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Jeff Giles
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Bill Frisell – Somewhere Over the Rainbow (live) from Further East/Further West (2005) Rush – Totem from Test for Echo (1996) Marcus Miller – Pluck (Interlude) from Marcus (2008) Robert…
Scraps
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Hey everybody. Welcome to the twelfth scalp-tingling week of Name That Tune at Popdose. I hear you clamoring for rules, and I just happen to have a few: The Rules…
Jason Hare
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Hi everyone, and welcome back to another edition of CHART ATTACK! This was a fun week to cover. And although we won’t be doing any of these songs, I still…
John C. Hughes
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By all rights, L.A.-based Possum Dixon’s second full-length album, 1996’s Star Maps, should have been an unfocused disaster. Band members were beset by serious drug problems and lead singer/songwriter Rob…
Mojo Flucke
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Some no-compromise music fans — especially those with ears tuned to the blues-centric, distortion-fueled sound that comprises the DNA of all quality rock, ever — would say that Lindsey Buckingham…
Scott Malchus
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Bruce Springsteen released his 12th studio album, The Rising, at the tail end of July 2002. With the U.S. still reeling from the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks and stories of fallen…
Jeff Giles
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Big Noise – Bang! (1989) purchase this album (Amazon) If you’re a music fan with the good fortune to have been born before the late ’80s, chances are you remember…
Jason Hare
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I know what you’re thinking: Stupid Jason. All he does is snark on the music I like. He makes fun of honorable and valid artists, like Andy Gibb and the…
Matthew Bolin
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It seems almost mind-blowing to think this now, but at the end of the 1980s there was no bigger star in the pop sky than Bobby Brown: Don’t Be Cruel…
Popdose Staff
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In 2006, the Raconteurs (the pairing of Brendan Benson’s cheery pop sensibilities with Jack White’s rock and roll decadence), released their first album, Broken Boy Soldiers. It was a fun…
David Medsker
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Á‚ Or, the very first 12″ mix I ever heard and saw with my own eyes. My sister brought it home with her from college one Christmas. I was 14,…
Dave Steed
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Welcome to Bottom Feeders, my friends. We are about to embark on a totally excellent adventure, the likes of which has never been attempted before. Over the course of the…
Zack Dennis
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The last time I took ecstasy was at a trance party near the beach just north of Durban, shortly after I’d finished reading Matt Ruff’s brilliant fantasy novel “Fool on…
Ted Asregadoo
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DOWNLOAD “Girls! Girls! Girls!” HERE I have to thank Melissa at work for this mix. The two of us were talking about songs featuring female names and she said something…
John C. Hughes
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The recent announcement of a Yazoo (“Yaz” to us in the States) reunion tour set me to thinking … will Alison Moyet be performing any of her solo singles during…
Jeff Giles
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Yes, gentle readers, we treated you to an interview with Matthew Ryan on Monday, and today — which just happens to be the day his new album comes out —…
Dw. Dunphy
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They said it would never be done. I said it would never be done. Geffen/Interscope/ Universal prayed that it might, but Axl Rose kept them at bay for more than…
Zack Dennis
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I first learned of Say Hi to Your Mom from a WBAR podcast, when the DJ said: “The next song is from Say Hi to Your Mom, which is hard…
Will Harris
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If you’ve been reading this column since its inception, you’ve probably noticed that it’s been evolving a little bit. Originally, it started out as just an excuse for me to…
Taylor Long
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The first music, in general, that I remember loving and growing up with was from The Music Man — as in the movie with Robert Preston, which I would watch…
Jon Cummings
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Imagine a band with a sultry female singer, an impressive new-wave pedigree, a sound that expertly blends Motown soul with contemporary pop/rock, and oodles of international success over more than…
Jeff Giles
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He may not be a household name, but Matthew Ryan’s raw, emotional songs have struck a chord with enough fans to support a musical habit that has lasted over…
Scraps
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Hey everybody. Welcome to the eleventh hair-pulling week of Name That Tune at Popdose. You know what I like at the start of a game? A set of clear rules….
The Chartburn Panel
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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/eLhpHjmxNw8″ width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Mainstream Rock: Lenny Kravitz, “Are You Gonna Go My Way” (1993) Zack: I remember when Lenny Kravitz was first thrust upon the music world…
Darren Robbins
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When I was a kid, my heroes were, at the very least, deserving of adoration. The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Cheap Trick, Dan Pastorini (the one non-musician of the bunch) —…
John C. Hughes
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“Hey kid,” the strange voice whispered from the dark alley of cyberspace. “C’mere, I got somethin’ for ya.” I looked around to make sure this raspy utterance was actually directed…
Mojo Flucke
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Innovation in the blues milieu can be tough: Old-skool fans like old-skool sounds and themes, and if you change it up too much, they get a little uncomfortable. Like if…
Scott Malchus
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“Wild West End,” a track from Dire Straits’ self-titled first record, is a dreamy, beautiful song I carry around with me, even if I don’t seek it out for regular…
Jeff Giles
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Katrina & the Waves – Waves (1986) purchase this album (Amazon) Last week, we looked at poor Gregory Abbott’s second album, and the way R&B stardom can evaporate in the…