The general public always thinks about Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax and Megadeth when talking about great thrash groups, and no one is arguing there. Some fans make it down to Exodus…
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Dave Steed
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If you had asked me back in 1987, when Future World, the second album from Danish band Pretty Maids was released, I definitely wouldn’t have thought they’d be around 20+…
Dave Steed
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If there’s one way to get me to at least give your record a quick check, it’s to name your band something retarded like We Butter the Bread with Butter….
Dave Steed
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He led you through the Top 40, and now Dave Steed begins a new journey — through the ass end of the ’80s rock charts.
Jeff Giles
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The Black Keys headed to Muscle Shoals to record their sixth album, which makes all kinds of sense, since they’ve been driving for the sound of the original dirty South…
Jeff Giles
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Tracey Thorn’s latest solo outing isn’t a new Everything but the Girl album, but it comes close — closer than her dancefloor-friendly 2007 effort, anyway. Starved EbtG fans who listened…
Jeff Giles
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One of my last acts as a recording artist was a series of demos intended for a covers album. Though I didn’t really realize it at the time, I was…
Ken Shane
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By the time a 24 year-old Otis Redding arrived in Los Angeles in 1966 for appearances that included a Hollywood Bowl show with Donovan, Sonny & Cher, and the Mamas…
Popdose Staff
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The staff at Popdose discusses the music, life, and legacy of the late Ronnie James Dio, at Popdose.com.
Popdose Staff
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE Ronald James Padavona: July 10, 1942 – May 16, 2010 “Man on the Silver Mountain,” Rainbow (Download) For many of us, this song was our…
Rob Smith
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Rob Smith says Yes (exclamation point) to Therapy (question mark) in the new installment of “Rob Smith Can’t Say No,” only at Popdose.com
Jeff Giles
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In this week’s Uncovered, we talk with Julie Speed, the artist who painted the cover of Shawn Colvin’s Grammy-winning breakthrough album.
Jeff Giles
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Confessional albums are certainly nothing new in the singer/songwriter idiom, but there’s a continuum. I mean, there are personal songs, and then there are songs that take your breath away…
Robert Cass
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Earlier this week I took a group of underprivileged kids to see the first big blockbuster of the summer movie season, Iron Man 2. Or at least they sounded underprivileged…
David Medsker
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In the late ’90s and early ’00s, I went head first down the power-pop rabbit hole. I eventually regretted it for some reason (oh wait, I remember now — the…
Jeff Giles
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This week, we come back to “Peg” — and guitarist Jay Graydon gives us the back story on how his famous solo for the song came together.
Ken Shane
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It’s the dobro on the song “The Sweet Part of the City” that you hear first on the new Hold Steady album Heaven Is Whenever (Vagrant Records) . Your immediate…
Scott Malchus
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In the wee hours of the morning I would pace the living room, bouncing Jacob in my arms, lulling him back to sleep. This was our routine in the winter…
Jon Cummings
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Bobby. Art. Dave. Sonny. Ike. J-’Stache. Curt. Paul (Humphreys, that is). Everly (no, not that one, the other one) … Of all the lesser halves of pop’s greatest duos, certainly…
Ken Shane
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When I first encountered the legend of the Magnificent Men, it was like something out of a movie. According to the story, this group of white kids from Harrisburg and…
Tony Redman
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One of the most fondly remembered Muppets from the early days of Sesame Street was Roosevelt Franklin. He was voiced by Matt Robinson, who played Gordon on the show. (In…
Matt Wardlaw
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Former Del Amitri frontman Justin Currie is back with a new album that will make Dels fans jump for joy. Matt Wardlaw had a few questions…
Dave Steed
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After two years and more than 100 posts, Dave Steed’s Bottom Feeders reaches its conclusion. Parting is such a son of a bitch — but Dave’s brought prizes to his farewell party!
Dave Steed
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Two words come to mind when talking about Judas Priest’s landmark record British Steel; Hell yeah! Those two little words pretty much sum up the feeling I get every time…
Dave Steed
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Let’s get this out of the way up front: Bison B.C. is sick. As a huge fan of 3 Inches of Blood, I first heard of Bison B.C. on their…
Dw. Dunphy
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In retrospect, it was unfair to peg Michael Knott as a Christian rocker. Over the years, his stubborn drive to say what he wants to say, in the way he…
Dave Steed
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Being an instrumental band, Karma to Burn is probably never going to get the recognition they deserve. After all, it’s the frontman that draws the crowd in and makes the…
Jeff Giles
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Meat Loaf returns with his eleventh album this week, leaving Jeff Giles to cry out in anguish: You Again?
Ken Shane
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A funny thing happened to Everest on the road to releasing their second album. The plan was to release the album on Vapor Records, just as they had released their…
Ted Asregadoo
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE When rock-and-roll reared its beautiful/ugly head, the backlash against it was pretty ferocious. The cultural conservative invective against this form of music ran the gamut…