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This is not a typical album review; this is special. Grace Griffith is a Washington D.C.-based singer; a performer in the folk tradition – specifically Irish folk – and vocal…
A great artist was lost last week when Bobby Womack died
Not so much a conceptual piece this time around as a practical musical tool, designed to solve one of the many pressing problems of summertime. You see, our local triple-A…
Americana gets a great new voice in the debut record by Hook & Anchor
As Jude Abbott sweetly sings, “Pissin’ the night away.”
Oh, Heaven and Earth, what sleepy, emasculated fresh hell is this?
It’s the Friday Five! Shuffle through five random tracks from your library and share it with the Popdose community.
Suzanne Vega has always been a delight in my musical life; I can’t pretend that I haven’t loved her from the moment I heard “Marlena On The Wall”. She is…
Ken Shane pays tribute to the legendary Gerry Goffin
It makes me feel good to know that there is this whole new crop of musicians from the mid-West releasing quality music. I’ve had the pleasure of hearing many of…
I said that if the “taster” single, “Everybody Sometimes” was an indication of how this album would go, then Glenn Tilbrook’s Happy Ending was bound to be as much of…
Former Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman joins us to talk about his new solo album Inferno.
Summer is officially here, so things are about to get hot. This past week, two spicy songs with azure nomenclature landed in my inbox. Which one best gets your knickers in…
Falimy, the 9th album from Portland, Oregon’s Rachel Taylor Brown is awash in melody, almost a study in classic mid-’60’s songwriting: structural shifts, key changes, orchestration and most of all,…
The story of a band that’s really a rock band! Honest! We swear! Would we fool you?
Popdose premieres the new video, Frankenstein Cannot Be Stopped, from Life In A Blender’s latest album
Matt Townsend is something of a conundrum. On one hand, his lyrics indicate a world-weary, vulnerable old-timer. His voice projects across the generations, so much so that any listener would…
Marshall Crenshaw told us that every musician has an internal clock that tells them when it’s time to make a new record. For the New York electronic duo Home Video,…
It’s the Friday Five! Shuffle through five random tracks from your library and share it with the Popdose community.
David Ruffin was not the only Temptation who went on to solo success
You might say a band is truly dedicated to its craft when it reemerges from retirement after 20 years, and, most amazingly, releases something that sounds completely current and vital. Now…
Joe Marson has excellent taste in profanity — and a bit of bona fide electric soul magic.
The catchiest song about a coke addict you’re going to hear all day.
There have been, in recent memory, a few albums that have been late bloomers – recorded by bands that gave birth to other bands who went on to great successes. …
You didn’t think we were finished pimping Julian’s terrific new album, did you?
Paul Weller is another of those artists where the line between “critic” and “fan” is easily/completely blurred. You have to understand, I’ve been a student of Weller’s since I first…
