Maryland-born quintet Velocity Girl created a bit of a buzz in the early to mid-’90s by marrying a blend of shoegazer guitar sludge with the pixie-pop vocal melodies of singer…
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Taylor Long
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Too many electronic releases fall within two extreme aesthetics: icy cold or super dance party warm. It’s hard to make non-traditional, machine-made notes sound humane, simply because they’re not. With…
Ted Asregadoo
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE As Prince said, “I think I wanna dance!” Sometimes in the weekly Mix Six shuffle it’s easy to forget the lasting impact of disco on…
John C. Hughes
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One of the stranger novelty songs from the ’80s has to be the Bollock Brothers’ “Harley David (Son Of A Bitch)” (download) — I say “stranger” because my friends and…
Will Harris
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On March 8, 2008, the Rutland Times reported the breathtaking news that the world and elsewhere would soon be privy to something quite remarkable: “Rutlemania! The Tribute Concert.” Even more…
Taylor Long
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Getting a car was a bit of a long process for me. In actuality, it probably wasn’t that long, but when you’re 17 and most of your friends have cars,…
Zack Dennis
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Long Beach is not an attractive city. Downtown, where a shopping mall is under construction, is filled with thick concrete barriers and overhanging chain-link fences.It feels like a demilitarized zone….
Jon Cummings
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“England and America are two countries separated by a common language.” –George Bernard Shaw In July 1998 my wife, my son, and I moved into a terraced house on a…
Jeff Giles
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Debbie Gibson – Anything Is Possible (1990) We hear a lot about the sophomore jinx in music, and rightly so; making the jump from hit debut release to Greatest Hits,…
Dw. Dunphy
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I like the power pop. When done right, it can be a deceptively potent thing, like the best of Cheap Trick, or Jellyfish’s Spilt Milk. When it’s done wrong, there’s…
Taylor Long
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Much like John Darnielle himself, the Mountain Goats’ audience at Webster Hall on Tuesday night had a tendency to flaunt its wit. Every time someone called out a song request…
Jeff Giles
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Miles Davis – Freedom Jazz Dance (Evolution Of The Groove) from Evolution of the Groove (2007) Larry Adler – Clare de Lune from The Virtuoso of the Mouth Organ (2005)…
David Medsker
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Los Angeles, September 1987. The director of A&R at Virgin Records rolls out of bed at three in the afternoon, his mind a fog after a three-day bender of booze,…
Scraps
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Hey everybody. Get your eardrums (and hammers and stirrups) ready for the tenth brow-bunching week of Name That Tune at Popdose. Rules are the order of the day! And here…
Michael Fortes
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I’ll tell you one thing about today’s guest Chart Attacker: the man knows music. A prolific writer for Bullz-Eye, West Coast Performer and his own blog (to name a few),…
Taylor Long
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There’s a lot that stands out about “I Will Possess Your Heart,” the first single from Death Cab for Cutie’s new album, Narrow Stairs, out May 13 on Atlantic Records….
Zack Dennis
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Explosions in the Sky is possibly my favorite band in the world right now. The first song of theirs that I ever heard was “Your Hand in Mine,” which I…
John C. Hughes
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On Tuesday the B-52’s will release their first album of new material in 16 years: Funplex. While that’s a long stretch between releases, the band wasn’t exactly quiet during that…
Mojo Flucke
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Before he busted into the mainstream with Live Bullet in 1976, Bob Seger was a slammin’ garage rocker out of Detroit, building his legend as a hard-working performer who played…
Scott Malchus
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Last year my friend John Burland questioned my sanity when I told him of my devotion to Wings’ smash hit “Silly Love Songs.” I’ll admit that it may not be…
Jeff Giles
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Gregory Abbott – I’ll Prove It to You (1988) purchase this album (Amazon) Hello, ladies. Are you ready to be shaken down? Don’t get excited — this album does not…
J.A. Bartlett
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March 19, 1976, is a Friday. Newspaper readers learn that Democratic Senator Frank Church of Idaho entered the presidential race yesterday, even though the race is well underway already. Also…
Ted Asregadoo
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE Cheers to you, you scurvy knaves! That’s my belated St. Patty’s Day toast to you — and I’m well aware that saying “scurvy knaves” is…
Zack Dennis
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My evening on Saturday seemed to consist mainly of mild swings of fortune. Two years in LA have taught me to lunge at empty parking spaces, so I was feeling…
Zack Dennis
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Like many students, I was assigned to read Tom Stoppard’s existential classic Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead during my junior year of high school. I’ve always hated reading plays —…
Matthew Bolin
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Berry Gordy is a powerful man. Not only did he found Motown Records, building a musical empire that allowed blacks to crossover into what had pretty much been a white-controlled…
John C. Hughes
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A studio creation of constantly rotating blonds, brunettes and redheads, the Flirts were the brainchild of Bobby O., a songwriter/producer with a notorious reputation for “borrowing” other people’s riffs and…
Taylor Long
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San Francisco’s Enablers are more an amalgam of music and poetry than the average band. This distinction is forged primarily through the use of speech only loosely set in pattern…
Jeff Giles
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He hasn’t released nearly as many albums as most (all?) of our previous subjects, but David Mead is a perfect Popdose Guide artist — which is to say that vast…