Eric Carmen goes heavy on the Aqua Net, Jane Wiedlin makes googly-eyes at Jason Hare and Jeff Giles loses $20 — it’s all part of the latest edition of CHART ATTACK!
Mojo Flucke
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…
Each Thanksgiving at the Flucke household, we have a special tradition where we open up the mojo bag and drop in some new gris-gris, playing Dr. John and Professor Longhair…
Mike Bloomfield’s second album has received the digital reissue treatment, and Mojo Flucke revels in the “classic 1970s R&B and funk stew.”
Jon Spencer’s the reigning court jester of blues, a smart-aleck white guy who is part clown, part serious musician, part genius, and 100% fan of raunchy electric blues. His joyous,…
In his latest Cold Shot, Mojo Flucke bids a fond farewell to blues queens Saffire, who are calling it quits next month after a wonderful 22-year career.
He may have been born under a bad sign, but this week, Albert King gets his due as Mojo Flucke looks back on the life and times of the guitar giant with the Web’s bluesiest pencast.
Rock Court is back in session, and this time, the fate of God — a.k.a. Eric Clapton — hangs in the balance. Take your seat in the jury box!
One of the many things I love about Popdose is our collective freedom to write different kinds of posts: Sometimes you gets yourself a Cold Shot related to some bit…
The kids are back in school, and Mojo Flucke is taking advantage of the peace and quiet the right way — by blasting some blues harp with a country/folk bent.
There’s no ticket from this show to scan; I was just one of the guys on the guest list. Turns out that when this band came to the Iron Horse…
Mojo Flucke is back, and this week, he’s pouring us a Cold Shot of James Booker. Drink up!
Mojo Flucke has returned from an unexplained disappearance, still woozy from a cold shot of ’60s blues powerhouse Super Session.
This week on Popdose Flashback, Mojo Flucke recalls the beautiful, yet challenging final album by the man known as John Cougar Mellencamp, Big Daddy.
Stay tuned throughout the weekend as we continue our tribute to Michael Jackson, with reflections and remembrances from the Popdose staff.
A couple years after 12 million buyers signed their name across his heart, Terence Trent D’Arby got sophomore jinxed but good — and in this week’s edition of Popdose Flashback, Mojo Flucke makes a case for Neither Fish Nor Flesh.
For this week’s Popdose Flashback, Mojo Flucke talks about Madchester, the Stone Roses’ much-loved debut, and one very special denim jacket.
The Popdose Staff, led by the intrepid Jon Cummings, has banded together to present a mixtape full of songs from our own weddings. Walk down the aisle with us, won’t you?
Sorry mates, don’t mean to confuse y’all. For the record, Ed Murray’s currently writing Lo-Fi Mojos, and this is the normal location for a refreshing, boozy Cold Shot of blues…
For all the Hammond-deficient Memorial Day barbecues out there, Mojo Flucke has prepared a treat: The Popdose Guide to Jimmy Smith.
Since I started listening to blues, that’s been a hard question for me to answer. It’s important, because it speaks to what blues is, really. Can Clapton play the blues,…
Full disclosure: I’m a Hammond B-3 soul and soul-jazz freak, so I’m a homer here. My universe aligns around the likes of great players like Billy Preston, Jimmy Smith, Jimmy…
This column, sadly, sometimes looks like the blues obituary page. Well, forget that for now! This Shot, we’re celebrating the life Luther “Guitar Junior” Johnson, a ripping-good Chicago-style guitarist who…
Mojo Flucke caught Bowie with Nine Inch Nails in September of ’95 — and in his latest Concert Flashback, he tells you which half of the double bill gave him an audio root canal.
If I were Allen Toussaint, I’d have taken a decade’s hiatus from making solo records, too. While the great New Orleans pianistÁ¢€”right up there on the city’s piano Mount Rushmore…
Be still my soul. Lawd have mercy. When soul first came out, so many social issues made so many people so PO’d (civil rights, Vietnam, rioting in seemingly every urban…
Gary Wright, The Dream Weaver, has two new EPs out, Waiting To Catch The Light, a set of new-age compositions, and The Light of a Million Suns, several cuts that…
To the hardcore fan of 1950s blues, R&B, and soul, Etta James can be vexing. To anyone following the news lately, her calling out of Beyonce for singing “At Last”…
Tin Machine was flat-out great, featuring fierce guitars, edgy lyrics and even edgier production. The world thought it stunk, and threw stuff at David Bowie and his noisy bandmates when…
“Incongruous” is the only way to describe this night. First of all, UNH is perhaps the whitest venue in the whitest state in the union. Furthermore, the Godfather of Funk…