Before singer/songwriter Carly Simon attempted to fully embrace the excess of the ’80s with a misguided stab at New Wave, she released this single in 1982 from the soundtrack of…
Ann Logue
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I’m a Chicagoan on a working vacation in Iceland, writing about the financial crisis for a hedge fund trade magazine and taking in geysers. When I realized that my…
Ted Asregadoo
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE If there’s a not-so-subtle subtext to this mix, it would be singers who have raspy voices.Á‚ And if there was a disclaimer, it would be…
Taylor Long
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They may only have an album and a Christmas EP behind them, but Glasgow’s Glasvegas are already performing like a big-time rock band. Grabbing the attention of the US late…
Scott Malchus
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One of the things I enjoy about writing for Popdose is the opportunity to introduce people to classic films that they may have heard of but don’t know whether to…
Dw. Dunphy
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The question is not whether Howard The Duck has aged well, nor is it whether the movie was ahead of its time and is only now finding an appropriate audience….
Lance Berry
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At times, the world runs on our differences more than our similarities. Everyone has their favorite directors, and of course there are those who dispute their choices. For every lover…
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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For someone who can talk your ear off, Syd Straw certainly has built an enigmatic career. After establishing her bona fides as an arty modern-rock diva during the mid-’80s, as…
Peter Chakerian
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After 15 big red-letter seasons, NBC’s ER came to an end on Thursday night, earning its largest audience in nearly three years–some 16.2 million viewers, according to Nielsen estimates. This…
David Medsker
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It still seems strange that Tears for Fears, two Janov-loving introverts from Bath, were one of the biggest bands of the ’80s. In a decade defined by excess (Motley Crue,…
Scott Malchus
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Degrassi: The Next Generation — Season 7 (2009, Echo Bridge Home Entertainment) purchase this DVD collection from Amazon: DVD Degrassi: The Next Generation is like the older, Canadian cousin of…
Matchup Monkey
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… And there was another one, posted right on the front of the checkout desk, that struck a chill as deep as January down Sam’s back. It showed a dismayed…
DJ D
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A TOUCH OF SHALAMAR Singer, songwriter, and producer Jody Watley first boogied her way to fame at the age of 14 as a dancer on the legendary music program Soul…
Molly Marinik
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BOTTOM LINE: An exciting new musical with a lot to like — and, well, a lot to dislike. Aaron Tveit, Alice Ripley, and J. Robert Spencer in Next to Normal…
Kelly Stitzel
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If you regularly read this column, I guess you noticed that there was no Soundtrack Saturday last week. I had a technology meltdown a couple of weeks ago that resulted…
Robert Cass
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One of my favorite pebbles of pop-culture minutiae is that Curtis Armstrong, the actor who played Herbert Viola on Moonlighting in the late ’80s and “Booger” in four Revenge of…
Jeff Giles
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Roomful Of Blues – She’ll Be So Fine from Under One Roof (1997) Ralston Bowles – Begging The Question from Rally at the Texas Hotel (2008) Dawayne Bailey – The…
Mojo Flucke
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Gary Wright, The Dream Weaver, has two new EPs out, Waiting To Catch The Light, a set of new-age compositions, and The Light of a Million Suns, several cuts that…
Arend Anton
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Last week I began a three-part series about the three biggest movie taboos, at least in American cinema — the things we seem to often have both a disdain for…
Jon Cummings
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Those clunky translation earpieces were nowhere to be found last Thursday night in the United Nations General Assembly, as a multinational assemblage of talent and star power filled the great…
Dw. Dunphy
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There was a period of time during junior high and high school when I was convinced music wouldn’t be a part of my life. I couldn’t afford to get a…
John C. Hughes
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Growing up in Cleveland, Ohio, in the Seventies, it was next to impossible to escape hearingÁ‚ Raspberries almost daily on the radio – not that that was a bad thing.Á‚ …
Mojo Flucke
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On one hand, Jon Spencer, in my book, has a lot to answer for. The half-baked, half-rehearsed stuff he sometimes releases is offensive to the people who work for a…
Scott Malchus
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On a warm spring afternoon, with my school bag swung over my shoulder, I took a leisurely walk home from Forest Elementary School, shuffling my suede Thom McAn’s along the…
Taylor Long
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“Everyone is guilty,” Akron/Family sang at their second gig at Union Pool, but if their performance was any indication, that fact isn’t getting to them. The bi-city band, based in…
Tony Redman
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This is one of my favorite children’s albums I had growing up and, judging by the comments for this entry on my blog, it was a favorite for a lot…
Ben Wiser
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Spring is here. Blue skies, green grass, allergens. Rainy afternoons and cool evenings. Spring, of course, is time for renewal, and I like to think of it as a time…
Ken Shane
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Do you like those smooth soul ballads? Maybe you like to kick back with your lady, or man, and chill out with the lights low, and the Delfonics singing softly…
David Medsker
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A la da dat dat dadat, dat dat dat, fuckers! It only took one listen of Ritual de lo Habitual (1990), the much-anticipated sophomore effort by Jane’s Addiction, to know…