It’s Styxmas in Bootleg City, which means lots of heartfelt yet bombastic pop-rock caroling, tons of Mr. Roboto action figures under the tree, and a bootleg from October 31, 1981.
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Dave Steed
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Wanna make your New Year’s Eve party one to remember? Try playing one of these new metal discs as the background music. No one will come next year but no one will ever forget either.
Jeff Giles
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Stacie Collins, Sometimes Ya Gotta… The cover might look like a rejected panel from Marvel Comics Goes to the Rodeo, but there’s nothing cartoonish about Stacie Collins’ Sometimes Ya Gotta……
Jeff Giles
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Willy Porter & Carpe Diem, Live at BoMA While you’re busy making New Year’s resolutions, here’s one worth adding to the list: acquaint yourself with the music of Willy Porter,…
Popdose Staff
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The members of the Popdose staff have been counting down their favorite records. Now find out which ones we’ve collectively crowned the Top 20 of 2010.
Ted Asregadoo
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE Are you tired of all the year end lists yet? Well, here at Popdose, we love our lists — and it seems our readers do,…
Dw. Dunphy
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Well, this is getting to be a pretty lousy habit, now isn’t it? Coming into the middle part of December, I had severe computer and Internet connectivity problems, my car’s…
Ken Shane
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We’ve come to expect reissue brilliance from Rhino Handmade. Their new Percy Sledge release is no exception. One lucky reader has a chance to win a copy.
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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By the cold light of Mellowmas morn, Fred Schneider returns to make us all sick. So very, very sick.
Popdose Staff
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The Popdose Staff thought that the best way to celebrate the second to last day of Mellowmas was to set the DeLorean back to the glam year of 1980, virtually…
David Medsker
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Merry Christmas, Popdose Nation. God knows you’ve earned this. AC/DC – Mistress For Christmas Band Aid – Do They Know It’s Christmas (12 inch mix) The Bird and the Bee…
Matt Wardlaw
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It’s Christmas Eve, so I’m going to keep this one short. Let’s face it, if you’re reading this, you should be with your family right now. But maybe you’re like Mayor…
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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Just in time for Mellowmas Eve, Wing has given us the world’s first song about Santa and a helicopter. Wait, what?
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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¡Hola, amigos y amigas! Charo ees here to help all you fine mamacitas find Thanta Claw!
Mike Duquette
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Even in a year where a lot of great new music was released, it’s still been a blast to revisit artists and albums of old through those wonderful reissues, box…
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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Turn around, bright eyes — Bonnie Tyler is here with a Mellowmas tune that has Jason scratching his head and Jeff holding out for a burst eardrum.
Dave Steed
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What would Christmas time be without the king, Michael McDonald. Bottom Feeders continues with the letter M and wishes you a McDonald filled Christmas.
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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In which two of Toto’s many former lead singers wish you a very merry Mellowmas — or a maudlin, senselessly overblown one, whichever comes first.
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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Armed with a drum loop and enough Viagra to kill a horse, the O’Jays have returned to sex you up for Mellowmas.
Matt Wardlaw
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Hi, guys. I’m happy to let you know that I have a long-overdue update from the beloved (in only one small part of the zip code) Mayor Cass. Now, I…
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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Kenny Rogers takes a break from his busy plastic surgery schedule to record yet another Christmas album, and all of us are poorer for it.
Ken Shane
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With a new manager hired to make the Beach Boys back relevant again, the band’s 1971 album “Surf’s Up” proved to be a powerful artistic statement.
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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Because when you’re calling yourselves the New Monkees, you might as well just go ahead and sing Christmas lyrics over one of your songs.
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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What if “The First Noel” happened at a Hot Topic in Orange County? Today, the dorks in Eve 6 give us their “Very Special” answer.
Michael Parr
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The Popdose staff continues to countdown their favorite records of 2010. Join Michael Parr as he lists his top 12.
Michael Fortes
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From the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, Michael Fortes runs through his top picks for the best albums of 2010.
Jeff Giles
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Today, the Kidz Bop delinquents invade Mellowmas and desecrate a holiday classic.
Ken Shane
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In 1967, Stevie Wonder co-wrote a classic song of romantic longing, but it remained largely unknown until the Queen of Soul released her smash cover in 1973.
Mike Heyliger
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Mike Heyliger counts down his favorite ten albums of the past year with a list that includes a Barenaked Lady, a Band of Horses, a little Kanye and a whole lot of ?uestlove.