Johnny Lloyd Rollins – Let’s Be Poor Together (2007)purchase this album (CD Baby) The cool kids — like Billy K., who recommended Johnny Lloyd Rollins to me last fall —…
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Jeff Giles
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In the Eye of the Storm (1984)purchase this album (Amazon)The Setup: The higher-pitched half of Supertramp’s songwriting/vocal duo strikes out on his own, hoping to prove the whole was less…
Jason Hare
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Brace yourselves, Mellow Miners: it’s gonna get a little gloomy here today. Here are the rules: you’re allowed to stick your lower lip out, you’re allowed to find a teddy…
Jeff Giles
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Hi-Five – I Like the Way (The Kissing Game) (1991) I’m not sure about this song. For one thing, I’m not sure why I have this cassingle. I do remember…
Jeff Giles
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Harry Nilsson – Me & My Arrow from The Point! (1968)The Fratellis – Flathead from Costello Music (2006)Waxing Poetics – A Year by Air from Hermitage (1991)Cory Sipper – Open…
Jeff Giles
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Well, what do you know? It’s Mike Reno’s favorite part of the week again, and you know what that means — we’re headed back to Bootleg City, courtesy of our…
Scott Malchus
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The music of Crowded House has hovered over my personal space since they flew into the world’s orbit back in the 80’s. It began during my first year at Bowling…
Jason Hare
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Happy Friday, everybody! Here’s one thing we can say about this week’s Billboard Top 10: everybody wanted to boogie. That’s right: we’re going back to those somewhat awful days of…
Jeff Giles
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The June Umbrella – The June Umbrella (2007)purchase this album (CD Baby)Review by Jamie Lyon According to their bio, The June Umbrella are a four-piece band from Eugene, Oregon with…
John C. Hughes
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VH1Classic.com officially launches today, an effort to shore up the online brand of the cable oldies channel as the destination on the internet for classic music videos at the same…
Jeff Giles
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A Brokeheart Pro – The Kitten Next Door (2006)purchase this album (CD Baby)Review by Jamie Lyon As someone once said, “Life is like a box of chocolates — you never…
Jason Hare
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Here’s a question, everybody: how did we get this far in Adventures Through The Mines Of Mellow Gold – #30! – without covering Pablo Cruise? I intend to remedy this…
John C. Hughes
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Issued in the United States only, this four-track EP was released in 1983 (The Best Year For Music Ever!) to capitalize on INXS’ breakthrough earlier in the year with the…
Jeff Giles
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[Jefito’s Note: I’m hoping our next new Idiot’s Guide (taking a look at the J. Geils Band) will be ready next week. In the meantime, here’s a repeat of one…
Jeff Giles
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I haven’t posted about it here before, but Buffalo Tom has a new album coming out this summer, and Stereogum just posted the title track for download. Download it. Turn…
John C. Hughes
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Where did it all begin? Why, in 1976, thanks to Aunt Jackie, of course.
John C. Hughes
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I’ve always been a sucker for well-crafted soft rock attached to grandiose concepts like adapting the works of Edgar Allen Poe or Isaac Asimov, or album-length meditations on gambling or…
Jason Hare
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Welcome back, everybody, to another week of CHART ATTACK! This week’s another good one for the charts; I had a great time writing about every single one of these songs. …
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Jeff Giles
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[Jefito’s Note: While the blog gnomes and I scurry behind the scenes to get things back in semi-working order around here, please allow me to present the following missive, penned…
Jeff Giles
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The details are still being ironed out, but if everything goes the way it’s supposed to, I’ll have some Big News for you guys soon. This sounds ridiculous, and I…
John C. Hughes
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Another song that’s somehow become a retroactive hit 25 years after it floundered in the lower half of the Hot 100 is Bow Wow Wow’s “I Want Candy”. Long-time readers…
Jason Hare
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Hi everyone! Listen, I get it: I need to listen to ELO. Thanks for all the tips – and for enduring last week’s suckfest of Olivia and Cliff. I think…
Jason Hare
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Welcome back, everybody, to another edition of CHART ATTACK! I know that you’ve been dying all week to know what was rocking the charts during the week of April 18,…
John C. Hughes
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Echo and the Bunnymen lead singer Ian McCulloch was known for his grandiose statements to the music press, full of ego and bluster – for example, he once called the…
Jason Hare
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We’ve covered the men. We’ve covered the women. We’ve even covered a few people who run somewhere in the middle. But we have yet to cover the male-female Mellow Duet…
Jeff Giles
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He’s one of his generation’s most wonderfully unique songwriters, but Joe Henry has always been arguably better-known for things having nothing to do with his songs — being married to…
Jeff Giles
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This week at Bootleg City, we’re honored to be paid a visit by none other than the Chairman of the Board himself, in truly vintage form — this set was…
Jason Hare
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You guys, not for nothing, but in my humble opinion, 1986 was a totally kick-ass year for music. As I listen to the Top 100 for the year overall, I…
Scott Malchus
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In December of 2001, Jacob was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis. To this day I can remember sitting in my cubicle at work and trying to comprehend exactly what this news…