Music consumption seems to be diverging into two directions. To the right we have streaming, where complex algorithms turn you onto new bands, but also move you so quickly from…
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Keith Creighton
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In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Foo Fighters guitarist Chris Shiflett promised the Concrete and Gold world tour would be unpredictable, and they certainly delivered in Austin, Texas when…
Jack Feerick
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(Archive.) March 2017 Playing that first gig after injury feels like a dam breaking. I’ve been working on songs all winter — singing bits and pieces of vocal melody into…
Justin Vellucci
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I know it’s utterly blasphemous to suggest in underground circles, but my first point of entry when listening to Dylan Carlson’s new ”Conquistador,” the title track to a series of…
David Medsker
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A true sign of parental love and sacrifice: letting your daughter play Fergie on your podcast.
Justin Vellucci
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Grouper’s new LP — Grid of Points, out tomorrow via Kranky — is no Ruins, but its sparse pairing of multifaceted, ghostly voices with borderline-skeletal piano is nonetheless pretty engaging….
Ken Shane
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Proving that soul knows no geographical bounds, this Canadian group raced up the charts in 1957.
Rob Ross
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The Claudettes fuse Chicago piano blues with the full-throttle energy of rockabilly and punk and the sultriness of ’60’s soul to write a thrilling new chapter in American roots music….
Rob Ross
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From the opening notes of singer/songwriter/guitarist Arkansas Dave’s debut album, you’re first thinking “am I listening to an old Molly Hatchet record?” but quickly, you realize there’s a lot here…
Dave Lifton
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If you’ve ever wanted to know what Wanda Jackson duking it out with Shirley Bassey in an alley while Rosanne Cash, Sharon Jones and Amy Winehouse egged them on sounded like, look no further than Sassafrass!, the terrific new album from New Zealand’s Tami Neilson
Justin Vellucci
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Just wow. The new self-titled LP from Reno’s Rob Ford Explorer, out earlier this month, is a potent gem, a heady amalgamation of jazz fluidity and math-rock specificity, and a…
Justin Vellucci
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As Saleeha, the Australian-born, Vancouver-based Max Buchanan makes meditative, slowly unfurling soundscapes that, surprisingly enough, do not echo or mime fellow Vancouver-based ambient artist Loscil. I say surprisingly because, as…
Ken Shane
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A multiracial British band gave us two of the most indelible hits of the ’60s
Justin Vellucci
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Ugh. The new Melvins record, I am sad to report, dear reader, is a bit of a trainwreck. It’s not that Pinkus Abortion Technician, out Friday on Ipecac, lacks ideas….
Rob Ross
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It’s no secret how much Popdose likes Lisa Said. And it should come as no surprise that this first E.P. with her new band, Piramid Scheme, is on par with…
Beau Dure
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We’re raising the ante in this month’s installment of What’s THAT Supposed to Mean? — this month’s singer is a fictional version of an important historical/theological figure, Judas. Erm ……
Rob Ross
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A worthwhile history lesson: Wreckless Eric is Mr. Eric Goulden. His recording career began in 1977 with the enduring ”Whole Wide World”. He was one of the original Stiffs, alongside…
David Medsker
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It’s been…time this show had a leprechaun dance moment. Can’t understand what I mean? You soon will.
Ken Shane
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Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson’s influence extended well beyond his hit records
Justin Vellucci
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The cello weeps and sows and soars, and so it goes with Randall Holt and his Inside The Kingdom of Splendor and Madness, which gets the CD/cassette re-release treatment April…
Matthew Bolin
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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…
Justin Vellucci
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Well, turns out climate change — for those rational people who agree with the science behind it — might not be all bad, after all. Big Weather, the latest effort…
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Dw. Dunphy
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In 2017, singer Mike Stand was looking at a future where he could not sing. The circumstances would bring to him a voice from the past: his own.
Ken Shane
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“The Godfather of G-Go” had his biggest hit in 1979
Ken Shane
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The Ebonys had some chart success but never quite got the break they needed to really break through
Rob Ross
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This is really good. I mean REALLY GOOD. This second album from The Shelleye Valauskas Experience, History Of Panic, which is anchored by singer-guitarist Ms. Valausakas and Mr. Dean Falcone…
Rob Ross
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Chris Hillman co-founded some of the most classic, seminal, groundbreaking acts of the ’60s and ’70s – namely The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Manassas, and The Souther-Hillman-Furay Band. But…
Matt Wardlaw
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Popdose presents an exclusive premiere of the brand new video from Brooke Josephson.
Ken Shane
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The sublime Concert for George has been released in a stunning new four-LP box set