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Wherein three Popdose staff members reveal previously unpublished correspondence between drumming legends Neil Peart and Peter Criss.
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Rob Ross
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Being that we (us, being Allison Johnelle Boron and Rob Ross, respectively, both of Popdose) were at City Winery in New York on Sunday night (March 16th) to see the…
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Dave Lifton
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Life in a Blender, the absurdist New York band fronted by Don Ralph since 1987, are getting set to release their ninth studio album, ”We Already Have Birds that Sing,”…
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Matt Springer
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(or “What’s it all about, Stevie?”) “I’m just a prisoner…OF ROCK ‘N’ ROLL!” Bruce Springsteen’s been screaming that line for decades, and this time he’s screaming it in Cape Town,…
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Dave Steed
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Get it while it’s hot. It’s the penultimate edition of BF90 with Wynonna and the WU-Tang Clan mingling.
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Allison Johnelle Boron
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Some artists claim to be deeply personal, but present only cloudy snapshots of their inner thoughts. Kind of like reading a diary only on days when the owner went to…
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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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There is a very fine line between “clever” and “cutesy” – and cutesy usually winds up smarmy and annoying, especially when it comes to music. Sarah Dooley, however, knows how…
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Ken Shane
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A Motown immortal is celebrated in recent reissues
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Dw. Dunphy
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Want to win a vinyl LP version of Elbow’s The Take Off And Landing Of Everything? Now’s your chance!
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Rob Ross
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This is one of those happy moments of discovery – an unknown young band is recommended to you; you listen and you immediately connect with what you hear. Lion’s Den,…
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Allison Johnelle Boron
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There’s been much discussion around the ostensible death of American rock music. Where are all the garage bands? The amps that go to 11? The “old time rock ‘n’ roll”…
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Rob Ross
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I was as surprised as anyone when it was announced in early 2012 that Peter Buck would be releasing a solo album and even more surprised that he would be…
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Jeff Giles
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You say “soulful big-band crooner,” and I say “There’s somewhere else I need to be right now” — most of the time, anyway. But Rory Partin is a happy exception:…
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Jeff Giles
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Ryan Hobler‘s “All Along” sounds like early morning sunlight through your bedroom window, with a haunting melody that moves with dreamlike grace — all of which is utterly appropriate, because…
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Rob Ross
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At this point, I think I’ve lost count on how many times I’ve seen Richard Barone and Nick Celeste perform; that’s how much I enjoy seeing/hearing them. They never fail…
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Dave Steed
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With just three installments left, a former Miss America shows up!
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Allison Johnelle Boron
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If you’re like me, you’ve sort of missed that easygoing, loungey, ethereal pop sound that was circulating in the 90s indie scene. Artists like Sean Lennon (his first album, Into…
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Rob Ross
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I grew up in a household where the name “Elvis Presley” was worshiped and revered (as was “McCartney”, “Lennon”, “Townshend”, “Beck” and “Everly”, but that’s a whole different story). My…
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Rob Ross
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A beautiful and stirring rendition of The Velvet Underground (and Nico)’s classic, as offered up by Richard Barone. One of the few artists I know of who can take a…
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Ken Shane
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Professor Longhair’s music is the sound of Mardi Gras
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Rob Ross
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So there’s this band I like and have written about a few times. You may have heard about them by now – The Bongos. This album, Drums Along The Hudson,…
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Rob Ross
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Certain albums, for me, are forever attached to a memory – sometimes good, sometimes bad. When I first bought/heard Workbook in the summer of ’89 on Virgin, it was an…
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Rob Ross
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It isn’t often you get to see a true musical giant up so close and personal. Seeing Booker T. Jones, the man whose name is (to me) most synonymous with…
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Dave Steed
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The letter W continues with Weezer, Whitesnake and the start of Fergie.
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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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David Medsker
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If there is a universal truth among people who dedicate their lives to music, either the creation of it or the consumption it, it is that each generation bemoans the…
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Popdose Staff
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It’s the Popdose Music Roundtable for February 2014 — wherein the staff gabs about any music, new or old, that has been moving us over the past month.