Cratedigger is a regular (well, maybe semi-regular) column in which I’ll discuss some of my favorite vinyl. The Royal Scam was released almost exactly 33 years ago. It is, in…
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Robert Cass
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My high school girlfriend received a 16th-birthday mix tape in 1992 from a friend of ours named Tai. There were no artists or song titles listed on the cassette label,…
Jeff Giles
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Levon Helm – White Dove from Electric Dirt (2009) Martin’s Dam – Fear Of Flying from Sky Above (1998) Marty Willson-Piper – Swan from Hanging out in Heaven (2000) Simple…
Jack Feerick
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Nickelback played the Sturgis bikers’ rally in 2006, and now, a DVD commemorating the occasion is in stores. Jack Feerick asks the critical question: How bad can it be?
Jason Hare
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Jason Hare is back for another installment of Chart Attack! — and this week, he takes us all the way back to April 22, 1972, and a top 10 featuring Neil Young, Aretha, and Baba Booey. Wait, what?
Dw. Dunphy
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In an ongoing series, Dw. Dunphy takes an occasional look back at Christian contemporary music (CCM) of the past and makes the case for a new audience to rediscover the…
John C. Hughes
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Where to begin with Ms. Lear?Á‚ How about her modeling career in ’60s France?Á‚ How about her years-long romance with surrealist Salvador Dali?Á‚ How about her relationships with Bryan Ferry…
Scott Malchus
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Have a seat. Sit back. Press play and let the music slip through your skin and into your mind. That yearning you feel from the melody, that longing for love,…
Tom Werman
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Tom Werman’s ongoing look back at his storied career returns for its fifth installment, in which he is bossed around by Jan Hammer, meets George Harrison and Cheap Trick, and narrowly avoids a brush with Eddie Money!
Tony Redman
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Looking at this cover you’d think you’d hear stories featuring Alan Young as Wilbur Post and Allen “Rocky” Lane as Mister Ed. You’d be wrong though. There’s no Wilbur Post…
Ben Wiser
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This week’s Test of the Boomerang is a DOOMERANG special, in honor of Isis’ highly anticipated fifth full-length release, Wavering Radiant. Ben Wiser calls it “hypnotic and engaging from beginning to end.”
Ken Shane
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Last week I told you about the Hold Steady’s new DVD, A Positive Rage. You may recall that it is strictly a lo-fi affair, and really more of a documentary…
Jon Cummings
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Three years ago, Camera Obscura’s brilliant single “Lloyd, I’m Ready to Be Heartbroken” was one of 2006’s most music-blogged tracks — for a while there, you couldn’t swing a dead…
Scott Malchus
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The mark of any great power pop album is its ability to not only stick in your head after the music has stopped, but its ability to make you want…
Dave Steed
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Dave Steed’s Bottom Feeders series reaches the letter K in its journey through the ass end of the ’80s, and this week that means plenty of Khan — Chaka Khan.
Mojo Flucke
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Mojo Flucke caught Bowie with Nine Inch Nails in September of ’95 — and in his latest Concert Flashback, he tells you which half of the double bill gave him an audio root canal.
John C. Hughes
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As much as I adore the inherent goofiness that is new wave — the guyliner, the overwrought posing, the one-finger keyboard technique — sometimes I must admit some acts come…
Dw. Dunphy
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Her new album, SheBANG!, features appearances from Mike Viola and Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger. Clearly, it’s a good time to be Kelly Jones — and you can read all about it in Dw. Dunphy’s Popdose Interview.
Ted Asregadoo
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE Forget everything you know about Michael Jackson for a minute. You there yet? I didn’t think so. Truth be told, is it really possible to…
Rob Smith
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With this week’s installment of Unsolicited Advice, Rob Smith’s uncle Don Skwatzenschitz becomes the latest in a long line of people to try and figure out what’s wrong with R.E.M.’s career.
Jason Hare
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Do you have about 45 minutes to spare? If so, you won’t want to spend it watching Neil Diamond … Hello Again, a television special that aired on CBS in…
Dw. Dunphy
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It kind of happened all of a sudden. Through the late ’90s and into the early aughts, buzz built about a New Jersey metal band called Core Device. They released…
Jon Cummings
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Our yearlong flashback to 1989 continues with Jon Cummings’ reappraisal of Shawn Colvin’s Steady On.
Matchup Monkey
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Def Leppard – “Two Steps Behind” The Police – “Every Breath You Take” — n n {democracy:38} — Last week the Stone Roses took down the surprisingly scrappy Hold Steady,…
Ken Shane
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Today is Record Store Day in the United States and 17 other countries worldwide. According to the website, “This is the one day that all of the independently owned record…
Taylor Long
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“You are no longer a river to me,” Miles Seaton sings on “River,” the new single from Akron/Family’s upcoming album, Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free. Akron/Family, “River” (download) He…
Robert Cass
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Late last summer a DVD of August, which features David Bowie in a cameo, showed up at the office where I used to work. If you haven’t heard of this…
Jeff Giles
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The Call – I Still Believe (Great Design) from The Best of the Call (1997) Tom Waits – New Coat of Paint from The Heart of Saturday Night (1974) Rush…
Mojo Flucke
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If I were Allen Toussaint, I’d have taken a decade’s hiatus from making solo records, too. While the great New Orleans pianist–right up there on the city’s piano Mount Rushmore…