After watching the first 10 minutes, the most surprising thing about Shine a Light, Martin Scorsese’s concert documentary about the Rolling Stones, is that it ever happened. Shot in grainy…
Ken Shane
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The final entry in Ry Cooder’s California trilogy, I, Flathead finds Cooder exploring the Southern California drag-racing culture that centered on the state’s salt flats. Much like the first entry…
David Medsker
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Kate Bush’s watershed moment is and always will be 1985’s Hounds of Love, and rightly so, but this week we focus on a song from The Sensual World, the follow-up…
Dave Steed
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So here’s my question of the week for you — what the hell is a “fancy dancer”? I’ve been listening to a lot of “Ëœ80s funk and R&B lately and…
Zack Dennis
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I tend to make a lot of allowances for films that translate classic literature into high school settings. If nothing else, I respect the ambition of such an endeavor. And…
Ted Asregadoo
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If you were a conservative back in the days of the New Deal, lobbing verbal grenades like “A traitor to his class” at Franklin Roosevelt was as common as clearing…
John C. Hughes
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A friend of mine the other day brought up Pat Benatar as a potential Lost in the ’80s “When New Wave Happens to Old Artists” post, since she flirted with…
Jack Feerick
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In The Pogues’ breakthrough 1988 single “Fairytale of New York” (download), songwriter Shane MacGowan and guest vocalist Kirsty MacColl portray a codependent couple. He’s an aging alcoholic, gone beyond repentance,…
Ted Asregadoo
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE Well, here we go again! Another week, another mix from yours truly. I admit that this week’s mix is kind of strange in that the…
Jason Hare
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As you probably know, many members of the Popdose staff are also active in the arts. You probably know about Darren’s album, Dunphy’s album and Scott’s movie, to name just…
John C. Hughes
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Because absolutely no one the editorial staff demanded it — John C. Hughes and the world’s foremost Belinda Carlisle impersonator, a.k.a. his buddy Matty (or “Bearlinda,” if you prefer), return…
Jon Cummings
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By now it”™s a cliché, though often a useful one, to allow a particular song to remind you of a certain time or place — that summer fling at the…
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Scott Malchus
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Like watching a second-year veteran going through a hitting slump, three episodes into the Burn Notice sophomore season, the show still hasn’t found the same spark it displayed last summer…
Robert Cass
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Laurie’s Planet of Sound has been a fixture of Chicago’s Lincoln Square neighborhood since 1997. Located down the street from the 80-year-old Davis Theater cinema, Laurie’s doesn’t waste an inch…
Molly Marinik
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BOTTOM LINE: Rarely do I see a show that makes me so delightfully happy I want to share it with everyone. [title of show] is incredibly clever in its self-deprecation…
Jeff Giles
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Paddy Casey – Fear from Addicted to Company (2008) Michael McDonald – You Show Me from Take It to Heart (1990) Moe. – Deep This Time from Sticks and Stones…
Dave Matos and Mikey Newman
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Scraps
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Hey everybody and everybody else. Welcome to the twenty-fifth knuckle-gnawing week of Name That Tune at Popdose. Rules, rules, always rules: The Rules (subject to modification in future games): MAXIMUM…
Jason Hare
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Welcome to another action-packed edition of CHART ATTACK! Overall, I’m pretty psyched about this week. Although a little light on the rock side, I’d say I’m a fan of at…
Bob Cashill
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Maybe I’ve been overthinking things. Worrying too much about the corrosive effects of superheroes on the cinema and all that. I did 1,500 words on The Dark Knight last week,…
Dw. Dunphy
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I said something that sent a jolt of disbelief through the ranks of Popdose. I have been known to take my opinions to the far side, but this one threatened…
Jon Cummings
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Nearly lost amid the fantastic PR (so far) and blind luck of Barack Obama’s Middle East tour — and the horror show that has been John McCain’s pathetic, flailing response…
John C. Hughes
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Yeah, I know we’ve done ABBA once already this year, but in celebration of “Mamma Mia” stinking up theater screens nationwide, I figure we should probably take a look at…
Mojo Flucke
1 Min Read
This feature’s been a little too Detroit Rock City-heavy. While ’tis true that the Motor City and the surrounding region was so incredibly loaded with fiercely competitive bands that collectors…
Scott Malchus
2 Min Read
Years ago, after packing away most of my old 45’s, I gave several to my friend Steve for prosperity’s sake. Among them was Led Zeppelin’s “The Immigrant Song,” one of…
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…
Jeff Giles
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Brian Vogan – Little Songs (2008) purchase this album (CD Baby) I didn’t mean for it to be this way — and every time I review one of these, I…
Ben Wiser
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I had been driving for what felt like a hundred years. My buddy Treebeard and I had been trading off behind the wheel for three days. Our destination was finally…
Jon Cummings
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One of my favorite Popdose experiences to date came in the wake of Part 9 in our colleague Dave Steed”™s wonderful “Bottom Feeders” series. He had identified his first CD…