In 1988, Leslie Phillips turned her back on a successful career as a Christian Contemporary artist, changed her performing moniker to “Sam,” and recorded her first mainstream pop album, The…
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Mojo Flucke
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My fellow New Hampshire resident Mighty Sam McClain will be releasing his latest record, Betcha Didn’t Know, on City Hall Records July 21. It’s been a while in the releasing,…
Scott Malchus
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I’m running through the streets of industrial Los Angeles cursing to myself. My eyes are searching, desperately scanning the sidewalk and disintegrating asphalt for a coat hanger. The sun beats…
Tom Werman
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In his latest column, Tom Werman relives the wild and crazy early ’80s, including some time behind the boards for Motley Crue, a narrow brush with Timothy B. Schmit, and a fateful meeting with some dudes who were not going to take it (anymore).
Ken Shane
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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/XMxQ6j4dNwU” width=”425″ height=”344″ allowfullscreen=”true” fvars=”fs=1″ /] I admit it. I’m jaded. After seeing more than 50 Bruce Springsteen shows over the years, with and without the E Street Band,…
Tony Redman
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Tony Redman has emerged from the Way Out archives for another week of strange and wonderful music, and oh my God, you guys — you’ve never heard E.T. quite like this.
Ben Wiser
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Hey gang, welcome back to another edition of Test of the Boomerang.Á‚ Happy summer solstice. I hope you all get a chance to enjoy these long summer days with some…
Ken Shane
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Wilco is back, with the appropriately titled Wilco (the album), and Ken Shane is here to tell you how it stacks up against the band’s critically adored earlier work.
Dave Steed
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It’s week 57 of Bottom Feeders, and Dave Steed is still going strong. He’s reached the letter M in his journey through the ass end of Billboard’s Hot 100 of the ’80s, which can only mean one thing…
Robert Cass
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The Lemonheads’ new album, Varshons (The End Records), kicks off with Gram Parsons’s “I Just Can’t Take It Anymore,” in which the resigned, lovelorn protagonist declares, “Well, we could’ve done…
John C. Hughes
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John C. Hughes is still Lost in the ’80s — but with classic tracks like Big Country’s “Look Away” on the stereo, who can complain?
Steven Rosen
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When you talk about classic rhythm sections, you probably think about John Bonham and John Paul Jones or Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker. But Doug Clifford and Stu Cook, drummer…
Ted Asregadoo
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School’s out and the calendar says summer’s here — so Ted Asregadoo picked the perfect week to celebrate the season with a summery Mix Six.
David Medsker
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Think you know music? Well, get ready to put your knowledge to the test with another edition of Name That Tune!
Jon Cummings
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The ubiquity of the soundtrack album has rarely flagged over the six decades since the introduction of the long-playing record. Kelly Stitzel’s treasure-trove column Soundtrack Saturday brilliantly documents the height…
Rob Smith
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The next few DbPB installments will feature the work of a man who, to these ears, has contributed as much as if not more than any other artist to the…
Mojo Flucke
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A couple years after 12 million buyers signed their name across his heart, Terence Trent D’Arby got sophomore jinxed but good — and in this week’s edition of Popdose Flashback, Mojo Flucke makes a case for Neither Fish Nor Flesh.
DJ D
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Obsessive fans know the sheer agony of waiting years, even decades, for their favorite oldies (ahem, classic) artist to finally release a new album of substandard material on a record…
Robert Cass
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Here are some fun facts about singer-songwriter Jules Shear: 1. He’s from Pittsburgh. So is actor Jeff Goldblum, who stars in the pseudo-documentary Pittsburgh (2006), which chronicles his homecoming performance in…
Dw. Dunphy
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You guys give up, or you thirsty for more? Bobby Jimmy & the Critters – Roaches from Look at All These Roaches [12″] (1986) Bread – The Guitar Man from…
Jason Hare
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Four songs from movie soundtracks! Two videos set in courtrooms! One cat sitting on Peter Cetera’s face! It’s all in Jason Hare’s latest installment of CHART ATTACK!
Ken Shane
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There’s a well-known saying that if you think Woodstock was great, you weren’t there. The point is that the mud, drugs, lack of food and water, and often bad music…
John C. Hughes
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This week’s edition of Lost in the ’70s finds John C. Hughes uttering that most heartfelt of mantras for the true rock fan: “Fuck Mike Love.”
Ed Murray
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The Nashville-based country-esque musical collective Lambchop isn’t exactly the first band that comes to mind when you think “lo-fi.” Quite the opposite, in fact, given their membership’s high body count,…
Scott Malchus
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I awoke with a knee in my back and a song in my head. Crammed into a bed with Julie and Jacob, I teetered on the edge hanging over a…
Tom Werman
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This week, producer Tom Werman looks back at the early ’80s, and his brushes with acts both legendary (the Blues Brothers, Whitney Houston) and largely forgotten (Stranger).
Ken Shane
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Some really good music has come to us from the mountains so far this year. First, from New York’s Adirondacks, we had the Felice Brothers with their brilliant Yonder Is…
Tony Redman
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Summer’s coming very soon, so I thought I put in this sweet treat for you. In 1964 there debuted a series of drink mixes called Funny Face. They had cool…
J.A. Bartlett
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June 17, 1994, is a Friday. Former football star O.J. Simpson, suspected of murdering his wife and a friend, fails to turn himself in to Los Angeles police, instead leading…
Ben Wiser
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Crosby, Stills & Nash – Demos (Rhino) In the wake of Graham Nash’s box earlier this year, and of course Neil Young’s behemoth Archives, Crosby, Stills & Nash (Neil Young…