Another day, another volume of KBCO Studio C goodness! Like the stuff we’ve seen already, Volume 4 is a pleasant blend of classic artists (Loudon Wainwright III), flavors of the…
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Ken Shane
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Following up his rustic classic “Tumbleweed Connection” was no easy task for Elton John, but in 1971 he released another dusky gem. Ken Shane remembers.
Dw. Dunphy
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If you’re holding your breath for the day MTV starts playing music videos, let it go. It’s never going to happen, not while the dreaded Snooki-beast is running around, trying…
Dw. Dunphy
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The Popdose staff curates this mix to be a companion through the headlong rush to the winter solstice.
Dave Steed
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Dave Steed presents 10 more of his favorite metal albums in his ultimate quest to get you to listen to 300 headbangers!
Ken Shane
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Angie Mattson impressed Ken Shane when she opened for Justin Currie on his first solo US tour. Does her new album deliver on the promise of that performance?
Dw. Dunphy
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Although I considered Carptree’s previous album Insekt (2008) to be one of that year’s best, even I had to admit it was a pretty dark series of songs. The combination…
Ken Shane
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Solomon Burke was known as the King of Rock and Soul. When he died last Sunday, he left behind a long string of soul classics. Ken Shane remembers.
Tony Redman
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Piping hot pizza and piping hot … organ music? Way Out Wednesday presents “At the Organ Grinder, Vol. 2,” plus a chance to help out a little friend of mine.
Dw. Dunphy
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Maturity tends to be the dirtiest word in pop music. Fans of good pop seldom equate it with being “redolent with the heady fragrances of adulthood,” but more likely, “old…
Dw. Dunphy
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Things have been problematic for the post-Neal Morse era of Spock’s Beard. They’ve produced some good songs during this time, but never a full album that gelled completely. The closest…
Dw. Dunphy
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In conjunction with our mini-series 50CCM50 (check out the first installment here), Popdose is giving away a unique prize to a lucky reader, but be warned – it is not…
Dave Steed
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Dave Steed features more rock songs that had their 15 minutes of fame in the ’80s and the smokin’ hot Nancy Wilson.
Dave Steed
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Dave Steed reviews new albums from Killing Joke, Monster Magnet, Earth, Grave Digger and more.
Dw. Dunphy
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There was an exciting, albeit brief, period in the early 1990s where bands of limited resources but unlimited ambition managed to not only get their records out to the public,…
Mark Feldman
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What if the Beatles had never broken up…and their best solo tracks ended up on Fab Four albums?
Jon Cummings
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John Lennon’s traumatic teens, and the birth of the Beatles, get the little-British-art-film treatment. But can it work both as cinema and as Beatleography?
Michael Parr
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Break out your magnifying glass and record collection: it’s time for this week’s Cover Me with Michael Parr.
Rob Smith
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David Coverdale and Whitesnake delivered a poetic kill shot to the heart with 1990’s “Now You’re Gone.” Rob Smith discusses the bloody artifact in Popdose’s “Death by Power Ballad.”
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Dw. Dunphy
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This is an archival interview which took place in October 2010.
Popdose Staff
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John Lennon would have been 70 years old tomorrow. The Popdose staff has gathered to pay tribute.
Rob Smith
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In honor of John Lennon’s 70th birthday October 9, Popdose presents a collection of Lennon covers in The Friday Mixtape.
Dw. Dunphy
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There is very little difference between breakup bravado and a midlife crisis. Both make people do drastic things, buy pink Corvettes, show off in front of potential suitors and, sometimes,…
Scott Malchus
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How does a comic book come together? By chance and friendship. Read today’s Basement Songs to find out about the latest (co) creation by Scott Malchus. Don’t worry, there are still a couple songs, too.
Dw. Dunphy
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In celebration of what would have been John Lennon’s 70th birthday, Capitol Records has released a remastered set of his solo work, arriving in digi-envelopes to mirror last year’s Beatles…
Dave Steed
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One hundred albums down in our countdown of Dave Steed’s 300 best metal albums of all time. This week, Sabbath, Danzig, Black Label Society, Slipknot and more!
Dw. Dunphy
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This review is late. Eight years late, to be exact but I do have an excuse. The only way I could have gotten it in on time would be to…
Ken Shane
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Ken Shane celebrates the six-month anniversary of his Soul Serenade column with an awesome mix that includes every song that has appeared in his column so far.
Dw. Dunphy
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Several critics were head-over-heels for Christ O, the 2006 release from German prog-metallers Vanden Plas, but it left little to no impression on me. Scratch that: it did leave me…
Pete Chianca
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The Boston Phoenix described indie-folk act Leland Sundries as ”The Band meets Lou Reed,” and as intriguing a prospect as that is (I have to suppress an image of Reed…