Charlie Daniels’ “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” says Johnny won the fiddle contest. But listen closely, and the Devil may have delivered the superior performance.
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Jack Feerick
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Popdose’s own cacophonous crypt-keeper, Jack Fear, comes from the shadows bearing a new Halloween mixtape for your unsuspecting ears: a seamless 79-minute collage of music, sound, and spoken word to thrill, delight, and unsettle you — all of it free to stream or download.
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Matthew Bolin
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“Choosin’ Texas” is now the longest-lived song at the #1 position in Hot 100 history, with 23 nonconsecutive weeks at the top. This comes less than two years after “All…
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Charlie Recksieck
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That’s a picture of Neil Sedaka up top. Take a good look. Can you really believe this guy had two #1 hits in 1975. Oy vey, this is a rockstar?…
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Rob Ross
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This had to happen and I’m glad it did. From a personal standpoint, this completes my collection of The Bongos and Bongos-related items on CD. It’s an album that I’ve…
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Charlie Recksieck
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At some point, offbeat punctuation in band names stopped meaning anything—and became just another way of looking like everyone else.
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Rob Ross
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After a period of silence and retreating back to my “comfort food” diet of The Beatles, The Who, Big Star, etc., it’s nice to hear something new and uplifting in…
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Charlie Recksieck
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Every major city likes to believe it has a “music scene.” Sometimes that’s true – Minneapolis in the ‘80s, Seattle in the ‘90s, Atlanta’s hip hop 2000s. But often “scene”…
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Ted Asregadoo
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Synth-drenched and cinematic, The Midnight’s “Syndicate” treats ’80s nostalgia as raw material — repurposing it into a darkly relevant and danceable record.
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Ted Asregadoo
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Bob Dylan’s post-’70s output may get overlooked by classic rock radio, but from 1980 onward he produced plenty of radio-friendly gems. Here are ten that deserved — and still deserve — a spot in heavy rotation.
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Ted Asregadoo
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Single Play features four artists navigating big feelings with style and craft. Portland’s The Builders and the Butchers find hope in the chaos on their latest album No Tomorrow; singer-songwriter Allie Sandt pays tribute to a charming upstate New York antique dealer; Coco Bans and Liv Slania turn personal grief into something transcendent; and Portland’s Trebants conjure vintage Mancini cool. Four songs worth your time.
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Ted Asregadoo
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Producer Terry Brown gives Rush fans a taste of the road not taken on the remix of Grace Under Pressure
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Charlie Recksieck
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Fake music is no joke. Sometimes people can roll their eyes at a fictitious band playing it for laughs in TV or movies. But what makes the truly great ones…
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Charlie Recksieck
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We’re all supposed to think the most exciting music should be loud, energetic or at least algorithm-breaking. That’s what’s cool. That’s where music evolves from its influences into the next…
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Ted Asregadoo
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A 7-minute prog-rock tour de force from Kula Shaker
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David Medsker
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Muse fans, seriously, it’s time to kick this door down. This is your next favorite band.
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Jack Feerick
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Greetings of the spooky season, my children of the night! ‘Tis I, Jack Fear — Popdose’s own crypt-keeper — inviting you once more to have a poke around my cabinet…
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Rob Ross
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The great people at Propeller Sound Recordings (one of my new favorite labels in recent years) has unearthed Gardens, the long-lost final release from cult post-punk outfit New Math –…
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Rob Ross
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First, the official word/press release as tablesetter: “Anything Is Possible is the latest collection of original material (and one affectionate cover) from North Carolina songwriter / vocalist / guitarist…
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Rob Ross
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A little background on the author of this very fine book: “Born on Chicago’s South Side, Cary Baker began his writing career at sixteen with an on-spec feature about Chicago…
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Rob Ross
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I’d hoped this album would finally see the light of day. Years ago, in his autobiography, Frontman, Richard Barone had mentioned that he had the tapes to a live album…
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This installment of Single Play unveils a trio of compelling tracks: Lord Huron’s “Nothing I Need,” Allie Sandt’s emotionally charged rendition of “Landslide,” and the inspired collaboration between Elton John and Brandi Carlile in their tribute to Laura Nyro.
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David Medsker
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Brought to you by the letter K (Kirsty, Kylie, Kimbra)
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Keith Creighton
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For his new video, with the world premiere here on Popdose, NOSHOWS (Max Satow) used the same filming location as the hit AppleTV+ show Severance, Bell Works in Holmdel, NJ
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