Whenever I think of With Honors (1994), I think it’s Robin Williams who plays the homeless character, Simon Wilder, not Joe Pesci. Maybe it’s because Williams’s character in The Fisher…
Ken Shane
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Cold hearted orb that rules the night, Removes the colours from our sight. Red is grey and yellow white, But we decide which is right. And which is an illusion?…
Robert Cass
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For the Bootleg City before Mother’s Day, what could be more appropriate than an Air Supply concert from 1982? If you answered “God, no, anything but that,” you would be incorrect, as Robert Cass is happy to prove with some vintage Australian balladry.
Dw. Dunphy
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Brainiac – Kiss Me, You Jacked Up Jerk from Hissing Prigs in Static Couture (1996) Buck Dharma – Cold Wind from Flat Out (1982) Herman’s Hermits – Dandy from Retrospective…
Jack Feerick
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Jack Feerick’s latest How Bad Can It Be? takes him deep into the heart of darkness — the fifth volume of “Hannah Montana” on DVD.
Jason Hare
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Jason Hare takes us back to 1989, when 38 Special begged for forgiveness, Peter Cetera warbled with Cher, and a “mystery artist” made it all the way to #2!
Bob Cashill
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In this week’s No Concessions, Bob Cashill takes a look at the new Shout! Factory reissue of Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun.
Taylor Long
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After seeing jam-freak-avant-folksters Akron/Family put on an incredible show at Brooklyn’s Union Pool in March, there was only one thing left to do: Go home, go online, buy tickets to…
Jon Cummings
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Any time now — maybe even during the too-few moments between my pressing “submit” and this column going live — President Obama is going to announce his appointee to replace…
John C. Hughes
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I bought and fell in love with Blondie’s Parallel Lines album when I was around ten years old, and always wondered who the mysterious “Lee” was who was credited for…
Ed Murray
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In this week’s edition of Lo-Fi Mojo, Ed Murray takes a look back at the Who’s early years — specifically, the brief time they spent as the High Numbers.
Scott Malchus
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I’d like to pay tribute to my mother-in-law, Judie, a woman whose perseverance has set an example not only for all of her kids, but for all of us to…
Arend Anton
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How valuable is a college career for the creative professional? Arend Anton explores this issue in his latest edition of The Bigger Picture.
Rich DeWester
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Rich DeWester set out to write up the new Dynasty Warriors game, Strikeforce, but something funny happened on the way to his review. Do the words “fuck this game” mean anything to you?
Dw. Dunphy
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May is the unofficial start of the summer concert season, so to unofficially celebrate the shows of 2009, Popdose.com and Internet radio station The Penguin have teamed up for Penguimania…
Ken Shane
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Perhaps you’ve heard their story. A bunch of GIs find themselves stationed in Germany in the mid-’60s. They decide to form a band, which they call the 5 Torquays. The…
Jeff Giles
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Matthew Barber – Ghost Notes (Outside, 2009) purchase this album (Amazon) The leadoff track of Matthew Barber’s Ghost Notes, “Easily Bruised” (download), kicks off with a sequence of sounds that…
David Medsker
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He describes their music as “like oxygen,” so it’s only fitting that David Medsker should devote an edition of his Pop Goes the World series to the Trash Can Sinatras — specifically “The Genius I Was,” a track from A Happy Pocket.
Dave Steed
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Welcome again to Bottom Feeders, your weekly look into songs that charted no higher than #41 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the 1980s. This should be a fun…
Scott Malchus
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Skins, Volume 2 (2009, BBC Video) purchase from Amazon: DVD Skins, the British teenage drama that airs in the states on BBC America, is the best teen series to come…
Jeff Giles
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2009, Criterion) purchase from Amazon: DVD | Blu-ray In a half-serious battle over whose giant robots rock harder, McG recently challenged Michael Bay to…
Ann Logue
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It”™s tough being a grandiose financial criminal these days. Lots of people ran scams that took millions from clients; Allan Stanford even collected a title while allegedly fleecing investors with…
John C. Hughes
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We’ve talked about Peter Godwin’s great lost art-rock combo, Metro, in a Lost in the ’70s post in the not-too-distant past, but most people who have a passing knowledge of…
Ted Asregadoo
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE You know, of all the alcoholidays that grace us yearly, I would venture to guess that Cinco de Mayo is going to eclipse St. Patrick’s…
Bob Cashill
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Though a few days overdue by the calendar, Enchanted April (1992) has finally made it to DVD. And, boy, did I need it. The movie tells us that what women…
Mojo Flucke
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Full disclosure: I’m a Hammond B-3 soul and soul-jazz freak, so I’m a homer here. My universe aligns around the likes of great players like Billy Preston, Jimmy Smith, Jimmy…
Rob Smith
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To know the unknowable is one of the great pursuits of sentient beings everywhere.Á‚ Has been for as long as there’s been sentient beings.Á‚ But to truly know the unknowable…
David Medsker
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Think you know your album artwork? Put your skills to the test with the latest installment of David Medsker’s Cover Me — back and better than ever!