I’m not exaggerating when I say that I’m a big fan of the band Marillion, although I came to be one in a roundabout way: finding a cassette tape of…
Jon Cummings
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Welcome to the first installment of an occasional series that dares you to wallow in the very worst of the very best — or best-selling, at least — singles from…
Ted Asregadoo
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I would venture to guess that most of the Popdose audience wasn’t even born when the radicalism of the 1960s bubbled up — yet the shadow of the 1960s is…
Jeff Giles
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Siouxsie & the Banshees – Peek-A-Boo (1988) Yes, “Peek-A-Boo” (download) turns 20 this year. You are old, old, so very old. I am too, but I have the slight advantage…
Jeff Vrabel
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Some love stories are full of hideous terror, but some can teach us things, such as that for a not-insignificant portion of the populace, there is apparently something called a…
Jeff Vrabel
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There are a few cold, hard truths in this world: you can’t run for president on the GOP ticket if you’re a thrice-married cross-dresser, the Cubs aren’t going to win…
Dw. Dunphy
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“Everything’s going well,” he said. That was it. No elaborate descriptions of the wonderful future possibilities, the usual spate of self promotion with which he was ordinarily so generous. Just…
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Scott Malchus
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Damages is not the type of show where one could get up to make a sandwich, feed the cat, or leaf through the latest issue of Rolling Stone: there’s simply too much information being dished out in each episode.
Jeff Giles
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Django Reinhardt – Djangology from Verve Jazz Masters 38 (1994) Slade – Run Runaway from Get Yer Boots On: The Best Of Slade (1983) Mike Errico – Someday from Pictures…
Molly Marinik
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BOTTOM LINE: Not Sondheim’s best work, but a really beautiful revival of a really beautiful musical based on the life of French painter Georges Seurat. The revival of Sunday in…
Jeff Vrabel
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We’ve been doing “Songs for the Dumped” for awhile now, and if we’ve learned anything it’s that: 1. People are at heart mean and vindictive, and 2. Apparently nobody had…
Jeff Vrabel
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You know who’s good for breakups? Bruce Springsteen. He’s also good for budding romances, weddings, funerals, long walks on the beach, calculus tests, trips to the jungle gym, pretty much…
David Medsker
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For a genre that makes its living by cutting up other people’s records, hip-hop artists are notoriously touchy about other people touching theirs. Eric B. and Rakim reportedly hated Coldcut’s…
Jeff Giles
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Greetings, Videots! Due to unforeseen circumstances, Scraps had to bail out on this week’s Name That Tune, so we’ll be taking a special trip to the 1980th dimension instead. Buckle…
Darren Robbins
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Although released in late 1977, the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack would be impossible to ignore for much of 1978, with the Bee Gees’ “Night Fever” and “Stayin’ Alive,” as well…
Jason Hare
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Hey, everybody! Welcome to another edition of CHART ATTACK! This week, we head back to the ’80s, as we tackle February 7, 1987! 10. We’re Ready – Boston Amazon iTunes…
John C. Hughes
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Orchestra JB was the nom de plume of Jimmy Brown, a multi-instrumentalist and DJ who, after releasing a few underground dance hits for indie labels, signed to major EastWest Records…
Jon Cummings
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While driving through L.A.’s Laurel Canyon on Super Tuesday, I let Jesus take the wheel for a moment as I steered my iPod past the singer-songwriter types who once called…
Mojo Flucke
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Seattle spawned the 1980s-1990s garage rock revolution for good reason: Garage rock thrived out there during the 1960s, and record collectors will buy any compilation of any bunch of two-bit…
Scott Malchus
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Hey Matt, I know we haven’t spoken in awhile, but you know I’m always thinking about you around this time each year. I wanted to tell you about this dream…
Jeff Giles
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Susanna Hoffs – When You’re a Boy (1991) purchase this album (Amazon) As longtime readers of this space are no doubt aware, I have a severe weakness for Susanna Hoffs,…
Jeff Vrabel
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David Medsker takes us on a mad, dark journey into a land most of us are probably familiar with — the Land of the Co-Dependent Relationship That Will Not Die,…
Dave Matos and Mikey Newman
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Taylor Long
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For five years now, the Mars Volta has colored the alternative rock scene with their hardcore-prog-jazz hybrid. They’ve represented the point where hippies, metalheads and avant-garde fans could meet in…
Taylor Long
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A Joanna Newsom album has never sounded as good as she did when she played at the Brooklyn Academy of Music last Thursday. Even the most middling of fans, the…
Ted Asregadoo
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE Bonjour mes amis! This week’s mix is brought to you by the letter “L” — which is the first letter in leukemia and lymphoma. I…
Jeff Vrabel
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Timing, the New Testament tells us, is everything, and it takes a startlingly few number of works to turn a glorious, magnificent, rainbows-and-puppies kind of day into one of hideous…
Scott Malchus
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We had a good response to the Friday Night Lights writeup last week, and I thought that all the loyal fans out there should be made aware of Ben Silverman’s…
Zack Dennis
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I don’t think Michael Mann is particularly interested in popular music. It’s practically impossible to think of Phil Collins’ classic song “In the Air Tonight” without thinking of the iconic…