Let’s set the table for this review. You’ve read/heard my very long standing admiration and respect for, plus the immeasurable influence that Peter Holsapple has had on my musical endeavors…
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It’s been quite a few years since we heard from our friends, The Blood Rush Hour. This fine New Jersey-oriented musical aggregate, directed by the brilliant mind of Robert DeStefano…
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Popdose is very pleased to bring you this exclusive new track off the debut full-length album from St. Paul, Minnesota’s The Persian Leaps. ”The Persian Leaps” began as a phrase…
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The Imperial Sound’s blithe synthesis of 21st-century irony and bright, unselfconscious AM-radio pop is both brave and unique. This, their debut album, The New (hence, the title), showcases songwriter Frederick…
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As time passes, it gets harder to write about something you love, especially like a band – you veer between adoration, hero worship, teen obsession, musician’s arrogance and then rationality…
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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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Welcome to the San Fernando Valley, circa 1976. Los Angeles’ own The Quick released one full-length album in their three year existence for Mercury Records – and now Real Gone…
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There’s a formula for power-pop success that simply isn’t used as often as it should be: Have a killer hook, simple and memorable, suitable for jamming and mixing things up,…
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Popdose is pleased and proud to bring you the exclusive premiere of “Untethered”, the new video and first “lead” track from Black Box Theory, the latest offering from Gretchen’s Wheel…
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A worthwhile history lesson: Wreckless Eric is Mr. Eric Goulden. His recording career began in 1977 with the enduring ”Whole Wide World”. He was one of the original Stiffs, alongside…
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It goes without saying Chris Stamey is one of my favorite songwriters/musicians. Having fallen under the spell of The dB’s from 1981 onward, the band he formed in New York…
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This is really good. I mean REALLY GOOD. This second album from The Shelleye Valauskas Experience, History Of Panic, which is anchored by singer-guitarist Ms. Valausakas and Mr. Dean Falcone…
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As you know, Popdose loves Lisa Said, the singer/songwriter/guitarist who knocked us out with her debut album and E.P. over the last year and a half. So we are both…
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To start 2018 off the right way, it’s time to step into the Wayback Machine, circa the late ’70’s/early ’80’s in the New York/New Jersey area. My band was part…
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It’s always a good time around Popdose when we can debut a new track from one of our (collective) favorite bands, Populuxe. This trio of popmeisters return with a pretty…
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Goddamn, this is just so good. Period. Never mind who the members of this band are – well, okay, you should know; you need to know. Actor/raconteur Bill Mumy (yes,…
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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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I’ve been a fan of A Fragile Tomorrow for several years now. I reviewed their last two albums here on Popdose and had the opportunity to speak with/interview the twin…
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We at Popdose are very fond of Populuxe, Brooklyn’s trio of heavy pop hitters. A band that shows varied influences yet has a thing of their own, which isn’t easy…
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We’ve been fans of Charleston, South Carolina’s A Fragile Tomorrow at Popdose for several years. Now, lead singer/guitarist Sean Kelly is stepping into the light on his own with his…
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According to the press release, Sven-Erik Olsen spent most of his childhood in a constant state between daydreaming and brainstorming in Minneapolis. He explained, ”Throughout my childhood, and even into…
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So there have been a few occasions where I had been asked to write about Chris Bell’s I Am The Cosmos album – and I’ve done it. Having bought the…
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Heirs Of Fortune isn’t a band per se (or so I gather); it’s a project overseen and directed by Terry Carolan, a mainstay of power pop mastery, especially in his…
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This is just so, so good, I’m not sure how or where to begin. I had the pleasure of working with Hootie & The Blowfish during my years at Atlantic…
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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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Popdose is very proud and pleased to bring you this brand-new single from pop-meisters Populuxe. This divine trio knows a thing or two about angular sounds, skwered lyrics to make…
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The joyful maven of neo-psychedelic pop and general weirdness, Anton Barbeau, is back again – hard at work on finishing up his newest release, an E.P. of covers –…
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(Archive.) Friday, June 3, 2016 Here we are, folks — the dream we all dream of. Man versus butterflies. Prince is dead, and I’m not feeling so well myself. It’s…
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Richard X. Heyman is unquestionably a legend. He was one of the first ”one man band” recording artists, in the grand tradition of Paul McCartney, Emitt Rhodes and Todd Rundgren….
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