Leon Sylvers III was not only a member of a family group with his sisters and brothers, but he produced and wrote for many others, including the band Dynasty. They scored a Top 10 hit with 1980’s “I’ve Just Begun to Love You”
Popdose Staff
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Jeff Giles: It’s Anne Hathaway! As Catwoman! And she’s riding the Batpod! Michael Parr: If you say so… Dw. Dunphy: Huh. Looks like Liv Tyler. Michael: I actually agree with…
Ken Shane
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Ken Shane was back at the Newport Folk Festival this year — but this time, he wasn’t just there as a journalist.
Dave Steed
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Dave Steed takes a look at the new Throatruiner three-way split and music from The Greenery.
Dave Steed
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Dave Steed takes a look back at the 20-year anniversary of the debut from hip-hop legends, P.M. Dawn.
Popdose Staff
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Jeff Giles: Ladies and gentlemen, your new Superman. Dw. Dunphy: He’s all dark and stuff. Chris Holmes: Looks more like Bizarro to me. Ted Asregadoo: It’s like the they combined…
Popdose Staff
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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/DUC0YdrrLSo” width=”600″ height=”344″ allowfullscreen=”true” fvars=”fs=1″ /] Matt Springer: There’s something so unorganic about this…”Here’s the reggae guy! Here’s the soul singer! Here’s Mick Jagger! Now the bridge–here’s the sitars!”…
Ken Shane
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Despite having a number of hits, Brook Benton had been largely forgotten by the mid-’60s. Then in 1970 he returned with the biggest hit of his career.
Brian Boone
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Under its actual, original, Spanish-language title of “Asereje,” “The Ketchup Song” is one of the biggest pop hits everywhere in the world except America ever. It’s like the soccer of…
Kelly Stitzel
1 Min Read
Strap on your velcro hi-top Reeboks and your day-glo leotard. It’s time for another crazy fun ’80s dance party!
Tony Redman
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Tony Redman reviews the latest Mystery Science Theater 3000 box set, with all five Gamera the flying turtle episodes!
Popdose Staff
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Our celebration of AM Gold’s compilation series continues with the first batch of songs from 1963. Hello Beach Boys!
Jeff Giles
2 Min Read
In the fall of 1991, I was a high school senior, just starting to find my feet as a music writer — and as a listener, just discovering pathways into…
Something Else! Reviews
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Led Zeppelin’s image, dating back to the band’s debauched 1970s heyday, has grown so outsized that it sometimes obscures, well, the music.
Popdose Staff
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Your Popdose staff gathers ’round the new Chickenfoot single and can’t help arguing about Van Halen. Again.
Rob Smith
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Rob Smith Can’t Say No to the alternative pop of Drexel University’s own D&M.
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
The Great Gross-Off is probably my oldest Web series, and also my most infrequent, so I won’t blame any of you for not remembering that when I started it —…
Scott Malchus
1 Min Read
In conjunction with the new/updated Cartoon Network “Thurndercats” series, Warner Brothers has released a two disc set of the first twelve episodes from the original show.
Popdose Staff
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Jeff Giles: Can we finally stop feeling a tingle of apprehensive dread when the words “Lucasfilm Ltd.” flash across the screen? Jack Feerick: It’s about goddamn time somebody made this…
Mike Heyliger
1 Min Read
There’s music in the air and lots of lovin’ everywhere on this Jheri Curl Friday, thanks to George Benson.
Dave Steed
3 Min Read
Two Bitch albums are remastered and Dave Steed’s most anticipated record of the year finally shows up (with a track called “Bitch!”)
Popdose Staff
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Jeff Giles: So…is Brett Ratner going to make Eddie Murphy funny again? Let us discuss. David Medsker: I saw this in front of Cowboys and Aliens (which is all sorts…
Popdose Staff
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The Popdose staff sits down for an in-depth discussion of how much it hurts to break up with a favorite artist.
Ken Shane
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Ken Shane will be covering the Newport Folk Festival for Popdose again this weekend. Among the artists he looks forward to seeing is soul legend Mavis Staples.
Mick Martin
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Comics don’t stay in comics. For better or worse, most comics are produced in the hopes they will lead to films, cartoons, action figures, video games, backpacks, beach towels and…
Brian Boone
1 Min Read
Despite the cool, vaguely exotic euro-discoy name, Meco was really a kind of nerdy dude from Pennsylvania (real name: Domenico Monardo). As such, Meco loved only two things in life:…
Popdose Staff
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We wrap up our look at Time-Life’s AM Gold: 1962 compilation this week, and learn just how popular death songs were back then.
David Allen Jones
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Here we go again with Confessions of a Comics Shop Junkie, in which I opine on various recently released publications of the sequential graphic nature, some of which may be…