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Allison Johnelle Boron
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Artists all over the world will tell you that one thing inspires more material than any other: pain. For some, there’s no other release than setting thoughts and feelings to…
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Rob Ross
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An interesting story here – this album, from Buffalo, Missouri native Lyal Strickland, was originally recorded in 2013, but he decided to resuscitate it, re-release it and tour behind it. …
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Allison Johnelle Boron
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Though their name might read more like your AIM screen name circa 1999, the duo known collectively as CommonUnion59 and separately as Steve McKenzie and Laura Malasig churns out the delightful sound of California pop…
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Rob Ross
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It’s not often that a “classic” band can come back together after disbanding and put out a new album that sounds fresh – but then add to that, this new…
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Dw. Dunphy
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The new CD from independent rock band And How should make any indie musician a little envious.
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Dw. Dunphy
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Here are five musicians who were kicked in the butt by love…or rather, three and one double-dipper.
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Keith Creighton
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If you’re a softer Soft Cell fan like me, it’s been hard to keep up with Marc Almond all these years. If you’re more ambitious, it’s been quite the ride…
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Allison Johnelle Boron
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The disparity that exists between modern musical content and the real lives of its listeners is a very real problem. Lorde, for one, has been an outspoken critic of privilege…
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Rob Ross
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You may as well give up any notions of resistance to The Weeklings, because this is quite simply, the good old fashioned rock and roll we ALL grew up with…
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Dw. Dunphy
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Hand Cannot Erase has chops to spare and grand ambitions, but what it has most is a soul.
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Dw. Dunphy
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A gem from the ’80s college rock scene gets a brand new run.
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Dw. Dunphy
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The band invites you to a soiree in West Germany tonight at 1979.
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Rob Ross
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Like a breath of warmer spring air, the opening, chiming strums of “Wake Me When Tomorrow’s Here”, the first track on George Usher and Lisa Burns’ The Last Day Of…
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Rob Ross
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From the moment “Outta My Head” begins, I love this album. Liz Longley’s self-titled debut on the legendary Sugar Hill label is a thing of beauty. Her voice, filled with…
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Ted Asregadoo
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New music from Foo Fighters, Nita Chawla, The Juliana Hatfield Three, and The Love§trange
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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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Having been a fan of The Bangles from the moment I first heard “The Real World” sometime in late ’82, I was always curious-to-irritated as to why the five song…
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Ken Shane
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The Orlons opened with a trio of smashes before drifting apart
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Keith Creighton
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Lee DeWyze isn’t the first person to hear the soon-to-be-disproven words, “your life is about to change forever” on a reality TV show, nor will he be the last. It…
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Rob Ross
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From the opening strums of Big Sky Country, the newest album – 6th, overall – from Sweden’s Sofia Talvik, you know you’re in for an aural pleasure experience. Her sweet,…
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Dave Lifton
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The Staple Singers’ 1965 album, recorded shortly after the Selma marches, gets expanded and reissued.
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Keith Creighton
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fun., Imagine Dragons and Foster the People are HUGE bands band with members that you can’t name and frontmen you couldn’t pick out of a police lineup. None of em make…
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Keith Creighton
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After a lot of prayers, God has finally built a better Bieber. More talent. Less antics to serve as TMZ fodder. Leroy Sanchez hails from Spain and is winding his…
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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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Pete Chianca
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It’s been almost six months since the Boston-based band Kingsley Flood launched an innovative PledgeMusic drive to fund the entirety of its 2015 output — who needs record companies anyway?…
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Justin Vellucci
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In this fine, first edition of Welcome To Pittsburgh, a new, somewhat-irregular Popdose column dictating the independent musical pulse of the Rust Belt’s cultural capital, we find ourselves saddled with…
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Rob Ross
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Coming from Oxford, Mississippi, Young Buffalo are about to make their mark on music with this fine debut album, House. A five-piece, Young Buffalo are like a fresh breeze on…
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Ken Shane
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Joe Tex was famous for his moves, great records, and his feud with James Brown
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Dw. Dunphy
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Three bands tied directly or indirectly to legacies are releasing new albums roughly at the same time. What do their lead singles indicate?