This week, David Medsker reaches the third and final disc of the NME’s 40th birthday compilation, featuring covers both ridiculous and sublime.
Dave Steed
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Dave Steed’s Bottom Feeders moves into its second week of the letter R, which means it’s time for some not-so-classic ’80s cuts from frozen food kingpin Smokey Robinson. Anyone hungry for some mild gumbo?
J.A. Bartlett
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October 21, 1976, is a Thursday. President Gerald Ford issues a statement expressing pride in the fact that Americans have won all five Nobel prizes: medicine, economics, physics, chemistry, and…
Ken Shane
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Kristina Train’s debut album for Blue Note Records, Spilt Milk, acquired its title honestly: As the final recording sessions were about to begin, a once in a lifetime computer glitch…
Michael Fortes
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Michael Fortes scores a last-minute interview in Portland with Norfolk & Western — and totally blows it — in this week’s episode of Parlour to Parlour.
Ann Logue
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What’s the College Sustainability Report Card, and what does it have to do with happy chickens? Read Ann Logue’s latest Numberscruncher to find out.
Jon Cummings
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Popdose’s celebration of spooky, creepy, and otherwise unsettling music continues with Jon Cummings’ goosebumped reminiscences of Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells.
Pete Chianca
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Pete Chianca has heard you giggling through Bob Dylan’s new Christmas album, and he doesn’t much care for your lack of respect.
Ken Shane
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The multiplatinum duo gets its first four-disc box, containing all the hits, a few deep cuts, and plenty of unreleased material. Ken Shane has the review.
Dw. Dunphy
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Out of the rarefied list of truly classic progressive rock bands, King Crimson stands as the thorniest of the lot. You can ask someone on the street to name a…
Dw. Dunphy
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If Ray Bradbury decided to form a prog metal band, it would sound like Jupiter Society, and that really wouldn’t be a bad thing. There are several things in common:…
Bob Cashill
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Michelle Pfeiffer was an Academy Award nominee for Stephen Frears’ Dangerous Liaisons (1988), for which screenwriter Christopher Hampton took home a statuette. But I don’t expect literary adaptation lightning to…
Jeff Giles
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Playing for Change, the globetrotting multimedia charity project that blends cutting-edge technology with lo-fi live street performances from artists around the world, is one of the coolest compilations to come…
Jeff Giles
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Pete Seeger’s unlikely late-career resurgence continues with Live in ’65, Appleseed Recordings’ latest contribution to the folk icon’s vast catalog. Culled from a performance at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Music Hall, these…
David Medsker
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How well do you know your album covers? David Medsker is back with another senses-shattering test of your knowledge. It’s time for Game 43 of Cover Me!
Jon Cummings
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John C. Hughes might have flown off to the corporate great beyond, but thanks to Jon Cummings, Lost in the ’80s is back with a look at London’s Thrashing Doves.
Rob Smith
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Just because you extol the virtues of super freaky girls…and you’re dead…doesn’t mean Uncle Donnie can’t give you a little advice, does it?
Jason Crane
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Jazz don’t hurt — in fact, as Jason Crane points out in his latest column, it sometimes channels the mustachioed ghost of Frank Zappa.
Ted Asregadoo
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“This is the most popular bourbon we sell,” said the clerk at my local BevMo. I guess I had “sucker” written on my face since I bought the bottle without…
Scott Malchus
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An Audience of One (2009, Indiepix) Purchase this DVD from Amazon or from Indiepix At age 40, Richard Gozawsky, a San Francisco Pentecostal pastor at one of those houses of…
Scott Malchus
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New Tricks: Season One (2009, BBC) purchase from Amazon: DVD Call it Cold Case for the retired crowd. The BBC’s mystery series New Tricks doesn’t break any new ground as…
Pete Chianca
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One thing you learn pretty early on in Springsteen saxophonist Clarence Clemons’ memoir Big Man (Grand Central Publishing, 400 pages, $26.99, Oct. 21) is that you’re not going to be…
Ken Shane
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Ken Shane has re-emerged from those dusty crates again, and this time he’s carrying a rock and roll classic: the Band’s Music From Big Pink.
Kelly Stitzel
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It didn’t exactly peel out in theaters when it was released in 1983, but Kelly Stitzel still has a soft spot for the film adaptation of Stephen King’s Christine — and, of course, its soundtrack.
Jeff Giles
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Blending the porcelain pop of Coldplay with artfully ramshackle rock, L.A.’s Chasing Kings may seem a little staid compared with some of the more experimental bands on the indie landscape,…
Robert Cass
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I believe the children are our future. I also believe my future in politics would’ve been cut tragically short on November 3 if Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson hadn’t returned…
Dw. Dunphy
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Born on October 16: Angela Lansbury, “A Little Priest,” from Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979) Bob Weir, “Looks Like Rain,” from Ace (1972) Tony Carey, “Where…
Anthony Hansen
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That’s right, folks, the most disturbing Halloween EVER! From now until Halloween, the Popdose staff are going to be thumbing through their record collections in search of the music that…
Robin Monica Alexander
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I barely knew him. Yet here I was, on a cold Tuesday night, at his apartment. We had had a drink or two at the bar/lounge/restaurant down the street from…
Ann Logue
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Years ago, I had a friend who was a singer in a retro-punk band called Vaginal Cancer. He picked the name after his girlfriend had had a suspicious Pap smear….