I’m sure there are plenty of places that people would love to hear Phil Collins go back to. Sitting behind Peter Gabriel in a reunited Genesis, maybe. Or back to…
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Jeff Giles is the founder and editor-in-chief of Popdose and Dadnabbit, as well as an entertainment writer whose work can be seen at Rotten Tomatoes and a number of other sites. Hey, why not follow him at Twitter while you're at it?
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Good morning and happy Sunday, faithful readers:I hope you’re sitting in front of the computer with a sleepy grin on your face and that first, satisfying mug of coffee in…
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More than 20 years after reaching the point of no return, Nu Shooz are back with a new album, leaving an astonished Jeff Giles to ask: You Again?
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The Blu-ray market was made for reissues, but not all reissues are created equal. With that in mind, here are four recent Blu-ray sets that bring some hit films of…
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I’m assuming most of you are already aware of KBCO and its legendary Studio C series, copies of which routinely go for megabucks on Amazon. If you haven’t heard of…
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Artist Mike Salisbury reflects on an amazing career, and discusses his work on Randy Newman’s Born Again.
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For the kids of my generation, Heart was just another source of power ballads — sort of a slightly more hairsprayed and corseted version of Starship or Chicago — and…
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Pity poor Rhino Entertainment, and their vaults bursting with classic tracks from excessively anthologized artists. Take Aretha Franklin, for instance: she has more compilations to her credit than most artists…
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A look behind the scenes of a-ha’s smash hit debut with Jeri Heiden, the artist responsible for the album’s iconic cover.
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The road to Hell is paved with good intentions — and the road to mediocre country-rock records is paved with steel guitars, plaintive drawls, and lyrics about one-horse towns. Make…
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Mashups may not be considered as hip as they were five years ago, but they can still be a lot of fun if you’re in the mood to dance your…
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Zac Efron leaves the singing and dancing behind for this week’s Charlie St. Cloud, a drama that proves just how earnestly he can stare into the distance. Looking at Efron’s…
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As the latest round of would-be blockbusters lines up at a theater near you, Popdose looks back at the box office totals of yesteryear. This week, we revisit the Top…
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Kevin Smith is a writer first, director second. Even his most passionate fan would have a hard time arguing the merits of Smith’s directing technique, which mostly consists of filming…
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Great Big Sea is one of those bands that fills a particular niche — in this case, traditional Newfoundland folk with a modern pop twist — so completely that no…
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Curtains for You’s publicist pitched us What a Lovely Surprise to Wake Up Here as “The Beatles meets vaudeville meets The Muppet Show,” a bizarrely promising description that led Way…
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Its Blu-ray debut is timed to take advantage of the hubbub surrounding director Christopher Nolan’s latest film, but 2002’s Insomnia would make for a fine summer reissue even if Warner…
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I am 16. It’s July, and I’m in Florida, where, to quote my uncle Larry, the air is so fucking wet that you won’t notice if you towel off after…
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Like wrinkles on a middle-aged man, time has a way of making even the most mundane movie appear distinguished. Maybe you were a kid when you first saw that middlebrow…
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What were we watching this week in ’83? Five sequels, a great comedy duo, a gaggle of Ewoks, and one mustachioed action hero driving his career off the tracks!
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At this point, the Roots have been around long enough — and have been accruing glowing reviews long enough — that there are two kinds of hardcore music lovers: Those…
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Eminem’s always been a pretty cranky guy, and releasing a couple of subpar records hasn’t improved his mood, so it’s easy to understand — and almost forgive — the case…
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Yeah, yeah, I know. Everyone over the age of 14 is supposed to hate Miley Cyrus, and a publication as allegedly respectable as this one has no business reviewing her…
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Lou Bega is back with a new album, leaving Jeff Giles to croak in horrified wonder: You Again?
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Hollywood has had a bigger-than-average hard-on for the post-apocalypse lately, what with John Hillcoat’s adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (finally) arriving in theaters just a couple of months before…
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Proving Blu-ray isn’t just for videophiles, Caddyshack makes the hi-def leap this week — a low-budget comedy made by an inexperienced director, and a movie that looked like shit 30…
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Growing up, I lived across the street from a middle-aged man who spent most of his free time working on a beautiful old car. He’d tune it up, polish it,…
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For their last album, 2007’s New Wave, Against Me! signed with Sire and hired Butch Vig to produce — and heard the usual screamed chorus of “sellouts!” from fans who…
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Drake’s full-length debut has already been dismissed by occasional Popdose correspondent and full-time idiot Jeff Vrabel, on the grounds that Drake’s lyrical outlook — which more or less boils down…
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Artist Barry E. Jackson discusses his work for the cover of ZZ Top’s multiplatinum 1985 release.