Some people get crankier when they get older. They drift off and sit in front of whatever TV shows best reinforce their stereotypes and validate their disdain. But unlike decreasing…
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Allison Johnelle Boron
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Every now and again, a track comes along that speaks to me personally. Cali De La Rosa’s “Summer Baby” is one of them, mostly because I was born in August…
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Popblerd Staff
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You’ll be seeing a lot of these two men over the next few days-check out the beginning of our list of the top 100 albums of the Seventies!
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Chris Holmes
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It seems just about every musical style gets recycled whether it deserves it or not. Here are five genres that definitely do.
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Popdose Staff
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One more. Just one more installment of Digging for Gold after this week’s and our journey through Time-Life’s AM Gold series is at an end. Here we go with the third batch of tracks from AM Gold: 1979.
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Popdose Staff
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Thanks to this week’s “Digging for Gold,” in which we look at the second batch of songs from AM Gold: 1979, you can now cross the words “shriveled testicles” off the list of phrases you thought you wouldn’t read on the internet today.
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Popdose Staff
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This week’s installment of AM Gold: 1978 features no Bee Gees songs, but two songs written by the Brothers Gibb.
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Popdose Staff
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Say what you want about the cultural phenomenon that was Star Wars, but boy could you dance to its theme song.
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Popdose Staff
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There’s only one way to truly appreciate this week’s AM Gold: 1976 entries, and that’s to listen once again to the famous Casey Kasem rant inspired by Henry Gross. RIP Snuggles.
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Popdose Staff
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As America celebrated its 200th birthday in 1976, two of its biggest hits were the theme song to a show about the 1950s and a retro disco number from a band recalling a fond night more than a decade earlier.
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Popdose Staff
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Disco, glam rock, and Leo Sayer are riding high on the charts, which can only mean one thing. It’s time for AM Gold: 1975 baby!
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Mike Heyliger
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Get your dancing shoes on and celebrate this week’s Jheri Curl Friday with Sylvester and his hit “Someone Like You.”
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Rob Smith
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Rob Smith’s new vinyl column opens with E.L.O.’s disco record, “Discovery.”
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Chris Holmes
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A look at the songs and the story behind 50 years of the Beach Boys, American’s greatest pop band.
Something Else! Reviews
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The 1970s weren’t all shag carpeting and plaid pants. OK, they were. But not all of it sucked. Really.
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Chris Holmes
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Chris Holmes looks at the debut album from one-hit wonder Carl Douglas to decide if he has more to offer than “Kung Fu Fighting.”
Scott Malchus
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE Whenever I fill in at Ted’s desk here at the Mix Six, I like to have a good time. Case in point, this week’s flashback…
Matt Wardlaw
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The Beach Boys were old(er) and struggling to remain relevant in the late ’70s. Luckily (or not) for them, the tape was rolling to capture it all.
DJ D
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Obsessive fans know the sheer agony of waiting years, even decades, for their favorite oldies (ahem, classic) artist to finally release a new album of substandard material on a record…
DJ D
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TWO TONS O’ TALENT San Francisco’s Martha Wash and Izora Rhodes first rose to fame in 1977 as Two Tons O’ Fun, background singers of choice for drag-tastic disco diva…
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