It’s easy enough to say that live performance is the true test of a band. But there’s something that goes beyond that. Will a show that’s great once be great…
Ted Asregadoo
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There’s a phrase made famous by Thomas Hobbes, used to great effect in Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism, and that is: Homo homini lupus. That Latin phrase roughly translates…
John C. Hughes
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It may be the height of over-sharing to admit this, but Revenge of the Nerds was a movie that really spoke to me in high school.Á‚ As a computer-loving, comic…
Popdose Staff
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… It is also the story of a book, a book called The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — not an Earth book, never published on Earth, and until the…
Ted Asregadoo
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE Hiya, kids!Á‚ Welcome back to another week of mixing fun.Á‚ Sometime around 2000/2001, I was talking to a friend of mine who worked with me…
Jeff Giles
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I’ve been waiting for this to show up on YouTube since the night it aired. Hallelujah: [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/O4yKFsanqSo” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /]
Jeff Giles
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Taj Mahal – Maestro (Heads Up, 2008) purchase this album (Amazon) Maestro celebrates Taj Mahal’s 40th anniversary as a recording artist, and true to contrarian form, Mr. Mahal has elected…
Jeff Giles
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Ben Folds – Way to Normal (Epic, 2008) purchase this album (Amazon) Ben Folds has always been an artist I’ve appreciated more in theory than in practice. I’ve appreciated the…
David Medsker
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Note: due to frequent scheduling conflicts involving its creator being unable to monitor his own game (his day job keeps getting in the way, sucker), Cover Me is moving from…
Jon Cummings
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Bill Maher’s aversion to religion is well documented, thanks to his regular, tangential diatribes on Real Time and the occasional scripted bit in his “New Rules” segments. This weekend, however,…
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Scott Malchus
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Because of the stiff competition on Tuesday nights this fall, Fox and the CW premiered their 9:00 PM Tuesday shows in early September hoping to capture the particular audiences these…
Jeff Giles
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It’s long been claimed as the official dessert of Boston, but it was created by a French chef — so even if you’ve never actually eaten one, you know the…
Darren Robbins
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There are few artists whose music evokes the coming of autumn more than Ray LaMontagne. Thus, it seemed only fitting that as I walked from my car to the venue,…
Kelly Stitzel
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Inspired in a screwed-up way by the economic crisis and the chaos on Wall Street, this week’s pick is about a stockbroker pretending to be a high school student to…
Jeff Giles
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Beau Jocque and The Zydeco Hi-Rollers – Give It To Me from Pick Up on This! (1994) Pictures And Sound – It’s You from Pictures and Sound (2008) Bel Auburn…
Jeff Giles
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30 Rock – Season Two (Universal, 2008) purchase this DVD (Amazon) I know a lot of you aren’t watching this show, and I understand — I skipped out on it…
Jeff Giles
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Joshua Radin – Simple Times (Mom & Pop, 2008) purchase this album (Amazon) When Joshua Radin’s new record, Simple Times, arrived unbidden on my doorstep, I assumed the worst, because…
Scraps
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Hey everybody, welcome to the thirty-second knuckle-popping week of Name That Tune at Popdose. By popular acclaim, here are the rules: The Rules: MAXIMUM THREE GUESSES between updates of the…
Jason Hare
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Howdy, everybody! It’s CHART ATTACK! time once again!, What can I tell you about this week? Well, at least three of our artists owe their chart success to MTV. Four…
Jon Cummings
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Jon Cummings: My junior year at college I took a creative writing class in which all the students received copies of each other’s short stories and offered critiques in a…
Jeff Giles
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Tony Lucca – Come Around Again (Lucca Music, 2008) purchase this album (CD Baby) Like a lot of white suburban teens, I spent a good portion of the early ’90s…
Jeff Giles
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – 40th Anniversary Reissues (Fantasy, 2008) (six separate CDs — see below for purchase links) Okay, first things first — I realize the image above is for…
Ken Shane
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I guess it’s true: absence does make the heart grow fonder. Of course, there’s always the “out of sight, out of mind” risk. Fortunately for My Bloody Valentine, the former…
Jon Cummings
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What a confluence of events this week! A few hours after this column posts, Sarah Palin takes the stage for what might turn out to be her one unscripted, real-time…
John C. Hughes
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Remember when the Hustle swept through discos everywhere?Á‚ People were taking Hustle classes, the nightly news reported on the fad, there were instructional records and books.Á‚ Hey, remember when everyone…
Mojo Flucke
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I’m not much of a modern blues guy; in fact a lot of my pals like to refer to me as a crusty-old, close-minded, purist curmudgeon. ‘Tis true, I’d much…
Jeff Giles
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Nina Simone – To Be Free: The Nina Simone Story (Legacy, 2008) purchase this album (Amazon) Nina Simone made her concert debut in the early ’40s, as a 10-year-old girl…
Matthew Bolin
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Last week I talked about the Beatles’ 1968 masterpiece, The White Album; this week, I’m talking about the Rolling Stones’ masterpiece from the same year, Beggars Banquet. A good deal…
DJ D
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CALLING GLORIA Laura Branigan is a classic example of a great and underrated talent whose life and career were cut short far too soon. Laura possessed an elastic alto voice…
Ben Wiser
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On the bonus DVD included with the new reissue of Graham Nash’s Songs for Beginners, there is a gallery of the artist’s photography. One of the photos is of an…