The story of how I completed my collection continues in 2006. I was winding down to the end. I found that collecting the first 4,000-plus songs to hit the Billboard…
Popdose Staff
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Zack Dennis
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There was an episode of television’s Friday Night Lights when a new character plays in his first game and forces a game-changing fumble. The lead-up sequence is unabashedly manipulative, as…
Ted Asregadoo
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I don’t know if bad news has reached critical mass this past week, but it seems that the last few days of newspaper reading has engendered a great deal of…
John C. Hughes
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The most interesting thing about British pop band Curiosity Killed the Cat is that Andy Warhol appeared and co-directed the video for their biggest hit. Okay, maybe that’s not entirely…
Jack Feerick
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Hiya kids! This week I have a guest DJ mixin’ it up for you. Jack Feerick wrote a great Popdose Guide to Traffic and, unsatisfied with lack of music love…
Darren Robbins
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So much of our lives are shaped by how we carry ourselves — our self-confidence, if you will. Yet I have come to believe that confidence is actually an indicator…
Will Harris
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I’ve spoken before of ESDMusic.com, one of the blog sites connected to my full-time employer, Bullz-Eye.com, to which I contribute. These days, ESD Music exists predominantly as an alternate haven…
Taylor Long
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When I was in middle school, I had a lot of ideas for music videos. Generally, these ideas were boring and tame — mostly because at the time, I was…
Jon Cummings
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Over the past several months I”™ve been engaged in a Vision Quest on this tiny slice of the Internet, attempting to locate and suitably disparage the worst Number One songs…
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Scott Malchus
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Scrubs says “goodbye” to NBC, and “hello” to a new network.
Popdose Staff
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For about as long as there’s been music, dudes have been writing songs about younger girls — but since the dawn of rock and roll, singing odes to teenage flesh…
Robert Cass
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On May 1, Representative Vito Fossella (R-NY) was arrested for drunk driving in Alexandria, Virginia, after running a red light, and was released into the custody of a former Air…
Molly Marinik
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BOTTOM LINE: A solid play about straight guys that both genders should find relatable and entertaining. See it now — it closes Sunday, May 18. The Four of Us is the…
Jeff Giles
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The Waterboys – World Party from Fisherman’s Blues (1988) Ivan Neville – Ghetto Street from Saturday Morning Music (2002) Ray LaMontagne – Country Girl from Rarities (year) Splitsville – Your…
Dave Steed
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So, I’m about to reveal to you a problem I have that only a few know about: I cannot scream. That’s right, I can’t yell really loud at anything. I…
Scraps
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Hey everybody, and anyone else I’ve left out. Welcome to the sixteenth stoat-wrangling week of Name That Tune at Popdose. While we do impose a certain amount of structure on…
The Chartburn Panel
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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/PYxl-4oRu1U” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Mainstream Rock: Spacehog, “In the Meantime” (1996) Pete: Haven’t thought about old Spacehog since, well, 1996. But this song did age well. Jeff: I…
Bob Cashill
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All I know about Speed Racer I learned as a kid, when I watched episodes of the proto-anime between spoonfuls of Cocoa Puffs. There wasn’t much to it — there…
Dw. Dunphy
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Okay, this is how I think it’s going to go down: before the end of the year, a major player in the music industry will announce that it’ll no longer…
Jon Cummings
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I’ve been feeling a lot of pressure to see Standard Operating Procedure, the new Errol Morris documentary about the goings-on at Abu Ghraib. I had already seen Taxi to the…
John C. Hughes
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With long tails and ears for hats, Josie and the Pussycats, created by Archie Comics genius Dan DeCarlo, debuted on Saturday-morning TV screens everywhere in 1970 with a show copied…
Mojo Flucke
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The Meters, generally known for bringing some of the hottest funk in the 1970s, remain one of the “least underground” underground bands of all time. One of those bands you’ve…
Scott Malchus
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And so, for no real reason besides pride and misunderstanding, my best friend, Steve, and I had a falling out when we were 17. It wasn’t your typical bloodied knuckles,…
Jeff Giles
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The Grays – Ro Sham Bo (1994) purchase this album (Amazon) You’ve known this was coming since last week, when I promised an album from the great lost power-pop group…
John C. Hughes
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Enduring several record contracts, shifting musical tastes, and more than a few near-hits over the past 15 years, New York City-based dream-pop trio Ivy just may be the hardest-working band…
Ken Shane
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… and the soul train rolls on. This week’s entrant in the soul revival sweepstakes is Boston’s own Eli “Paperboy” Reed, who along with his band The True Loves, has…
Taylor Long
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It’s been a good year for Bon Iver, aka Justin Vernon. Last year, Vernon independently released his album, For Emma, Forever Ago. After a round of accolades from online and…
Ken Shane
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This raises a question that I have pondered recently. When asked to review a classic album, what is the job of the reviewer? Surely anyone who is taking the time…
David Medsker
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For many rock acts that made their mark in the “Ëœ70s, 1985 was the year they faced off against what could be called the New Wave Borg. The rules were…