Since I started listening to blues, that’s been a hard question for me to answer. It’s important, because it speaks to what blues is, really. Can Clapton play the blues,…
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Scott Malchus
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My first couple years in college, after school let out for the summer in early May, I would climb inside my parents’ red GM van and drive down to Athens,…
Tom Werman
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He’s been on vacation for two weeks, but now Tom Werman is back with another installment of the series that looks back at his multiplatinum career.
Dw. Dunphy
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May is the unofficial start of the summer concert season, so to unofficially celebrate the shows of 2009, Popdose.com and internet radio station The Penguin have teamed up for Penguimania…
Tony Redman
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Hey, gang! Tony from Way Out Junk again, bringing you another installment of Way Out Wednesday! This week’s selection is from the ABC Children’s Chorus, a group of kids so…
Ben Wiser
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This week’s Test of the Boomerang features the column’s inaugural CD GIVEAWAY! Stop by and find out how you can win a free copy of the new Moonalice album!
Ken Shane
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This has been a year in which two of rock’s greatest icons have released new studio albums far ahead of their usual schedule. Bruce Springsteen released Working on a Dream…
Taylor Long
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For a band with a name like Akron/Family, it should probably come as no surprise that their new album, Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free, is filled with themes of…
David Medsker
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Who are these men, and why do they care so much? David Medsker finds out in the latest edition of White Label Wednesday.
Dave Steed
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This week we make a clean break from K, with a half post before we move to the 12th letter of the alphabet. Enjoy the tracks below from the ass…
David Medsker
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I was writing up a track for a future White Label Wednesday piece (it’s set to run May 27) when I had a strange thought. Well, two strange thoughts, actually….
Jon Cummings
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This week in Jesus of Cool, Jon Cummings looks back on that lost and long-forgotten phenomenon known as the local radio hit. His focus: the Robbin Thompson Band’s “Candy Apple Red.”
Rob Smith
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Triumph was an arena rock staple in the late ’70s and through much of the ’80s, particularly in their native Canada, where they were known for their bombastic, pyro-filled shows,…
David Medsker
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Hallelujah, album art junkies — David Medsker is back for another round of your favorite game, and this week, he even breaks one of his own rules. Will this be the quiz that finally makes you a winner?
Matthew Bolin
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This week’s Popdose Flashback doubles as the return of a much-missed series — Matthew Bolin’s When Good Albums Happen to Bad People — and offers begrudging respect for the best solo release from notorious rock ‘n’ roll assclown Don Henley.
Matchup Monkey
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Basic Pie Crust Recipe: 1 1/3 cup all-purpose flour 1/2 cup Crisco vegetable shortening, plain or butter-flavored (see Cook’s Note) 1/2 teaspoon kosher or coarse salt 3 tablespoons ice water…
Ken Shane
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Cold hearted orb that rules the night, Removes the colours from our sight. Red is grey and yellow white, But we decide which is right. And which is an illusion?…
Robert Cass
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For the Bootleg City before Mother’s Day, what could be more appropriate than an Air Supply concert from 1982? If you answered “God, no, anything but that,” you would be incorrect, as Robert Cass is happy to prove with some vintage Australian balladry.
Dw. Dunphy
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Brainiac – Kiss Me, You Jacked Up Jerk from Hissing Prigs in Static Couture (1996) Buck Dharma – Cold Wind from Flat Out (1982) Herman’s Hermits – Dandy from Retrospective…
Jason Hare
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Jason Hare takes us back to 1989, when 38 Special begged for forgiveness, Peter Cetera warbled with Cher, and a “mystery artist” made it all the way to #2!
Taylor Long
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After seeing jam-freak-avant-folksters Akron/Family put on an incredible show at Brooklyn’s Union Pool in March, there was only one thing left to do: Go home, go online, buy tickets to…
John C. Hughes
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I bought and fell in love with Blondie’s Parallel Lines album when I was around ten years old, and always wondered who the mysterious “Lee” was who was credited for…
Ed Murray
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In this week’s edition of Lo-Fi Mojo, Ed Murray takes a look back at the Who’s early years — specifically, the brief time they spent as the High Numbers.
Scott Malchus
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I’d like to pay tribute to my mother-in-law, Judie, a woman whose perseverance has set an example not only for all of her kids, but for all of us to…
Dw. Dunphy
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May is the unofficial start of the summer concert season, so to unofficially celebrate the shows of 2009, Popdose.com and Internet radio station The Penguin have teamed up for Penguimania…
Ken Shane
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Perhaps you’ve heard their story. A bunch of GIs find themselves stationed in Germany in the mid-’60s. They decide to form a band, which they call the 5 Torquays. The…
Jeff Giles
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Matthew Barber – Ghost Notes (Outside, 2009) purchase this album (Amazon) The leadoff track of Matthew Barber’s Ghost Notes, “Easily Bruised” (download), kicks off with a sequence of sounds that…
David Medsker
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He describes their music as “like oxygen,” so it’s only fitting that David Medsker should devote an edition of his Pop Goes the World series to the Trash Can Sinatras — specifically “The Genius I Was,” a track from A Happy Pocket.
Dave Steed
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Welcome again to Bottom Feeders, your weekly look into songs that charted no higher than #41 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the 1980s. This should be a fun…
John C. Hughes
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We’ve talked about Peter Godwin’s great lost art-rock combo, Metro, in a Lost in the ’70s post in the not-too-distant past, but most people who have a passing knowledge of…