Rob Smith thanks one of the great voices of his youth in the new “Vinyl Diaries.”
Jim Peterik
Sometimes it helps to ask if there’s anything you can do. A little over a year ago, Pigeon O’Brien, a longtime friend to many of us at Popdose, was diagnosed…
In this week’s special Best Original Song edition of Soundtrack Saturday, Kelly revisits the nominees from the 55th Academy Awards.
When you get an offer to speak with a guy like Jim Peterik, it’s an opportunity that you really sink your teeth into. As Jeff points out during our conversation,…
In more than four decades in the music business, Jimi Jamison has worn quite a few different hats. While perhaps best known for his work with Chicago-based AOR rockers Survivor,…
Survivor’s “Ever Since the World Began”: The Ultimate Wedding Anthem? Rob Smith discusses in “Death by Power Ballad.”
Survivor sends a thank-you note to Queen, Air Supply goes to Brooklyn, David Foster takes over Chicago and CSN inexplicably has a Top 10 hit — it’s all part of Jason Hare’s latest edition of CHART ATTACK!
This is the final entry in our DbPB salute to Jim Peterik, and it is, I admit, an odd choice for a conclusion. “Above the Storm” is not Peterik’s best…
If a new Survivor track is attached to a greatest hits compilation in the ’90s, will anyone hear it? Read this week’s Death by Power Ballad and find out.
Our DbPB salute to Jim Peterik continues this week with “Strength Over Time,” by Sunstorm, a collective that’s not quite a band, and yet not quite not a band. Some…
The next few DbPB installments will feature the work of a man who, to these ears, has contributed as much as if not more than any other artist to the…