As we sit on pins and needles awaiting Star Wars 7, the force certainly awakened in the music industry last week as Adele’s third album, 25, became a worldwide sensation…
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Scott Malchus
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Greg Renoff’s “Van Halen Rising” charts the early triumphs, mishaps and wildness of the band that saved heavy metal.
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Rob Ross
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Objectivity be damned; this is The Beatles we’re talking about. The single, most important cultural entity to happen in my lifetime; merely a rock and roll band who re-shaped traditions…
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Keith Creighton
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Cyber Monday is here, that time of the year where people who would never dream of camping outside of a Target in sub zero temps finally get around to holiday shopping…
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Jack Feerick
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Bitch Planet makes no bones about being a dangerous object. The bold, garish cover art seems made to be viewed under a black light. The color registration is purposely off,…
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Rob Ross
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Ork Records: New York, New York is the vital compilation of all the output from the legendary New York City label of the late 1970’s. Earlier this year, for Record Store…
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Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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Our annual Mellowmas prelude includes a Very Special Announcement
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Allison Johnelle Boron
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Along with being an accomplished and visioned singer/songwriter, Denver’s Joel Ansett also has two more prominent ostrich-sized feathers in his cap: the $25,000 he raised from a Kickstarter campaign and…
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Rob Smith
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Rob Smith explores the expansive live box set by electric jazz pioneers Weather Report.
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Rob Ross
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“Light Shines Through” is an original holiday song performed by Deena & Jon Fried (from The Cucumbers) with the Hoboken Holiday All-Star Band featuring Julio Fernandez (from Spyro Gyra) (lead…
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Ted Asregadoo
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Why do politicians make racist comments? Because it can get them elected.
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Rob Ross
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Call it what you will – “alt country”, “americana” and any amount of hyperbole, but Jared Rabin’s debut solo album, Something Left To Say, is wonderful. This Chicago singer-songwriter, who…
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Rob Ross
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The final new studio album released by Arthur Lee’s Love in 1974, the long out-of-print Reel To Real is soon to be available again in a remastered CD form with…
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D.X. Ferris
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Welcome back to Suburban Metal Dad, Popdose’s resident webcomic. Read a new one every Monday and Friday. Click the pic to enlarge. Right?! Tell us about it in the comments section!
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Allison Johnelle Boron
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Though Gideon King’s band sounds more like a digital music publication than a collaborative group of musicians, “City Blog” is actually an amalgamation of who’s who when it comes to…
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Justin Vellucci
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Inconsistencies, dagnammit! I want to really, really like, to love, to adore The Turbosonics‘ new CD, Tres Gatos Suave, a meaty slab of surf from one of Pittsburgh’s mightiest purveyors of the form. But,…
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Rob Ross
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This is the new, second single from Australia’s The Glorious; their new album, Falcon, will be released in the U.S. on January 8th, 2016, but in the meantime, Popdose is…
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D.X. Ferris
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Welcome back to Suburban Metal Dad, Popdose’s resident webcomic. Read a new one every Monday and Friday. Click the pic to enlarge. The Druids [probably] didn’t build Stonehenge, right?! Make…
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Thierry Côté
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Even the best laid plans never quite work out as expected. When David McAlmont first met Bernard Butler in London’s Jazz CafÁ© in 1994, both were still reeling following acrimonious…
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Dave Lifton
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New Orleans-based Nigel Hall has given us a debut album that shows a solid command of ’70s R&B and funk.
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Rob Ross
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This seven-piece (!) Brooklyn-based outfit comes with a Broadway/theatre pedigree, as it’s driven by Kyle Jarrow, an Obie-award winning writer and his wife, lead singer, Lauren Worsham, who’s a Tony…
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Ken Shane
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Robert Parker and the legendary Wardell Quezergue collaborated on a ’65 smash
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Rob Ross
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Over this last year, Rhode Island’s Jenn Vix has offered up two very fine single tracks that Popdose has had the pleasure of introducing you to. Now the Rhode Island…