TRIXTER TITLE: “Give It To Me Good” ALBUM: Trixter RELEASE DATE: May 1990 Why You Remember Them: For one of two reasons: Trixter hails from Paramus, N.J., which makes them…
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Ken Shane
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Greenpeace has released a two-disc set of the live, re-mastered recording Amchitka: The 1970 concert that launched Greenpeace. The CD is available exclusively through Greenpeace, and all proceeds will benefit…
Michael Fortes
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It was the need to present an acoustic side of Eli and Mary Chartkoff’s music that caused the Cobra Lilies to form. And the band from which they came, the…
Ted Asregadoo
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE Long Live Rock For me, 1981 was a real musical watershed. I was a sophomore in high school, and through a series of events, it…
Jason Hare
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It’s the moment you’ve been dreading for the past 11 months: Mellowmas returns to Popdose!
Ken Shane
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Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks met when both men were writers for Sid Caesar’s fabled television program, Your Show of Shows. Working from an idea that Reiner had, they developed…
Rob Smith
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I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised about this, but Lev brought over this missive in which Uncle Donnie weighs in on the ongoing Aerosmith drama. -RS TO: Steven Tyler FROM:…
Robin Monica Alexander
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There have been a lot of boys, and men, whose pictures I have torn out of magazines for my personal use. The first may have been Michael Jackson, of whom…
Matthew Boles
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When I was a wee mountain man growing up in southern Connecticut, just outside New York City, I quickly learned that everything from Philadelphia was crap: The Flyers were a…
Dw. Dunphy
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On September 1st, guitarist, keyboardist and founding member of Kansas, Kerry Livgren had a stroke. The progress in his recovery has been positive, but the most recent news has said…
Jason Hare
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What’s tastier than day-after-Thanksgiving leftovers? A fresh new episode of the Popdose Podcast, featuring the immature humor of Jeff Giles, Jason Hare and Dave Lifton!
Mojo Flucke
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Each Thanksgiving at the Flucke household, we have a special tradition where we open up the mojo bag and drop in some new gris-gris, playing Dr. John and Professor Longhair…
Scott Malchus
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Like most families, mine had a Thanksgiving tradition we kept up until I began college. For my entire childhood I remember it like this: Our Wednesday nights were spent driving,…
David Medsker
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First and foremost, I would like to extend a hearty thank you to frequent Popdose reader and commenter King of Grief, who volunteered to take my individual mp3 files for…
Dave Steed
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Glad you stopped by for the third week of artists whose names begin with the letter S, as we continue looking at the bottom three-fifths of the Billboard Hot 100…
Popdose Staff
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The Popdose staff concludes its look back at the decade that was with a list of our 100 favorite albums.
Ken Shane
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It’s dark in here. Really dark. That’s probably for the best, because it makes it hard to see the creepy and crawly things. The slick and the slimy things. And…
Ken Shane
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At the beginning of this decade, sax player Neal Sugarman and bassist Gabriel Roth founded Daptone Records in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. They put together a studio in a…
Michael Fortes
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As we enter the home stretch of the Parlour to Parlour journey, the artists preceding some of these final episodes became important to me not just for musical enjoyment, but…
Robert Cass
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The first sound you hear on Angie Stone’s fifth album, Unexpected (Stax/Concord), is a sample of Sly & the Family Stone’s “Family Affair,” the hit single from that band’s fifth…
Ted Asregadoo
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE The thing I love about Thanksgiving (in the U.S.) is that it’s a holiday devoid of the trappings of Christmas. You don’t have to buy…
Popdose Staff
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It’s been a tumultuous decade for music, but it hasn’t all been bad — and the Popdose staff has just the list of songs to prove it.
David Medsker
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Hello. And goodbye, unfortunately. This will serve, for the time being anyway, as my final Cover Me. Cold, hard reality is beckoning, so I must put my toys aside and…
Jeff Vrabel
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FIREHOUSE TITLE: “Don’t Treat Me Bad” ALBUM: Firehouse RELEASE DATE: Aug. 21, 1990 Why You Remember Them: For one of two reasons: Either for their two-ply, baby-soft semi-rocker “Don’t Treat…
Rob Smith
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We’re gathered together today at the Popdose dinner table to fill ourselves with the bounty of goodness from local farms and our communal garden out back (and, later, we shall…
Jason Crane
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The first album I ever bought with my own money (earned, I think, by babysitting for one of the neighborhood kids) was a two-cassette version of Chuck Mangione’s 1978 concert…
Matthew Boles
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Hey, the head man is out of town! This is such a freakin’ good idea. See, when our “public servants” walk into office having “plans” and “introducing legislation,” they immediately…
Dw. Dunphy
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Bend It Like Bender! – Devin Townsend Project from Addicted (2009) Blue Cheadle – Cheer-Accident from Fear Draws Misfortune (2009) Cruisin’ With The Deuce – Quarterflash from Quarterflash (1980) Elegy…
Jason Hare
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A duck, a muskrat, and Rod Stewart in a bowtie — the only thing that could save this Billboard Top 10 is a four-minute talkbox solo. It’s all in Jason Hare’s latest edition of CHART ATTACK!
Jason Miller
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While the Strokes remain on hiatus, Julian Casablancas is stepping out on his own. How does his new album stack up against his band’s music?