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Cross-pollination: My favorite instrumentals (on Popdose)

Chris Holmes
posted on July 22, 2011June 18, 2013
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My latest Popdose mixtape features more than 20 of the greatest instrumentals you'll ever hear. Act now and get absolutely nothing else

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Album review roundup: The Zombies, Build, and the Cars

Chris Holmes
posted on June 13, 2011June 18, 2013
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We look at three very good albums from the Zombies, Build, and the

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Pop Quiz — Progressive Rock Song or Science Fiction/Fantasy Novel?

Chris Holmes
posted on April 13, 2011June 12, 2013
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This ten-question quiz asks you to choose whether you are looking at the title of a progressive rock song or a science fiction/fantasy

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Get to Know… Genesis – Pt. 1

A look at the first six Genesis studio albums, aka the Peter Gabriel era, when the band was becoming a progressive rock

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2010 – The year in recorded musical performances

Chris Holmes
posted on December 13, 2010April 15, 2011
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My favorite music from 2010. Or maybe it's the best music of 2010. Probably a little bit of

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Listening Booth – David Sylvian & Robert Fripp, “Jean the Birdman”

Chris Holmes
posted on February 3, 2010April 21, 2011
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When he wanted to put together yet another version of King Crimson in the early 1990s, Robert Fripp reached out to Japan co-founder David Sylvian. Sylvian passed at the opportunity, but the pair

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Venture Bros. Wrapup: “Perchance to Dean” (S04E03)

Chris Holmes
posted on November 3, 2009February 11, 2013
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Dean Venture tunes in and almost falls into a Floyd Hole in this season four episode of The Venture Brothers, "Perchance to

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Listening Booth – King Crimson, “One More Red Nightmare”

Chris Holmes
posted on October 13, 2009April 20, 2011
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More prog goodness, you say? Sure! Here’s my favorite KC tune ever, from their 1974 masterpiece Red. Witness the majestic and face-melting drumming of one Bill Bruford, who absolutely owns

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Gray Flannel Mixtape: The mellow side of prog

To no one’s surprise, last year’s round of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees included not one progressive rock act. This despite the millions of albums sold, the countless musicians

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Cross-pollination: My favorite instrumentals (on Popdose)

Album review roundup: The Zombies, Build, and the Cars

Pop Quiz — Progressive Rock Song or Science Fiction/Fantasy Novel?

Get to Know… Genesis – Pt. 1

2010 – The year in recorded musical performances

Listening Booth – David Sylvian & Robert Fripp, “Jean the Birdman”

Venture Bros. Wrapup: “Perchance to Dean” (S04E03)

Listening Booth – King Crimson, “One More Red Nightmare”

Gray Flannel Mixtape: The mellow side of prog

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