It’s 1979! That also means it’s the final year of our look at the AM Gold series.
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J.A. Bartlett
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Hollywood has been making Batman movies more-or-less continuously for a generation now, going back to 1989 and continuing through this past summer’s The Dark Knight Rises. The 1989 Batman was…
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Dave Steed
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Can’t have a Billy Joel talk these days without Elton John as well, so they are together again in this week’s Bottom Feeders.
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Angela Zimmerman
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Last week, Woods had the honor of being among the first bands to play San Francisco’s newest venue: The West Coast outpost of New Orleans’ legendary Preservation Jazz Hall. “The…
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Leslie Liberatore
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The Chicago band with the revolving cast of characters is doing the foxtrot with Ferry tonight. Get your 4/4 out on the dance floor with your other 1/2.
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Dave Steed
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Germ unleashes an oddball album this week, while AOR masters Ten give us their yep…. tenth album.
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Michael Parr
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Shuffle. Rinse. Repeat. Kick off your weekend with this week’s Friday Five!
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Rob Smith
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Popdose interviews 16-year-old singer/songwriter Hayley Reardon.
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J.A. Bartlett
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In 1953, Johnny Cash wrote “Folsom Prison Blues.” Fifteen years later, on a weekday morning in January, he played a legendary concert there, which resulted in one of the most…
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Dave Steed
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Slasher Dave of Acid Witch reveals his musical choices to make trick or treaters run for the hills.
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Ken Shane
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The Drifters were legendary for their music, and their story
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Annelise Poda
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Bay Area music fans rejoiced as the Treasure Island Music Festival came back into town for its sixth year this past weekend. In addition to hosting world-class musicians out on…
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Popdose Staff
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That’s a wrap on AM Gold: 1978, friends. That means we have just one more year of Time-Life treasures to explore before our little experiment comes to an end. But as a wise man once said, all mellow things must come to an end. Or something like that.
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J.A. Bartlett
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It has been suggested to me that I include “Come Sail Away” by Styx in this feature. But “Come Sail Away” is actually a perfectly fine record. It’s got everything…
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Dave Steed
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Metal Blade unleashed two of their best records of 2012, from Bison BC and Antropomorphia.
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Jon Cummings
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Forget those hifalutin rock critics. What does a 10-year-old girl think of Tay-Tay’s new platter? Popdose gets the scoop from Jon Cummings’ precocious daughter.
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Spottiswoode
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Spottiswoode tells the story behind his song, “Chariot.”
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Dave Steed
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Jigga shows up on Bottom Feeders to show us how his career began.
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Leslie Liberatore
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South Londoner, Lianne La Havas delivers the date tonight. She’s got a little sweet talk from fellow British boy, Teddy Thompson. Happy date (no date) tonight.
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Mike Heyliger
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Get ready to pop and lock your ass off with this week’s Jheri Curl Fridays song!
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J.A. Bartlett
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The changing mores of the 1960s eventually reached far beyond popular music. Motion pictures abandoned the production codes that had ruled since the 1930s and for the first time, the…
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Popdose Staff
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This week’s installment of AM Gold: 1978 features no Bee Gees songs, but two songs written by the Brothers Gibb.
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Ken Shane
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The Intruders were one of the most important groups in soul music history.
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J.A. Bartlett
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You think finding a different bad song to write about every week is easy? That there’s no psychological price to be paid for this assignment? That no harm is done…
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Keith Creighton
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Perhaps no venue on Earth has shaped my taste in music the way Hollywood’s Hotel Cafe has. While I’ve seen legendary shows in cities across the country, the artists’ choice…
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Keith Creighton
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Rosie Flores is the musical embodiment of the term “she’s been around the block a few times.” Over a prolific 30-year career, she fronted cowpunk band the Screamin’ Sirens, became…
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Dave Steed
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Forgotten Tomb release their best album to date. Plus new music from Sybreed and Indesinence.
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Dave Steed
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The third most popular Jackson finally doesn’t take a back seat to his brother, in this edition of Bottom Feeders.