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Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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A day of sloppy design, false advertising, and patented headwear
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Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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In which we marvel at what still passes for “cute” during the holidays
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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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Okay, this is the shit – straight up. Some very obvious hook-mastery and full-bodied classic power pop but then it gets weird and spikey in an XTC kind of way. …
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Dw. Dunphy
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What should be a victory lap gets slightly sidelined by being out of breath.
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Rob Ross
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If there’s one album that I can automatically point to/at which helped me – helped to shape me as a songwriter and start to hone my craft by way of…
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Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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It puts the Mellowmas on its skin or it gets Mitchell Stoned again
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Ken Shane
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Tonight’s the Night was a small hit at the beginning of a Hall of Fame career
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Justin Vellucci
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Experiencing Captain Beefheart always has felt like a bit of an acid trip to me. Shape-shifting, mysterious and occasionally frenzied, Don van Vliet’s gravel-voiced Beefheart persona and his aptly named…
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Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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In which bad grammar and Push Face mark their Mellowmas return
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Dave Lifton
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Bring out your inner Jew at “The Last Schmaltz” at the Highline Ballroom.
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Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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Jane Wiedlin hopes you’ve been naughty this year
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Rob Smith
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Popdose is giving away R.E.M.’s new vinyl box set, ”7IN — 83-88″!
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Dw. Dunphy
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Top Ten lists are inherently flawed in that they are based completely upon subjective opinion. So don’t start complaining that I didn’t mention your favorite album!
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Allison Johnelle Boron
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The incredibly popular 50th Anniversary British Invasion Tour that circulated along the East and West Coasts last fall is returning for another go-round this spring. Featuring hitmakers from across the pond…
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Rob Ross
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Good sounds all around from Screaming Trees mainman (and erstwhile Queen Of The Stone Age), Mark Lanegan and his band (including the incredible Alain Johannes on guitar and production duties…
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Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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Never was a cloudy day (or an original thought)
Terje Fjelde
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Courtesy of the amazing Terje Fjelde, whose weekly presence ’round these parts is sorely missed: A refresher course for those of you who might be new to the Mellowmas tradition…or…
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Ken Shane
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Times have changed but Stevie Wonder’s message never will
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Rob Ross
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This new 6 song mini-album follows up the stellar 2013 release Someone Else’s Cake. Where that album had varied styles of what could be deemed as “classic power pop”, Pure…
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Rob Ross
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The music and artistry of Don Van Vliet, known to all and sundry as Captain Beefheart is very black and white – there are no greys here – you either…
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Rob Smith
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Rob Smith pens a love letter to indie record stores, and the “American Hustle” soundtrack.
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Rob Ross
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What was technically recorded as Arthur Lee’s second solo album after the dissolution of Love in 1971 became viewed as the “great lost Love album”, as the album was going…
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Justin Vellucci
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I’m starting to become convinced that you haven’t heard a pulse dissolve or a measure replicate off-time quite right until you’ve heard Loscil, which, appropriately, if true, took its name…
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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 is one of those albums where I cannot even remotely pretend to be objective – The Monkees was the first album I ever owned in my life, so it…
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Ken Shane
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The legendary sessions finally get a complete release