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The Weekly Mixtape
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Rob Smith
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Rob Smith grows mutton chops and brings out the old shag carpet, not to mention his Blondie Chaplin, Jefferson Starship, and Maggie Bell records, for an old-fashioned ’70s record party, on this week’s Popdose.com Friday Mixtape.
Tony Redman
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As you know if you follow my quasi-weekly column ”Way Out Wednesday,” I also run a blog called ”Way Out Junk.” (It is, in fact, what got me the Popdose…
Dw. Dunphy
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You may recognize Heidi Jones as an on-air personality from ABC’s Good Morning America. If you live in the New York tri-state area, you definitely know her as a member…
Kelly Stitzel
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This week’s mixtape is an ode to Internet-only, independent radio station woxy.com, which, sadly, went off the air earlier this week — perhaps for good. To honor the contribution the…
David Medsker
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No theme this week. Just a bunch of random stuff I’ve received in the past year that grooves me in one way or another. Enjoy! April Smith & the Great…
Jack Feerick
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Cornershop — We’re in Yr Corner from When I Was Born for the 7th Time (1997) Easterhouse — Come Out Fighting from Waiting for the Redbird (1991) Make Up —…
Michael Parr
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Michael Parr brings a different take on “Cover Me” to his turn at the The Friday Mixtape. Revisit the neon glow of the ’80s and glittery ’70s with covers from Erykah Badu, Everything But the Girl, and many more!
Rob Smith
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Rob Smith provides some soulful sides to get us through winter’s last throes, in this week’s Popdose.com Friday Mixtape.
Anthony Hansen
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That’s right, I put a song of my own in there. Julee Cruise – Questions In A World Of Blue from The Voice Of Love (1993) Portishead – Plastic from…
Dw. Dunphy
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So you might be asking yourself, where the bloody ‘ell is the bleedin’ Friday Mixtape? This is bollocks! Well, never you fear. Your web browser of choice has not failed…
Dw. Dunphy
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When it became apparent that Christmas Day would be falling on a Friday this year, it only seemed appropriate to come up with a mixtape that went a little bit…
Jason Hare
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Despite what you’ve seen every day so far this month, I really do enjoy listening to holiday music. In fact, I’m downright obsessive about collecting it, rating it in iTunes,…
Dw. Dunphy
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WARNING: Some material on this week’s Mixtape NSFW What’s the matter, cap’n? Did Thanksgiving’s close quarters with the rest of the family stress you out? You brought up politics again,…
Dw. Dunphy
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On September 1st, guitarist, keyboardist and founding member of Kansas, Kerry Livgren had a stroke. The progress in his recovery has been positive, but the most recent news has said…
Dw. Dunphy
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Bend It Like Bender! – Devin Townsend Project from Addicted (2009) Blue Cheadle – Cheer-Accident from Fear Draws Misfortune (2009) Cruisin’ With The Deuce – Quarterflash from Quarterflash (1980) Elegy…
Dw. Dunphy
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If you’ve been following the Parlour to Parlour series here at Popdose, you may remember the featured artist from a few weeks back, the Spring Heeled Jacks Original Swinging Jass…
Jack Feerick
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John Cale – The Streets of Laredo from Honi Soit … (1981, out of print) Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Hoedown from Trilogy (1972) Robbie Robertson with Leah Hicks-Manning –…
Dw. Dunphy
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Welcome back. Are you feeling comfortable? Good. Right about now, you’re sitting casually in your seat, perhaps in a chair staring at the monitor, perhaps bundled up on the couch,…
Ken Shane
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To paraphrase an old adage: those who can, do, and those who can’t, write. For the last couple of years now, you’ve been good enough to come to our site…
Dw. Dunphy
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Born on October 16: Angela Lansbury, “A Little Priest,” from Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979) Bob Weir, “Looks Like Rain,” from Ace (1972) Tony Carey, “Where…
Dw. Dunphy
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No major theme this week, folks. Next week, on the other hand, will have a theme very close to me, so don’t forget to stop by for that one. Yeah,…
Dw. Dunphy
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The important thing to remember is that I didn’t set out to make this mix as it is. The initial concept was to pull out the box of CDs I…
Dw. Dunphy
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Feel that tension building in your neck, that stress in the spinal cord that feels just like a piece of rope with the twine extra-wrapped? Feel that chafe of fraying…
Dw. Dunphy
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Remember that mixtape from last week? One hundred Beatles covers? That thing was EPIC! It was freaking magnificent! Yup… That was… really something. Well, then. Midnight Oil – Under The…
Popdose Staff
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Well, it’s (almost) the end of Beatles Week, and by now, it’s clear that many of you were just as excited about the remasters and video game as we were…
Dw. Dunphy
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Last week marked the final edition of Tom Werman’s run on our Producers column and, in the course of his finale, he mentioned a special mixtape disc he made for…
Dw. Dunphy
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I know what you were expecting. “See You In September” or “Summer Nights” from Grease or, in a sarcastic vein, “School’s Out” — but we don’t need no steenkin’ kitsch….
Jack Feerick
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Prince – Cinnamon Girl from Musicology (2004) The Chemical Brothers with Tim Burgess – The Boxer from Push the Button (2005) Echo and the Bunnymen – Stormy Weather from Siberia…
Dw. Dunphy
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Read that headline and weep, folks. In just two more weeks, the summer of ’09 will be finito. Yeah, I know technically summer has a few more weeks of life…