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Dw. Dunphy
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The record companies decided to fight the scourge of free music downloads with…twice-as-expensive discs. Let us explain.
Popdose Staff
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“Weird Al” Yankovic: he’s not just about Lady Gaga parodies, you know. Join Popdose as we look back at 20 of Al’s most memorable original compositions.
Jeff Giles
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The Neville Brothers – Voodoo Howie Day – Collide Robert Plant – Another Tribe Indigo Girls – Closer To Fine Dave Matthews – Everyday Madeleine Peyroux – Don’t Wait Too…
Dave Steed
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Metallica, Slayer. Slayer, Metallica. Carcass? Who comes out on top as Dave Steed’s favorite metal album of all time? Find out in the final edition of False Metal, Dead!
Dave Steed
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Dave Steed takes a look at everything badass in his latest weekly music series.
Ken Shane
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High Moon Records is having their launch party at The Roxy in LA on April 29. One lucky Popdose reader will be there, with a friend.
Ken Shane
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Arnold McCuller calls “Soon As I Get Paid” his musical autobiography. He could haven’t chosen better songs or better players to help him to tell his story.
Brian Boone
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In the post-Nirvana, post-grunge rock landscape, dominance by a new genre was totally up for grabs. Would it be power pop, a la Matthew Sweet? Lite grunge, or “mallternative”? Britpop? Mallternative…
Kelly Stitzel
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Put on your dancing shoes and strap on your guitar. It’s time to rock a little and dance a little at the Weeknight ’80s Dance Party.
Tony Redman
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What happens when you combine Dixieland music with popular songs from the ’70s? You get “The Next Hundred Years” by the Ragtimers, this week’s album featured on “Way Out Wednesday.”
Dave Steed
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The sun shines down on rock music this week with a heaping of Squeeze, Squier and a concert’s worth of Springsteen tunes.
Something Else! Reviews
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A band suspended forever between the formalism of Dennis DeYoung’s Broadway pretentions and the harder-edged banalities of James Young and Tommy Shaw, Styx sounded different every time it came on…
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Chris Holmes
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With their alluring blend of vintage Cambodian pop and surf rock, Dengue Fever’s latest release, Cannibal Courthship, earns praise from Chris Holmes.
Matt Wardlaw
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I asked New York-based singer/songwriter Patti Rothberg for a contribution to our Desert Island Discs series and a few short weeks later, I received the following note which cleverly came…
Scott Malchus
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It’s springtime again, and Scott Malchus is reflecting on baseball, family and the search for a cure to cystic fibrosis in this week’s Basement Songs.
Dw. Dunphy
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As promised, here are the winners for our 50CCM50 giveaways! Rob Hire, from the Great White North, won the Peacock/Heard vinyls… Jonathan Henschel won the Phil Keaggy CDs… Michial Farmer…
Mike Heyliger
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Singer/songwriter Marc Pinansky imagines himself on a desert island and comes up with 5 discs to make the trip with.
Dave Steed
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Dave Steed breaks into the Top 20 metal albums of all time with Angel Witch, Immortal, Opeth and yes, even Probot!
Matthew Bolin
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Yes, yes, June is the traditional month of the year associated with weddings, but your brother isn’t getting married this Sunday is he? I didn’t think so. As an alternative…
Dw. Dunphy
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Popdose.com presents the Top Ten CCM albums of all-time as determined by Dw. Dunphy.
Dave Lifton
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The Popdose Podcast returns with an interview with Gorman Bechard, the creative force behind Color me Obsessed: A Film About The Replacements.
David Medsker
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Think you know your music? How about just a snippet of music? Put your knowledge to the test in Popdose’s latest edition of Name That Tune.
Dw. Dunphy
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iPodders prepare! This Popdose.com giveaway is just for you!
Ken Shane
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Just when Freddie Scott decided to give up on recording and focus on songwriting, an opportunity came along to record a song that would change his life.
Brian Boone
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In the spring of 1995, I had a brief but odd obsession with The Brady Bunch Movie. It’s probably because it collided my first pop culture object of whimsy with…
Kelly Stitzel
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Get your hair sprayed and your neon leg warmers washed, because it’s time for Popdose’s Weeknight ’80s Dance Party!
Ken Shane
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We’ve come to expect great songwriting from Paul Simon. Ken Shane thinks that his new album is his best in a long time, and the finest album of the year so far.
Matt Wardlaw
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Grammy Award winning singer/songwriter Bruce Hornsby converses with Matt Wardlaw about his new live album, summer tour with Bela Fleck and the success of his musical.