists) mixed in to keep…
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Who are these men, and why do they care so much? David Medsker finds out in the latest edition of White Label Wednesday.
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I was writing up a track for a future White Label Wednesday piece (it’s set to run May 27) when I had a strange thought. Well, two strange thoughts, actually….
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Hallelujah, album art junkies — David Medsker is back for another round of your favorite game, and this week, he even breaks one of his own rules. Will this be the quiz that finally makes you a winner?
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He describes their music as “like oxygen,” so it’s only fitting that David Medsker should devote an edition of his Pop Goes the World series to the Trash Can Sinatras — specifically “The Genius I Was,” a track from A Happy Pocket.
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Think you know your album artwork? Put your skills to the test with the latest installment of David Medsker’s Cover Me — back and better than ever!
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Below are magnified fragments of album covers. Most of them are well-known albums, but there are a few obscure covers (or lesser-known albums from well-known artists) mixed in to keep…
David Medsker
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Props to Will Harris for bringing this Danish group to my attention. God, I miss bands like this. Let’s not mince words about the kind of music Alphabeat plays because,…
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Below are magnified fragments of album covers. Most of them are well-known albums, but there are a few obscure covers (or lesser-known albums from well-known artists) mixed in to keep…
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It still seems strange that Tears for Fears, two Janov-loving introverts from Bath, were one of the biggest bands of the ’80s. In a decade defined by excess (Motley Crue,…
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A la da dat dat dadat, dat dat dat, fuckers! It only took one listen of Ritual de lo Habitual (1990), the much-anticipated sophomore effort by Jane’s Addiction, to know…
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Below are magnified fragments of album covers. Most of them are well-known albums, but there are a few obscure covers (or lesser-known albums from well-known artists) mixed in to keep…
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The fantasy of owning a time machine is a fun one, isn’t it? Most people would go back and stop Hitler. Patton Oswalt would go to 1983 and kill George…
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Below are magnified fragments of album covers. Most of them are well-known albums, but there are a few obscure covers (or lesser-known albums from well-known artists) mixed in to keep…
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If it’s late 1987, and you’re in an alternative club or “danceteria,” odds are you’re hearing “American-Soviets” before last call. You might even hear it twice. This song was positively…
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Below are magnified fragments of album covers. Most of them are well-known albums, but there are a few obscure covers (or lesser-known albums from well-known artists) mixed in to keep…
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Welcome to my brand-new column Pop Goes the World, which aims to serve as an antidote of sorts to the sad, sad, sad world of Mope Like Me. (That scream…
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Q: Why aren’t there any jokes about Guyana? A: The punch line’s too long. Thanks, I’m here all week. Below are magnified fragments of album covers. Most of them are…
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Imagine the exchange that took place when Peter Gabriel brought Us, the long-overdue follow-up to his 1986 critical and commercial smash So (proper follow-up, anyway, with all apologies to 1989’s…
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Below are magnified fragments of album covers. Most of them are well-known albums, but there are a few obscure covers (or lesser-known albums from well-known artists) mixed in to keep…