Book reviews are a little out of my journalistic jurisdiction, but I’m never one to turn down quality entertainment.Á‚ And really, book readings are a lot like theatrical performances: I sit…
Ted Asregadoo
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE A couple of weeks ago, I was commenting to Jeff Giles (our “Big Boss” at Popdose) about where our readers are coming from — geographically…
Jeff Giles
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Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008, The Weinstein Company) purchase this DVD (Amazon) As dumb as it is to feel bad for a world-famous director who has always been…
Jon Cummings
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My brief tenure as a resident of Philadelphia, from 1990 to ’92, coincided with a period of remarkable growth for the Hard Rock Cafe chain of restaurants. The chain’s cofounders,…
David Medsker
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I need to see some ID before you can play this game. Oh, who am I kidding, there can’t be anyone under the age of 30 playing this, is there?…
Rob Smith
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Seems Uncle Donnie has recently taken a shine to the King of Pop; this particular missive was near the top of the Skwatzenschitz archive.Á‚ MJ could do worse than follow…
Scott Malchus
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Although sports aren’t covered much here at Popdose, the Super Bowl extravaganza is beyond a mere football championship. The stars, the commercials, the halftime show, and finally the drama of…
Jeff Vrabel
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Tone-LÅc – LÅc-ed After Dark (1989) purchase this album (Amazon) There’s no way around this: Tone LÅc’s 1989 debut, LÅc-ed After Dark, is COMPLETELY ADORABLE. The elementary, dubious and occasionally…
Matchup Monkey
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Florida Statutes, Section 826.04: “Whoever knowingly marries or has sexual intercourse with a person to whom he is related by lineal consanguinity, or brother, sister, uncle, aunt, nephew, or niece,…
Molly Marinik
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BOTTOM LINE: You never know who you can trust in this character-driven tale of love, deceit, and getting what you want in life. There isn’t a ton of action, though…
Kelly Stitzel
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I first saw Parker Posey on As the World Turns somewhere around 1991. I remember that her character, Tess Shelby, was annoying as hell, and at the time I also…
Scott Malchus
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Adam Rifkin is one of the more unusual directors working in movies today. If you haven’t heard of him it’s probably because his films are mostly low budget features that…
Popdose Staff
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The Wall Street Journal names the best reissues from the revitalized Stax; Something Else! looks back at XTC’s “Playground”; Ickmusic whips up a bitchin’ old school mix; The Lefsetz Letter…
Robert Cass
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As I mentioned last week, an anonymous donor sent me disc two of Patty Griffin’s “Love From My Lips” bootleg after I whined on January 16 about not having a…
Jack Feerick
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A song isn’t necessarily “finished” just because it’s been recorded; any producer will tell you that the mixing is what really makes a record. Subtle tweaks and shifts in emphasis…
Jeff Giles
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Spiritual Mansions – The Sweeter Side from Touched (2009) Story of the Sea – Own Devices from Lunar Co. (2008) Dan Auerbach – I Want Some More from Keep It…
Jason Hare
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Welcome back to another edition of CHART ATTACK!, everybody!Á‚ We’re going back a full 32 years this week, and it’s an interesting chart: if you like your rock or your…
Bob Cashill
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Clint Eastwood is having the last sneer on the Oscars. As three of the five best picture nominees struggle for a box office bounce (and one, The Reader, has become…
Arend Anton
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The camera lies to you.Á‚ Sure, that idea goes against everything you were raised to believe.Á‚ Court cases often rely on photographic or videotaped evidence to prove guilt or innocence.Á‚ …
Dw. Dunphy
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I posted an unsympathetic, knee-jerk response to a review on an indie-rock site, not to the review but to the band and the name of their album. The band is…
Jon Cummings
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As of last night, absolutely nothin’. (Legislatively speaking, at least.) But you gotta give Barack Obama points for trying. Presidents don’t often do what Obama did on Tuesday. A week…
John C. Hughes
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Though history has been kind to Marc Bolan and T. Rex, during their early-’70s heyday American radio most definitely was not. Limited to just one solitary Top 40 single in…
Ed Murray
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I first heard about Black Pearl from Lester Bangs. Not first-hand, of course. But from his 1971 Creem magazine essay “Of Pop and Pies and Fun,” reprinted in the essential…
Scott Malchus
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The phone rang while a few of us were hanging out. I don’t recall who specifically was present; it wasn’t an organized gathering, just one of those times in college…
Terje Fjelde
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Over the next year Terje Fjelde has agreed to listen to nothing but David Foster on his iPod. He’s loaded the thing with over 1,200 songs produced, arranged, composed, and/or…
Tony Redman
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When I was younger, one of my favorite television shows was The Electric Company, a children’s series on PBS that helped teach kids how to read. Now, I was 10…
Ben Wiser
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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/zol2MJf6XNE” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Named after the outdoor summer shed in Columbia, Maryland, Merriweather Post Pavilion is the latest disc from Baltimore’s Animal Collective. The band named their…
Jeff Giles
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Asa – Asa (2009, Mercer Street) purchase this CD (Amazon) Folks in my line of work have been predicting a great pan-cultural pop culture shakeup for years now; it seems…
David Medsker
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I’ve always had good insight into other people’s relationships. I could figure out their friction points in seconds. I knew the friction points in my own relationships too, but acting…
Dave Steed
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This week we have a ginormous, gigantic, gargantuan post, as we finish up with the letter G on our trek through the bottom of Billboard‘s Hot 100 charts during the…