Strap on your velcro hi-top Reeboks and your day-glo leotard. It’s time for another crazy fun ’80s dance party!
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Something Else! Reviews
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Your pals over at Something Else! Reviews begin an occasional feature focusing on the best of the 1980s with a look at producer and songwriter Daniel Lanois’ impact on the…
Jason Hare
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If you were stranded on a desert island with Richard Marx, here are the five things you would need to keep him happy.
Ken Shane
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Daniel Lanois is well known as a brilliant producer. His band Black Dub has released their debut album and Ken Shane thinks it’s one of the highlights of 2010.
Dave Steed
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The 19th week brings us the start of the 7th letter of the alphabet. Just a few artists here, but some killer songs as we continue to look at the…
Dw. Dunphy
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There’s been a lot of comments about this series and I want to thank everyone, even the folks who are incensed that I didn’t make The Lamb Lies Down on…
Dw. Dunphy
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The second installment of Dw. Dunphy’s countdown includes three-lettered prog legends like Yes, ELP, and…XTC?
Scott Malchus
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Scott Malchus and Ted Asregadoo discuss the end of Lost and offer up a unique music mix featuring the music of Peter Gabriel and Michael Giacchino.
Scott Malchus
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Long ago, I foolishly accepted the idea that horror, sci-fi and fantasy films, book and television series did not have emotional resonance of more serious dramas because of the fantastical…
Matt Wardlaw
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A week ago this past Monday, prog kids around the world got their wish when Genesis was finally inducted into The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The list of…
Dw. Dunphy
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“Texture” is one of those words that goes down quite badly in rock music circles. The sound is based on tenets like three chords and the truth and don’t bore…
Dw. Dunphy
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I have developed a reputation as someone who hedges his bets when it comes to criticism, and Peter Gabriel’s first full album in a very long while (since 2002’s Up,…
Kelly Stitzel
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Here’s the thing — I love holiday-themed horror films. In fact, one of my favorite Christmas movies is the original Black Christmas (1974). You may think that makes me sick…
Matthew Boles
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OK, I have to tell you a story. The other day I was sleeping off my annual four-day Thanksgiving bender when my phone rang at the crack of midnight. It…
Jack Feerick
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For this week’s installment of Popdose Flashback, Jack Feerick takes the reins and leads us through a celebration of Peter Gabriel’s Passion.
Rob Smith
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“Favorite Zeroes” Á¢€Å“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.Á¢€Á¢€”Sergei Rachmaninov Á¢€Å“Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.Á¢€Á¢€”Plato…
Ted Asregadoo
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE A few weeks ago, I took my family down to a train wreck of an event called the Great American Food and Music Festival in…
Jason Hare
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Four songs from movie soundtracks! Two videos set in courtrooms! One cat sitting on Peter Cetera’s face! It’s all in Jason Hare’s latest installment of CHART ATTACK!
Michael Fortes
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This week, Michael Fortes introduces a new multimedia series on Popdose, featuring video interviews and performances by indie musicians in their own homes and studios. Enter Parlour to Parlour!
Tom Werman
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[Editor’s Note: Earlier this week, a large chunk of this installment was lost in one of the Internet’s many tubes. We’ve since expanded it to its intended length, and are…
Zack Dennis
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In 1998, Terrence McNally’s play “Corpus Christi” was first performed in New York City. It wasn’t hard to predict that portraying Jesus as a promiscuous homosexual living in Corpus Christi,…
Ted Asregadoo
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE There was a time — maybe 25 years ago — when mentioning Phil Collins in the pantheon of frickinÁ¢€â„¢ awesome drummers was greeted with thoughtful…
Scott Malchus
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On Sunday mornings, I’d drag my ass out of bed and wander over to the cafeteria to replenish my fluids and put some food in my stomach. After that, maybe…
David Medsker
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Imagine the exchange that took place when Peter Gabriel brought Us, the long-overdue follow-up to his 1986 critical and commercial smash So (proper follow-up, anyway, with all apologies to 1989’s…
Dave Steed
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I’d bet that most people right now would say “Welcome back” to all of you. But I’m not, because the false “Welcome back” is just a little pet peeve of…
John C. Hughes
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After dipping his toe into the mainstream with his fourth album, Security, and its Top 40 hit, “Shock the Monkey,” it’s only natural that Peter Gabriel would continue to experiment…
Jeff Giles
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Gerald Albright, Sax for Stax (Peak) purchase this album (Amazon) He’s become known mainly for his smooth jazz sides, but Albright’s chops are too big for any single genre —…
Jack Feerick
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Once again kids, yours truly is handing over the mixing duties to Jack Feerick — who brought us a mix that “gave the drummer some.” This week’s mix celebrates a…
Jack Feerick
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Hiya kids! This week I have a guest DJ mixin’ it up for you. Jack Feerick wrote a great Popdose Guide to Traffic and, unsatisfied with lack of music love…