I’ve never liked the concept of the “guitar gods” – Page is alright, but I look at Zeppelin as a whole; I never cared for Eric Clapton and there are…
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Brighton-based duo Immersion, made up of Wire frontman Colin Newman & Minimal Compact’s Malka Spigel, will release their new album Sleepless on June 15th via ‘swim~’. Popdose is pleased to…
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Radio City With Jon Grayson & Rob Ross: Episode Sixty Four Will you still need them – will you still heed them after installment 64? You’d better believe it. Once…
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Another new, upcoming young voice, Danielle Cormier, 21, is a singer-songwriter who she credits her love for the arts from seeing her first Broadway show at five years old. She…
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Radio City With Jon Grayson & Rob Ross: Episode Sixty Three There’s no rest for the wicked – like our current government – or our intrepid reporters/hosts/doyennes of all things…
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Chicago singer-songwriter Andy Pratt follows up last year’s acclaimed Horizon Disrupted album (reviewed here on Popdose) with a new E.P., Further Disruption, culled from the same Steve Albini-engineered sessions that…
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WIRE. Colin Newman, Graham Lewis, Bruce Gilbert, Robert Gotobed. The name automatically catapults me into a different time; a different mind and many emotions. Without a doubt, they are…
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Accord, New York’s Tulula! has been stomping around Rip Van Winkle’s dreamland since 2006. The acid-cowboy quintet of Jason Broome (The Westport Sunrise Sessions), Rob Norris (East Of Venus, The…
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Popdose is both pleased and proud to bring you a brand new, exclusive premiere from one of our favorite artists, Wade Jackson. “Emotion: Devotion” is the new single and video;…
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Radio City With Jon Grayson & Rob Ross: Episode Sixty One Sixty one shows and the hits keep on coming as the world turns… listen in as Jon and Rob…
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The Claudettes fuse Chicago piano blues with the full-throttle energy of rockabilly and punk and the sultriness of ’60’s soul to write a thrilling new chapter in American roots music….
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From the opening notes of singer/songwriter/guitarist Arkansas Dave’s debut album, you’re first thinking “am I listening to an old Molly Hatchet record?” but quickly, you realize there’s a lot here…
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Radio City With Jon Grayson & Rob Ross: Episode Sixty Sixty shows is no small number; a lot of thought and work goes into assembling these podcasts and you can…
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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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Radio City With Jon Grayson & Rob Ross: Episode Fifty Nine A new intensity and depth is now surging the direction forward of Radio City… and this 59th instalment is…
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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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Radio City With Jon Grayson & Rob Ross: Episode Fifty Eight Even being waylaid by illness doesn’t stop these fine reporters/radio personalities from doing their jobs and in this latest…
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It’s a little difficult to be completely objective after watching New Wave: Dare To Be Different, the story of WLIR radio, from Long Island. I listened to the station religiously…
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Radio City With Jon Grayson & Rob Ross: Episode Fifty Seven While this episode is later than usual, due to illness, our brave and fearless reporters still tackle an amazing…
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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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Chris Hillman co-founded some of the most classic, seminal, groundbreaking acts of the ’60s and ’70s – namely The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Manassas, and The Souther-Hillman-Furay Band. But…
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Vivian Leva’s voice is the sound of living tradition. Raised by parents who absorbed ancient tunes and ballads during visits to legendary old-time musicians, Ms. Leva grew up steeped in…
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Radio City With Jon Grayson & Rob Ross: Episode Fifty Six Veering between the joyful abandon of a comedic podcast and the real-life, serious issues that affect us all, Jon…
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This is very exciting – certainly to me. Yung Wu was a Feelies side project with one classic album, Shore Leave, on Steve Fallon’s Coyote Records in 1987, which I…
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Singer Nina June is releasing her global debut album, Bon Voyage, the result of a 3 year long journey that began in a home studio in Amsterdam, going through France…
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A songwriter, guitarist, bluesman, interpreter and performer for more than 50 years, Chris Smither has proven himself an American original. Recorded at the gorgeous Blue Rock Studios in Texas’ hill…
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Radio City With Jon Grayson & Rob Ross: Episode Fifty Five (doin’ double nickels on the dime – we jam econo…) After losing the original episode 54, there were…
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In the same methodical way she takes apart engines and makes them roadworthy again, Erica Blinn constructs American rock songs, one earnest melody at a time. She forces Midwestern air…
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Let’s begin by making clear a disclaimer: this is not an easy book, by any means. Deanna M. Lehman’s Kinderwhore is one of the most harrowing things I’ve ever read,…
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Radio City With Jon Grayson & Rob Ross: Episode Fifty Four With the widening audience/following behind Radio City, the topics expand and there’s no shortage in conversation on this latest…