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the Beatles
Want the whole story? Here it is, come and … oh never mind.
When I’m playing Abbey Road, I almost always pass them by.
Here we go again with Confessions of a Comics Shop Junkie, in which I opine on various recently released publications of the sequential graphic nature, some of which may be…
Brandon Schott’s latest album, “13 Satellites,” is really good. Just ask Rob Smith …
Another Arthur Baker sighting, the Barenaked Ladies and Beck show up in Bottom Feeders this week. And, Dave Steed pulls out the “general rule” for the first time in the series.
Rob Smith’s new vinyl column opens with E.L.O.’s disco record, “Discovery.”
Being influenced by and being extremely similar to are two different things, separated by a thin line. The biggest musical success of the last few years has been Lady Gaga….
The Beatles are kind of always in the not-distant background, as they are the goddamn Beatles. But every five years or so, there’s a major resurgence in Beatles interest, popularity,…
Join the Popdose Staff as they say “Thank You” to the people that introduced them to the music that shaped their lives.
This week’s Mix Six gives you a sweet mix. Because what would Thanksgiving in the U.S. be without pie?
On the heels of the release of a brand new EP, Little Shalimar stops by and gives Popdose his choices for five Desert Island Discs.
Boston-based Munk Duane has been a fixture in the local music scene for years. The New York-born musician went to college at the prestigious Berklee College of Music. His music…
If you could only listen to five albums, which ones would you choose? In this edition of Desert Island Discs, Alyssa Graham makes her picks.
A look at the songs and the story behind 50 years of the Beach Boys, American’s greatest pop band.
“Death by Power Ballad” explores Extreme’s “More Than Words.”
In the first episode of “Songs of Freedom”, Popdose music contributor Matthew Bolin and Lyana Fernandez look at R.E.M., P.J. Harvey, and how the internet changes the way we look at political music.
I’m not going anywhere for the next couple of days. Because I have the complete run of The Monkees—32 episodes of season 1, and 26 episodes of season 2—spread across…
For the past five years or so, Brooklyn-based rich kids hipsters and indie rockers are two sides of the same coin, or at least that’s the public perception or cultural…
Bob can’t just give advice to the myriad young acts who don’t read his columns. He has to present it with awkward metaphors about high school, which he probably learned from the movies.
Another Wednesday, another batch of AM Gold for your listening pleasure. This week rolls on with the third installment from 1964.
AM Gold: 1964 beckons! Enjoy the Supremes and the Zombies! Make it through Gene Pitney!
And just like that, 1963 is in our rear-view mirrors. But before we speed ahead to ’64 let’s fire up the old transistor radio and check out the final group of tunes from 1963.
Put your headphones on and your cares away, and come back with us once again to the world of Time-Life’s “AM Gold” — 1963 style!