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There’s music in the air and lots of lovin’ everywhere on this Jheri Curl Friday, thanks to George Benson.
It’s a hat-tastic Weekly Mixtape for one and all.
Two Bitch albums are remastered and Dave Steed’s most anticipated record of the year finally shows up (with a track called “Bitch!”)
The Popdose staff sits down for an in-depth discussion of how much it hurts to break up with a favorite artist.
Ken Shane will be covering the Newport Folk Festival for Popdose again this weekend. Among the artists he looks forward to seeing is soul legend Mavis Staples.
Despite the cool, vaguely exotic euro-discoy name, Meco was really a kind of nerdy dude from Pennsylvania (real name: Domenico Monardo). As such, Meco loved only two things in life:…
We wrap up our look at Time-Life’s AM Gold: 1962 compilation this week, and learn just how popular death songs were back then.
Native San Franciscan Obo Martin weaves tales of love and adventure into a celebratory mix of Irish and American folk music. Now he welcomes you into his home.
Dave Steed reflects back on the New Jack Swing era as Color Me Badd’s debut album turns 20 years old this week.
“Music for the People” turns 20 this week and to celebrate, Dave Steed tracked down Funky Bunch member Hector the Booty Inspector and asked him to reminisce.
Don’t you just wish you could just enjoy your favorite bands without a singer getting in the way for once? Your wish is this week’s Popdose mixtape’s command.
Dave Steed reveals himself to the masses and checks out the Hell on Earth tour while he’s at it.
To celebrate TMBG’s new album, out this week, Mark Feldman looks back at the duo’s long, eclectic career.
This album, for all intents and purposes, saved my life.
Here’s the back story: I had just graduated from college in the summer of 1991, I was in Connecticut. Girlfriend was in Ohio. I packed up everything I had and boarded a train to move to Ohio to be with her. But she was under tremendous pressure from her parents to break it off, and by the time I arrived, their smear campaign was clearly working. I rarely saw her, even though we worked in the same mall. I got a job at a record store, and one of the promo CDs that had just arrived was Squeeze’s new album Play. I had always liked the band but never bought any of their records. However, the local modern rock station (97X, holler) was giving it some support, so after hearing a couple songs I liked, I took it home with me and played it in the car of my friend Ed, who’s the only person I know who likes Squeeze more than I do. I vented all of my frustrations to him about the ridiculous predicament I put myself in as we blasted “House of Love,” because damn it, I was living that song. She was full of lies and boredom, a very acidic tongue waggled in her head, we seemed the best of friends, life had just begun…but on the roof a tile began to slip. The house of love caved in, and that was it. Fuck.
Ken Shane celebrates the life and music of songwriter/producer Jerry Ragovoy who died this week at age 80.
Grunge rock came out of the punk tradition, sidestepping the decade and a half of corporate rock that came in between punk’s prime of 1977 and grunge’s rise in 1991….
Popdose soldiers on with our Digging for Gold series and looks at another six tracks from Time-Life Music’s AM Gold: 1962.
Supertramp was many things over its too-brief period of hitmaking — wanna-be proggers, post-Beatle popsters, kinda-classical rockers, memory-defining radio monoliths. Sure, Roger Hodgson’s voice could occasionally become a sing-songy distraction….
If you had to go away for awhile and you could only take five of your favorite albums with you, which ones would you choose? Yes, we know it…
In this week’s “Death by Power Ballad,” Rob Smith has a midlife nervous breakdown, in response to Richard Marx’s “Hold on to the Nights.”
Funk/rock legend Sly Stone made his only appearance in a music video back in 1986, when he appeared in Jesse Johnson’s “Crazay” clip.
So wizard rock is apparently a real thing, which is nice; I’m sure that the Moms of the various members of, say, Draco and the Malfoys are all very proud…
How many ways can you spell perfection? Try three ways, as Dave Steed reviews a monstrous bunch of new metal and rock records this week.
In which our own Ken Shane and Jim Fusilli of the Wall Street Journal debate the merits of Phil Spector’s work in light of his murder conviction.
MTV started airing 20-year-old reruns of The Monkees in 1986, a perfect fit for the fledgling network—quick cuts, youth culture, wild and crazy attitude—such were the things MTV aimed to…
The Weeknight ’80s Dance Party is back with a mix that will be the soundtrack of your next ’80s Breakdance Party.
The second installment of Digging for Gold explores more of 1962’s hippest tunes. And Gene Pitney.
Come my little children, and let’s hear a tale of…um, The Moody Blues on this week’s Mix Six!
In a way, the Who has no one to blame for a slow and steady slide into overlooked rock-god status.