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Popdose Staff
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Popdose soldiers on with our Digging for Gold series and looks at another six tracks from Time-Life Music’s AM Gold: 1962.
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Jason Hare
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Fandom: what does it mean, who inspires it, and where will you go in its name? We have some thoughts on the subject, and you’ll hear ’em on Episode 18 of The Popdose Podcast!
Ted Asregadoo
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What happens when baby boomer rockers age? Do they burn out or fade away? Ted Asregadoo lines up side by side comparisons of old and new songs from some of the greats for you to decide.
Something Else! Reviews
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Often situated in a pillowy cloud of opaque neo-funk, saxophonist David Sanborn’s talents are understandably obscured. The arrangements on his records, like much of the smooth-jazz movement that he still…
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Chris Holmes
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Chris Holmes provides an overview of ’70s rock band Be Bop Deluxe. Led by guitarist extraordinaire Bill Nelson, Be Bop Deluxe produced some of the most rewarding rock music of the decade.
Mike Duquette
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Even in a year where a lot of great new music was released, it’s still been a blast to revisit artists and albums of old through those wonderful reissues, box…
Popdose Staff
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Last Christmas, we gave you our heart, but you were too busy doing real stuff. Hey, it’s perfectly understandable. We launched a “special gift” on Christmas morning 2009 with zero…
Will Harris
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This week, The Friday Mixtape has been specially super-sized in order to provide you with 31 fiendishly good songs to keep you grim and grinning throughout the Halloween weekend.
Dw. Dunphy
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The Popdose staff curates this mix to be a companion through the headlong rush to the winter solstice.
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Dw. Dunphy
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This is an archival interview which took place in October 2010.
Kelly Stitzel
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Soundtrack Saturday turns two with a very special video retrospective. Join the celebration!
Dw. Dunphy
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Regrets, I’ve had a few. There were bands and artists I really wanted to squeeze onto this list but, ultimately, the fit wasn’t right. Queen certainly had the originality that…
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…
Dave Steed
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It’s another week for the letter B as we take a look at songs that hit the Billboard Rock charts but failed to cross over into the Hot 100 in…
Rob Smith
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Rob Smith tells himself he’s over the Pretty Woman soundtrack, but is he the king of wishful thinking?
Anthony Hansen
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Though I’ve been a Bowie fan for just about as long as I’ve been a sentient human being (thanks, Dad!), I’ve only seen him live once and it was on…
Scott Malchus
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This year marks the fifth anniversary of my friend Matt’s death. He was my brother in every sense except for blood, and like siblings, we fought, had misunderstandings, hurt each…
Dw. Dunphy
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I have developed a reputation as someone who hedges his bets when it comes to criticism, and Peter Gabriel’s first full album in a very long while (since 2002’s Up,…
Michael Fortes
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Michael Fortes concludes the Parlour to Parlour journey with a family reunion and some metal shredding in, of all places, the south of France!
Mojo Flucke
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Being a Bowie fan is one thing; being a fan of Bowie books can be an altogether separate fetish. There’s such a wide variety of tomes about the wispy art-rocker…
Dw. Dunphy
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Welcome back. Are you feeling comfortable? Good. Right about now, you’re sitting casually in your seat, perhaps in a chair staring at the monitor, perhaps bundled up on the couch,…
Dw. Dunphy
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Feel that tension building in your neck, that stress in the spinal cord that feels just like a piece of rope with the twine extra-wrapped? Feel that chafe of fraying…
Anthony Hansen
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It took him almost two months, but Anthony Hansen is back with the final installment of his guide to David Bowie’s recording career. Let’s get eclectic … and let’s dance!
Kelly Stitzel
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Has it already been a year since Kelly Stitzel joined the Popdose staff? It has indeed — and she’s assembled a special anniversary Soundtrack Saturday column to celebrate.
Robert Cass
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It’s rare that I get a chance to talk to the artists whose music I steal each week, so when the opportunity arises I seize it. Recently, word got out…
Anthony Hansen
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Been missing the Popdose Guides? So has Anthony Hansen — and unlike the rest of us, he’s gone and done something about it.
Dw. Dunphy
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The more things change… Adam Again – Ain’t No Sunshine from Ten Songs by Adam Again (1988) Deliverance – Beauty And The Beast from Camelot in Smithereens (1995) Jacob’s Trouble…
Ken Shane
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The first thing that you notice about the new John Vanderslice album, Romanian Names (Dead Oceans), is the sound. The album has a definite sonic quality that is akin to…
John C. Hughes
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Where to begin with Ms. Lear?Á‚ How about her modeling career in ’60s France?Á‚ How about her years-long romance with surrealist Salvador Dali?Á‚ How about her relationships with Bryan Ferry…