A studio creation of constantly rotating blonds, brunettes and redheads, the Flirts were the brainchild of Bobby O., a songwriter/producer with a notorious reputation for “borrowing” other people’s riffs and…
Taylor Long
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San Francisco’s Enablers are more an amalgam of music and poetry than the average band. This distinction is forged primarily through the use of speech only loosely set in pattern…
Jeff Giles
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He hasn’t released nearly as many albums as most (all?) of our previous subjects, but David Mead is a perfect Popdose Guide artist — which is to say that vast…
Robert Cass
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I’m a day late with this week’s post, but I’m not going to apologize. Apologies are for suckers. And one of those suckers is Maxim editorial director James Kaminsky. He…
Taylor Long
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The best thing about St. Patrick’s Day – aside from that whole drinking thing – is that it’s a day to be especially proud about redheadedness. A long time ago,…
Will Harris
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I can’t remember exactly when I first discovered The Brandos, but I can remember where I first discovered them: in Creem Magazine. There they were, dressed to the nines in…
Jeff Giles
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The name “Willie Wisely” has been music to discerning pop fans’ ears for well over a decade now, but he’ll be the first to admit his albums have thus far…
Jon Cummings
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It”™s time for the third installment in our six-part series (assuming I finish before the end of the decade) documenting the most putrid pabulum of the rock era. And this…
Ted Asregadoo
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As presidential campaigns become longer, the media’s appetite grows for comments by anyone who has a connection — no matter how close or remote — to candidates who are in…
Jeff Giles
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A Tribe Called Quest – Award Tour (1993) Here’s one I don’t have much to say about, but should still help you get over the hump to your lunch break….
Robert Cass
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“All the lies, all the truth, all the things that I offer you / All the sights, all the sounds, all the times that you turned me down / Is…
Dw. Dunphy
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Ah yes, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Just the mention of it brings to mind life-sized, animatronic figurines of Keith Richards snorting a river of coke, don’t it?…
Dw. Dunphy
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Instincts run hot and cold, depending on who is relying on them. Some artists go against the grain and it works out fantastically for them. Some make last-minute choices that,…
Molly Marinik
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BOTTOM LINE: A beautiful and well-conceived macabre musical — nontraditional, for sure, but imaginative and quirky. For those who embrace artsy, interpretive theatre. Adding Machine is a new musical playing…
Zack Dennis
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Hi all. I’m guest-posting for Jeff today. When I was probably about 13 or so, my Uncle Mark made a series of mixtapes for my family that I’ve tried to…
David Medsker
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No band wants their video legacy to trump their musical legacy, but in the case of Go West, chances are that when one of their songs comes on the radio…
Jon Cummings
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Eddie Money knows he’s an archetype, and he doesn’t mind it one bit. His 15-year run of AOR hits and arena-rock stardom, from the 1978 double shot of “Baby Hold…
Matthew Bolin
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“That’s Leonard’s Jeep,” Robert said as we walked his dog past the monastery. My wife and I had driven north about ten miles, most of it curving two-thirds of the…
The Chartburn Panel
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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/j6Ewh6Bk-Qo” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Mainstream Rock: Sting, “All This Time” (1991) Zack: There’s a certain element of playfulness to this song and its accompanying video that was a…
Bob Cashill
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Arthouse meets grindhouse in Funny Games, and the results are no fun at all. Writer-director Michael Haneke, the Austrian provocateur behind The Piano Teacher (2002) and Caché (2005), is a…
Mojo Flucke
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For anyone who grew up in the Midwest, John Cougar speaks our language. We’ve stuck with him through the early years on to the Farm Aid thing through to his…
John C. Hughes
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Discovery = Disco? Very! That was the joke around rock critic circles when Electric Light Orchestra unleashed Discovery upon a disco-obsessed public in 1979. With the singles “Shine a Little…
Mojo Flucke
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You can’t get away from Professor Longhair, a.k.a. ‘Fess. Piano freaks who appreciate all players and who don’t just specialize in jazz or classical will tell you it’s a dead…
Scott Malchus
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Scooby-Doo, my friends. More precisely, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed. I don’t know how many times I’ve sat through this 2004 masterpiece of children’s cinema trying to muster a chuckle, the…
Jeff Giles
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Living in a Box – Gatecrashing (1989) purchase this album (Amazon) All right, show of hands — how many of you have ever wondered what an album of Rick Astley…
Peter Lubin
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Sometime in 1985, a new label-wide policy was instituted regarding all new signings. There were to be none. Nada. The staff was called into a departmental meeting to receive the…
John C. Hughes
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“I’m a true fairy,” Jobriath exclaimed, putting any debate over his true sexuality to rest, becoming rock music’s first openly gay superstar. It’s just that the superstar part never happened,…
Taylor Long
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As everyone learned in Freud 101, the oft-controversial psychologist believed there are three egos in each of us: the Id (which focuses on our most basic desires — namely, food…
Darren Robbins
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Many summers ago, I was a counselor at a remote summer camp in the heart of lake-bound Michigan and, suffering from a bad case of cabin fever (literally), I had…
Ted Asregadoo
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE Life is full of contradictions, isn’t it? For example, I’m not a fan of country music, yet I like songs and artists who fuse country…