There are two very clear sides to viewing Gordon Sumner, a.k.a. Sting, the former singer/songwriter/bass player for The Police and solo star (since 1985). One is the objective eye, which…
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Popdose Staff
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Can a song change the world? Popular music has always been looked on as something of a disposable pleasure: reflective of its times, sure, but meant to be played among…
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Keith Creighton
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Earlier this year, Eliot Sumner quietly released Information, one of the loudest, most ambitious, most exhilarating and inventive rock/pop albums of the decade, let alone the year. And I had…
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Justin Vellucci
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Now, that is what the fuck I’m talking about. From the first grungy, then vaguely pixelated, guitar chords of album-opener ”Trembling Hands,” Arizona, the second record proper by loop-rock ”band”…
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Michael Parr
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It’s the Friday Five! Shuffle through five random tracks from your library and share it with the Popdose community.
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Scott Malchus
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The crossroads between youth culture and Amnesty International came together in the mid-70s with a series of concerts that included members of Monty Python, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, as…
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Jack Feerick
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Like a lot of people, I have trouble taking Sting seriously — as seriously as he takes himself, anyway. But I must admit that I greeted the news of his…
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Popblerd Staff
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P-Funk. Uncut funk. The bomb. We can’t have a best albums of the ’70s list without ’em.
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Bob Cashill
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The Police’s guitarist walks the beat with an autobiographical documentary.
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Mike Heyliger
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Ray Parker Jr wants you. And he won’t take no for an answer. Get all the creepy details in this week’s Jheri Curl Fridays column.
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Mike Duquette
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If you’ve not been following every breath he takes, you’re missing a lot of great guest appearances by the man they call Sting.
Dw. Dunphy
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Popdose explores a B-side from one of the Police’s darkest recording sessions.
Dave Steed
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Shane MacGowan’s teeth show up this week on Bottom Feeders and surprisingly they don’t scare off Chrissie Hynde, Johnny Rotten or Iggy Pop.
Dave Steed
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Dave Steed introduces you (again) to Caleb Heineman who discusses the five discs he’d take with him on a deserted island.
Jason Hare
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In a world filled with awkward family holiday reunions, three men gather to remind you that it could be worse: you could be a Brady or Stewart Copeland. Join Jeff Giles, Jason Hare and Dave Lifton for a discussion of the best and worst pop culture reunions on Episode 15 of The Popdose Podcast!
Will Harris
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This week, The Friday Mixtape has been specially super-sized in order to provide you with 31 fiendishly good songs to keep you grim and grinning throughout the Halloween weekend.
Ted Asregadoo
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE You’ve heard the ads, you’ve probably marked your calendar, gone to school orientations, bought clothes, supplies, and all the other crap associated with back to…
Scott Malchus
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Danger! Scott Malchus has been struck by HIGH VOLTAGE in this week’s Basement Songs column!
Ted Asregadoo
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE When rock-and-roll reared its beautiful/ugly head, the backlash against it was pretty ferocious. The cultural conservative invective against this form of music ran the gamut…
Ted Asregadoo
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE What possesses an artist to revisit his or her recordings years later and decide to remake the song? Sometimes it’s money, sometimes it’s about a…
Dw. Dunphy
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All rise. The terms of this courtroom are simple. You will be presented with two songs, one by the plaintiff and one by the defendant. It is your task to…
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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Have you ever wished the holidays weren’t so…you know…cheerful? Boy, has Sting got an album for you!
Robin Monica Alexander
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There have been a lot of boys, and men, whose pictures I have torn out of magazines for my personal use. The first may have been Michael Jackson, of whom…
Robert Cass
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I was beginning to think I’d never find a tough lawman to clean up Bootleg City, especially after my faux pas-filled interview with Marshall Crenshaw. (I won’t bore you with…
Jack Feerick
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The point of a column like this is not to be a consumer guide, or to give “thumbs up”/”thumbs down” to the latest media product (which is just as well…
Matchup Monkey
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Def Leppard – “Two Steps Behind” The Police – “Every Breath You Take” — n n {democracy:38} — Last week the Stone Roses took down the surprisingly scrappy Hold Steady,…
Ben Wiser
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Spring is here. Blue skies, green grass, allergens. Rainy afternoons and cool evenings. Spring, of course, is time for renewal, and I like to think of it as a time…
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