New music from Joywave, Shenna, Django Django and Boz Scaggs. Wait. What? Boz Scaggs? Yes Indeed.
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Rob Ross
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I will make no apologies for what I am about to say: I loved Spandau Ballet and I still think their albums – especially the first two – are classics…
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Rob Smith
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Rob Smith reviews the new Shelby Lynne album, a slice of southern country/soul deserving of a large audience.
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Allison Johnelle Boron
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If you’re wondering, atÁºn means tuna, and yes, it does have something to do with the New Investors’ premier single. As the band, which hails from Copenhagen, explains, the song was inspired…
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Rob Ross
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Dead Men Walking are, for all intents and purposes, a new band of some very familiar faces – well, familiar if you grew up in the punk/new wave scene of…
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D.X. Ferris
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Welcome back to Suburban Metal Dad, Popdose’s resident webcomic. Read a new one every Monday and Friday. Click the pic to enlarge. Right?! Tell us in the comments section!
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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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Rob Ross
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In this period of celebration for The Who’s 50th Anniversary comes this excellent book by Mark Blake. Pretend You’re In A War: The Who & The Sixties is – for…
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D.X. Ferris
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Welcome back to Suburban Metal Dad, Popdose’s resident webcomic. Read a new one every Monday and Friday. Click the pic to enlarge. Right?! Tell us in the comments section!
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Ken Shane
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The 5th Dimension had one of their biggest hits with a Bacharach-David classic
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Allison Johnelle Boron
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Often, the most original and inventive sounds come from mashing up styles and genres. Brooklyn-based musician Conchita Campos prides herself on her artistic fluidity, moving with ease between jazz, bossa…
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Rob Ross
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Jeff Beck is my one guitar hero; that’s a known fact. I have all his albums, right through to Flash and have tried to incorporate some of his sound into…
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Jason Hare
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Five years may be a long time to wait for a new release from Deb Talan and Steve Tannen — better known as The Weepies — but there probably aren’t…
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Scott Malchus
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I haven’t watched an episode of HBO’s Girls since the end of season one. After that wonderful first year, my HBO subscription ran out and other TV series grabbed my…
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Allison Johnelle Boron
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Three years ago, New York City-based musician and promoter Aleksi Glick got the idea to merge upcoming bands with a unique, untapped venue — a hostel. Partnering with Hostelling International on…
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Rob Ross
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Los Angeles-based trio Wake Up Lucid unleashes their fourth offering, a 6-song E.P., Gone With The Night and it’s a slab of good old fashioned “super-rock”; a blinding flash of…
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D.X. Ferris
1 Min Read
Welcome back to Suburban Metal Dad, Popdose’s resident webcomic. Read a new one every Monday and Friday. Click the pic to enlarge. Right?! Tell us in the comments section!
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Michael Parr
1 Min Read
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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Rob Ross
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This is excellent – and not in my usual line of musical vision. Tuneful, haunting, melodic, catchy and reminiscent in the best possible way of what I loved in the…
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Justin Vellucci
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For the latest chapter in the ongoing saga that is la telanovela Calexico — Edge of the Sun, out now on Anti- Records — let us begin at the finale and…
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Scott Malchus
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This could be one of the scariest movies you see this year.
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Ken Shane
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“Will It Go Round In Circles” was one of the biggest hits in a legendary career
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Justin Vellucci
2 Min Read
Welcome to Popdose‘s latest installment of Welcome to Pittsburgh, part of your balanced, nutritious breakfast. It seems spring has sprung, though it snowed here on Earth Day — Mother Nature keeping…
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Allison Johnelle Boron
1 Min Read
Traditionally, the colors blue and gray have been associated with the military because of the colors of the Union and Confederate uniforms in the Civil War. Perhaps that’s why it’s exceptionally…
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Rob Ross
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New York native Jeff Le Blanc has had a busy year; not only did he collaborate with Liz Longley after her latest release (reviewed here on Popdose) on this new…
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Justin Vellucci
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Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress, the latest Constellation offering from Godspeed You! Black Emperor and the second full-length since its much anticipated 2010 reformation, hits all the right notes and…
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Dan Wiencek
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From the mid-70s to the late 80s, John Carpenter was an industry unto himself, variously writing, directing, producing, scoring and/or appearing in a string of well-executed genre entertainments that relied…
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Allison Johnelle Boron
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Sarah Vaughan was called “the divine one” in reference to her infamous voice, which spanned ranges as easily as it did arpeggios. Even today, she’s heralded as one of the…
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Dan Walsh
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After building firm, yet humble roots in the Midwest, soulful indie pop singer-songwriter Boh Doran headed East and formed Milly Beau. Four capable years later, it was time for a fresh start. Boh…