Fittingly, the first installment of our alternative look at Bruce Springsteen’s career puts its foot to the floor and doesn’t look back.
the Rolling Stones
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Dw. Dunphy
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It would be wildly inaccurate to say Keith Richards’ solo work (and that with backing band, the X-Pensive Winos) was light years ahead of the Rolling Stones stuff from roughly…
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.
Ken Shane
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Following this year’s reissue of Exile On Main Street, and the Stones In Exile documentary, the Stones have crowned a great year with an Exile-era concert film.
Ken Shane
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Solomon Burke was known as the King of Rock and Soul. When he died last Sunday, he left behind a long string of soul classics. Ken Shane remembers.
Ken Shane
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On May 18 of this year, the Rolling Stones released a remastered and expanded edition of what is arguably the greatest rock and roll album ever made, Exile On Main…
M.P. Costello
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M.P. Costello enjoyed the 2010 Mountain Jam over the weekend — without even leaving his home.
Kelly Stitzel
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I had never heard of Bettye LaVette until about four years ago. A friend had made me a mix CD to listen to on a road trip and on it…
Ken Shane
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A case could be made that Exile on Main Street (Universal) is the greatest rock and roll album ever made. After all, it’s got everything, from the full-tilt boogie of…
Scott Malchus
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE Whenever I fill in at Ted’s desk here at the Mix Six, I like to have a good time. Case in point, this week’s flashback…
Ken Shane
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The famous story goes that T.A.M.I. Show (Shout Factory) Executive Producer Bill Sargent wanted the Rolling Stones to close the show. The Stones, however, had seen James Brown’s act, and…
Kelly Stitzel
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Tina Yothers and Michael J. Fox weren’t the only Family Ties cast members who knew how to pretend to rock in the ’80s!
Matt Wardlaw
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In the beginning of a new Popdose series, Matt Wardlaw pays a visit to Wolfgang’s Vault and gets more than he bargained for.
Scott Malchus
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On a frigid winter’s night in December 1994, a group of friends met at some bar in Lakewood, Ohio, I think the name of the place was Around the Corner….
Jason Hare
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Join us for a trip back in time — when Art Garfunkel shunned his first name, Cher sang on a horse, and Billy Preston’s afro threatened to take over the world. It’s a 1973 edition of Jason Hare’s CHART ATTACK!
Ken Shane
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Just when you start to think that Rhino is the only company that knows how to do the box set thing, along comes ABKCO Records with their entry in the…
Dave Steed
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Hi, this is Popdose senior editor Robert Cass, and you’re listening to Bottom Feeders, a countdown of every song that charted below #40 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the…
Dave Lifton
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Last week, I took the redeye back from Vegas while still slightly hung over from a blowout the night before. I hadnÁ¢€â„¢t fully recovered a few days later, but that…
Ben Wiser
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Phish is back with their first album in five years, and Ben Wiser thinks it might be their best yet. Also: A list of potential candidates for Phish’s 2009 “Halloween costume.”
Ann Logue
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We know it pays to be a Beatle. But just how well? In this week’s Numberscruncher, Ann Logue takes a peek inside the world of Beatle finances to answer that question.
David Medsker
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Are you ready to dance? No, seriously — are you ready to dance? Then hit the floor, because David Medsker has pulled some classic white label tracks out of the vault!
Ted Asregadoo
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All the Woodstock fever going around got Ted Asregadoo thinking about live music, so for this week’s Mix Six, he headed out of the studio and into the cheap seats.
Dw. Dunphy
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The more things change… Adam Again – Ain’t No Sunshine from Ten Songs by Adam Again (1988) Deliverance – Beauty And The Beast from Camelot in Smithereens (1995) Jacob’s Trouble…
Rob Smith
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“Favorite Zeroes” Á¢€Å“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.Á¢€Á¢€”Sergei Rachmaninov Á¢€Å“Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.Á¢€Á¢€”Plato…
Dw. Dunphy
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A-B-C! It’s easy as do-re-mi! Art Brut – Summer Job from Art Brut vs. Satan (2009) Bat for Lashes – Moon and Moon from Two Suns (2009) Battles – Atlas…
Jon Cummings
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Jon Cummings’ ongoing look at great #2 hits in Billboard history moves into the ’80s this week, with hit tracks from the Bangles, Journey, and Foreigner in the mix.
Will Harris
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You submitted your questions for former XTC member Andy Partridge, and he answered them (well, most of them, anyway) during his Popdose Interview with Will Harris.
Rob Smith
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Cocktail Slippers, Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre (2009, Wicked Cool) Purchase this album at Amazon.com Isn’t it funny how quite often the finest practitioners of rock and rollÁ¢€”that most American of…
Jeff Giles
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It’s been forever and a day since I felt like this I want a fifth of Wild Turkey and one little kiss And I don’t miss that girl; if I…
Zack Dennis
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Zack Dennis is back with another installment of Exit Music — and this week, he uses the closing credits of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas as a starting point for a discussion of Timothy Leary, Hunter S. Thompson, and the Kentucky Derby, all set to the strains of “Jumping Jack Flash.”