Dave Steed’s got, Steed’s got, Steed’s got what you need — which is, of course, another incredible installment of Bottom Feeders. This week: the letter P!
Ben Wiser
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Nick Cave has spent the better part of the past decade reasserting himself in his role as true rennaisance man. After the subdued and stately The Boatman’s Call (1997) and…
Ken Shane
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In 1957, Izzy Young started the Folklore Center on MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village, which at the time was the epicenter of the folk music craze. If you’ve read Bob…
Robert Cass
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“In the style of the boy-band vocal bands of the time, Human Nature became Australia’s most successful pop group of the ’90s and beyond,” according to their Allmusic.com biography, “outselling their…
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Michael Fortes
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Michael Fortes drops in on husky-voiced singer/songwriter Angela Correa, a/k/a Correatown, as Parlour to Parlour continues its swing through L.A.
Ann Logue
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I hate corporate jargon at least as much as the next person, and “Think Win-Win!” is one of many good reasons to be self-employed. Still, it represents an interesting idea:…
Ben Wiser
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My colleague John Hughes has graciously let me take the wheel today for this edition of Lost in the ’80s. Fields of the Nephilim were the gothedelic deathrock cowboys of…
Scott Malchus
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OMFG, you guys, Scott Malchus has a copy of Gossip Girl: The Complete Second Season on DVD, and he’s giving it away! Find out how you can win!
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
1 Min Read
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.