When my daughter Sophie begins to explore music, I hope she’ll take a trip through the hundreds of LPs and CDs Julie and I have amassed over the years. When…
Jeff Giles
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Mr. Mister – I Wear the Face (1983) purchase this album (Amazon) Well, well, well. If it isn’t Mr. Mister. First things first: I have to give credit where it’s…
John C. Hughes
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Don’t know if there’s anyone besides me still reading comic books, specifically The Amazing Spider-Man, but the powers that be just pulled a major Dallas-style boner — y’see, a lot…
Jeff Giles
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This is a series I’ve always been a little ambivalent about. Even when it was running at Jefitoblog — a site that still carried the faint odor of its LiveJournal…
Darren Robbins
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Foreigner – “Urgent,” circa ’81 A friend of mine once observed that you know you’re getting older when most of your favorite bands are touring without their original singers. Thankfully,…
Taylor Long
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At first, Finian McKean’s Monsters of the Deep Woods seems deceptively simple, with its sparse acoustics and oblique lyrics. Each successive listen, though, reveals a new layer of meaning and…
Ted Asregadoo
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Hey, Popsters! You’re back for more weekly mixing fun, eh? Good. I’m glad you’re here, and I hope this week’s mix starts to spark some discussion about when a particular…
Taylor Long
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Like a wolf in sheep’s clothing, rapper Lupe Fiasco mixes sentimentality with harsh attacks on the hand that feeds him in his sophomore effort, The Cool. He attempts to do…
Matthew Bolin
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One of the initial comments I received the on first “Redeeming Rod” guessed the subject matter of this post, so I guess I can take relief in the existence of…
John C. Hughes
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If there’s one thing the ’80s had their fair share of, it’s annoying songs that one shouldn’t like, but just can’t help loving. “Method of Modern Love.” “99 Luftballons.” “Rock…
Robert Cass
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Sequels aren’t always good, but the movie-loving teenager who continues to take up space inside my soul will always be excited by them, especially the mere concept of sequels, i.e….
Jon Cummings
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Nanci Griffith is arguably the most important folk-music artist of her generation. That statement is risky not so much because there are so many other contenders for the throne, but…
Zack Dennis
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Here’s a brain teaser: Most days, my commute to my downtown day job consists of a bumpy bus ride straight down Olympic. When I have a good book to read,…
Ted Asregadoo
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A news item broke late Friday that was quite novel for political retribution stories. Lawyers representing Jose Padilla — the guy who was locked up in a Navy brig for…
Jeff Giles
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Chynna Phillips – Naked and Sacred (1995) Bet you didn’t even know this thing existed, did you? Don’t feel bad. Chynna’s post-Wilson Phillips coming out party, Naked and Sacred, was…
Jon Cummings
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Forget Times Square, forget the BCS, forget Iowa, forget Dave and Jay”™s returns last Wednesday: 2008 officially gets underway Monday night, when Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert return to Comedy…
Dw. Dunphy
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… names. Or, to be more precise, this is about the importance of names and why it’s so difficult to pull a really good one out of the air and…
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Scott Malchus
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Welcome to The Three Strike Rule, the Popdose television column. If you’re reading this live, you must either be a really big fan of the site, or you don’t have…
Jeff Giles
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Mr. Encrypto – Silver Chain from Secret Identity Crisis (2003) Eugene Edwards – It Doesn’t Get Better Than This from My Favorite Revolution (2005) Harry Nilsson – Don’t Forget Me…
David Medsker
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Greetings, Popdosers. Lord Jefito has bestowed me with the honor of running the weekly shake-ya-ass column, and I, for lack of a better word, am positively geeked out by it….
Scraps
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UPDATE: Longer clips have been added for songs 1, 3, 9, and 13. Hey folks. This is the first of a planned series of games of Name That Tune. Each…
The Chartburn Panel
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Mainstream Rock: Steve Miller Band, “I Want to Make the World Turn Around” (1986) Scott: Man, I really like this tune. Its moodiness and slinky backbeat really resonate. His guitar…
Zack Dennis
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My friend Solly came down last weekend on a miniature vacation from Seattle. She was unlucky enough to have the rain follow her down and catch up to her by…
Zack Dennis
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This is a pretty vast digression from the concerts I’m normally going to review here. For one thing, I don’t normally patronize “the arts.” For another, the bands I see…
Jon Cummings
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“Who cares what I think? I’m not the president. I’m just a storyteller, man.” So says Bob Dylan — or, at least, Cate Blanchett as Jude Quinn as Bob Dylan…
John C. Hughes
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Canadian Nick Gilder had a penchant for writing sugary-sweet pop/rock songs about underage hookers/street trash/what have you for a couple of years in the mid-“Ëœ70s with Canada’s glam answer to…
Mojo Flucke
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In New Hampshire, we’ve been shot up good with presidential political shrapnel for more than a year. We get canvassed on our home and cell phones, we get out-of-state college…
Scott Malchus
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What is a basement song? It has nothing to do with the Basement Tapes. I can only think of a couple Dylan and /or Band songs that may qualify as…
Jeff Giles
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Chuck Mangione – Love Notes (1982) purchase this album (Amazon) In all the months since Jefitoblog bit the dust, I don’t think a week has gone by that I haven’t…
Darren Robbins
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With Popdose having just rolled off the showroom floor all shiny and new, still full of that “new car smell,” I am chuffed to the “Ëœnads to be a part…