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Keith Creighton
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Vinyl is mainstream again. Hipsters are into cassettes. Heaven knows some asshole out there is trying to make 8-tracks happen again. Another dinosaur of the 80’s has recently roared back…
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Keith Creighton
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Kate Voegele is one of those artists that indie rock hipsters and Taylor Swift fans can proudly call their own. Her roots, like mine, are in Cleveland, Ohio yet while all…
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Rob Ross
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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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Dw. Dunphy
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Songs you know by heart performed (often) in a brand new way.
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Dw. Dunphy
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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…