Dubbed “the next gay pop star” by AfterEllen, Jordan Alexander’s career has skyrocketed after only three years on the scene. After her girlfriend gave her a guitar and signed her…
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Forty years is an amazing anniversary to reach for anyone – even though we’ve been seeing it a great deal lately with the punk and new wave bands of the…
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From the moment Matthew Wolcott begins to sing “Western Lights”, the title track of his debut 5-track E.P., you know this Dallas-based singer songwriter has delivered an exceptional premiere. A…
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(Previous.) Valentine’s Day weekend 2016 It’s a gray and frigid morning, a couple of weeks before my 49th birthday, and I am standing with my wife in a strip-mall Guitar…
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Allison Johnelle Boron
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JahkR has always been an outsider. Bullied at a young age for thinking and speaking differently than his peers, he poured himself into the one thing that would never make…
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Popdose is happy to start the week by sharing and showcasing this beautiful, stripped down new single from singer, Emma Charleston. ”Falling,” captures both the angst and the optimism of…
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Every now and again, a track comes along that speaks to me personally. Cali De La Rosa’s “Summer Baby” is one of them, mostly because I was born in August…
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Some artists take their title literally. We all know that ethereal things happen when musicians merge their work with art, but the real magic lies when they’re still able to…
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Dizzy Heights is proud to present its first world premiere of a band. But you have to listen to the very end to hear it, because I am a cruel and terrible person.
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Back in the early autumn, Popdose introduced you to Wade Jackson, the Australian multi-instrumentalist powerhouse whose Whiskey Alpha Delta Echo knocked us out. This artist (in the true sense) goes…
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Ken Shane
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Barrett Strong had an early hit but found real success as a Motown songwriter
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Hailing from southern New Jersey, a region known as much for its musical pedigree as it is for its rough-and-tumble attitude, Camille Peruto is not your typical pop princess. Counting opening…
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The 2010’s have seen a festival’s worth of typically-pegged Eighties acts come back swinging with some of the best albums of their careers. In addition to crackling new discs by Animotion (already…
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This is an instant “wow”. I’ve known Lincoln Barr’s music for about five years now, since I first heard his wonderful Washingon-state based band Red Jacket Mine. A great, clever…
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Rob Ross
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It seems that with every new track The Cynz (one of the best no-frills “rock” bands from New Jersey) release, they just keep getting better and better and sounding incredible,…
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If you secretly love yacht rock, or if you rock out to “Hotel California” when no one is looking, the Big East’s new single, “The Wild Life” isn’t for you….
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In the storied tradition of powerful female Americana artists from Roseanne Cash to Gillian Welch to Carole King comes April Martin, a New York City-based psychologist-turned singer/songwriter. For Martin, it…
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Jason Hare
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Greetings and welcome to CHART ATTACK!, the long-defunct-but-now-resurrected series where we take a look back at a Billboard Top 10 chart from yesteryear, and try to remember what we loved about…
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Allison Johnelle Boron
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After a tumultuous few weeks in which women have spoken up, shouted out, and stood up in the face of a whole new level of adversity, music seems to be…
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David Medsker
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I’m still laughing that I went from Ellie Goulding to an ’80s hard rock icon with only two songs in between. What hard rock icon, you ask? Check the episode’s…
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Rob Ross
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It wasn’t all too long ago we received and reviewed revered guitar legend Eric “Roscoe” Ambel’s first studio album in a decade (Lakeside) and here we are with an absolute…
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Ken Shane
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O.C. Smith had a long and distinguished career but he is best known for his ’68 hit
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Norman, Oklahoma native Travis Linville has been around for twenty years and for all intents and purposes, this latest album – his fifth – Up Ahead could be the magic…
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Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter Christina Rubino’s new music video begins with a quote from Cesar A. Cruz: “Art should comfort the disturbed… and disturb the comfortable.” The video, which accompanies her new…
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Daniel Suddes
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One of the most significant television events of 2017 is the impending release of the Twin Peaks revival. Fans of the series are waiting to see how the 26 year…
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Tony Redman
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Way back in 2009, back when President Obama still had that new car smell, I had started a column here called “Way Out Wednesday”. It featured odd albums from my…
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Rob Ross
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This is an amazing moment; a new single from one of our greatest songwriters/musicians/singers. A heartbreakingly powerful track and video to go along with it. Popdose is very proud to…
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Rob Smith reviews recent music from elder statesmen Ian Hunter and Willie Nelson in “The Vinyl Diaries.”
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For Australian prog rocker Dan Webb, timeliness is everything. He set a self-imposed deadline to finish recording by Election Day and to release his new LP, Oedipus the King, on Inauguration…