—– Bell Biv Devoe – “Poison” Dave: “Never trust a big butt and smile.” Has there ever been a statement so true? And this coming from three dudes that…
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Jeff Giles
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Rachael Sage – Chandelier (2008) purchase this album (BUYSWAG) Think you can’t make a successful run at an independent career in music unless your name is Ani DiFranco? Think again…
John C. Hughes
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Our new(ish) weekly feature on Popdose rolls on, as John C. Hughes and the world’s foremost Belinda Carlisle impersonator, a.k.a. his buddy Matty (or “Bearlinda,” if you prefer), knock back…
Darren Robbins
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Okay, let me just say right off the top that I’ve always had a bit of a problem with Trent Reznor. This was purely from an artistic POV. As a…
Jon Cummings
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Last week in this space, I described a single by the Canadian rock band Prism as “sounding like an early-“™80s Cliff Richard single (not that there”™s anything wrong with that).”…
Jeff Giles
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Much has been made in recent years of the abrupt decline of our friendly neighborhood record stores — the mom-and-pop shops (and, in the case of the dearly departed Tower…
Jeff Giles
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Glen Phillips – Secrets of the New Explorers (2008) purchase this album (CD Baby) A concept album about space travel? From former Toad the Wet Sprocket member Glen Phillips? Quelle…
Jeff Giles
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Billy Preston – The Octopus from The Most Exciting Organ Ever (1965) The Dirty Dozen Brass Band – What a Friend We Have in Jesus from Funeral for a Friend…
Scraps
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Hey everybody, and all your horses. Welcome to the nineteenth cane-pounding week of Name That Tune at Popdose. Rules, rules, rules, every week rules! And the same boring ones, too:…
The Chartburn Panel
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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/QXrUKjTV7t0″ width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Mainstream Rock: Kiss, “Psycho Circus” (1998) Robert: In my best Paul Stanley impression, minus the made-in-Brooklyn falsetto: “Ya know something, people, we have been…
Jason Hare
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Hey everybody, remember back in March when Jeff and I made a guest appearance over at Dave Lifton’s rockin’ Wings For Wheels? And remember how you listened and thought, “these…
John C. Hughes
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Since we’ve got the Ocean Blue on the brain, we should probably take a look at the band most commonly associated with them to the point of being an almost…
Mojo Flucke
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“Johnny Cash, he’s scared of me,” Paul “Wine” Jones said to me in one of the most endearing moments of my blues fandom, which came circa spring, 2002. “I played…
Terje Fjelde
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“Into the Ear of Madness (The Intro)” Yup, that’s me. And my iPod. And David Foster. Everyone knows David Foster, right? The penultimate overproducer. The musician. The songwriter. The record…
Jeff Giles
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Greetings, Videots! Time gets a little funny out here in the 1980th Dimension, but it feels like it’s been awhile since we turned on the projector and marveled at what…
John C. Hughes
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Another reader-requested WYSL entry, Hershey, Pennsylvania’s the Ocean Blue combined their youthful energy and love of early ’80s alternative and new wave music into a relaxing, atmospheric blend of evocative…
Taylor Long
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The French Kicks have presented the same problem to music journalists for a third time in a row. How do you write about music that’s unremarkable but pleasant in a…
Taylor Long
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Listening to The In Crowd, the sophomore effort from Chicagoan rap duo Kidz in the Hall, is a lot like putting your R&B and rap collection on shuffle. Showing more…
Ken Shane
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One of the things that I like most about my job is that it allows me the opportunity to listen to, and write about, a variety of styles of music….
David Medsker
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I will not pretend to know more about the Screaming Blue Messiahs than I actually do. All I know is that their singer was bald and the people who liked…
Dave Steed
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Welcome to double digits! This marks the tenth week of posting every song from the Billboard Hot 100 in the 1980s that peaked at #41 and beyond. I have to…
Jeff Giles
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A selection of “Findings” from the back page of Harper’s Magazine, June 2008. Scottish scientists found that women are instinctively attracted to the faces of men who want long-term relationships,…
Zack Dennis
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It’s the end of the road for Hillary Clinton’s campaign. A few signs lately have pointed towards Hillary finally packing it in, and after Barack Obama sweeps up enough of…
Mojo Flucke
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All you rappers in the top 10, as Humpty-Hump once said, please allow me to bump thee. Because you ain’t got nothin’ over the original boastful rapper, Bo Diddley, who…
John C. Hughes
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The Cars were on an extended hiatus in 1986 and its members were off doing their own thing. Ric Ocasek and Elliot Easton had both released solo discs since the…
Jon Cummings
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Actually, it”™s only Volume 2, but who”™s counting? This is an all-Canadian edition of my occasional series sorting through the wreckage of a vinyl collection that focused heavily on minor…
Ted Asregadoo
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE You what song I can’t get out of my mind? “Mambo No. 5.” And really it’s only the part of the song where he says…
John C. Hughes
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Our new(ish) weekly feature on Popdose rolls on, as John C. Hughes and the world’s foremost Belinda Carlisle impersonator, a.k.a. his buddy Matty (or “Bearlinda,” if you prefer), knock back…
Will Harris
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If there’s anything more deadly to a band’s career in the States than being pegged (however briefly) as the next big thing in the British press, it’s having a bit…