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Ted Asregadoo
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All the Woodstock fever going around got Ted Asregadoo thinking about live music, so for this week’s Mix Six, he headed out of the studio and into the cheap seats.
Bob Cashill
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I should cut Whit Stillman some slack. He got his start as a feature filmmaker at age 38 with the acclaimed Metropolitan (1990)–the right time to look backwards with a…
Scott Malchus
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Eli Stone: The Complete Second and Final Season (2009, Buena Vista) purchase from Amazon: DVD It’s disappointing that the earnest, big-hearted series Eli Stone never found a large enough audience…
Dw. Dunphy
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There is half a good album here, and there’s no other way to put it. Primary Dreaming in Stereo member Fernando Perdomo has a heck of a time balancing the…
Will Harris
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For better or worse…and I’m going to go out on a limb here and say it’s for worse…there really isn’t much from the back catalog of Gary Clark’s work as…
Jeff Vrabel
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STEELHEART Title: I’ll Never Let You Go Album: Steelheart Released: May 10, 1990 Why You Remember Them: Previous installments of this award-winning series have included bands with numerous hits, if…
David Medsker
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Now with 100% longer clips! Seriously, I made them longer this time. The Rules: MAXIMUM THREE GUESSES between updates of the list, to give everyone a chance to play. An…
Ben Wiser
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Meet James Perry, whose debut solo CD arrives after 20 years spent playing in Bay Area bands. Perry speaks with Ben Wiser about the eclectic new album, titled Now You’re Gone.
Dw. Dunphy
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Can you will yourself into liking a CD or is it merely that the recording is a ‘grower’? The term itself is suspect; it’s almost a prettified way of saying…
Dw. Dunphy
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There are things that an EP is supposed to do, and things many invariably do, making the whole EP concept a source of dread for reviewers. These things are supposed…
Molly Marinik
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The long-running worldwide dance sensation Burn the Floor has reached Broadway, and Molly Marinik is here to tell you all about it.
Kelly Stitzel
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When just breakin’ is simply not enough, Kelly Stitzel knows what you’ve gotta do. Yes, people, it’s time for the Electric Boogaloo.
Robert Cass
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I was dead asleep when the phone rang. It was three o’clock. I picked it up and mumbled hello. I figured it was my ex-wife. She calls late at night…
Ken Shane
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Ever since Senator Edward Kennedy died on Tuesday, there’s been a movie playing over and over in my head. I come from the Sixties. I believe that the day John…
Dw. Dunphy
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I know what you were expecting. “See You In September” or “Summer Nights” from Grease or, in a sarcastic vein, “School’s Out” — but we don’t need no steenkin’ kitsch….
Pete Chianca
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Waldorf: “He’s doing it! He’s writing about road movies!” Statler: “Amazing!” Waldorf: “Astounding!” Statler: “Boooor-ing!”
Jason Hare
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Survivor sends a thank-you note to Queen, Air Supply goes to Brooklyn, David Foster takes over Chicago and CSN inexplicably has a Top 10 hit — it’s all part of Jason Hare’s latest edition of CHART ATTACK!
Bob Cashill
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Bob Cashill has just gotten back from Taking in a screening of Ang Lee’s latest. Does he wish he could give it back? Read this week’s No Concessions to find out.
Ken Shane
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To quote Richard M. Nixon (it seems appropriate for the era), “let me make one thing perfectly clear” — There is no Jefferson Airplane without singer Marty Balin, anymore than…
Dw. Dunphy
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This week, I’m taking a cue from Popdose’s own Uncle Donnie (and not from my cousin Donnie, thank you very much) to offer up a little pre-emptive career advice. It…
Jon Cummings
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Was Ted the best and bravest of the Kennedys? In his latest Political Culture, Jon Cummings looks back at the Lion’s life and times.
Jeff Giles
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Labels? Who needs a record label? Sanders Bohlke is carving out success as a recording artist on his own, one television show at a time.
Ed Murray
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Ed Murray’s back in the garage for another edition of Lo-Fi Mojo, and this time, he’s cranking up some early, pre-Clash recordings from Joe Strummer’s old band.
Scott Malchus
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No, not that Joe Jackson. This week, Scott Malchus ruminates on the nature of creativity, his relationship with his father, and his own motivations for writing, all against the backdrop of a track from Tucker: The Man and His Dream.
Tom Werman
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As his career memoirs for Popdose reach their conclusion, Tom Werman reflects on one last big-budget project — and heads East to settle down and get, in his words, “blissed out.”
Bob Cashill
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Godzilla doesn’t turn up anywhere in the three-film Icons of Sci-Fi: Toho Collection, but the movies are so terrifically entertaining he’s hardly missed. Godzilla and friends stomped across my childhood…
Ken Shane
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Fun. is one of those bands that take all the music that they love, throw it in a blender, and pour the resulting mixture into an album. In this case,…
Tony Redman
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With the Batman: Arkham Asylum game coming out this week (for PS3, Xbox360 and PCs), I thought I’d throw out another Batman-related album for you. When the Batman TV show…
Jeff Giles
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Just in time for another installment of You Again? comes the latest solo effort from formerly chart-topping ’80s songstress, and friend to stutterers, Lisa Lisa.