[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/NVm3SmyMkFU” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Mainstream Rock: The Tubes, “She’s a Beauty” (1983) Michael: I like this song a lot. I like “White Punks on Dope” even better. I…
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Taylor Long
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When the Fleet Foxes performed at Bowery Ballroom last week, frontman Robin Pecknold had a cold. But unlike a downtrodden, silent Frank Sinatra, the audience might have never known it…
Dw. Dunphy
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In a recent smackdown bitch slap Chartburn discussion that will be published tomorrow, we had cause to discuss the merits of “She’s a Beauty” by the Tubes. I won’t disclose…
John C. Hughes
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Years before Eminem fantasized about killing his baby mama, another white rapper was crafting hip-hop joints about killing annoying passersby and setting fire to buildings in the dead of night…
Mojo Flucke
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The Scissormen play raucous blues along the lines of the Flat Duo Jets or the Black Keys, with guitar and drums. One half of the duo, Ted Drozdowski, is a…
Scott Malchus
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In the fall of 1991, Robbie Robertson released his second solo album, Storyville, to glowing reviews, including a four-star feature write up in Rolling Stone (“a mature and masterful work…
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…
Matthew Bolin
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Many artists put on emotional masks, and there are a multiplicity of reasons they do so. Some simply wish to distance the “real them” from the audience, in order to…
J.A. Bartlett
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July 16, 1971, is a Friday. Life magazine reports on the three Soviet Soyuz 11 cosmonauts who died during re-entry on June 29; consumer advocate Bess Myerson is on the…
Taylor Long
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Stylistically, Love as Laughter have jumped around a fair amount over 14 years of existence. Holy, the sixth release from frontman and founding member Sam Jayne (who seems to be…
Taylor Long
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Looking at the six years between The Devil, You + Me, the newest release from the Notwist, and Neon Golden, the release that threw them into American ears, leaves a…
Ken Shane
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We’ve been hearing the “rock is dead” pronouncements for so many years now that we don’t even listen anymore. “It is what it is,” we blithely proclaim, pretending not to…
Mojo Flucke
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Here’s the deal: Every once in a while one stumbles upon a group or whatever that just knocks you on your butt and you gotta broadcast your discovery to the…
David Medsker
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Let us take a quick trip back to the land of Cutouts Gone Wild! and unearth a song that was heard by roughly 17 people upon its release in 1989….
Dave Steed
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Last week I talked about “the Shrink,” the guy at the record show who thinks he knows everything about every artist that ever recorded. This week we move on to…
John C. Hughes
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I’d been a big fan of Midge Ure-era Ultravox since the first time I saw “Vienna” on MTV early one Sunday morning in 1982, so when I spotted the new…
Ted Asregadoo
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Greetings from the bottom of my glass of bourbon! Okay, my vacation wasn’t a complete alcoholiday, but I have to admit to a few hazy nights in Hawai’i. So, to…
Jon Cummings
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These days baby boomers, especially women, are in something of a panic. Demographically, professionally, financially and sociologically, they”™ve been dominating American culture for nearly half a century now, while succeeding…
Popdose Staff
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This year’s newest music festival, the New American Music Union, takes place in Pittsburgh on August 8th and 9th — and Popdose has two tickets up for grabs! Created by…
DJ D
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WHAM! BAM! Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou seemed an unlikely choice to become a pop music superstar. However, after meeting schoolmate Andrew Ridgeley and forming a group called Wham!, a pop star…
Jeff Giles
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The Rubinoos – Heroes and Villains from Crimes Against Music (2002) Nine Days – 257 Weeks from The Madding Crowd (2000) Billy Joel – All You Wanna Do Is Dance…
Scraps
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Hey everybody, as the Little River Band said. Welcome to the twenty-third shin-splinting week of Name That Tune at Popdose. Rules can be your friend, or just a casual acquaintance…
Jason Hare
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Our guest writer this week is no stranger to CHART ATTACK!, having contributed a fantastic write-up of March 23, 1985 a while back. Please welcome back our good friend Carlos…
Darren Robbins
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Preconceptions can be a bitch. Lemme give you an example. Back in 1981, I bought an album by a band called The Tourists, whom I knew nothing about, and, upon…
John C. Hughes
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When I was 11 years old and living in rural Grafton, Ohio, there weren’t too many other kids my age in our neighborhood, especially any with my twin obsessions, Micronauts…
Mojo Flucke
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This is the first Cold Shot that features a whole album. We (that’s all my personalities combined) are pretty psyched about that. See, Buddy Guy’s a favorite of the Cold…
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…
Matthew Bolin
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At least in the mind of the man himself, Cat Scratch Fever is the work of the baddest mofo alive. A dude who will take your little ones crossbow hunting…
Ken Shane
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Success is problematic for a band. When you’re flying under the radar, no one expects much from you. But then, when you deliver a breakthrough, as The Hold Steady did…
Taylor Long
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When one thinks of survival, it conjures up images of barren islands, a lack of vital resources or, thanks to modern times, television shows where people are purposefully cast into…