In this week’s Revival House, Jeff Johnson throws a 30th birthday party for The Empire Strikes Back.
Matt Wardlaw
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For this week’s Ticket Stub, Matt Wardlaw looks back on a face-melting Dio gig from the summer of 1984.
Ken Shane
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Garnett Mimms and the Enchanters had a massive hit in 1963 with “Cry Baby,” but it’s a less well known 1964 b-side by the group that has stuck in Ken Shane’s memory.
Robert Cass
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In 1987 Cannon Films, the studio that became (in)famous for churning out low-budget genre fare like The Delta Force and Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo, couldn’t convince audiences that the Sylvester…
Kelly Stitzel
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I’m sure it is a little bittersweet when your band has its highest debut ever –#3 to be exact — on the Billboard 200 album chart with its new, critically-acclaimed…
Robin Monica Alexander
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Why are Jews so freakin’ awesome? Robin Monica Alexander investigates in her latest Random Play.
David Allen Jones
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Welcome once more to what turns out to be a rather DC-centric Confessions of a C.S.J., in which I write a paragraph or three in order to spotlight various works…
Dave Steed
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The general public always thinks about Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax and Megadeth when talking about great thrash groups, and no one is arguing there. Some fans make it down to Exodus…
Dave Steed
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If you had asked me back in 1987, when Future World, the second album from Danish band Pretty Maids was released, I definitely wouldn’t have thought they’d be around 20+…
Dave Steed
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If there’s one way to get me to at least give your record a quick check, it’s to name your band something retarded like We Butter the Bread with Butter….
Dave Steed
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He led you through the Top 40, and now Dave Steed begins a new journey — through the ass end of the ’80s rock charts.
Jeff Giles
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The Black Keys headed to Muscle Shoals to record their sixth album, which makes all kinds of sense, since they’ve been driving for the sound of the original dirty South…
Jeff Giles
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Tracey Thorn’s latest solo outing isn’t a new Everything but the Girl album, but it comes close — closer than her dancefloor-friendly 2007 effort, anyway. Starved EbtG fans who listened…
Jeff Giles
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One of my last acts as a recording artist was a series of demos intended for a covers album. Though I didn’t really realize it at the time, I was…
Ken Shane
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By the time a 24 year-old Otis Redding arrived in Los Angeles in 1966 for appearances that included a Hollywood Bowl show with Donovan, Sonny & Cher, and the Mamas…
Popdose Staff
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The staff at Popdose discusses the music, life, and legacy of the late Ronnie James Dio, at Popdose.com.
Popdose Staff
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE Ronald James Padavona: July 10, 1942 – May 16, 2010 “Man on the Silver Mountain,” Rainbow (Download) For many of us, this song was our…
Rob Smith
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Rob Smith says Yes (exclamation point) to Therapy (question mark) in the new installment of “Rob Smith Can’t Say No,” only at Popdose.com
Jeff Giles
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In this week’s Uncovered, we talk with Julie Speed, the artist who painted the cover of Shawn Colvin’s Grammy-winning breakthrough album.
Jeff Giles
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Wax on, wax off, bitches! You’d have to try pretty hard to make a case for either of them as truly great films, but 1984’s The Karate Kid and its…
Jeff Giles
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Confessional albums are certainly nothing new in the singer/songwriter idiom, but there’s a continuum. I mean, there are personal songs, and then there are songs that take your breath away…
Molly Marinik
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The Tony Awards are fast approaching — or, Oscars Lite as I like to call the event. Normally not a red carpet full of household names, the Tonys aren’t as…
Bob Cashill
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”Aging Gen-Xer Doesn’t Find Bad Movies Funny Anymore” read a headline in The Onion last year, and, no joke, it might as well have been about me. I don’t find…
Robert Cass
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Earlier this week I took a group of underprivileged kids to see the first big blockbuster of the summer movie season, Iron Man 2. Or at least they sounded underprivileged…
David Medsker
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In the late ’90s and early ’00s, I went head first down the power-pop rabbit hole. I eventually regretted it for some reason (oh wait, I remember now — the…
Jeff Giles
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This week, we come back to “Peg” — and guitarist Jay Graydon gives us the back story on how his famous solo for the song came together.
Ken Shane
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It’s the dobro on the song “The Sweet Part of the City” that you hear first on the new Hold Steady album Heaven Is Whenever (Vagrant Records) . Your immediate…
Scott Malchus
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In the wee hours of the morning I would pace the living room, bouncing Jacob in my arms, lulling him back to sleep. This was our routine in the winter…
Jon Cummings
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Bobby. Art. Dave. Sonny. Ike. J-’Stache. Curt. Paul (Humphreys, that is). Everly (no, not that one, the other one) … Of all the lesser halves of pop’s greatest duos, certainly…
Ken Shane
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When I first encountered the legend of the Magnificent Men, it was like something out of a movie. According to the story, this group of white kids from Harrisburg and…