I’ve been meaning to use this space to introduce our readers to music they might never have heard of, so right here on the heels of 100 songs you’ve definitely…
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It’s taken me a few weeks to find my way back to Bootleg City — I made an unscheduled stop in Layoff Land, an increasingly popular destination these days —…
Snoop Dogg feat. Sly Stone – Dr. King Remember from Web Release (2009) Jessie Kilguss – A Little Place Behind My Eyes from Nocturnal Drifter (2008) Illinois – Are You…
Welcome back to CHART ATTACK!, all new for 2009! This year we’ll be doing much like we’ve done in the past: ripping apart Billboard Top 10 charts for years ranging…
The Alan Parsons Project is a mess. I’ll explain. First, the band name is a freak of necessity. Manager Eric Woolfson and producer Alan Parsons worked on a project based…
Bands like Rush and AC/DC wear as a badge of honor the fact that they’ve never written or performed a power ballad. I love them both, but they’re pussies. The…
Sometimes I can forgive a band for anything if I love them enough.Á‚ Even being featured in a Pringles ad or an Adam Sandler film. Oxford, England’s Candyskins were never…
Last year our house was overrun by witches.Á‚ YouÁ¢€â„¢d think that in the 21st Century there would be some kind of way to control witch infestation, but there was no…
Over the next year Terje Fjelde has agreed to listen to nothing but David Foster on his iPod. HeÁ¢€â„¢s loaded the thing with over 1,200 songs produced, arranged, composed, and/or…
A 2-DVD set and 24-page hardcover book featuring Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann (Grateful Dead), Mike Gordon (Phish), Steve Kimock, Sikiru, and Jen Durkin (Bomb Squad, Deep Banana Blackout). The ultimate…
Here are two tracks from The Green Album, an album of tribute songs about clay superstars Gumby and Pokey released in 1989. The first one, Á¢€Å“The Ballad of Gumby,Á¢€ performed…
January 14, 1986, is a Tuesday. President Reagan issues proclamations for Save Your Vision Week, National Poison Prevention Week, and a National Day of Prayer, issues an executive order extending…
“Never mind me, ’cause I’ve been dead Out of my body, been out of my head…” Grant Lee Phillips, you have my attention. “There’s nothing that I said that’ll bring…
I made a mistake recently. I think I opened a door to a world of bad Á¢€Ëœ80s music hurt that I had been trying to keep closed. See, I went…
Welcome!Á‚ This week, in honor of the audacity of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (who was impeached last week by a somewhat lopsided vote of 114-1), the subject is False…
DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE One morning, Joe Satriani woke up to 40 text messages on his cell phone.Á‚ After scrolling through 40 variations of Á¢€Å“holy schet u got ripped…
Today is a very important day in the history of popular music. It was on this day in 1959 that Motown was born. An auto worker by the name of…
Hello, my friends, for the Barely Legal edition of Cover Me. Below are magnified fragments of 25 album covers. Most of them are well-known albums, but there are a few…
Almost exactly a year ago on this site, my esteemed Popdose colleague Dw. Dunphy closed a column by asking, Á¢€Å“What has modernity offered you? Hannah Montana?Á¢€ He was concluding a…
The Neville Brothers – Yellow Moon purchase this album (Amazon) Morning, Popdose faithful! Who’s in the mood for a new series? You? Good! Starting today, we’d like you to meet…
HereÁ¢€â„¢s another missive from the Skwatzenschitz archives, which I explained a bit last time. IÁ¢€â„¢m not sure how Jimmy Buffett reacted to Uncle DonnieÁ¢€â„¢s advice, but, to the best of…
You never know when your college friends may become useful professional contacts. One night 17 years ago, Lev Skwatzenschitz and I found ourselves stumbling down College Avenue at Rutgers, trading…
M. Ward – You Still Believe In Me from Transistor Radio (2005) Me First and The Gimme-Gimmes – Coming to America from Have Another Ball (2008) Neal Pattman – Momma…
Great news, everybody! Adventures Through the Mines of Mellow Gold is back! Or, alternately: Awful news, everybody! Adventures Through the Mines of Mellow Gold is back! The point is: like…
Fellow Popdoser Ed Murray and I ducked down to Boston’s Paradise to check out the Von Bondies (above: rhythm guitarist Marcie Bolen’s set list that Ed stole for me, knowing…
Breakfast was the most important meal of the day for a child of the ’70s.Á‚ Not because of the nutritional intake it provided to get a kid going in the…
If I wasn’t a sucker for fuzzed out sonic bliss – and bands, songs and albums that are driven more by passion than musical ability – I wouldn’t have agreed…
Throughout the winter of 1984 and 1985, I was stuck on crutches and wearing a leg brace as I recovered from reconstructive surgery on my right knee that repaired my…