B sides, bonus tracks, and digital deluxe editions — are these lost audio treasures another way the music industry shakes 80 percent of their profits from 20 percent of the fans? Popdose investigates.
Cheap Trick
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Keith Creighton
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Once again, the Aging Hipster presents 50 or so amazing albums from the year that was, 2021 — a retro-leaning list of artists you probably actually heard of (if you’re over 40).
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David Medsker
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The idea came, as a lot of my ideas do, from a Duran Duran song. Do I have enough songs to do a full show about dreams? As I quickly…
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Matt Wardlaw
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We caught up with Matthew to talk about the vinyl reissues of his ’90s catalog plus the special Record Store Day release that will be out on November 24th.
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David Medsker
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Tell me you love me. Change. Go. Disturb this groove. Or, you know, do the opposite of all those things. Your call. It’s cool.
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David Medsker
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Followed a song by Bowie with a song about Bowie. I am not deep.
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Keith Creighton
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There are some comebacks the world doesn’t need: Sean Spicer, Bill Cosby, another Spiderman reboot — and plenty that are long overdue: til Tuesday, Lone Justice, Heathers (imagine Veronica & friends…
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D.X. Ferris
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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’ epic mix of angry music…
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Dw. Dunphy
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It’s the best (and some not-so-best) of 2016, a year when we really needed it.
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Matt Wardlaw
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We talk with legendary guitarist Steve Lukather about Toto’s upcoming summer tour and the band’s plans for their 40th anniversary.
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Dave Lifton
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Popdose is pleased to have the exclusive pre-release stream of ‘Heavy Metal,’ the new album from Miles Nielsen and the Rusted Hearts.
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Rob Ross
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I love this band and I’m not ashamed to admit it. It doesn’t make me biased – if anything, it makes me want to see/hear them stretch themselves into a…
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Keith Creighton
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This past week I was messaging back and forth with one of our avid readers, Benjamin, about the dearth of good power pop bands in my 2014 Popdose posts — when alls a…
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Matt Wardlaw
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Richard Marx joins us to talk about his new album Beautiful Goodbye, writing songs with Ringo Starr and why it’s okay to break all of the rules.
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Rob Ross
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TRNZPRNT (pronounced as “transparent”) are New York/New Jersey area hard rock veterans of several bands, now having joined together to form this heavy-ish rock unit in the vein of…
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Matt Wardlaw
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Gary Cherone is perhaps best-known for being the longtime vocalist of the Boston-based rock band Extreme and after that, the guy who picked up the microphone for Van Halen as…
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Brian Boone
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Record Store Day isn’t just in the spring anymore. The annual tradition now happens twice a year, once in the spring, and once on Black Friday. Since you’re already out…
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Matt Wardlaw
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Kelly Keagy of Night Ranger joins us for an exclusive interview to talk about the band’s forthcoming new album and the 30th anniversary of their classic Midnight Madness release.
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Popblerd Staff
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Will the second installment of our list of the ’70s best albums leave your knickers in a bunch? Don’t worry, the Popblerd team won’t take you on the highway to hell!
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Dw. Dunphy
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Free Energy’s latest is unpretentious, and every now and then that’s all you need.
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Leslie Liberatore
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Surrender. Surrender is the thread of this date night. Morrissey and Zander. Zoolander.
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Michael Fortes
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Before Parlour to Parlour closes the door on 2011, we have a special treat for you: two exclusive live performances by power pop purveyor Bart Davenport.
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Mike Duquette
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I’m not breaking any new ground by telling you our world’s pop-cultural landscape is liberally littered with remakes, reboots and other works that pay homage to the past. It’s one…
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Popdose Staff
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Put your headphones on and your cares away, and come back with us once again to the world of Time-Life’s “AM Gold” — 1963 style!
Rob Smith
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In this week’s “Death by Power Ballad,” Rob Smith has a midlife nervous breakdown, in response to Richard Marx’s “Hold on to the Nights.”
Annie Zaleski
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When Material Issue front man Jim Ellison committed suicide in June of 1996, the act was sharp and sudden. The 32-year-old wasn’t a stereotypical grunge sad-sack. He was an anachronistic…
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