Getting old sucks, but some things just get better with age — just ask Wendell Holmes of the Holmes Brothers, who has dealt with some of the health issues that…
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Jeff Giles
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Lifehouse fascinates me in many ways, none of them musical. For instance, who would have guessed these guys would still be around ten years after “Hanging by a Moment,” let…
Tony Redman
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This week, we have an unusual album featuring Popeye the Sailor Man singing songs and telling stories about his desire to create a zoo. I’m guessing this record came out…
Ben Wiser
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By the mid 1980s, many of hardcore’s old guard were outgrowing their three chord attack. A lot of bands found a new identity in the commercially viable crossover of thrash…
Dave Steed
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We’re finishing up the letter T this week as we take a look at some more great — and shitty — songs from the ’80s that never cracked the Billboard…
Dw. Dunphy
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I’ve been forced over the past few years to create a new gauge for music discrimination: good, bad and American Idol. I’ll leave the show bashing to someone else because,…
Jon Cummings
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We soon learned that what she “hadn’t got” was her marbles. But do we have to ignore the crazy to remember what a great album this is?
Ted Asregadoo
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Ted Asregadoo stuffs a little Cake in his Belly — with a side of Korn and some Smashing Pumpkins — in a Mix Six inspired by body parts and food.
Jeff Giles
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In the spring of 1990, I was in the middle of the first long-term relationship of my adolescent life. By “long-term,” I mean “six months,” but hey, when you’re teetering…
Michael Parr
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Are you a record artwork aficionado? Try and solve the 52nd edition of Cover Me!
Rob Smith
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Rob Smith recalls the first time he heard Journey’s Arnel Pineda sing “Open Arms” in this week’s Death by Power Ballad, only at Popdose.com.
Taylor Long
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Murder City Devils are no longer the kind of band that sets their drums on fire, or plays dive bars. For quite some time they were technically no longer even…
Ken Shane
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The Beatles broke up in 1970, and Paul McCartney released his first solo album. In California, a young McCartney-influenced musician was beginning his own solo career.
Robert Cass
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There’s been a lot of negativity here in Bootleg City the past few months. From last fall’s mayoral election to the criticism of my extended vacation and the controversy over…
Rob Smith
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Rob Smith provides some soulful sides to get us through winter’s last throes, in this week’s Popdose.com Friday Mixtape.
Jack Feerick
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As anyone must be who follows pop entertainment, I’m a keen observer of trend cycles. Culture is a marketplace, and there are all kinds of practical reasons to keep an…
Dw. Dunphy
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All rise. The rules of this courtroom are simple. You will be presented with two songs, one by the plaintiff and one by the defendant. It is your task to…
Anthony Hansen
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Though I’ve been a Bowie fan for just about as long as I’ve been a sentient human being (thanks, Dad!), I’ve only seen him live once and it was on…
Dw. Dunphy
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“Texture” is one of those words that goes down quite badly in rock music circles. The sound is based on tenets like three chords and the truth and don’t bore…
Jason Hare
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In his latest edition of Adventures Through the Mines of Mellow Gold, Jason Hare explores the phenomena of “gentle rocking,” brought to us by a Lebanese Canadian hunk in 1974.
Jeff Giles
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What happens when you try and turn an aging genius into a New Jack Swing artist? Welcome to hel — er, Ray Charles’ My World.
Matt Wardlaw
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Alright, let me get something off my chest right away: I’m lying when I tell you that this show took place in Bermuda. The truth is, that no one is…
Scott Malchus
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Sophie’s school held its annual father/daughter dance was last week, an event that we’ve attended for several years now. The two of us began our night with a pasta dinner…
Ken Shane
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The sixth and final chapter in the American Recordings collaborations between Johnny Cash and Rick Rubin is a direct conversation between a man and his maker.
Tony Redman
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In 1954, before Mister Rogers brought his Neighborhood to national television, he was a part of a local show in Pittsburgh called The Children’s Corner. A woman named Josie Carey…
Ben Wiser
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Relix editor Toni Brown discusses her long history with the Grateful Dead — as well as her own musical career — in an interview with Ben Wiser.
Ken Shane
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Don Was (born Don Fagenson) and David Was (born David Weiss) grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, and met in junior high school in the 1960s. It was a…
Mike Heyliger
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On the back of the booklet in Gil Scott-Heron’s I’m New Here CD is a message. The message reads as follows: “There is a proper procedure for taking advantage of…
Dave Steed
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We’re smack dab in the middle of the letter T in this week’s Bottom Feeders, and you know what that means: You can New Jack Swing on Dave Steed’s nuts.