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Dw. Dunphy
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What influences the musicians that go on to influence others? Popdose invited John Arthur to add his Top Ten All-Time albums to the pantheon.
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Beau Dure
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Your friends say you look like you’ve seen a ghost? What’s that supposed to mean? In this case, unlike the first two songs in this series, the meaning here is…
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Rob Ross
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Since their 2006 reformation, Ft. Worth’s Toadies have released 3 albums (one a live document) and this new album takes the band in a slightly different direction. Heretics features several…
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Dw. Dunphy
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When you realize past-tense that something’s not as good as you remembered it, that’s Retrosuck!
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Rob Ross
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Having seen the film “Positive Force” last December, I see this as a natural companion piece to an important part of punk rock history. Salad Days: A Decade Of Punk…
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Michael Parr
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It’s the Friday Five! Shuffle through five random tracks from your library and share it with the Popdose community.
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Rob Ross
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This self-titled debut album from Minneapolis’ Carroll has some fine textures that remind me immediately of such ’80s indie giants as the Comsat Angels, the Chameleons, the Sound and a…
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Ken Shane
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James & Bobby Purify launched their career with a Muscle Shoals classic
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Rob Ross
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An interesting and damned fine debut from Chicago’s Natalie Myre. This singer-songwriter has a wonderful voice and a way with writing a song that makes the listening a pleasure trip,…
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Robert Cass, Jeff Giles, and Mike Heyliger
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Knocked out? Never say never.
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Allison Johnelle Boron
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The main ingredient for an honest, true artist is always authenticity, whether that comes from a trained background or from somewhere deep inside one’s heart and soul. For Ted West,…
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Rob Ross
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Woodbury, Minnesota four-piece Hippo Campus deliver an “anthem rock”-friendly sound on their latest offering, a five-song E.P. titled South. Some big production gives this E.P. its sound and direction – for…
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Ted Asregadoo
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In the Single Play spotlight: Nova Heart, The Wooden Sky, We Are Z, and Skinny Lister.
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Jeff Giles
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Five years after fooling fans into thinking they were breaking up, a-ha are back with their 10th album, leaving Jeff Giles to sigh: You Again?
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Michael Parr
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It’s the Friday Five! Shuffle through five random tracks from your library and share it with the Popdose community.
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Rob Ross
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Now THIS is what it’s all about – driving guitars, strident rhythms, crashing cymbals and hooks galore – coming out of Australia, following in the grand tradition of the Hoodoo…
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Jeff Giles
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From hell’s heart, one of the worst albums of the ’70s stabs at thee
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Rob Ross
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This 16-year old from Phoenix, Arizona has a sweet and soothing voice yet writes songs with a veteran’s sense of structure and melody. Taylor Upsahl‘s second release, the cleverly titled…
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Keith Creighton
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Last year, Vancouver’s Nat Jay crashed the Cheryl Cole, Taylor Swift and Charli XCX party on my Top Pop Albums of 2014 list with her stunning debut album, All I Think When I…
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Jack Feerick
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Welcome to the annual Labor Day mix, where we kick back, listen to some tunes about economics and labor, and consider the situation of the American worker. The story is…
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Ken Shane
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An overlooked group, a legendary producer, and a songwriter I should have gotten to know better
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Popdose Staff
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The Weekly Mixtape was the 2008 version of streaming. You know nothing about that.
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Keith Creighton
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If you’ve been Jonesing for a Sarah McLachlan fix without all the depressing caged animal misery that often goes with it, Nashville’s Heather Bond is here to whisk you way…
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Dw. Dunphy
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Big hair? Check. Izod shirt and Members Only jacket? Check.
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Jeff Giles
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It’s been a long time, Videots, but CAPTAIN VIDEO! has beamed another transmission from the 1980th Dimension!
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Rob Ross
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This Massachusetts-based quartet has something different to offer and a very refined sound that makes this new album, Birds Say, a joy to experience from end to end. Touches of…
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Rob Ross
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The last time I heard two men play with the intensity of a full-bore “band” was Mike Watt and George Hurley doing the music of my (and their) late, beloved…