From the moment you hear the crunchy and tasty guitars that fill “You Invented Hell”, this exclusive track from Nick Piunti’s new album Temporary High, you know you’re in for…
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Rob Ross has been, for good, bad or indifferent, involved in the music industry for over 30 years - first as guitarist/singer/songwriter with The Punch Line, then as freelance journalist, producer and manager to working for independent and major record labels. He resides in Staten Island, New York with his wife and cats; he works out a lot, reads voraciously, loves Big Star and his orange Gretsch. Doesn't that make him neat?
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Usually, summer is a traditionally quiet period in music, but this year, Popdose has been very fortunate to receive numerous premieres of new releases, etc. and this is no exception. …
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Radio City With Jon Grayson & Rob Ross: Episode Seventy One This special 4th Of July edition finds Rob and Jon making America even greater with their presence and observations…
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Popdose is both very pleased and equally proud to have the exclusive premiere of the brand new single from A Fragile Tomorrow – a band that is very near and…
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Popdose is very pleased and proud to premiere exclusively “Snakes In The Seaweed”, the newest track from the upcoming album by Django Haskins, Shadowlawn. The venerable North Carolina-based singer/songwriter/guitarist is…
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Radio City With Jon Grayson & Rob Ross: Episode Seventy Every show strives to be different and even after 70 shows, Rob and Jon show there’s no shortage of…
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This is the debut album from Philadelphia-based sextet, The Naked Sun, a band who began their quest for “honest rock” in 2011; after a 2013 E.P., Space, Place and Time,…
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Welcome to the San Fernando Valley, circa 1976. Los Angeles’ own The Quick released one full-length album in their three year existence for Mercury Records – and now Real Gone…
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Radio City With Jon Grayson & Rob Ross: Episode Sixty Nine Once again, Jon and Rob tackle numerous subjects that either directly affect or somehow creep into all our lives,…
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Once again, Popdose strives to bring you different artists on the pop spectrum. This time, we present Julie Nathanson, a name you may be familiar with in the world of…
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Radio City With Jon Grayson & Rob Ross: Episode Sixty Eight Time flies, the week goes by and life keeps moving. Thus, this episode of Radio City finds Jon and…
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Popdose is pleased and proud to bring you the exclusive premiere of “Untethered”, the new video and first “lead” track from Black Box Theory, the latest offering from Gretchen’s Wheel…
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Popdose is happy to introduce you to someone new – Paige Calico – and to share her latest video, “Arm Candy” – yet another of our “choice picks”! To give…
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Once again, historian/author/film producer and Memphian Robert Gordon delivers a book about the music of his hometown; a musical spectrum that spans wide and deep. Along with that book, Memphis…
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Radio City With Jon Grayson & Rob Ross: Episode Sixty Seven There’s never a lack of material; never a lapse in the conversation between Jon and Rob – sure enough,…
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Popdose is very excited and pleased to present the video for “Ooh Girl”, the new single release from The Red Button, featuring Peter Noone on JEM Records. It is, undoubtedly,…
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Radio City With Jon Grayson & Rob Ross: Episode Sixty Six Every now and then, Jon and Rob take the fork in the road without paving – thus, the 66th…
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Radio City With Jon Grayson & Rob Ross: Episode Sixty Five As the world spins out of control, Rob and Jon man the cockpit to take you away from the…
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Popdose presents – exclusively – from Brooklyn-based indie blues-soul singer/songwriter James VIII his newest track, “Blueberry Wine”. With such a wide range of influences, James VIII’s sound is not easily…
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I’ve never liked the concept of the “guitar gods” – Page is alright, but I look at Zeppelin as a whole; I never cared for Eric Clapton and there are…
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Brighton-based duo Immersion, made up of Wire frontman Colin Newman & Minimal Compact’s Malka Spigel, will release their new album Sleepless on June 15th via ‘swim~’. Popdose is pleased to…
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Radio City With Jon Grayson & Rob Ross: Episode Sixty Four Will you still need them – will you still heed them after installment 64? You’d better believe it. Once…
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Another new, upcoming young voice, Danielle Cormier, 21, is a singer-songwriter who she credits her love for the arts from seeing her first Broadway show at five years old. She…
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Radio City With Jon Grayson & Rob Ross: Episode Sixty Three There’s no rest for the wicked – like our current government – or our intrepid reporters/hosts/doyennes of all things…
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Chicago singer-songwriter Andy Pratt follows up last year’s acclaimed Horizon Disrupted album (reviewed here on Popdose) with a new E.P., Further Disruption, culled from the same Steve Albini-engineered sessions that…
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WIRE. Colin Newman, Graham Lewis, Bruce Gilbert, Robert Gotobed. The name automatically catapults me into a different time; a different mind and many emotions. Without a doubt, they are…
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This new album from Jodee Lewis, Buzzard’s Bluff is a cathartic release from deep within the Missouri Ozarks. It draws inspiration from growing up in a small town, the trials…
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Radio City With Jon Grayson & Rob Ross: Episode Sixty Two A lot of us have been feeling a social fatigue, not just from politics, but from the very strange…
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Accord, New York’s Tulula! has been stomping around Rip Van Winkle’s dreamland since 2006. The acid-cowboy quintet of Jason Broome (The Westport Sunrise Sessions), Rob Norris (East Of Venus, The…
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Popdose is both pleased and proud to bring you a brand new, exclusive premiere from one of our favorite artists, Wade Jackson. “Emotion: Devotion” is the new single and video;…