Jason Hare takes a look at some of Michael Jackson’s most (and least) memorable tracks to grace the Top 10 on this week’s CHART ATTACK!
Arend Anton
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A controversy erupted recently when critics claimed that two of the robots in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen were racist caricatures. What then occurred was the standard Internet back-and-forth over…
Lance Berry
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I’ve been a fan of director Michael Mann (Ali, The Last of the Mohicans) for some years now. One thing I’ve always been able to count on is that no…
Ken Shane
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In the late 1990s, Levon Helm was diagnosed with throat cancer. The radiation treatments reduced his once powerful voice to a mere rasp. Unable to make any money touring or…
John C. Hughes
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I realize I’ve sort of hit upon a theme lately when it comes to LIT70s, but I don’t think it’s fair to limit just the Beach Boys to the Disco…
Ed Murray
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Hailing from Glasgow, Scotland, The Poets had a lot of things going for them in the mid-’60s: a unique sound, a cool look (high-necked jackets and ruffled fronted shirts —…
Scott Malchus
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Phoebe in Wonderland (2009, Image) purchase from Amazon: DVD Elle Fanning gives one of the most touching and heart breaking performances you will see this year in writer/director Daniel Barnz’s…
Scott Malchus
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The summer vacation. As I’ve mentioned a couple of times in the Basement Songs, during my childhood, when school let out for the summer, my parents would pack up the…
Bob Cashill
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Most DVD commentaries end with the participants saying goodbye, or “see you next time,” or simply disappearing as the credits roll. “This is a good movie, you can’t take that…
Kelly Stitzel
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In our new series, Kelly Stitzel and the Popdose staff bring you 27 — count ’em! — versions of the great blues-folk song “Stagger Lee.”
Tony Redman
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Here’s a fun album from 1966 featuring songs sung about — and sometimes sung by — Superman and his DC Comics universe of characters. The original album features two songs…
Ben Wiser
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Babatunde Olatunji – Drums of Passion (Legacy Edition) Columbia/Legacy has just released a glorious two-disc edition of Babatunde Olatunji’s 1959 masterwork, Drums of Passion, one of the most profoundly influential…
Pete Chianca
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I’m not a fan of the Ice Age movies. OK, I like the little squirrelly guy who continually risks severe bodily injury in search of a nut, because I can…
David Medsker
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The sophomore album. I hear it’s tricky. So begins the second and final chapter on our tribute to one of Boston’s finest. It was 1993, and in those pre-internet days,…
Dave Steed
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This is it — the Holy Grail of “Ëœ80s music finally makes its appearance at Bottom Feeders. Enjoy another week of artists whose names begin with the letter M, as…
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Jeff Giles
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Ann Logue
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John Adams started it. In addition to cowriting the Declaration of Independence and his role in the American Revolutionary War, Adams wanted American independence to be celebrated in a big…
John C. Hughes
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The most rock-radio acceptable of the new-wave acts (with the possible exception of the Cars and the Police), the Fixx were always unfairly slammed as a producer’s band, the mere…
Steven Rosen
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In this week’s edition of Caught on Tape, Steven Rosen journeys back to 1977, and his time spent in the eye of the Led Zeppelin hurricane.
Ted Asregadoo
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE A few weeks ago, I took my family down to a train wreck of an event called the Great American Food and Music Festival in…
Ann Logue
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Don’t think Michael Jackson’s death was a tragedy. He was 50, old enough to have outlived many of my friends and relatives. His best work was in the 1980s, so…
David Medsker
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Below are magnified fragments of album covers. Most of them are well-known albums, but there are a few obscure covers (or lesser-known albums from well-known artists) mixed in to keep…
Jon Cummings
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Singer-songwriter Amy Speace‘s new album is one of those projects whose success you’re tempted to attribute to the big names that appear in the credits. In the case of The…
Jack Feerick
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Taking to the road this summer? You won’t find better company than the Ultimate Road Trip Mixtape, compiled by Jack Feerick and the Popdose staff.
Matchup Monkey
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And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death, that he told her all his…
Mike Heyliger
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Stay tuned throughout the weekend as we continue our tribute to Michael Jackson, with reflections and remembrances from the Popdose staff.
Dave Steed
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Stay tuned throughout the weekend as we continue our tribute to Michael Jackson, with reflections and remembrances from the Popdose staff.
Molly Marinik
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BOTTOM LINE: It’s nearly impossible to not have a good time at Rock of Ages. Maybe it was the Blue Moon in my hand. Maybe it was my appreciation for…
Kelly Stitzel
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I first heard about The Matchmaker (1997) during an HBO comedy special Janeane Garofalo did not long after she’d finished filming it. She was talking about her time in Ireland…