John Fahey has been recommended to me enough times that I’ve lost count, and has been cited as an influence by a decent chunk of the bands in my listening…
Will Harris
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Has this ever happened to you? You’ve bought a new album. You put it on and hit “play,” and as it’s playing, you find that you’re enjoying it well enough,…
David Medsker
1 Min Read
Did you find last week’s quiz physically exhausting? Get it, physical, “Ëœcause I used Olivia Newton-John? God, those puns just write themselves, don’t they? My friend Sid would punch me…
Jon Cummings
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I may be a bit slow on the uptake these days when it comes to television commercials — I don’t watch much live TV anymore, what with the TiVo and…
Taylor Long
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Beck could have been a more engaging performer at Wednesday’s United Palace show, but what he lacked in personality on stage, he made up for in song. The show was…
Jeff Giles
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Howdy, gang! Have you missed reading Cutouts Gone Wild!? You have? Good, ’cause I’ve missed writing it — and even though I’m still of the belief that the rising tide…
Robert Cass
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Semi-expatriate singer-songwriter Josh Rouse, who moved from Nashville to Valencia, Spain, in 2004 but now splits his time between that city and Brooklyn, performed two shows at the Old Town…
Molly Marinik
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BOTTOM LINE: I would’ve really liked this musical when I was 13. 13 is one of this season’s new, big-budget Broadway musicals. It’s the story of 12-year-old Evan, who’s forced…
Kelly Stitzel
1 Min Read
“Fair is fair!” I don’t think that’s the official tagline of The Legend of Billie Jean (1985), but it’s certainly the favorite quote of anyone I know who loves the…
Popdose Staff
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To all Popdose readers: Our Name That Tune creator, Scraps, aka Soren DeSelby, suffered a stroke on Monday afternoon. He is currently hospitalized in Brooklyn, NY. Á‚ He has improved a…
Popdose Staff
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Topless Robot titters at the seven unintentionally perverted toys that will ruin our children; Our pal Jeff Vrabel sifts through the Cubs’ season-ending wreckage; Yann Arthur-Bertrand’s stunning Earth from Above…
The Chartburn Panel
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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/pdJzLpWFYJ4″ width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Mainstream Rock: The Rolling Stones, “Mixed Emotions” (1989) Scott Malchus: This was the album when Keith and Mick supposedly started liking each other again….
Bob Cashill
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Body of Lies didn’t have to do much to impress me. It’s the first movie I’ve seen since becoming a dad, and the switch from explosive poops to plain old…
Dw. Dunphy
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We are now officially in the fourth quarter sales market. Department stores have begun to roll out the Christmas decorations, big summer movies are winding their way to the DVD…
Jon Cummings
1 Min Read
Make no mistake: The new right-wing comedy, An American Carol, is just as bad as you imagine it to be, if not worse. Even as I walked into the theater…
John C. Hughes
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Scottish trio One Dove found themselves branded with the trip-hop label after releasing their debut Morning Dove White in 1993.Á‚ It wasn’t a label undeserved, really, since the group’s expansive,…
Mojo Flucke
1 Min Read
The blues aren’t dead yet. But, compared to, say, 1971, they’ve got one foot and two thirds of the other in the grave. Let’s admit that. Blues fans haven’t heard…
Scott Malchus
2 Min Read
In 1982, the rock supergroup Asia kept my interest long enough to make me seek out previous work by the band members. This led me to the band Yes, and…
Terje Fjelde
1 Min Read
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…
Ted Asregadoo
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What a difference 30 years makes. Back in 1978, the Talking Heads were playing clubs that barely had functioning toilets and drew small crowds to hear their progressively styled poly…
Matthew Bolin
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To me, Todd Rundgren’s 1972 Something/Anything? is kind of the white Sign ‘O’ the Times. Like Prince’s masterwork, Rundgren’s is a sprawling, two disc, self-contained epic, bouncing from style to…
Ben Wiser
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I was eleven or twelve. I was riding with my dad. We were driving back from somewhere. We were listening to the radio. It was just my dad and me….
Taylor Long
1 Min Read
From time to time, the price bands pay for innovation is the inability of music writers to accurately capture what they’re doing. It’s a strange irony that the bands most…
Taylor Long
1 Min Read
In the fashion world, patchwork, the design concept that calls for small pieces put together as part of a larger design, might be considered pejorative. But when it comes to…
Ken Shane
1 Min Read
Like many other people, I welcomed Lucinda Williams into my life with the release of the Grammy-winning Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, in 1998. Over the course of the…
David Medsker
2 Min Read
“I dooooooon’t wanna be old, and sleep alone / An empty house is not a home.” The back half of that line is pure cliche, but that is the beauty…
Dave Steed
1 Min Read
I’m a list man. I love making them, I love talking about them, I love everything about them. And if I accept a challenge to make a list I will…
Ted Asregadoo
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Dw. Dunphy My initial idea for taking in tonight’s town hall debate was to do so with headphones and without visuals. I’ll admit, over the past month or so, the…
John C. Hughes
1 Min Read
Here’s an oldie but a goodie, in a whole new style: the classic video for a-ha’s “Take On Me,” redone literally. What does that mean, you ask? Watch and learn,…