When they took off the makeup, did KISS have good records? Um, yeah!
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Rob Ross
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It isn’t often one reads a book about music – famous rock musicians – and find references to Maslow or Goethe. This is, hands down, the only psychological study I’ve…
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Rob Ross
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This English band, in the tradition of Paul Weller/Blur/Oasis, etc. are back with a new single. It’s a catchy song on the whole – but it’s empty in many ways: …
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Rob Ross
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Birmingham, Alabama native/Los Angeles-based Beth Thornley returns with her fourth release/first EP, Septagon and this is fast becoming a favorite of mine. Ms. Thornley knows how to construct a song…
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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. That’s what I think. Do you agree? Tell…
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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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Dw. Dunphy
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Examining the strangest of all pop culture conventions, the “fan crush.”
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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. You know this person, right? Tell us in…
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Jack Feerick
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There’s a new top dog on the Young Adult block. The film adaptation of Veronica Roth’s bestselling YA novel Divergent opened a couple of weeks ago to stellar box office…
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Justin Vellucci
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Curtis Eller, banjo-picker extraordinaire, presents listeners with a quintessentially American cause celeb. Few work harder to drum up and rally a crowd with their song-stories, and, though his father was…
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Rob Ross
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Punk In Africa is a surprise to me. First, because it is a concept I did not know existed – for someone who had lived the punk-rock life or worshiped…
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Ken Shane
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The 200th edition of Soul Serenade features the Jive Five
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Dw. Dunphy
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The remarkable new album by Oslo’s Gazpacho blows away the conventions of rock, prog, and the makeup of the “epic” song.
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Popdose Staff
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If you had to go away for awhile and you could only take five of your favorite albums with you, which ones would you choose? Yes, we know it isn’t…
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Scott Malchus
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Boy, this season has been great, with each episode better than the last. But you know that, otherwise you wouldn’t be back here, checking out the latest episode of Comrades. …
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Keith Creighton
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The last time I breathed the same air as Chris Ballew, lead singer and basitar player for The Presidents of the United States of America (PUSA from here on out),…
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Dw. Dunphy
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They probably made out to “You and Me” a year after they grounded you for blasting “Elected!”
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Jeff Giles
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Modern pop music tends to be so personality-driven that getting an email from a band like Tower is as refreshing as it is bewildering. Who are they? “A new band…
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Popdose Staff
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Visit the Americans at their official site, and hear more music — including their latest release, Home Recordings — here. There’s an old story I remember, maybe in a book…
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Rob Ross
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Rock River, the new solo album from Deena Shoshkes of New Jersey’s The Cucumbers, is a breath of fresh pop air that I welcome. For someone who’s put out great…
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Dw. Dunphy
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The lyrics scan like a battle cry — so why does Aerosmith’s “Dream On” sound like defeat?
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Ken Shane
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Singer/songwriter Richard Shindell appeared recently in Massachusetts
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Rob Ross
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This album, of which a performance called “Look Behind You” is based around, is a highly personal memoir by Irish singer/songwriter Steafán Hanvey. Released in 2013, Nuclear Family is about…
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Tony Redman
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In the new Mystery Science Theater 3000 boxset you’ll find a teensploitation flick, a sword and sandal classic, a loose head on the loose movie, and one of the most requested MST3K episodes. Read all about it here!
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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. Joggers are the real terrorists, right? Tell us…
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Scott Malchus
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Based on the French-Canadian hit, Starbuck, writer/director Ken Scott’s Delivery Man is a heartwarming film that packs more drama than comedy it in its brisk 105 minutes. Vince Vaughn reminds…
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Popdose Staff
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It’s the Popdose Music Roundtable for March 2014 — wherein the staff gabs about any music, new or old, that has been moving us over the past month….
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Jeff Giles
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If Jerry Lee Lewis and Bob Dylan had a baby, and then that baby had a baby with Tom Waits, it might grow up to sound like Luke Elliot‘s “Virginia”:…
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Popdose Staff
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If you had to go away for awhile and you could only take five of your favorite albums with you, which ones would you choose? Yes, we know it isn’t…