This had to happen and I’m glad it did. From a personal standpoint, this completes my collection of The Bongos and Bongos-related items on CD. It’s an album that I’ve…
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I’d hoped this album would finally see the light of day. Years ago, in his autobiography, Frontman, Richard Barone had mentioned that he had the tapes to a live album…
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From the moment you hear the crunchy and tasty guitars that fill “You Invented Hell”, this exclusive track from Nick Piunti’s new album Temporary High, you know you’re in for…
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Popdose is very excited and pleased to present the video for “Ooh Girl”, the new single release from The Red Button, featuring Peter Noone on JEM Records. It is, undoubtedly,…
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You can have two dozen bands attempt to “sound like The Beatles” which is all well and good, but when you have a group like The Red Button, you know…
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This glorious album from New Jersey’s Somerdale was originally released as Shake It, Maggie, but once it found its way into the hands and ears of Marty Scott, the driving…
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Radio City with Jon Grayson and Rob Ross: Seventeen Seconds… (!) Once again, Jon and Rob sit down and get it done – a freeform, thoughtful and insightful conversation about…
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Once upon a time, you had a thing called “rock and roll”. Happy to say, it’s still alive and well and thriving in the sounds of The Bayonets. Put together…
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This neo-psychedelic duo from Highland Park, New Jersey is the husband-and-wife duo of Maki and Richard Brenner; they signed to Marty Scott’s forward-thinking Jem Records and are about to unleash…
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Popdose is very pleased to bring you “Love Can”, the latest official video from The Weeklings’ sophomore effort, Studio 2, which has been making the rounds since last November. Once…
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And once again, New Jersey’s finest Beatles-oriented band. The Weeklings, have returned with their second album, the aptly-titled The Weeklings Studio 2. Recorded in the sacred rooms of Abbey Road…
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You want “immediate classic”? Well, that’s what you get with this new album from Detroit-area power-pop legend (the classification suits him to a “T”) Nick Piunti on his latest album,…
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Established in 1999, The Anderson Council is the brainchild of singer and songwriter Peter Horvath, whose love affair with late 60’s pop informs and inspires both the band’s sound and direction….
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As I’d said previously, when this album and signing was announced, if it wasn’t obvious that The Anderson Council has been one of New Jersey’s best kept secrets, well now,…
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By 1983 and ’84, several of the changes that Al Stewart began on the 24 Carrots album (1980) had settled in for better or worse. There seemed to be a…
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When I spoke with Richard Barone back in February, we covered a lot of topics, one of which was the unreleased Bongos album, Phantom Train. At the time, it seemed…
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