Hailing from Glasgow, Scotland, The Poets had a lot of things going for them in the mid-’60s: a unique sound, a cool look (high-necked jackets and ruffled fronted shirts —…
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Scott Malchus
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The summer vacation. As I’ve mentioned a couple of times in the Basement Songs, during my childhood, when school let out for the summer, my parents would pack up the…
Kelly Stitzel
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In our new series, Kelly Stitzel and the Popdose staff bring you 27 — count ’em! — versions of the great blues-folk song “Stagger Lee.”
Tony Redman
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Here’s a fun album from 1966 featuring songs sung about — and sometimes sung by — Superman and his DC Comics universe of characters. The original album features two songs…
Ben Wiser
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Babatunde Olatunji – Drums of Passion (Legacy Edition) Columbia/Legacy has just released a glorious two-disc edition of Babatunde Olatunji’s 1959 masterwork, Drums of Passion, one of the most profoundly influential…
David Medsker
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The sophomore album. I hear it’s tricky. So begins the second and final chapter on our tribute to one of Boston’s finest. It was 1993, and in those pre-internet days,…
Dave Steed
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This is it — the Holy Grail of “Ëœ80s music finally makes its appearance at Bottom Feeders. Enjoy another week of artists whose names begin with the letter M, as…
John C. Hughes
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The most rock-radio acceptable of the new-wave acts (with the possible exception of the Cars and the Police), the Fixx were always unfairly slammed as a producer’s band, the mere…
Steven Rosen
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In this week’s edition of Caught on Tape, Steven Rosen journeys back to 1977, and his time spent in the eye of the Led Zeppelin hurricane.
Ted Asregadoo
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE A few weeks ago, I took my family down to a train wreck of an event called the Great American Food and Music Festival in…
Ann Logue
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Don’t think Michael Jackson’s death was a tragedy. He was 50, old enough to have outlived many of my friends and relatives. His best work was in the 1980s, so…
David Medsker
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Below are magnified fragments of album covers. Most of them are well-known albums, but there are a few obscure covers (or lesser-known albums from well-known artists) mixed in to keep…
Jon Cummings
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Singer-songwriter Amy Speace‘s new album is one of those projects whose success you’re tempted to attribute to the big names that appear in the credits. In the case of The…
Jack Feerick
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Taking to the road this summer? You won’t find better company than the Ultimate Road Trip Mixtape, compiled by Jack Feerick and the Popdose staff.
Matchup Monkey
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And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death, that he told her all his…
Mike Heyliger
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Stay tuned throughout the weekend as we continue our tribute to Michael Jackson, with reflections and remembrances from the Popdose staff.
Dave Steed
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Stay tuned throughout the weekend as we continue our tribute to Michael Jackson, with reflections and remembrances from the Popdose staff.
Rob Smith
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Stay tuned throughout the weekend as we continue our tribute to Michael Jackson, with reflections and remembrances from the Popdose staff.
Ken Shane
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I don’t want to write this. Like a lot of you, my heart is really heavy today. The only music that I really want to listen to, or even think…
Robert Cass
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To celebrate/exploit the release of Varshons, the new covers album by Evan Dando‘s Lemonheads, Bootleg City is covering its own covers-filled edition from July 27, 2007. Of course, back in those…
Jack Feerick
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The point of a column like this is not to be a consumer guide, or to give “thumbs up”/”thumbs down” to the latest media product (which is just as well…
Mojo Flucke
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Stay tuned throughout the weekend as we continue our tribute to Michael Jackson, with reflections and remembrances from the Popdose staff.
Dw. Dunphy
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Don’t just do something — stand there! Ben Folds Five – Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head from Burt Bacharach: One Amazing Night (1998) Big Star – When My Baby’s…
Matthew Bolin
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Stay tuned throughout the weekend as we continue our tribute to Michael Jackson, with reflections and remembrances from the Popdose staff.
Will Harris
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Stay tuned throughout the weekend as we continue our tribute to Michael Jackson, with reflections and remembrances from the Popdose staff.
Michael Fortes
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Stay tuned throughout the weekend as we continue our tribute to Michael Jackson, with reflections and remembrances from the Popdose staff.
Ken Shane
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Stay tuned throughout the weekend as we continue our tribute to Michael Jackson, with reflections and remembrances from the Popdose staff.
Dw. Dunphy
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Dw. Dunphy bids farewell to two pop-culture icons.
Jon Cummings
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It”™s important to know what to expect from a show when the marquee lists four talents as formidable as Emmylou Harris, Shawn Colvin, Patty Griffin and Buddy Miller — and…