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Rob Smith
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Rob Smith thanks one of the great voices of his youth in the new “Vinyl Diaries.”
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Jason Hare
11 Min Read
Greetings and welcome to CHART ATTACK!, the long-defunct-but-now-resurrected series where we take a look back at a Billboard Top 10 chart from yesteryear, and try to remember what we loved about…
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Brian Boone
4 Min Read
Eventually the tabloid fixtures, the celebutantes, the people that are famous for being famous, heck, even the D-list “legitimate” celebrities yearn for real fame, which is to say launder their…
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Chris Holmes
2 Min Read
The first edition of the new Chart Attack! podcast kicks off with the Top 10 singles from the week ending February 15, 1986.
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Kelly Stitzel
6 Min Read
In this week’s special Best Original Song edition of Soundtrack Saturday, Kelly revisits the nominees from the 55th Academy Awards.
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Jeff Giles and Matt Wardlaw
2 Min Read
When you get an offer to speak with a guy like Jim Peterik, it’s an opportunity that you really sink your teeth into. As Jeff points out during our conversation,…
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Matt Wardlaw
22 Min Read
In more than four decades in the music business, Jimi Jamison has worn quite a few different hats. While perhaps best known for his work with Chicago-based AOR rockers Survivor,…
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Dave Steed
3 Min Read
Frontier records unleashes the fantastic new solo disc from Survivor’s Jimi Jamison as well an album of obscure ’80s AOR covers by Issa!
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Rob Smith
1 Min Read
Survivor’s “Ever Since the World Began”: The Ultimate Wedding Anthem? Rob Smith discusses in “Death by Power Ballad.”
Jeff Giles
4 Min Read
They may have had the Eye of the Tiger, but the men of Survivor were no match for the potent hallucinogenics that produced this video.
Dave Steed
1 Min Read
This week, Bottom Feeders comes close to finishing off the letter S, but is foiled by the many, many minor ’80s hits of Survivor.
Tony Redman
1 Min Read
I’ve written previously about the novelty group Big Daddy. In case you’ve slept since then, here’s the concept for the band: While on a USO tour of Southeast Asia in…
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
2 Min Read
What, pray tell, is a Northern Light Orchestra, and how do they “Celebrate Christmas”? Trust us, you don’t want to know.
Jason Hare
2 Min Read
Diana Ross smacks Chic around, Kenny Loggins starts his soundtrack reign, and Olivia welcomes us to Xanadu — all in Jason Hare’s latest edition of CHART ATTACK!
Scott Malchus
1 Min Read
Scott Malchus is headed back to the basement again, where he’s rising up to the challenge of our rival — and facing down a parent’s worst fear.
Jason Hare
2 Min Read
Survivor sends a thank-you note to Queen, Air Supply goes to Brooklyn, David Foster takes over Chicago and CSN inexplicably has a Top 10 hit — it’s all part of Jason Hare’s latest edition of CHART ATTACK!
Rob Smith
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This is the final entry in our DbPB salute to Jim Peterik, and it is, I admit, an odd choice for a conclusion. “Above the Storm” is not Peterik’s best…
Rob Smith
1 Min Read
If a new Survivor track is attached to a greatest hits compilation in the ’90s, will anyone hear it? Read this week’s Death by Power Ballad and find out.
Rob Smith
1 Min Read
The next few DbPB installments will feature the work of a man who, to these ears, has contributed as much as if not more than any other artist to the…
Rob Smith
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When last we left Michael Schenker, he was totally shredding through the last 40 seconds of UFO’s majestic power ballad, “Try Me.” Mikey hung around the band for another year…
Jon Cummings
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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?
Rob Smith
2 Min Read
You never know when your college friends may become useful professional contacts. One night 17 years ago, Lev Skwatzenschitz and I found ourselves stumbling down College Avenue at Rutgers, trading…
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