Alkaline Trio, Agony & Irony (Epic) purchase this album (Amazon) These Chicago-bred emo pioneers have been gradually sanding down the rough edges of their sound for years — and with…
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Jeff Giles
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Heather Nova – Walk This World from Oyster (1994) Jungle Brothers – I’ll House You from Straight Out the Jungle (1988) Kool Moe Dee – Let’s Go from Greatest Hits…
Scraps
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Hey everybody. Welcome to the twenty-first cochlea-teasing week of Name That Tune at Popdose. Back by popular demand as measured by the demandometer, here are our ever-popular Rules: The Rules…
Jason Hare
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‘Sup, everybody? Happy Friday! This week in Billboard history brings us a bunch of Mellow Gold, a bunch of disco, and two oddballs smack in the middle. Let’s take a…
Jon Cummings
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The stifling heatwave that gripped southern California for a full week blew away just in time for Robert Plant and Alison Krauss to fill L.A.”™s Greek Theatre with music and…
John C. Hughes
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Happy Gay Pride! I mean, really. This just may be the gayest post ever on Popdose, and that’s coming from the guy who does a feature called Phagz on 45…
Mojo Flucke
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The passing of Bo Diddley got me on a hardcore listening jag. Doesn’t take much to get me back on Bo, and there are several other blues and quasi-blues dudes…
Scott Malchus
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Like many Saturday afternoons, we found ourselves straightening up the house, the children and I. It was June 2007, it was hot, and they were beginning to bicker. What can…
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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Collette Savard – Zen Boyfriend (2008) purchase this album (Amazon) Her debut release, 2005’s Most Improved Cheerleader, was a mostly underwhelming porridge of folk granola and deadly earnest balladry —…
Taylor Long
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Comprised of material from their earliest singles, everything from Wooden Shjips’ Volume 1 was actually written before the material on their self-titled release from last year. Unfortunately, it shows. Wooden…
Jeff Giles
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The Pop Project – Stars of Stage and Screen (2008) purchase this album (Suburban Sprawl) Oh God, yes. I don’t know how I’ve managed to remain ignorant of this band…
Taylor Long
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Death Cab for Cutie isn’t the only band who threw fans off with an unusual single this year. Go ahead and add Sigur Ros to that list. When they released…
David Medsker
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Are you ready to rock?! Wait, no, that”™s not right, let me try that again”¦are you ready for some melodic rock?! The whole reclassification of early “Ëœ80s arena rock as…
Dave Steed
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This past week I was like a pig in shit. Nine tracks from Chinese Democracy were leaked and I couldn’t be happier. See, Guns n’ Roses are my Led Zeppelin….
John C. Hughes
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Before getting lost in the world of orchestral strings and Tim Burton soundtracks, Danny Elfman was the singularly strange lead singer/songwriter behind guitar/horn section new wave hybrid Oingo Boingo. Big…
Popdose Staff
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—– The Magnetic Fields – “I Wish I Had an Evil Twin” Good Zack: I”™m not a fan of The Magnetic Fields in any particular sense, but this is…
Ted Asregadoo
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE If it wasn’t for Scott Malchus, this week’s mix would have been missing from the Popdose lineup.Á‚ But, because of his suggested theme — and…
John C. Hughes
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Here we go again — John C. Hughes and the world’s foremost Belinda Carlisle impersonator, a.k.a. his buddy Matty (or “Bearlinda,” if you prefer), knock back some booze and review…
Will Harris
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As God is my witness, I had already planned to write this column before Jeff dropped the news in his column, Freshly Unwrapped, that Morten Harket was scheduled to release…
Vincent Rendoni
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[Taylor’s note: The incredibly talented Vincent “Hey Is It Okay If I Get Called V-Sides” Rendoni did such a wonderful job with his write-up on Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks that…
Jon Cummings
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Can you feel it? I feel it. You know what I’m talking about — that sudden jolt, that shock that has surged through the American consciousness over the past three…
Jeff Giles
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Gerald Albright, Sax for Stax (Peak) purchase this album (Amazon) He’s become known mainly for his smooth jazz sides, but Albright’s chops are too big for any single genre —…
Zack Dennis
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On Tuesday night, clad in a green shirt and gleefully cheering on the Celtics (who I was indoctrinated to support during my childhood in Connecticut) as they humiliated the Lakers,…
Jeff Giles
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Peter Case – Wilderness from Torn Again (1995) Wilco – War on War from Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002) Neil Finn – Sinner (live) from KBCO Studio C: Volume 10 (2000)…
Scraps
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Hey everybody. Welcome to the twentieth dendrite-drubbing week of Name That Tune at Popdose. This week we have a Very Special Name That Tune, with songs chosen and acrostic puzzle…
The Chartburn Panel
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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://youtube.com/v/gXsVU6-_GFo” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Mainstream Rock: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, “The Waiting” (1981) * Dunphy: It is, on its face, your standard Petty and Heartbreakers tune. Could’ve…
Dw. Dunphy
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The trend in non-fiction literature as of late has been to title books with a snappy, concise name and then attach an absurd, ridiculously long subtitle, just to be clear…
John C. Hughes
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Knoxville, Tennessee combo Superdrag’s 1996 major-label debut, Regretfully Yours, will always remind me of driving. Y’see, I was finishing up college at Cleveland State University, which was about a 40-minute…
Scott Malchus
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The death of Stevie Ray Vaughan struck a deep chord in me. Back when he was making his breakthrough in the early ’80s, an upstart Akron radio station, WONE, became…