Barrett Strong had an early hit but found real success as a Motown songwriter
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Allison Johnelle Boron
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Hailing from southern New Jersey, a region known as much for its musical pedigree as it is for its rough-and-tumble attitude, Camille Peruto is not your typical pop princess. Counting opening…
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Keith Creighton
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The 2010’s have seen a festival’s worth of typically-pegged Eighties acts come back swinging with some of the best albums of their careers. In addition to crackling new discs by Animotion (already…
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Rob Ross
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This is an instant “wow”. I’ve known Lincoln Barr’s music for about five years now, since I first heard his wonderful Washingon-state based band Red Jacket Mine. A great, clever…
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Rob Ross
1 Min Read
It seems that with every new track The Cynz (one of the best no-frills “rock” bands from New Jersey) release, they just keep getting better and better and sounding incredible,…
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Allison Johnelle Boron
1 Min Read
If you secretly love yacht rock, or if you rock out to “Hotel California” when no one is looking, the Big East’s new single, “The Wild Life” isn’t for you….
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Allison Johnelle Boron
2 Min Read
In the storied tradition of powerful female Americana artists from Roseanne Cash to Gillian Welch to Carole King comes April Martin, a New York City-based psychologist-turned singer/songwriter. For Martin, it…
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D.X. Ferris
1 Min Read
METAL DAD: THE BOOK IS AVAILABLE NOW. COLLECTS YEARS 3 & 4! Click here. METAL DAD shirts! Click here to get yours. Click HERE for Ferris’ FUMF II angry music mega-mix…
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Jason Hare
11 Min Read
Greetings and welcome to CHART ATTACK!, the long-defunct-but-now-resurrected series where we take a look back at a Billboard Top 10 chart from yesteryear, and try to remember what we loved about…
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D.X. Ferris
1 Min Read
METAL DAD: THE BOOK IS AVAILABLE NOW. COLLECTS YEARS 3 & 4! Click here. METAL DAD shirts! Click here to get yours. Click HERE for the angry music mix on Spotify.
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Scott Malchus
4 Min Read
For a couple of years, I’ve been trying to convince my daughter to watch this gem, but each time I explained the plot of “Searching for Bobby Fischer,” she’d zone out after the word ”chess.”
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Allison Johnelle Boron
2 Min Read
After a tumultuous few weeks in which women have spoken up, shouted out, and stood up in the face of a whole new level of adversity, music seems to be…
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David Medsker
1 Min Read
I’m still laughing that I went from Ellie Goulding to an ’80s hard rock icon with only two songs in between. What hard rock icon, you ask? Check the episode’s…
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Rob Ross
1 Min Read
It wasn’t all too long ago we received and reviewed revered guitar legend Eric “Roscoe” Ambel’s first studio album in a decade (Lakeside) and here we are with an absolute…
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Ken Shane
2 Min Read
O.C. Smith had a long and distinguished career but he is best known for his ’68 hit
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Ann Logue
2 Min Read
In December, a client – a major financial institution – asked me to write a post on ways that someone could save $18,000 in the new year. I have no…
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Rob Ross
2 Min Read
This is a true story, a heartwarming story and one that frankly, I wish had a bigger audience because it was so well executed, performance-wise. A Street Cat Named Bob,…
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Michael Parr and Zack Stiegler
1 Min Read
Veteran podcasters Michael Parr and Zack Stiegler bring their acerbic wit and pop culture knowledge to Popdose in the premier episode of their new podcast, In:Sound.
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Dw. Dunphy
4 Min Read
Dirk Gently has a lot to unpack, but carries the wrong baggage.
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Rob Ross
1 Min Read
Norman, Oklahoma native Travis Linville has been around for twenty years and for all intents and purposes, this latest album – his fifth – Up Ahead could be the magic…
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Allison Johnelle Boron
1 Min Read
Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter Christina Rubino’s new music video begins with a quote from Cesar A. Cruz: “Art should comfort the disturbed… and disturb the comfortable.” The video, which accompanies her new…
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D.X. Ferris
1 Min Read
METAL DAD: THE BOOK IS AVAILABLE NOW. COLLECTS YEARS 3 & 4! Click here. METAL DAD shirts! Click here to get yours. Click HERE for the angry music mix on Spotify.
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Daniel Suddes
8 Min Read
One of the most significant television events of 2017 is the impending release of the Twin Peaks revival. Fans of the series are waiting to see how the 26 year…
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Ted Asregadoo
4 Min Read
Brit Marling takes us on a trippy ride to the other side.
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Tony Redman
2 Min Read
Way back in 2009, back when President Obama still had that new car smell, I had started a column here called “Way Out Wednesday”. It featured odd albums from my…
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Rob Ross
1 Min Read
This is an amazing moment; a new single from one of our greatest songwriters/musicians/singers. A heartbreakingly powerful track and video to go along with it. Popdose is very proud to…
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D.X. Ferris
1 Min Read
METAL DAD: THE BOOK IS AVAILABLE NOW. COLLECTS YEARS 3 & 4! Click here. METAL DAD shirts! Click here to get yours. Click HERE for the angry music mix on Spotify.
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Rob Smith
8 Min Read
Rob Smith reviews recent music from elder statesmen Ian Hunter and Willie Nelson in “The Vinyl Diaries.”
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Dw. Dunphy
6 Min Read
Let us now enter a world of fantasy and take it way too seriously.