Before we celebrate all the women who absolutely owned pop culture in 2024, let’s hear it for the boys. Today’s second to last post in our 2024 Rewind series celebrates timeless icons who still have plenty left to say.
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Keith Creighton
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We DO mean to name drop, because where else are Ariana Grande, Taylor Hawkins, Bruce Springsteen, Iggy Pop, Demi Lovato, Susanna Hoffs. Cheap Trick, and Pearl Jam all going to appear on the same list, let alone the same album?
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Keith Creighton
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Could this be THE greatest post in our 2024 Rewind series so far? The “The List” is now in your hands.
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Keith Creighton
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While Brat Summer is all about ‘Hyper Pop’, the Summer of Love gave rise to Power Pop. Popdose pays tribute to the scene while celebrating the best new records in the genre.
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Keith Creighton
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Hopefully Trump’s tariff war won’t affect the deluge of top tier talent crashing our shores from Europe. In today’s 2024 in Rewind, we toast just a few of the year’s most delicious musical imports.
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Keith Creighton
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Do Best Album Lists Still Matter? In the age of microculture, Popdose views 50 of the year’s best albums through Gen-X Spex.
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Keith Creighton
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As we narrow down our Top 50 Albums of 2024, here’s a preview of a dozen or so epic new releases still to come between now and Election Day.
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Keith Creighton
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We waited 30 years for a new album by these synth pop legends, so why wait another few months for it to come out? Popdose presents a very advance review of Propaganda’s self-titled third album due in October.
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Keith Creighton
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As a public service, we’re gonna take a sneak peek at what’s coming, while celebrating what’s already here — the year’s best albums (so far).
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Rob Ross
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It’s been quite a few years since we heard from our friends, The Blood Rush Hour. This fine New Jersey-oriented musical aggregate, directed by the brilliant mind of Robert DeStefano…
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Ted Asregadoo
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“Hackney Diamonds” by The Rolling Stones does not disappoint with big, radio-friendly songs…and bluesy numbers, too.
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Ted Asregadoo
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On his seventh solo album, prog multi-instrumentalist and mixing wizard Steven Wilson explores moments in life on a never-ending staircase.
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Ted Asregadoo
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Third time’s a charm for Madison Cunningham’s “Revealer”
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Ted Asregadoo
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Dirty Honey pay homage to their hard rock musical heroes on their debut album.
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Ted Asregadoo
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“The Future Bites” by Steven Wilson continues his critique of a crazy little thing called the internet.
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Dave Lifton
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Of all the young Americana bands offering big choruses and group harmonies, Dustbowl Revival has them beat by a mile.
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David Medsker
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Hotspot is a solid album that, maddeningly, feels like a slight disappointment only because of how impossibly high the Pet Shop Boys have set the bar.
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Rob Ross
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Hide Your Ghost, the sophomore album from singer-songwriter Sawyer Fredericks, sheds the high gloss major label treatment, and plays closer to Fredericks’s honest, stripped down style – a self-described ”free…
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Rob Ross
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Moon is chiming echo-laden guitar, post rock bass, propulsive drumming, shifting time signatures, and haunting, ethereal vocals. Formed in 2010, the Chicago-based trio (David Azizinamini – guitars and vocals; Chris…
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Rob Ross
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Frozen Flowers Curse The Day is the latest release from pioneering avant-guitarist Robert Poss, a founding member of the legendary wall-of-guitars group, Band Of Susans. The album was performed, recorded…
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Rob Ross
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The Imperial Sound’s blithe synthesis of 21st-century irony and bright, unselfconscious AM-radio pop is both brave and unique. This, their debut album, The New (hence, the title), showcases songwriter Frederick…
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Rob Ross
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This is a rare and wonderful treat for us – and you. Not only do you have a review here for the brand-new album from the multi-talented Django Haskins, entitled…
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David Medsker
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Many of Bailey’s 80s-era peers have been trying to write songs this good as far back as 1984, and here he is, 34 years later, besting them at the top of their game. They must be furious.
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Rob Ross
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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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David Medsker
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The idea of an orchestral album by Midge Ure isn’t a question of when, but rather why it took this long for it to happen.
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Rob Ross
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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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Dw. Dunphy
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Give David Myhr’s Lucky Day a chance and it will reward you in return.
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Justin Vellucci
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The new record from the Norwegian composer Kaada is a beautiful thing, immense in scope yet startlingly intimate. But, while it plays on a theme — Death; the record, after…
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Justin Vellucci
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Frog Eyes’ frontman Carey Mercer has said Violet Psalms — the band’s goodbye record, out late last week on Paper Bag — was written and recorded like a debut, ”when…
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