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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six Brass Kiss
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERESince musical styles come around again and again, I’m sure it’s only a matter of time before horn sections start to be part of popular bands once again. The ’70s was a kind of golden age for the horns in pop music, and m...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six Songs in the Key of XX
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HEREAs is often the case, ideas for this feature seem to pop up while driving to and from work – which is when I do most of my music listening. Because I’m one of those annoying people who has an iPhone, and am a slave to Ap...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six Back to School
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HEREYou’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 school for you or your kid. But do you have a soundtra...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six Music Festivals
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HEREOver the weekend, my iPhone was blowing up with Twitter updates about the Outside Lands festival in San Francisco. I’ve never been, but from numerous tweets I was getting from various people I follow, it sounded like it ...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six Chart Toppers of 1994
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HEREBy the early ‘90s, the musical terrain was fracturing. As hip hop and grunge ascended, country music also saw their star rising in the popular culture. But what about pop music? Well, that was starting to fall by t...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six: The Pretenders
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HEREThe other night I was flipping through the channels on TV and I stumbled on a live performance of the Pretenders on PBS. Hearing songs that I haven’t listened to for a couple of years made me think how much this band mea...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six PDX Pop
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERESince 2004, the PDX Pop Now festival in Portland, Oregon has been an event that grows bigger every year. It’s an all-volunteer music free festival with the sole purpose of promoting local music and connecting artists and ...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six This and That
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HEREThis week’s mix started out like a lot of mixes: one or two songs getting stuck in my head and me trying to fit the pieces together for a complete mix. Since I’ve done a couple of mixes called “Random Sample,” I couldn’...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six Land of the Free
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE I don’t know about you, but the 4th of July used to be one of my favorite holidays (now it’s Thanksgiving). Perhaps it was because it’s a great summer celebration. You know, you have the day off from work, you gather w...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six Songs of Love and Loss
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HEREIf you took a census of songs that are popular, you would certainly find that the majority of them sing the praises of love. Now, you don’t need a class in Greek literature to know that love is a complex thing, and I don’...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six Pete Townshend
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HEREThe recent death of Ronnie James Dio and Alex Chilton gave rise to an explosion of lamentation from rock journalists, musicians and fans for whom their music was a source of inspiration and admiration. For me, however, ...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six Cities
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HEREWhat is it about certain cities that feeds a musician’s muse? New York is certainly one of the more popular cities where many ‘o band have found inspiration for a song. However, for every New York song, there are plenty...
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Ted Asregadoo - Lost Mix
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Last week I approached my good friend, Ted Asregadoo, master of the Mix Six (or is it Mix Six Master) about putting together a special mix featuring Peter Gabriel songs and selections from Michael Giacchino’s scores to Lost. The idea was to create...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six Dio
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERERonald James Padavona: July 10, 1942 – May 16, 2010“Man on the Silver Mountain,” Rainbow (Download)For many of us, this song was our introduction to the voice of Ronnie James Dio. And what an introduction! “Man on the S...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six: Rock Gets Religion
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HEREWhen 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 of Satanism to sex — you know, the fun stuff. ...
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Ted Asregadoo - Daniel Levitin
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HEREWell, next week is my birthday and while thinking of music 40 something years ago, I got stuck on the mistaken thought of how emotionally divorced I am from the music of my birth year. Why would I think such a thing? Ac...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six My Birth Year
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HEREWell, next week is my birthday and while thinking of music 40 something years ago, I got stuck on the mistaken thought of how emotionally divorced I am from the music of my birth year. Why would I think such a thing? Ac...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six Space ... The Final Frontier
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HEREOuter space … other planets … dying stars … these are the musical metaphors of many bands who use said metaphors to either describe something internal (see Muse, Bjork, and Soundgarden), or something external (see Rush). ...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six Grunge Redux
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERESometimes the music gods command me to mix certain things together. Case in point, the latest issue of Rolling Stone and reading Facebook updates from Popdosers from SXSW combined in such a way that was very difficul...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six America
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HEREThe theme of America in popular music has run the gamut of idealized notions of a land where one can pursue one’s dreams, to a kind of nightmare where those dreams are crushed. Even before the economy was in the toilet, t...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six San Francisco Music Now
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Over the weekend, Popdose’s Jeff Johnson and I were able to get together for a bit of a visit. Alas, the circumstance behind this get together was rather somber, but we were able to have a couple of hours at a bar chatt...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six A Few of My Favorite Songs
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Last year, the Popdose staffers compiled their favorite songs of all time. We were asked to submit 100 songs that we absolutely love, and I was looking over my list the other day and realized that 1.) Many of the songs ...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six Video Game Music
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If video killed the radio star, then video games killed any stragglers that were left. Now that the kids are finding most of their music through You Tube, they are also discovering music (both new and old) through their ...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six Yet Another Random Sample
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Happy New Year, Mix Sixers! Last week, I was enthralled with some bands that I hope will be big this year, but something happened on the way to the new year that made me both a little hung over and lazy. One: I drank ...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six New in 2010
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With the new year (and a new decade) starting in just a few days, I wanted to close out this year by looking forward to next year in music. I won’t be making too many predictions as to where music trends are going — mos...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six The Myth of Santa
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By now, you’re thoroughly drenched in holiday music – with the vast majority of the songs celebrating Christmas. So why bother with yet another holiday-themed mix? Yes, we have 25 Days of Mellowmas here at Popdose, and ...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six 1981 (Part Three)
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As I wrap up this little musical tour of 1981, our last stop will really make you want to dance (or so I hope). Yeah, it’s R&B time, kids! And since we’re going back to my high school years, these artists were extr...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six 1981 (Part Two)
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Last week we hung out with the rocker crowd from 1981, and this week it’s time to see what the new wave kids were into. If you recall, I had the fortune — or misfortune — of attending three high schools in 1981, and for...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six 1981 (Part One)
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Long Live Rock
For me, 1981 was a real musical watershed. I was a sophomore in high school, and through a series of events, it was also a year where I attended three high schools. “School One” was a rocker school where ...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six Then and Now
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I was watching Anvil: The Story of Anvil on VH1 Classic the other night, and I believe it was Slash who said something like: “You know, there aren’t many bands who have been together for 30 years.” And he’s right (well...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six Six Six 09
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Last year, I was feeling all boo hoo about the fact that no one, and I mean no one comes to our house on Halloween. Call it fear of strangers with candy (who might shove a razor blade in that Snickers bar, or snap off ...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six Apple's Genius Mix
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I think David Medsker can relate to this… Back in my salad days of college, I made extra money with two turntables and a microphone. More often than not, some guy at a wedding reception I was working at would amble up t...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six MTV on the Radio
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I led a semi-sheltered suburban life in my high school years, so it wasn’t until MTV made its debut on my cable system a year after it launched in 1981 that I really started getting exposure to music that wasn’t AC/DC or...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six Neo Swing, Baby
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There was a moment in the mid to late ’90s when I passed an invisible line from young adulthood — where you crave new and exciting things and your mind is generally open to cultural changes — to adulthood, where more sta...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six Beatlesque
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Call this mix the postscript of Beatles Week at Popdose … a postscript that’s a couple of weeks late! But better late than never, right? There’s been a lot of talk about the marketing savvy of Beatles merchandise, and i...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six Another Random Sample
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One of the lost arts of being a radio DJ is the art of mixing records. Nothing too pre-planned, mind you — just starting with a song, and flipping through the stacks to find the next song that would (hopefully) sound gre...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six 415 Records
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So, I’ll be upfront about where I ripped off got this idea for this mix. I was reading the San Francisco Chronicle (Essentially my hometown paper because I’ve tried reading the Contra Costa Times, but found myself going...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six Woodstock's Children
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For the past few weeks — and because of my job managing a promotions department at a radio station — I’ve been inundated with Woodstock. The film Taking Woodstock, the director’s cut of Woodstock, TV specials, and speci...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six Mashups
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Last week, I was trying to figure out the awkwardly titled decade called “The 2000s.” Yes, there’s been an A.D.D. quality to the last 10 years, but it could also be argued that there’s also a postmodern current flowing...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six Duets and Collaborations
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A few weeks ago, I took my family down to a train wreck of an event called the Great American Food and Music Festival in Mountain View, CA. It was supposed to be a day where you could eat regional foods from around the ...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six-Summertime Songs
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Like most kids, summer used to be such a great time of the year for me. School was out, you had all day to spend with your friends, and it was just nice not having to get up and be at a place where a bell signals the pa...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six Melodic Prog
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Okay, I fully admit that as a guy who loves progressive rock, I’m setting myself up for ridicule and taunts from the peanut gallery. I hear you derisively yelling, “Math rock geek,” or “Lover of unicorns, ferries, and ...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six Supergroup or Superdud
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On paper, it sounds like a moneymaking formula: take individual members from successful bands, put them together in a supergroup to make music, record the magic, and watch album sales go through the roof. Yes, the Supe...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six Spell It
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First off, let me say that “Y.M.C.A.” didn’t make the cut on this mix. Yeah, it’s a fun song, but chances are you’ve heard it a million times, and it’s such an earworm that it really belonged on last week’s mix — but I d...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six Earworm Attack
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DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERELet me get this out in the open: I work in a dangerous place. No, I don’t work with nuclear materials, nor do I work at a restaurant where I train as a competitive eater on the side. Rather, I work in a place where earw...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six Cinco de Mayo
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You know, of all the alcoholidays that grace us yearly, I would venture to guess that Cinco de Mayo is going to eclipse St. Patrick’s Day in the American Southwest very, very soon. It’s one of those days that certainly h...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six Time
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“Time, time, time, see what’s become of me.”
“Every year is getting shorter/Never seem to find the time/Plans that either come to naught/Or half a page of scribbled lines.”
“Learning that we’re only immortal for a limite...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six MJ Yo
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Forget everything you know about Michael Jackson for a minute. You there yet? I didn’t think so. Truth be told, is it really possible to think of Michael Jackson and not think of a list of things that includes:
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six The Bristol Sound
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By the early ‘90s, there was a real fracturing of the musical landscape when it came to pop music. To me, the popularity of rap, country, and grudge had split the music-loving culture into tribes that were trying to pur...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six Old Rockers New(er) Songs
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If there’s a not-so-subtle subtext to this mix, it would be singers who have raspy voices. And if there was a disclaimer, it would be this: “Some of these songs aren’t new at all.” But I can’t fit all of that into the s...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six Phil Collins Session Drummer
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There was a time — maybe 25 years ago — when mentioning Phil Collins in the pantheon of frickin’ awesome drummers was greeted with thoughtful nods. Nowadays? Not so much. The reaction you’ll probably get from folks who...
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Ted Asregadoo - Mix Six Songs for the Downwardly Mobile
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You know that sinking feeling you get when you hear your boss say: “Hey, can I see you in my office?” Yeah, you know what I’m talking about. And if you don’t, then you’re one of the fortunate few who hasn’t been laid off...
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