Well, it’s been a quiet week in Omigodsville, out there on the edge of Popdose. It’s been hot. Seasonable. But you can feel the end of summer drawing in, and…
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Keith Creighton
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A decade after Justin Timberlake brought the SexyBack, a new Southern California band, De Verre, takes the SexyHigher with their captivating debut single, ‘Mad’. Now if there’s one thing I…
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Robert Cass, Jeff Giles, and Mike Heyliger
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Join Popdose for a look back at three decades of Babyface’s wide-ranging influence as a singer, songwriter, and producer.
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Rob Ross
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I can’t lie. I love this album. Never mind that it’s Grant Hart, who never fails to deliver interesting and complete pieces of work when he releases something new –…
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The Six-Tongued Hellgoat
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Jason Newsted is in the spotlight again, kicking some ass. You can win a copy of the new record, Heavy Metal Music with a little creativity.
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Dave Steed
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Redman joins the party and you can just smell the kush he’s lighting up with Shabba Ranks.
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Scott Malchus
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Mr. Malchus runs down this week’s Hot Country Songs. Music included!
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Michael Parr
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It’s time to stop, drop, and shuffle with this week’s Friday Five!
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Chris Holmes and Dw Dunphy
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In 1993 Billy Joel made people feel awkward and sad.
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Ken Shane
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“Steal Away” made the world aware of a small Alabama town
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Popdose Staff
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This week marks the true beginning of the end. At last, we have reached the final disc of this seven-disc compilation. There will be time for sober reflection later; for…
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Jeff Giles
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One of the most distinctive and prolific guitarists of his generation, Bill Frisell doesn’t seem to play as much as he seems to exist as an effortless gateway — whether…
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Robert Cass, Jeff Giles, and Mike Heyliger
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Join Popdose for a look back at three decades of Babyface’s wide-ranging influence as a singer, songwriter, and producer.
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Popdose Staff
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Malina Moye is a guitar goddess with pretty good taste in music. Check out her Desert Island Discs!
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Zack Stiegler
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Struggles with substance abuse are so common in the rock world as to be cliche. Repeats of VH1’s Behind the Music or a skim through any rock biography will attest…
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Michael Fortes
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“I’m trying to write songs, not create a sound.” Jessi Phillips’ guiding philosophy for Eight Belles ought to resonate strongly with regular Popdose followers.
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Dave Steed
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This week we get to the entire letter of Q and move onto R with Radiohead and Rage Against the Machine.
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Allison Johnelle Boron
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On a cool night back in May, I ran into Howard Kaylan at the opening of Graham Nash’s photography exhibition at the Morrison Hotel Gallery in New York City. We…
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Keith Creighton
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Laura Jane Grace, the lead singer of punk powerhouse Against Me!, may be a woman in transition — taking the brave and inspiring journey from male to female — but…
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Dw. Dunphy
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Can you make two pop records devoted to the sport of cricket?
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Rob Smith
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Since maybe late February (when it leaked online), my favorite record of the year has been the Flaming Lips’ The Terror. The record’s unyielding tone of desperation and desolation appeals…
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Popdose Staff
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The Popdose Staff uses the event of being an extra to extol the virtues of John Candy.
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Ken Shane
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One of the great songs of the ’80s has a classic pedigree
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Janson Jinnistan
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Bob Dylan has long been a dusty bitch, and, indeed, it’s one of his more enduring qualities. So it’s not out of character that Dylan will be releasing a new…
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Popdose Staff
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As we wrap up Disc Six and head for the final reckoning, we’ll just quote an email comment from our own David Medsker, when he got a look at this…
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Michael Fortes
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Amethyst zooms in and out with might and musical muscle, sporting an all-killer-no-filler approach that improves upon the band’s idiosyncratic 14-track debut.
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Nick DeRiso
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For trumpeter Etienne Charles, whose dynamic, genre-bending new album Creole Soul arrives today, this project wasn’t about innovation. That’s too exterior. “It’s the music of who I am,” Charles tells…
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Michael Fortes
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The Boy With Astronaut Eyes finds The Purrs in a particularly joyful state of mind, and sounding perhaps the most invigorated and pumped up they’ve ever been.