Vivian Leva’s voice is the sound of living tradition. Raised by parents who absorbed ancient tunes and ballads during visits to legendary old-time musicians, Ms. Leva grew up steeped in…
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Ken Shane
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When Holland-Dozier-Holland left Motown in 1968 the team needed new hitmakers. They found them in 100 PROOF.
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Justin Vellucci
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The Lampshades, a trio of Pittsburgh-by-way-of-Altoona ne’er-do-wells, is nothing if not ambitious. It hasn’t always entirely been this way. Sunshine, its 2005 debut, was more of a catalog of by-the-numbers…
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Rob Ross
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This is very exciting – certainly to me. Yung Wu was a Feelies side project with one classic album, Shore Leave, on Steve Fallon’s Coyote Records in 1987, which I…
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Beau Dure
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It’s 1993. “Alternative music” is not yet just the genre where we stick anything semi-popular that isn’t R&B or hip-hop. We still have space for bands that have graduated from…
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Justin Vellucci
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This Friday belongs to Your Food. The Louisville post-punk quartet — whose only LP, 1983’s Poke It With A Stick, is getting the reissue treatment at the end of this…
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Rob Ross
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Singer Nina June is releasing her global debut album, Bon Voyage, the result of a 3 year long journey that began in a home studio in Amsterdam, going through France…
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Justin Vellucci
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It’s an engaging conceit — the folk balladeer’s whispy, sometimes almost stagy voice hovering over deconstructed, ambient soundscapes — and Eric Chenaux nearly pulls it off on Slowly Paradise, a…
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Rob Ross
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A songwriter, guitarist, bluesman, interpreter and performer for more than 50 years, Chris Smither has proven himself an American original. Recorded at the gorgeous Blue Rock Studios in Texas’ hill…
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David Medsker
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Friends of Popdose are the best friends. They have good thoughts about things.
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Ken Shane
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A new box-set delves deeper into the Stax catalog than any previous reissue
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Rob Ross
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In the same methodical way she takes apart engines and makes them roadworthy again, Erica Blinn constructs American rock songs, one earnest melody at a time. She forces Midwestern air…
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David Medsker
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Editors have written many great songs in the past, but this is the first time that they’ve written a jam.
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Justin Vellucci
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It starts with a detuned guitar and ends with the lonely shaking of maracas, an epic and loose-limbed nugget titled ”Civilization and its Discontents.” This is Mid Atlantic junk-rock of…
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Ken Shane
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Craft Recordings has remastered and reissued three of the seminal albums in soul music history on vinyl. It’s a veritable Holy Trinity of the genre.
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Rob Ross
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Jeffrey Gaines is a name you should be familiar with because he’s been putting out thoughtful, soul-clenching, highly personal and rewarding music for over 25 years. Alright is his first…
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Justin Vellucci
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The acoustic guitar scales dance with trickles of piano and the occasional tip-tip-tapping of drums, singer-songwriter Katerina Papachristou’s breathy vocals leading the way. It is a magical stew, one concocted…
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David Medsker
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I need to crowdsource my shows more often. My friends stepped up big time this week.
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Rob Ross
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Hailing from the northern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, RVG — more formally, but less frequently, the Romy Vager Group — self-released their debut full-length, A Quality Of Mercy, in early…
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Ken Shane
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Founded by two brothers of Solomon Burke, this Philadelphia group had to go overseas to find true success
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Rob Ross
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Popdose is pleased to introduce Swedish electronic pop singer Emma-Lee Andersson, who goes by the moniker BELLHOUSE. She’s just released her own dose of pop goodness with her new single,…
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Rob Ross
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More a “mini-album” than full-length (but I won’t split hairs here), Unbreakable is the very powerful and touching debut from Ali McManus, a 21-year old singer-songwriter/pianist/guitarist from Detroit. It says…
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Dw. Dunphy
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The route to the Dukes of the Orient debut is complex, but the album is not.
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Rob Ross
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As you know, Popdose loves Lisa Said, the singer/songwriter/guitarist who knocked us out with her debut album and E.P. over the last year and a half. So we are both…
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Dw. Dunphy
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The singer-songwriter goes intimate and stripped-down in an age of anxiety and complication.
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Justin Vellucci
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All it takes is 12 minutes to wow us. With a sense of movement falling somewhere between the piano phrasings of Cage (thinking The Seasons, from 47) and Glass’ more…
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Jack Feerick
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(Archive) Thursday, January 12, 2017 I’m beginning to feel distinctly that I am more trouble than I’m worth. It’s crunch time for Roscoe’s Basement — we’ve got a gig in…
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Ken Shane
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The group responsible for the original version of “Funky Broadway” didn’t stop there
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Beau Dure
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They did warn you about the Seether. Three years after coming out of nowhere with a powerful series of rock hooks on their debut album American Thighs, the quartet fronted by Louise Post…