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Articles on PopSpots in Online Magazines, Newspapers, and a random selection of Blogs


•Featured E - Magazine:

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"PopSpots: Interview with Bob Egan (Illustrated) (Jan. 21, 2015)


•Bob Egan of PopSpots discusses the locations of three Historic Dylan albums, the outtakes of which make up the box set: BOB DYLAN: THE CUTTING EDGE - 1965-1966 - The Cutting Edge. - October, 2015

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"My Album Art NY" (Pulse Section)




• PopSpots featured at Les Rencontres d'Arles (citywide photo exhibit), Arles, France - July-September, 2015

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Arles gallery view



•The New York Post - Sunday, Dec. 28, 2014

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"My Album Art NY" (Pulse Section)



•ON THE SET OF NEW YORK (films set in New York)(UK):

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"Interview with Bob Egan of PopSpots (Illustrated) (Feb. 2015)



•Edvard Munch: Die Schrie - Wo was dat maolt? (IN GERMAN) From the Website: Platt partu:

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"Edvard Munch - Where Did He Paint It? - IN GERMAN (Feb. 2015)


•BBC-Radio 4 (web version) (UK):

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"Slideshow: Bob's Latest PopSpots Hunt: Judy Collins Sings Bob Dylan" (Nov. 2014)


•Vice/Motherboard:

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"Use Online Maps For Anything But What They're Actually For: An Interview with Bob Egan of PopSpots" on Motherboard/Vice


•Good Morning America:

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"Classic Album Covers Revealed in NYC: Bob Egan of PopSpots has cleverly super-imposed the exact New York City locations where these classic album covers were shot onto the same present day locations.Take a glimpse into the past and you'll notice not much has changed!"


•The Telegraph (U.K.):

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"Pop culture detective Bob Egan discovers the locations of famous album covers"


•The SUN (U.K.):

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"It's ROCK 'N ROADS: Classic album covers have been taken back to the roads where they started."


•The New York Daily News:

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"Iconic rock album art locations revealed."


•FLUSH (The Fashion Magazine)(U.K.):

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"PopShots" It begins on page 33


•The Wall Street Journal: New York "Metropolis"

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"A Music Sleuth Tracks Down Scenes from Pop Culture History." (8/7/2012)


•Visual News (blog)

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"Vintage Album Sleuth Hunts Down Locations of Covers" (8/8/2012).


•The Official Billy Joel Website

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"A Look Back on West 52nd Street" (August 10, 2012)


•SPIEGEL ONLINE (Germany)

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"Legendary Album Covers"..."Legendaere-plattencover-da-lungerten-bob-dylan-the-who-und-neil-young"(8/20/2012)


•NME - Online Magazine (U.K.)

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"Album Sleeves in Their Original Locations" (8/21/2012)


•BuzzFeed - Music Blog

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"Famous Album Cover Locations In NYC" (8/25/2012)


•la Repubblica (Rome/Italian newspaper)

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"New York e Londra: itinerari attraverso le copertine rock" (29 agosto 2012)


•la Repubblica (Italian newspaper - blog)

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"In viaggio con le copertine del rockk" (29 agosto 2012)


•20 Minutos (Spain)

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"Recopila los lugares donde fueron tomadas las fotos de las cubiertas de grandes discos" (August/2012)


•UFUNK - Blog (France)

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"NEW YORK CITY POPSPOTS Ð QUAND DES PASSIONNƒS RETROUVENT LES LIEUX DES VIEILLES POCHETTES DE DISQUES" (August/2012)


•Viajes, Rock & Photos (Blog/Spain)

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"Localizando portadas de discos en New York (eleg’a al vinilo)" (August/30/2012)


•TODAY/Italy (Italy)

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"http://www.today.it/media/copertine-rock-famose-new-york-foto.html (July/9/2012)


  PopSpots Video Clips, etc.

• For The Onion/AV CLUB/Pop Pilgrims video of FREEWHEELIN' Click here.

• For The Onion/AV CLUB/Pop Pilgrims video of MANHATTAN Click here.

• For the One-Minute Clip on PopSpots distributed by BUZZ 60 Click here.

• To see the shots on the photo-hosting site Imgur that got 8 Million hits in one week (and now gets about 8,000 a week) Click here.

•••Imgur (pron: "image-er")is an online image hosting service used to share photos with social networks and online communities.