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Popdose Staff
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It’s a brave new year on AM Gold – 1965 to be precise!
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Popdose Staff
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The staff looks at this year’s list, pauses for reflection, and launches into a rock nerd debate.
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Dave Steed
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A divorce and a hurricane can’t keep Sebastian Bach down as he comes out Kicking & Screaming with a fantastic new album.
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Something Else! Reviews
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Guitarist Bill Frisell, the jazz guy, issues a terrific tribute to John Lennon today, titled All We Are Saying. But this isn’t, you know, his first intersection with rock music.
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Michael Fortes
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With a voice as smooth as silk, and a style as distinctive as a Maserati, how is Bay Area indie pop institution Bart Davenport not yet a household name?
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Ken Shane
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Ken Shane recently attended the Rhythm & Roots festival in RI for the first time. He reports on a day of great live music.
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Jack Feerick
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Twenty years ago, it was possible to be a regional success without breaking out nationally. This is the story of the rise and plateau and eventual fall of Cliffs of Dooneen, a cautionary tale of the perils of influence.
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Dave Steed
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Finally, an album about the Enochian Magick System that’s worth a damn.
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Ken Shane
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When it comes to archival reissues of classic soul music, The Numero Group is setting the bar high with a combination of great taste and brilliant scholarship.
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Brian Boone
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“Holiday Road” was the theme song of National Lampoon’s Vacation, an insanely popular movie, the kind of ’80s comedy classic that gets run on cable and local stations with a…
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Dw. Dunphy
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Robert Pollard has yet another band. This one’s called Guided By Voices.
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Matt Springer
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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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Popdose Staff
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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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Popdose Staff
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Our look at AM Gold: 1964 reaches its respectable conclusion.
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Popdose Staff
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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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Something Else! Reviews
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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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Rob Smith
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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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Dave Lifton
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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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Dw. Dunphy
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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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Dw. Dunphy
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Naomi Watts grinding? Dennis Hopper huffing? David Lynch jamming? Doesn’t sound so strange now, does it?