Have you read the entertainment news today? Oh boy. A particularly dreadful tune is set to break some major records for sales, this week’s new movies arriving under a mantle…
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John C. Hughes
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Naked Eyes, ABC, Belinda Carlisle, and the Human League are currently crisscrossing the country on the Regeneration Tour, an oldies-revival trek that thankfully isn’t entirely mired in nostalgia, since all…
Mojo Flucke
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I am a reformed audiophile. A hybrid type of sound geek, with one foot in the strange world of excellent sound and the whackos who populate it, and the other…
Scott Malchus
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I am running for my son. That is the mantra I repeated to myself in times of exhaustion when I was training for my first two marathons back in 2003…
Terje Fjelde
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Over the next year Terje Fjelde has agreed to listen to nothing but David Foster on his iPod. He’s loaded the thing with over 1,200 songs produced, arranged, composed, and/or…
Ben Wiser
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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/RZ2uie1feKA” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Our regular featured test will appear next week. Peace and farewell, Black Moses…
Taylor Long
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A couple weeks ago, a friend and I went to see Jarvis Cocker play at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. The opener was Kuroma, a name that neither my friend…
Ken Shane
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Tepoztlan, Morelas, Mexico is a place known for Aztec magic and extra-terrestrial sightings — so it only seems natural that Conor Oberst would head down there to record his latest…
David Medsker
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The public, by and large, did not respond well to George Michael’s first attempt at career suicide — he’s since found far more effective methods for achieving that goal, and…
Dave Steed
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I turned on the radio the other day for the first time in months and the first thing I heard was “more music, less talk,” so that’s what we’re going…
DJ D
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LOCATION: Anytown, USA TIME: The Early ’80’s A young, burgeoning music fan has got to start somewhere. This is the brief, snappily-written story of how a young man with a…
John C. Hughes
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We’ve talked before about songs we loved in our younger days that just don’t quite hold up to an older ear’s scrutiny. Unfortunately (or not, if you still love it),…
David Medsker
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Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends”¦well, I suppose it will end, as soon as I run out of ideas for album covers, but let’s not think…
Dw. Dunphy
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Porcupine Tree has been, for well on a decade now, a cult favorite trying to simply be a favorite, but there has been a problem in making that happen. That…
Ted Asregadoo
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE When you’re a young adult and trying to find your way in the world, it can be a very liberating period.Á‚ It’s a time when…
Jon Cummings
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When the compact disc was introduced in the mid-’80s, one of its main selling points (along with allegedly superior digital sound) was its durability. Vinyl records, we all knew, could…
Will Harris
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Pop rules. I mean, it must. If it didn’t, would David Bash sign all of his E-mails with that phrase? Actually, he probably would. There are few individuals out there…
Taylor Long
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During the spring of my junior year of college, I listened to Huey Lewis nonstop. One day, while working on the campus newspaper, I was sorting through the shared music…
Zack Dennis
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For the least two years, the area in front of the Staples Center has been the site of a massive construction project, the behemoth “LA Live” complex. Costing approximately $2.5…
Jeff Giles
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Webb Wilder – Everyday (I Kick Myself) from Doo Dad (1991) Little Village – Solar Sex Panel from Little Village (1992) Ken Shane – Summer and Smoke from South Ridgeway…
Scraps
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Hey everybody, and I mean everybody. Welcome to the twenty-sixth ganglia-gobbling week of Name That Tune at Popdose. Stop and smell the rules: The Rules (subject to modification in future…
Matthew Bolin
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This week’s chart is being covered by Popdose’s own Matthew Bolin. Boy, it seems like only yesterday he was giving Popdose readers too many Wham! songs or a reason to…
Dw. Dunphy
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The Police make me thankful The Beatles never had a full-fledged reunion. It was a strange Sunday evening in the wilds of Holmdel, New Jersey. The PNC Arts Center usually…
John C. Hughes
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Can you believe Joan Armatrading has been making music for nearly 40 years? Yeah, me neither. Did you know her first album came out all the way back in 1972?…
Mojo Flucke
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I think I speak for all of Popdose, going through a painful migration to the latest version of WordPress, that we have had the freeeeeeekin’ blues this week. To my…
Scott Malchus
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Running is a solitary sport. You may train with a group or run a race in the company of one or two other people, but in the end, the concentration…
Terje Fjelde
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Over the next year Terje Fjelde has agreed to listen to nothing but David Foster on his iPod. He’s loaded the thing with over 1,200 songs produced, arranged, composed, and/or…
Jeff Giles
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Scientists discovered that eating blueberries and having friends are good for the memory and that pregnancy and smoking are bad for it. Nautiluses can remember useful things, but only for…
Ben Wiser
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For Test of the Boomerang III, I retired to a simple cottage in the Welsh countryside to reflect. This post was done acoustically. Hey gang, today I have brought three…
Ken Shane
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Randy Newman will be 65 years old in November. On his first album of new material since 1999’s Bad Love, he emphatically demonstrates that he has not lost one bit…