It’s already three years since Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Michael Stipe officially announced the end of R.E.M. as a band (after a 30-year run as a recording unit and…
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Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the Mellowmas blows
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Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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A day of sloppy design, false advertising, and patented headwear
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Pete Chianca
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With ”A Charlie Brown Christmas” having already made its first appearance of the season, and ABC Family’s ”25 Days of Christmas” well underway, we’re into TV holiday special territory once…
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Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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In which we marvel at what still passes for “cute” during the holidays
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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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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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Rob Ross
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Okay, this is the shit – straight up. Some very obvious hook-mastery and full-bodied classic power pop but then it gets weird and spikey in an XTC kind of way. …
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Dw. Dunphy
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What should be a victory lap gets slightly sidelined by being out of breath.
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Rob Ross
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If there’s one album that I can automatically point to/at which helped me – helped to shape me as a songwriter and start to hone my craft by way of…
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Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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It puts the Mellowmas on its skin or it gets Mitchell Stoned again
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Ken Shane
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Tonight’s the Night was a small hit at the beginning of a Hall of Fame career
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Scott Malchus
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A new book chronicles Led Zeppelin’s rise and fall in their own words through rare interviews.
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Justin Vellucci
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Experiencing Captain Beefheart always has felt like a bit of an acid trip to me. Shape-shifting, mysterious and occasionally frenzied, Don van Vliet’s gravel-voiced Beefheart persona and his aptly named…
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Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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In which bad grammar and Push Face mark their Mellowmas return
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Dave Lifton
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Bring out your inner Jew at “The Last Schmaltz” at the Highline Ballroom.
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Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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Jane Wiedlin hopes you’ve been naughty this year
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Rob Smith
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Popdose is giving away R.E.M.’s new vinyl box set, ”7IN — 83-88″!
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Dw. Dunphy
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Top Ten lists are inherently flawed in that they are based completely upon subjective opinion. So don’t start complaining that I didn’t mention your favorite album!
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Allison Johnelle Boron
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The incredibly popular 50th Anniversary British Invasion Tour that circulated along the East and West Coasts last fall is returning for another go-round this spring. Featuring hitmakers from across the pond…
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Rob Ross
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Good sounds all around from Screaming Trees mainman (and erstwhile Queen Of The Stone Age), Mark Lanegan and his band (including the incredible Alain Johannes on guitar and production duties…
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Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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Never was a cloudy day (or an original thought)
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Scott Malchus
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“Twin Peaks” “Batman” and other TV gift suggestions for 2014.
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Bob Cashill
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Helen Mirren serves up Criterions and killer shrews, with a side of Ghibli, on home video.
Terje Fjelde
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Courtesy of the amazing Terje Fjelde, whose weekly presence ’round these parts is sorely missed: A refresher course for those of you who might be new to the Mellowmas tradition…or…
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Pete Chianca
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Sure, the government’s a mess, the environment is spiraling out of control and American cities are actually burning. But that doesn’t mean we can’t take time to consider some of the reasons…
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Ken Shane
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Times have changed but Stevie Wonder’s message never will