Interesting four-song e.p. from Boston synth-duo Adventure Set, who are comprised of singer Ken Scales and multi-instrumentalist Mark Pothier. For this mini-album, they’re aided and abetted by producer Stephen George,…
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Allison Johnelle Boron
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The ultimate irony: a SoCal power-pop band that self-admittedly strives to include every Californian stereotype into its vibe and music. The sun, the seemingly endless freedom, the youthful energy, the…
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Keith Creighton
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This past week I was messaging back and forth with one of our avid readers, Benjamin, about the dearth of good power pop bands in my 2014 Popdose posts — when alls a…
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Justin Vellucci
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Thom Yorke is talkin’ bout a revolution again. Only this time, his soundtrack to it is so slight, it’s almost ethereal. Yorke and producer-extraordinaire Nigel Godrich recently truth-bombed social media…
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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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A very nice debut, indeed; this first offering from Mark Rogers and Mary Byrne, who hail from Pennsylvania, but met in East Atlanta through the growing music scene. Having moved…
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Allison Johnelle Boron
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In the vein of other iconic voices (both literal and lyrical) from the past few years, including Taylor Swift and Christina Perri comes New York’s Alice Sungurov, a 15-year-old who’s…
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Justin Vellucci
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Second take? Such a treasure! On Wine Dark Sea, Jolie Holland’s sixth LP, the eclectic singer-songwriter doesn’t just sit at the intersection of blues, soul and folk — she proves…
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Ken Shane
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A hit for Madeline Bell that was a bigger hit by a Motown supergroup
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Songs you know by heart performed (often) in a brand new way.
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Remember when you said country music had more integrity than Fred Durst?
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Allison Johnelle Boron
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A lot of singer/songwriters pen songs with a conscience. But, unless they’re Bruce Springsteen, rarely do those tunes mix catchiness and a playful vibe with a biting edge and in-your-face…
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Rob Ross
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Adventures In Bluesland, the newest release from New York-based singer/guitarist Phil Gammage, isn’t what I was expecting, to be frank, and it’s a great/pleasant surprise. I was prepared for a…
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Dw. Dunphy
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Popdose.com exclusively premieres Corley’s title track “Available Light” as a free download. (PHOTO CREDIT: Faith Cohen (c) 2014)
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Dw. Dunphy
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You could win either Venus And Mars OR Wings At The Speed Of Sound On Brand-New Vinyl LP
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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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The perfect companion piece – the sensible companion piece to the earlier The Dark Horse Years 1976 – 1992. This beautifully styled 6 CD plus DVD and hardcover book set…
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Justin Vellucci
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When you listen to A Winged Victory for the Sullen’s new record, titled Atomos, it’s difficult not to think about the musicality and inherent narratives of human breathing. True, there…
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Ken Shane
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The Intruders weren’t the biggest but they were the first for Gamble & Huff
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Dw. Dunphy
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IPO produces yet another intriguing, packed Various Artists collection, and yet the set causes the reviewer a case of “feels.”
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Justin Vellucci
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The latest Ipecac Records serving by proto-punk/metal-heads/Gods of Thunder The Melvins — this one titled, counter-intuitively, Hold It In — sounds like another experiment from the California-by-way-of-Washington grunge founders, and…
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Dw. Dunphy
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The headline for this article is misleading. There is no way that I could pretend this is a bias-free, completely objective analysis of the 30th anniversary edition of Electric Eye,…
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Rob Smith
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Popdose gives away the greatest t-shirt ever, and a copy of Neil Diamond’s new CD.
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Dw. Dunphy
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Now that the long national terror has abated, we can talk candidly.
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Rob Ross
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As unusual as it is to think of a hardcore heroin addict as a “legend”, that word is truly applicable to the one and only Johnny Thunders, guitarist with The…
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Dave Lifton
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I can rarely predict where a column about music is going to raise my ire next. I’ve all-but stopped reading Lefsetz recently in the name of self-preservation, and on those…
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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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Dw. Dunphy
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When making up a list of the most important British Invasion bands, why aren’t The Kinks higher to the top?