It’s nothing more than a short, direct statement on their website, along with a band photo: “To our Fans and Friends: As R.E.M., and as lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we…
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During a career that stretches back to the mid-’80s, Matthew Sweet has never followed trends, though his landmark 1991 album Girlfriend was responsible for starting one—its bone-dry, caterwauling sonics opening…
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Our look at AM Gold: 1964 reaches its respectable conclusion.
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via Spinner: INXS singer J.D. Fortune has been kicked out of the band for the second time in under four years. Fortune replaced original frontman Michael Hutchence after winning the…
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Pete Chianca
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It’s a good bet that whoever says there’s no such thing as an original idea — in music or otherwise — has not taken a good close listen to Jonathan…
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Jack Feerick
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Perhaps it’s simply that no band — not even the World’s Greatest Rock ‘n’ Roll Band — can constrain an ego a talent as great as that which blesses Sir…
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Perhaps Todd Rundgren’s own restive muse — he’s dabbled in every major rock subgenre over the past four decades — simply makes him too difficult to categorize. Maybe Rundgren never…
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Survivor’s “Ever Since the World Began”: The Ultimate Wedding Anthem? Rob Smith discusses in “Death by Power Ballad.”
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Bob can’t just give advice to the myriad young acts who don’t read his columns. He has to present it with awkward metaphors about high school, which he probably learned from the movies.
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Mike Heyliger
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Kim Fields, who you probably know better as Tootie from “The Facts of Life,” scored a minor hit with 1984’s “Dear Michael,” dedicated to the King of Pop.
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Fall is coming so get happy, dammit. Here’s a mix to help you along.
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Dave Steed
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Relive the glory days of Twisted Sister with the release of their 1983 Marquee club shows.
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The Monkey Monk
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Popdose’s resident simian sage returns with advice for a certain hotshot guitarist…
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Ken Shane
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You’ve heard all the big hits from Detroit, Memphis, and New Orleans. How about Allentown, PA? That’s the home of Jay & the Techniques who hit it big in 1967.
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Naomi Watts grinding? Dennis Hopper huffing? David Lynch jamming? Doesn’t sound so strange now, does it?
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Brian Boone
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OMD’s dark electronic sounds were right in step with New Order and Depeche Mode, and yet “Electricity” couldn’t find an audience on either side of the pond over three releases.
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On the surface, it wouldn’t seem like these two bands have a lot in common, but look beyond that: These mainstays of classic rock radio into a Deathmatch were both from LA, did mountains of drugs, and screwed anything that crossed their paths. Both were laughed at by the critics but still loved by millions of people whose tastes haven’t changed since they were old enough to know better. Both had good guitarists, shitty drummers, and lyrics that alternated between pomposity and narcissistic misogyny. So which group is more evil? Leave it to the Popdose staff to answer the question. It’s a Popdose Deathmatch: The Lizard King vs. The Cryptkeeper. Let’s get ready to…ah, fuck it.
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Another Wednesday, another batch of AM Gold for your listening pleasure. This week rolls on with the third installment from 1964.
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Dave Steed
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Fates Warning guitarist Jim Matheos reunites with original singer John Arch for a headbanging new Not-Really-Fates-Warning-But-Maybe-Even-Cooler album.
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Mike Heyliger and Jeff Giles
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Exploring the whip appeal of one of the most prolific hitmakers of the ’80s.
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Jack Feerick
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More easily than most rock stars, Peter Gabriel has settled into his inevitable role as an elder statesman. He’s an exception, in the youth-obsessed industry of pop, in how freely…
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Sometimes, an album has such a great title that you just have to buy it.
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America’s first soul singer was lost in 1964 before his abilities as a writer, arranger and defacto producer could become more widely appreciated.
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In which the staff is on the receiving end of some begging, and responds childishly.
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Chart-topping activist declares creative bankruptcy again with yet another greatest hits tour.
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With just his guitar and harmonica, backed by a small group of singers behind him, Springsteen delivered his “prayer for our fallen brothers and sisters.” There was no bombast that night, just reverence and respect for the fallen.
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Dr. House Sings! Popdose pulls out the Wagner Johnson Downey Scale to weigh the results.
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Rob Smith looks back at music that provided some small comfort after 9/11/2001, in this week’s “Weekly Mixtape.”