Chuck Berry made rock and roll what it is today. This critic would fight — and win — a cage match with any other writer who’d take Elvis as the…
Scott Malchus
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Waiting in line outside the Honda Center in Anaheim, CA, milling about with hundreds of other hungry fans, I suspected that the Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band concert…
Jeff Giles
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Julian Lennon – The Secret Value of Daydreaming (1986) purchase this album (Amazon) “The son of John Lennon and his first wife Cynthia, Julian Lennon parlayed a remarkable vocal similarity…
John C. Hughes
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Should the Monkees be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum? Certainly the argument that they began life as a solely commercial construct is a valid one,…
David Medsker
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People are making a big deal out of Fatboy Slim and Soulwax doing remixes of tracks from the Rolling Stones”™ back catalog, but this is truly much ado about nothing….
Ken Shane
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It’s a new year, and with it comes another British pop-soul diva to tempt us. You may recall that a very young Joss Stone turned up from out of nowhere…
Dave Steed
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I thank my dad for my love of ’80s music. My parents divorced before I can even remember, and I used to see my dad on weekends. Every weekend for…
Zack Dennis
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Like many suburban teenagers, I was first introduced to world of ska by the plaid-clad, Boston-based, masters of merchandising the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. It was the first time I ever…
Ted Asregadoo
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Elections are about priorities. What kind of world do we want to live in? What kinds of things are important for our government to spend money, time, and energy on…
John C. Hughes
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Led by brothers Brian and Kevin O’Neal, the BusBoys burst from suburban Los Angeles in the early ’80s with their uncategorizable blend of Rock, New Wave and old-fashioned rhythm and…
Ted Asregadoo
1 Min Read
DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE Bonjour amis, bloggy! Lately, I’ve been feeling a little too structured in my mixes, so I just ventured into the CD vault/closet and picked six…
Will Harris
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I liked Nick Heyward before I ever knew I liked Nick Heyward. In the hazy, lazy days known as the early ’80s, I was just as enthralled by MTV as…
Jon Cummings
1 Min Read
Having spent the last two columns riffing on the careers of Robbie Williams and Texas, two acts that sped my acclimation to the U.K. during my family’s late-’90s stint as…
David Medsker
1 Min Read
Duran Duran, The Comeback: Take One The late ’80s were strange and hostile times for the ‘and then there were three’ incarnation of Duran Duran. Yes, their 1986 album Notorious…
DJ D
1 Min Read
The early musical output of popular artists is the stuff of semi-legend and fan obsession — Aretha Franklin’s Columbia recordings, Little Richard the blues singer, Madonna’s New York demos, and…
Molly Marinik
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BOTTOM LINE: One Coen brother behind the curtain is a lot like two Coen brothers behind the camera. Glorious! Almost an Evening is written by Oscar-winning filmmaker Ethan Coen, who…
Robert Cass
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It’s a Shame About Ray, the Lemonheads’ fifth album, was released on June 2, 1992. With sunny melodies and honeyed vocals from frontman Evan Dando and sit-in bassist Juliana Hatfield,…
Will Harris
1 Min Read
Sometimes, it’s good to be a Popdose reader, and this is one of those times…if you’re a fan of Kylie Minogue, that is. As you may or may not know,…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Bill Frisell – Somewhere Over the Rainbow (live) from Further East/Further West (2005) Rush – Totem from Test for Echo (1996) Marcus Miller – Pluck (Interlude) from Marcus (2008) Robert…
Scraps
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Hey everybody. Welcome to the twelfth scalp-tingling week of Name That Tune at Popdose. I hear you clamoring for rules, and I just happen to have a few: The Rules…
Jason Hare
1 Min Read
Hi everyone, and welcome back to another edition of CHART ATTACK! This was a fun week to cover. And although we won’t be doing any of these songs, I still…
Bob Cashill
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Thirty years from now, My Blueberry Nights may be considered a good film. It may even be considered a great film. Let me explain. Some years ago, I selected for…
Dw. Dunphy
1 Min Read
Sometimes the cherished memories of youth are so compelling and so elemental to the person you’ve become that you must revisit them. You seek out the music and movies, even…
Jon Cummings
1 Min Read
In our current age of hyper-partisan combat and contempt — to which I have proven myself at least as susceptible as my fellow fifth-rate political blatherers — it sure does…
John C. Hughes
1 Min Read
By all rights, L.A.-based Possum Dixon’s second full-length album, 1996’s Star Maps, should have been an unfocused disaster. Band members were beset by serious drug problems and lead singer/songwriter Rob…
Mojo Flucke
1 Min Read
Some no-compromise music fans — especially those with ears tuned to the blues-centric, distortion-fueled sound that comprises the DNA of all quality rock, ever — would say that Lindsey Buckingham…
Scott Malchus
1 Min Read
Bruce Springsteen released his 12th studio album, The Rising, at the tail end of July 2002. With the U.S. still reeling from the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks and stories of fallen…
Jeff Giles
1 Min Read
Big Noise – Bang! (1989) purchase this album (Amazon) If you’re a music fan with the good fortune to have been born before the late ’80s, chances are you remember…