The contestants: Christopher Cross is the undisputed king of ultra laid-back, early 1980s soft rock with songs a working-class man’s man could relate to, such as ”Sailing.” Kris Kross were teenage…
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Dan Walsh
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After a combined 40+ years together (311, 24 years; Ozomatli, 19 years) but decidedly different career paths, both bands find themselves at the same crossroads. Both have gone the PledgeMusic…
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Zack Dennis
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I’ve always enjoyed the concept of the “MacGuffin,” which is a story element – some “thing” that’s used to propel the narrative – that we never get to actually see….
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Dw. Dunphy
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Dw Dunphy is only being partly facetious when he asks, where has all the testosterone gone?
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Ken Shane
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Barbara Mason had an early Philly Soul hit in ’65
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Justin Vellucci
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Les Claypool is a national treasure. There, I said it. It’s a sentiment that’s been on the tip of everyone’s tongue and on the rictus of their lips since Claypool,…
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Chris Holmes
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Proving once and for all that they care about the fans, Kiss has decided not to play with their most popular lineup at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Dave Steed
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Jody Watley, Warrant and John Waite this week – it’s the start of the letter W!
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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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Ken Shane
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Before “War” Edwin Starr hit it big with “25 Miles”
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Rob Ross
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When a band reunites, it’s often a good thing. When they reunite and record new material, it’s an even better thing. It’s more interesting, however, when they record new versions…
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Justin Vellucci
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Durham, N.C. has been good to Curtis Eller. Ever since the reigning banjo king of the East Coast’s ”Antique-Garde” relocated to North Carolina from New York City a few years…
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Popdose Staff
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Minneapolis-based folk/pop songwriter Jonathan Rundman will end a decade-long break between studio albums of new material with a new album, entitled Look Up, in 2014. The record is currently being…
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Popdose Staff
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Stones Throw Records has long been a reliable outpost for hip-hop fans, and the label is getting its documentary due this year with the upcoming film Our Vinyl Weighs a…
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Dave Steed
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We end the letter V with Vicious, Voice of the Beehive and the rockin’ chicks of Vixen.
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Michael Parr
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Friday Five : |ˈfrÄ«dÄ – fÄ«v| : On the sixth day of every week, I hit the shuffle button in iTunes and share the first five tracks and thought for…
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Ken Shane
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Liverpool and the American south came together in Muscle Shoals
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Nick DeRiso
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Paul Janeway sings like he’s got nothing to lose — or, perhaps more correctly, like someone who’s lost a lot and lived to tell it all. Of course, the truth…
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Dw. Dunphy
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Are moments like Beatles on Sullivan, The Elvis Comeback, Moonwalk on Motown and the Smells Like Teen Spirit music video doomed? Here’s some random speculation as to why that may be so.
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Dave Steed
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Bottom Feeders hits the letter V, with Luther Vandross, Vanilla Ice and Eurodance from the Vengaboys!
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Allison Johnelle Boron
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February 9, 1964. 8:00pm. The click-clack of changing dials rings through American homes as the fuzzy gray picture on the television screen clears to reveal the gleaming eye of CBS…
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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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Keith Creighton
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Fate is a mistress who works in mysterious ways. Two near-perfect major label records produced by Butch Vig didn’t catapult Against Me! into mega stardom, but a life-changing journey into…
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Rob Ross
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As a lifelong Beatles obsessive, I could ruminate and pontificate about the various permutations of Beatles albums. As we all know, Capitol Records in the U.S. saw fit to reconfigure…
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Dw. Dunphy
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Who is Charles Thompson, the once and future Black Francis, who in the ’90s reinvented himself many times over?