There is half a good album here, and there’s no other way to put it. Primary Dreaming in Stereo member Fernando Perdomo has a heck of a time balancing the…
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Will Harris
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For better or worse…and I’m going to go out on a limb here and say it’s for worse…there really isn’t much from the back catalog of Gary Clark’s work as…
Jeff Vrabel
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STEELHEART Title: I’ll Never Let You Go Album: Steelheart Released: May 10, 1990 Why You Remember Them: Previous installments of this award-winning series have included bands with numerous hits, if…
David Medsker
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Now with 100% longer clips! Seriously, I made them longer this time. The Rules: MAXIMUM THREE GUESSES between updates of the list, to give everyone a chance to play. An…
Ben Wiser
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Meet James Perry, whose debut solo CD arrives after 20 years spent playing in Bay Area bands. Perry speaks with Ben Wiser about the eclectic new album, titled Now You’re Gone.
Dw. Dunphy
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Can you will yourself into liking a CD or is it merely that the recording is a ‘grower’? The term itself is suspect; it’s almost a prettified way of saying…
Dw. Dunphy
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There are things that an EP is supposed to do, and things many invariably do, making the whole EP concept a source of dread for reviewers. These things are supposed…
Robert Cass
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I was dead asleep when the phone rang. It was three o’clock. I picked it up and mumbled hello. I figured it was my ex-wife. She calls late at night…
Dw. Dunphy
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I know what you were expecting. “See You In September” or “Summer Nights” from Grease or, in a sarcastic vein, “School’s Out” — but we don’t need no steenkin’ kitsch….
Jason Hare
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Survivor sends a thank-you note to Queen, Air Supply goes to Brooklyn, David Foster takes over Chicago and CSN inexplicably has a Top 10 hit — it’s all part of Jason Hare’s latest edition of CHART ATTACK!
Ken Shane
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To quote Richard M. Nixon (it seems appropriate for the era), “let me make one thing perfectly clear” — There is no Jefferson Airplane without singer Marty Balin, anymore than…
Dw. Dunphy
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This week, I’m taking a cue from Popdose’s own Uncle Donnie (and not from my cousin Donnie, thank you very much) to offer up a little pre-emptive career advice. It…
Jeff Giles
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Labels? Who needs a record label? Sanders Bohlke is carving out success as a recording artist on his own, one television show at a time.
Ed Murray
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Ed Murray’s back in the garage for another edition of Lo-Fi Mojo, and this time, he’s cranking up some early, pre-Clash recordings from Joe Strummer’s old band.
Scott Malchus
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No, not that Joe Jackson. This week, Scott Malchus ruminates on the nature of creativity, his relationship with his father, and his own motivations for writing, all against the backdrop of a track from Tucker: The Man and His Dream.
Tom Werman
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As his career memoirs for Popdose reach their conclusion, Tom Werman reflects on one last big-budget project — and heads East to settle down and get, in his words, “blissed out.”
Ken Shane
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Fun. is one of those bands that take all the music that they love, throw it in a blender, and pour the resulting mixture into an album. In this case,…
Tony Redman
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With the Batman: Arkham Asylum game coming out this week (for PS3, Xbox360 and PCs), I thought I’d throw out another Batman-related album for you. When the Batman TV show…
Jeff Giles
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Just in time for another installment of You Again? comes the latest solo effort from formerly chart-topping ’80s songstress, and friend to stutterers, Lisa Lisa.
David Medsker
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This album and band brings out my innermost old codger (which isn’t nearly as inner as it should be), because it has me telling days-of-yore stories about what music geeks…
Dave Steed
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Don’t be alarmed, baby — that tingling you’re feeling isn’t herpes. It’s time for another installment of Bottom Feeders, and this time, Ray Parker, Jr. is here to give it that little extra mmmmm.
Robert Cass
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Four years ago GRP/Verve released Best of George Benson Live, recorded at a concert the veteran jazz guitarist and singer gave in Belfast, Ireland, in 2000. The set drew mainly…
Michael Fortes
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This week’s episode of Parlour to Parlour captures some of the excitement in the air as the energetic L.A. band The Happy Hollows were preparing for an appearance at Austin’s South by Southwest festival and feverishly working on recordings for their debut full-length album, Spells.
Robert Cass
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Maxwell. Boston. Free Priority Access tickets. Need we say more? Click to enter the contest from Popdose, Samsung, and AT&T!
John C. Hughes
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That isn’t a dog whistle you hear — it’s that chick in the leotard over there. She’s Kate Bush, and this week, John C. Hughes is Lost in the ’80s with her.
Mojo Flucke
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There’s no ticket from this show to scan; I was just one of the guys on the guest list. Turns out that when this band came to the Iron Horse…
Dw. Dunphy
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Sometimes criticizing a recording is easy. It’s just like pulling a trigger. You’ve heard the songs, you dislike the songs and you know exactly why. Sometimes it’s extremely difficult, especially…
Jeff Vrabel
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Jeff Vrabel is back on his Steel Horse again, and this time, he’s taking us back to a power ballad that arrived just in time for the death of hair metal.
David Medsker
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Cover Me has now used over 1,000 album covers! And truth be told, I’m running out. Cover Me will continue, but don’t be surprised if it takes a few…breaks. Below…
Jeff Giles
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Do these seem like nice fellows? Don’t be fooled — they’re horsemen of a musical apocalypse. Read all about it in the latest senses-shattering edition of Earmageddon!