It is easy in the post-rickrolling era to forget the level of popularity that Rick Astley achieved during his late-1980s peak. With 40 million records sold, 8 UK and 5 US…
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D.X. Ferris
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Welcome back to Suburban Metal Dad, Popdose’s resident webcomic. Read a new one every Monday and Friday. METAL DAD merchandise is available now! Click here. Click the pic to enlarge. …
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Ken Shane
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Superstars, secret stars, rising stars, and a ghost from the past hovering over it all.
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Thierry Côté
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Nearly a decade removed from Ryan Adams’s most prolific year, when he released three full-lengths over seven months (while leaving countless other recordings in the vaults), it can often seem a…
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Ken Shane
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Shelby Lynne gave another powerful performance in MA
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Ken Shane
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Two music legends unite in a remarkable collaboration
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Allison Johnelle Boron
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Headlining a benefit for the family of venue friend and local business owner, Silvio Dibello, local singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Chris Neptune and his backing band served up a memorable…
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Matt Wardlaw
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Kenny Loggins and the Blue Sky Riders returned to Cleveland. We were there.
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Michael Fortes
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Music festival season is upon us! Do you Roo, or do you Hickey?
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Ken Shane
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Amy Helm and her first-rate band had a big night in Fall River
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Angela Zimmerman
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Les Claypool is truly a singular artist. He’s transcended his various projects over the decades to become a sound, a style, a genre, all his own. When Primus was signed…
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Zack Dennis
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Two quick points about last week’s Caro Emerald show at the El Rey here in Los Angeles. The first: it made me feel my age (37 years). The second: it…
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Annie Zaleski
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Midge Ure has engendered quite a bit of goodwill over the years, thanks to a long musical career spanning myriad genres. In the 70s and 80s alone, the Scotland native…
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Annelise Poda
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If you’re still looking for a New Year’s resolution that will both enhance your life and not be so easily discarded, might I suggest that a great choice would be…
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Angela Zimmerman
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Just before Christmas, the Motet lit up a little pocket of San Francisco, bringing a much-needed boost of merriment to a holiday season that felt to me more sad and…
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Angela Zimmerman
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Only Leonard Cohen could transform a space as impersonal and corporately stamped as the HP Pavilion into a dazzling concert hall on a tired Wednesday night. Suburban yuppies filed in…
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Annelise Poda
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Bay Area music fans rejoiced as the Treasure Island Music Festival came back into town for its sixth year this past weekend. In addition to hosting world-class musicians out on…
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Annelise Poda
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Our writer was officially Shpongled, and lived to tell the tale.
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Angela Zimmerman
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Father John Misty played a total of four public shows in San Francisco over the past month and a half. The initial interest in his music was likely in part…
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Angela Zimmerman
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I didn’t intend for this lapse to happen, but it’s taken me over a week to get around to writing my Outside Lands coverage. Yeah, I happened to have a…
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Angela Zimmerman
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The Polyphonic Spree have only released three full-length studio albums in the 12 years since their inception, but I don’t think that relatively limited output has in any way impeded…
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Angela Zimmerman
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The Lumineers are among the latest and greatest of the new generation of rootsy folk-rock bands that have kept Americana fresh and captivating through the years. Like those musical contemporaries…
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Angela Zimmerman
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I didn’t even know who the Jayhawks were in the 80s and most of the 90s, arguably the band’s defining years. I was a small town kid on the east…
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Angela Zimmerman
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The funk tends to bring the fun, and Saturday night’s installment of San Francisco’s 10th annual Funk Festival lured the city’s dance party people out to help Afrolicious and the…
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Angela Zimmerman
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Straight out of Baltimore by way of Greenville, North Carolina, Future Islands brought their own brand of crazy to Bottom of the Hill on Tuesday night. The show, headlined by…
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Angela Zimmerman
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At San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall late last week, the Felice Brothers proved themselves a long way from the early busking days that broke them onto the music scene…
Judd Marcello
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You have no idea what you’re missing. That’s what Judd Marcello’s here for. He says Levon Helm’s Midnight Ramble is a rare musical experience you must not miss.
Michael Parr
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Michael Parr reviews The Weepies’ recent performance at the Hiro Ballroom in NYC.
Matt Wardlaw
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“You know, he sounded JUST as good as he sounded when I saw him in the ’90s!” The comment, uttered by a fellow concertgoer as we were leaving Sunday night’s…
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