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?
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Allison Johnelle Boron
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This upcoming weekend marks a milestone in music history; unless you live under a rock, you already know that it was 50 years ago Sunday that the Beatles performed on…
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Rob Ross
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A name I hadn’t heard before, but was impressed by on first listen. Warm and melodic, this New York based songwriter offers up his (I believe) second full length album. …
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Jeff Giles
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It’s February, which means two things: One, many of us are trying to ward off the coldest weeks of winter with multiple cuddly layers (or, ahem, bourbon); and two, Mardi…
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Jeff Giles
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Nine times out of 10, if I heard a group of people were going around recording musicians’ performances live to 78 using a vintage direct-to-disc recorder, I’d roll my eyes…
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Zack Stiegler
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Music is often a product not just of its creators, but also geographic locale. Consider the role that place plays in popular music throughout the decades. Not just in terms…
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Mojo Flucke
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An unknown name to many rock fans, Michael Bloomfield was the Greatest Rock Guitar Hero. That means Stevie Ray Vaughan, Hendrix, Clapton, Page, Beck and all others can step aside….
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Dave Steed
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It doesn’t get any bigger than this in Bottom Feeders with 2Pac, U2 and Usher showing up to steal the show.
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Ted Asregadoo
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Formerly featured artists make another appearance in this week’s “Single Play.”
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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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Chris Holmes
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When singer/songwriter Jesse Belvin died in a car accident on February 6, 1960, he became the first artist of the rock ‘n’ roll era to join the as-yet-unnamed 27 Club….
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Ken Shane
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Marvin Gaye’s ’77 hit was huge, it’s influence even greater
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Popdose Staff
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It’s the Popdose Music Roundtable for January 2014 — wherein the staff gabs about any music, new or old, that has been moving us over the past month.
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Dave Lifton
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This isn’t a proper obituary of Pete Seeger. If that’s what you want, please read Popdose founder Jeff Giles’ beautifully written retrospective over at Ultimate Classic Rock. Instead, I wanted…
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Rob Ross
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Upbeat piano-pop by native New Yorker Ryan Hobler is my nod for “Single Of The Week” – catchy, well-crafted. Airy and light with that early ’70’s Harry Nilsson/Gilbert O’Sullivan pop-ness…
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Dave Lifton
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Last April, Eric Clapton held the latest installment of the Crossroads Guitar Festival at New York’s Madison Square Garden. We’ve teamed up with Rhino to give away a 2-Blu-ray/2-CD combo…
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Dave Steed
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This is Ponderous, Doo Doo Brown and poppin’ coochies. We have the makings of a fantastic week.
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Jeff Giles
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Reunions are the Hostess cakes of the music world — they often sound like a treat, but by the time they’re finished, you’re left feeling dissatisfied and a little unclean….
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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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Justin Vellucci
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There are certainties in this universe and, to cop a phrase from that shaman Donald Rumsfeld, known knowns. Time will accumulate in seconds and minutes and hours. People will be…
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Keith Creighton
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There hasn’t been much to get excited about at the record store this year, until now. On Tuesday, January 21, three of the best full throttle rock records of the…
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Dave Steed
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Bottom Feeders tends to celebrate the bad more than the good but is this week the worst ever?
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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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Shirley Brown scored big but it was too late for Stax