Well, it’s that time again: Time for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame to announce another set of nominees for possible induction, and time for me to emerge from…
Matthew Bolin
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Matthew Bolin discovered popular music could be a good thing at age 13. During a field trip to a local college library, he found Rolling Stone's "100 Best Albums, 1967-1987" issue, and a great and glorious world opened up. In the years since, Rolling Stone has shrunk, but Matthew has moved up in the world, and will eventually claim his title as "America's Librarian" sometime in the next decade.
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A hot breeze pushed tumbleweeds down the empty streets, past yellowed album reviews and top ten lists. As a buzzard circled lazily overhead, a solitary horse whinnied “He-FEE-to”. The doors…
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Can’t the “classic” version of this band stay on good terms for more than a few months at a time without everything exploding like a chunk of pure sodium tossed…
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The first article in the new series “Over the Covers” focuses on artists who re-recorded their own songs, thereby covering themselves.
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At 12:01 AM this morning, the world was gifted by The Beatles’ music appearing on virtually every available streaming service. But what have we gotten, and how does it sound?
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Matthew Bolin & Lyana Fernandez are back with the 7th episode of Songs of Freedom, as they use protest music associated with events of the 1st half of 2014 as a jumping off point for their discussion.
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The sixth episode of Songs of Freedom focuses on the subject of cultural — especially musical — appropriation, using the inexplicable success of the “Harlem Shake” meme as a jumping-off…
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Postmodern literary theory trends toward the idea of subjugating original authorial intent for one crafted by the audience. In plain English, the meaning of a work is not what the…
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The fifth episode of Songs of Freedom continues the discussion from the last episode on politics and female recording artists.
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The first of two parts on female artists in popular music and their relationships to the political, either through their music or image.
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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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Leave it to some German guys back in 1977 to predict our transition into obedient cyborgs
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Randy Newman helps out in the first in a series of weekly middle fingers to the world.
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Episode 3 focuses on MTV: the role of politics in its history and programming, and the politically motivated artists who’ve been a part of it.
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For the second episode of ”Songs of Freedom”, Matthew Bolin and Lyana Fernandez focus on the Occupy movement, especially its beginning point at Occupy Wall Street.
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Here you will find mp3s for the artists and songs featured in Episode Two of the Songs of Freedom podcast.
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In the first episode of “Songs of Freedom”, Popdose music contributor Matthew Bolin and Lyana Fernandez look at R.E.M., P.J. Harvey, and how the internet changes the way we look at political music.
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Yes, yes, June is the traditional month of the year associated with weddings, but your brother isn’t getting married this Sunday is he? I didn’t think so. As an alternative…
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In 1991’s The Soul Cages, rock legend Sting simply became Gordon Sumner again, a boy grieving over his father’s death.
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I blame Mike Love. Yes, it’s so easy to blame the guy for everything wrong in music. I mean, he’s egotistical, gave money to help get the PMRC off the…
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It’s been 20 years since Lou Reed and John Cale set aside their differences to pay tribute to their former manager, Andy Warhol. Matthew Bolin takes a look back.
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As Popdose’s editor in chief Jeff Giles (y’all) would probably agree, Lindsey Buckingham is still probably one of the most overlooked and underrated of the significant figures in rock music…
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John Fogerty was responsible for some of the best rock music of the ’60s — and, as Matthew Bolin discovers in his latest column, he was also a bit of a vengeful prick.
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A lost Rod Stewart album…from the ’90s? It’s gotta be awful, right? Not so fast, says Matthew Bolin.
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One minute, twenty-two seconds. That’s how long Rod Stewart’s new album, Soulbook, actually gave me some hope that it might be something more than the latest in a series of…
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There come times in the pop culture universe where an item is so solidly packed with cheese, befuddlement, and WTF? moments that it falls in upon itself, spiraling into a…
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Break out your umbrellas, ladies — Matthew Bolin is back with a new column, and he’s brought R. Kelly with him.
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