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Keith Creighton
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“Our CD box sets make perfect little time capsules that fit neatly on my shelves and are far more acceptable to my wife than eighty 7” singles scattered across the living room.”
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Keith Creighton
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In a wide-ranging new interview, The Ocean Blue’s David Schelzel discusses the band’s new album, what’s hiding in the archives, his supergroup with Butch Vig, and how bands can thrive in the streaming era.
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Keith Creighton
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For years I’ve wondered why the heck John Andrew Frederick’s indie rock collective, the black watch, has not enjoyed even the cult-like status of kindred spirit bands like the Chameleons,…
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David Medsker
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We have a new favorite phrase, and it is ‘virtuous spiral.’
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David Medsker
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“Touring with Katy Perry was a great opportunity to try to enter the US scene, but that would also mean that we had to spend two more years promoting the album that we had already spent three years promoting.”
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Keith Creighton
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For the past two years, Grace Gaustad, 17, has been steadily building momentum on two fronts – to finish high school and launch a career in pop music. While her…
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Keith Creighton
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Beth // James is an indie folk pop duo from Austin, Texas, a city where one can imagine 70 percent of the population is a member of an indie folk pop…
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Keith Creighton
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In the year 2019, some 33 & 1/3 years after they started (give or take), The Reverend Horton Heat is bigger than ever. This past November, Victory Records released the…
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Matt Wardlaw
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We caught up with Matthew to talk about the vinyl reissues of his ’90s catalog plus the special Record Store Day release that will be out on November 24th.
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Douglas Esper
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We spoke with Adrian to get the scoop on his new Faith No More book, some tips and song suggestions for non-FNM fans and lots more.
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Keith Creighton
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One of my fondest memories from the fall of 2016, before the autumn of life as we knew it, was writing up the first POPDOSE profile of Hailey Knox. Back then,…
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Robert Cass
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“That’s what I like about pop music: the only truth is the three and a half minutes of music you’re presenting to the audience.”
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Ted Asregadoo
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Ted Asregadoo speaks to novelist David Jackson Ambrose about his book “State of the Nation” and the state of the nation.
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Dw. Dunphy
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IPO founder David Bash discusses the ins and outs of presenting an annual music festival.
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Dw. Dunphy
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Paul Steel would like to introduce you to “Luxury Music.”
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Rob Ross
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Singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Django Haskins has been making music steadily with his band, North Carolina’s The Old Ceremony for over fourteen years; he’s been one of the key performers during the run…
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Dw. Dunphy
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Power pop secret weapon Paul Melançon preps new music that could have been no music at all.
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David Medsker
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I have an all-female band. And my big joke is that every time we hit a town, if it was guys, they’d be saying, “Where’s the guitar shop?” With the girls, they all say, “Where’s the Whole Foods store?”
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Dan Walsh
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Making music for families and kids isn’t something a lot of artists dream of doing. Some artists stumble into it. Some artists do it out of necessity. Some artists have…
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Keith Creighton
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Popdose first met rock journalist and power pop musician Ken Sharp through the supernova that is Omnivore recording artist, Cait Brennan, and her producer Fernando Perdomo. All three of their…
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Dw. Dunphy
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In 2017, singer Mike Stand was looking at a future where he could not sing. The circumstances would bring to him a voice from the past: his own.
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Dw. Dunphy
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The singer-songwriter goes intimate and stripped-down in an age of anxiety and complication.
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David Medsker
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“Kirsty MacColl was cute as a button and smarter than anyone, and didn’t take any bullshit.”
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Keith Creighton
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We’re not gonna lie to you, what you’re about to see might terrify your brain space or arouse your nether regions. Whereas bands of other stripes have all but given…
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Justin Vellucci
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Let me call it early: anybody who’s anybody who considers themselves a devotee of punk rock will consider Hunk, the recently announced third full-length from Reno quartet Elephant Rifle, to…
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Justin Vellucci
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He’s going it on his own again and it sounds great. Tomorrow, after a decade-plus at the helm of the thought-rock ensemble/b(r)and Skeletons, Matt Mehlan will strike out on his…
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Dan Walsh
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We last chatted with Dan Zanes back in 2012 when the Del Fuegos got back together for a new EP and brief reunion tour. After he got that out of…
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Rob Ross
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I’ve been a fan of A Fragile Tomorrow for several years now. I reviewed their last two albums here on Popdose and had the opportunity to speak with/interview the twin…
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Justin Vellucci
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Five days ago, David Grubbs released one of the best records of his storied career and a real contender, especially in avant-indie circles, for Record of the Year. The LP…
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