This week’s chart is being covered by Popdose’s own Matthew Bolin. Boy, it seems like only yesterday he was giving Popdose readers too many Wham! songs or a reason to…
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No, I’m not dead, but neither can it really be said that I’ve been resting, either. Sorry for the monthlong interim between columns, but I was in Los Angeles July…
[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/0KL_fgWgK40″ width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Mainstream Rock: Mike + the Mechanics, “Silent Running” (1985) David Medsker: I love Paul Carrack as much as the next guy, but is what…
[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/NVm3SmyMkFU” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Mainstream Rock: The Tubes, “She’s a Beauty” (1983) Michael: I like this song a lot. I like “White Punks on Dope” even better. I…
Hi everybody! I’m still exhausted from the CHART ATTACK! podcast — so let’s give it up for another guest writer! Dw. Dunphy needs no introduction — certainly you know him…
[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/QXrUKjTV7t0″ width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Mainstream Rock: Kiss, “Psycho Circus” (1998) Robert: In my best Paul Stanley impression, minus the made-in-Brooklyn falsetto: “Ya know something, people, we have been…
Actually, this column is titled “De-evolution, or Long Distance Pissing on the Moon,” but I didn’t think that would be the most genteel headline, so I waffled. Regardless, I am…
You probably won’t be surprised when I tell you that this has been the hardest post for me to write since Popdose started. I mean, it’s been a damn month:…
Late last week it was reported that pop diva Mariah Carey had married actor Nick Cannon in a secret ceremony. Naturally, my first thought was that her new album, E=MC²,…
This story I’m telling, it starts in the middle. But this is a story that loops and circles in on itself, like a cloverleaf roadway; you’ve got to start where…
I’ll tell you one thing about today’s guest Chart Attacker: the man knows music. A prolific writer for Bullz-Eye, West Coast Performer and his own blog (to name a few),…
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…
Doesn’t look like the godfather of punk, does he? Well. Maybe not the godfather, but perhaps a kindly uncle. Either way, Nick Lowe’s footprint on punk — hell, on all…
If you’ve been reading the papers for political stories that aren’t about the presidential campaign, you might have noticed a story that had a headline with a variation of the…
I would hope that every music geek had a friend growing up like my friend John Á¢€” a guy who was just as passionate about music as you were and…
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…
The writer’s strike sucks. You know it, I know it, and all but the most diehard aficionados of reality TV know it. We don’t watch TV for reality, we watch…
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…
Happy First Day Of Extended Mellowmas! The scary thing is…we’re just getting started! John Denver – “Please, Daddy (Don’t Get Drunk This Christmas)” (download or stream below) From Rocky Mountain…
Day Two! And it’s even worse than Day One! Jim Nabors: O Holy Night (download or stream below) From Jim Nabors Christmas Amazon iTunes [audio:http://www.wwmmd.net/tunes/mellowmas/Jim Nabors – O Holy Night.mp3]…
Mainstream Rock: Men at Work, “Down Under” (1982) John: Forget “Lady Bump” Á¢€” Kath & Kim need to remake this. Kurt: Ah, the song that introduced the world to the…
What were you doing in 1986? If you were a suburban kid with access to a radio or MTV, you were experiencing the dawn of rap as a commercial force…
Mainstream Rock: Sammy Hagar and the Waboritas, “Mas Tequila” (1999) Will: Where to start with this? Well, how about that Gary Glitter really deserves a co-write? Several times throughout the…
Welcome back, folks, to another week of Adventures Through The Mines Of Mellow Gold! I want you to know that I am covering today’s song under great duress. It took…
Howdy, everybody! We’re back for yet another week of this crazy lil’ thing called CHART ATTACK! Hope you’re ready to help me tear apart the Top 10 from July 6,…
Howdy, and welcome back to another Friday edition of CHART ATTACK! The week we’re attacking this time ’round is a bit depressing – 60% ballads, with only one of them…
Hang on to your precious lil’ mining hats, my mellow friends: today we’re going deep, deep into the mines. How deep? Deep enough that the song we’re covering never came…
So. Apparently you guys weren’t on board for last week’s selection, “Couldn’t Get It Right.” Hell, you were even skeptical that there was any cowbell in the song at all….
Welcome back, everybody, to another week of CHART ATTACK! This week’s another good one for the charts; I had a great time writing about every single one of these songs. …
Welcome back, everybody, to another edition of CHART ATTACK! I know that you’ve been dying all week to know what was rocking the charts during the week of April 18,…