“That’s what I like about pop music: the only truth is the three and a half minutes of music you’re presenting to the audience.”
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Keith Creighton
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Popdose first met rock journalist and power pop musician Ken Sharp through the supernova that is Omnivore recording artist, Cait Brennan, and her producer Fernando Perdomo. All three of their…
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Justin Vellucci
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The Lampshades, a trio of Pittsburgh-by-way-of-Altoona ne’er-do-wells, is nothing if not ambitious. It hasn’t always entirely been this way. Sunshine, its 2005 debut, was more of a catalog of by-the-numbers…
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Ken Shane
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Bobby Freeman wrote and recorded one of the most covered songs in the history of rock and roll
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Matthew Bolin
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The first article in the new series “Over the Covers” focuses on artists who re-recorded their own songs, thereby covering themselves.
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Dw. Dunphy
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Classic rock — and those who love them — get covered with reviews of Aisles, Bubble Gum Orchestra, The Beach Boys, Journey, Toto, Mecca, and Meat Loaf.
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Ken Shane
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Popdose has the exclusive premiere of the first single from the new Explorers Club album.
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Allison Johnelle Boron
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Though Hot Rumour has only been a tangible unit for, oh, four months, the three members have enough musical cred among them to more than make up for what they lack…
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Matt Wardlaw
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We dip into the interview archives this week for a previously unheard chat from June of last year with ’90s alternative veteran Matthew Sweet
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Robert Cass
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The three members of Papas Fritas — Shivika Asthana, Keith Gendel, and Tony Goddess — discuss the creation of their self-titled debut album.
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Ken Shane
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Ken Shane recommends some of the year’s best music books
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Rob Smith
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Rob Smith remembers his father, in his new “Vinyl Diaries” column.
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Ken Shane
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Brian Wilson and his band played a dazzling show in Boston last week
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Ken Shane
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The new film about Brian Wilson is a triumph
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Ken Shane
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No Pier Pressure is another triumph in a legendary career
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Ken Shane
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Win an amazing Four Seasons prize package!
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Ken Shane
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Exhilarating. Emotional. Exhausting. The 2014 Newport Folk Festival.
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Ken Shane
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Ken Shane’s annual Holiday Gift Guide
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Popdose Staff
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Much like Pee Wee Herman, these examples of the PR shuck ‘n jive “meant to do that.”
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Will Harris
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If you’re a fan of catchy pop tunes and you aren’t familiar with the Paley Brothers, prepare yourself: you’re about to get an education. Andy and Jonathan Paley released their…
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Allison Johnelle Boron
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It’s hard to dispute 2012 as the best summer to be a Beach Boys fan in the last quarter-century or so, but thanks to the band’s new Made in California…
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Thierry Côté
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Following the releases of new albums by David Bowie, My Bloody Valentine and Justin Timberlake, 2013 might go down as the year of the unexpected comeback (your move, Dr. Dre)….
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Michael Parr
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5… 4… 3… 2… 1… Shuffle! Join in this week’s Friday Five.
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Thierry Côté
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At a time when albums are teased, hyped, leaked, dissected, discarded and re-evaluated before they are even officially released, it has become increasingly rare to be able to approach one…
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Dw. Dunphy
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A conversation with DA’s lead architect Terry Scott Taylor about the band’s new album, Dig Here, Said The Angel (and an album review to boot!)
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Rob Ross
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What can be said about two legends getting together to combine forces on a double album? Beach Boys lyricist Stephen Kalinich and producer/musician/journalist Jon Tiven (with production help from no…
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Brian Boone
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In which we look at once common curiosities of pop culture that don’t exist anymore, be it because of changing tastes, the fragmentation of culture, or merely the fickle nature…
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Popdose Staff
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Singer/songwriter Alexander Fairchild lists his five Desert Island Discs.
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