The news spread across my Twitter feed late yesterday afternoon like a pixelated wildfire: 1) Liz Phair had a new single out; 2) It was fucking horrible. These things are…
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Dave Steed
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I’m finally getting around to reviewing a mess of albums that have come out in the first half of 2010 that I just couldn’t find the 1000 words needed to devote…
Ken Shane
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I’ll tell you one thing right from the jump; Alejandro Escovedo’s new album, Street Songs of Love (Fantasy/Concord Music Group), may be my favorite album of the year from a…
Ken Shane
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It’s a rare but welcome event for Ken Shane when Jimmy Webb releases a new album.
Jason Miller
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It’s not easy being a fan of Wolf Parade. They are one of those bands that just seem too good to be true. Like some band in a dream, you…
Ken Shane
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As often happens these days, this collection is being released in several formats. This is a review of the standard, two-CD set that has been released in the United States…
Jeff Giles
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At this point, the Roots have been around long enough — and have been accruing glowing reviews long enough — that there are two kinds of hardcore music lovers: Those…
Dave Steed
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If this was June of 2006 and you told me that Vince Neil had a solo record out, honestly I wouldn’t have cared less. Although there were parts of MÁ¶tley…
Jeff Giles
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Eminem’s always been a pretty cranky guy, and releasing a couple of subpar records hasn’t improved his mood, so it’s easy to understand — and almost forgive — the case…
Jeff Giles
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Yeah, yeah, I know. Everyone over the age of 14 is supposed to hate Miley Cyrus, and a publication as allegedly respectable as this one has no business reviewing her…
Ken Shane
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There must come a time when a great artist gets tired of being just a critics darling, with a small but devoted band of hard core followers. When that happens,…
Ken Shane
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You know these guys, at least you know their work. Between them, Steve Cropper and Felix Cavaliere were complicit in the creation of dozens of hit records in the ’60s…
Dave Steed
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Is anyone but me fascinated that Ozzy Fucking Osbourne is still making records? Maybe I shouldn’t be, though, as after reading his autobiography, it’s clear that he’s going to make…
Mike Heyliger
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With her 1999 debut, On How Life Is, Macy Gray set a standard that even then, it seemed unlikely she’d top. Blessed with a voice and a way with lyrics…
Dw. Dunphy
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It has occurred to me that through many a trial, and an equal number of errors, one of the most crucial steps in a recording project is the final mixing….
Dave Steed
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Over the past few years, Airbourne has gotten a lot of recognition by pretty much making music that sounds just like AC/DC. However, they sound downright pedestrian compared to Big…
Pete Chianca
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If there’s one thing American Slang isn’t, it’s a Bruce Springsteen tribute album. Gone are the direct references to Springsteen lyrics and mentions of Mary and Janey that dotted the…
Jeff Giles
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Growing up, I lived across the street from a middle-aged man who spent most of his free time working on a beautiful old car. He’d tune it up, polish it,…
Michael Parr
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Trent Reznor is back with his first post-Nine Inch Nails effort, How to Destroy Angels, leading Michael Parr to ask: what is so wrong with angels?
Jeff Giles
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For their last album, 2007’s New Wave, Against Me! signed with Sire and hired Butch Vig to produce — and heard the usual screamed chorus of “sellouts!” from fans who…
Scott Malchus
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Grace Potter means business. She lets you know from the get go with the first ”UH!” on her band’s new self titled album, Grace Potter & The Nocturnals. This isn’t…
Jeff Giles
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Drake’s full-length debut has already been dismissed by occasional Popdose correspondent and full-time idiot Jeff Vrabel, on the grounds that Drake’s lyrical outlook — which more or less boils down…
Pete Chianca
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The L.A.-based rock combo The Henry Clay People were the darlings of the blogosphere for a time in the wake of their 2008 album For Cheap or for Free. With…
Ken Shane
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When Delta Spirit released their 2008 debut album Ode To Sunshine, I quickly became a fan of the San Diego band. I appreciated the first-rate songwriting, and the impassioned delivery…
Ken Shane
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When it comes to the music of romantic longing, it’s hard to top the songs of Antonio Carlos Jobim, especially when set to the languid bossa nova rhythms that he…
Ken Shane
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The new Apples In Stereo album, Travellers (sic) In Space and Time, finds the band traveling back to the ’70s and ’80s to dutifully recreate the sound of pop music…
Jeff Giles
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Well, you’ve got to give her credit for picking an honest title, anyway. Christina Aguilera called her latest album Bionic, and she meant it — this is an hour of…
Rob Smith
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Rob Smith waxes rhapsodic in his review of Truth & Salvage Co.’s debut album, only at Popdose.com.
Michael Parr
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The former Everything but the Girl vocalist tackles life as a forty-something on her new record, ”Love and Its Opposite,” Michael Parr has the review.
Ken Shane
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A case could be made that Exile on Main Street (Universal) is the greatest rock and roll album ever made. After all, it’s got everything, from the full-tilt boogie of…