Nearly 20 years after the album was released, Ron Nevison shares the strange story of how his mixes for Chicago Twenty 1 were replaced — and why he’s still seething.
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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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Well, you’ve got to give her credit for picking an honest title, anyway. Christina Aguilera called her latest album Bionic, and she meant it — this is an hour of…
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Have you ever wondered what inspired the images on your favorite album covers? With Uncovered, we discuss the stories behind the artwork with the people who made them. This week,…
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The Black Keys headed to Muscle Shoals to record their sixth album, which makes all kinds of sense, since they’ve been driving for the sound of the original dirty South…
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Tracey Thorn’s latest solo outing isn’t a new Everything but the Girl album, but it comes close — closer than her dancefloor-friendly 2007 effort, anyway. Starved EbtG fans who listened…
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One of my last acts as a recording artist was a series of demos intended for a covers album. Though I didn’t really realize it at the time, I was…
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In this week’s Uncovered, we talk with Julie Speed, the artist who painted the cover of Shawn Colvin’s Grammy-winning breakthrough album.
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Wax on, wax off, bitches! You’d have to try pretty hard to make a case for either of them as truly great films, but 1984’s The Karate Kid and its…
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Confessional albums are certainly nothing new in the singer/songwriter idiom, but there’s a continuum. I mean, there are personal songs, and then there are songs that take your breath away…
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This week, we come back to “Peg” — and guitarist Jay Graydon gives us the back story on how his famous solo for the song came together.
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Meat Loaf returns with his eleventh album this week, leaving Jeff Giles to cry out in anguish: You Again?
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Mel Gibson has always had a fetish for cinematic struggle — from his acting career, dotted with heartbroken and often bloodied law enforcement officers, to his directorial efforts, notably fixated…
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This week, Jeff Giles discusses the artwork for Guster’s 1999 album with designer Robert Hamilton.
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CAPTAIN VIDEO! returns from the 1980th dimension with another relic from the MTV vaults — and a startling discovery about Nick Nolte.
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Even the greatest artists make mistakes — including the mighty mighty Earth, Wind & Fire, as Jeff Giles discovers in this week’s Whoops! column.
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There are only 26 letters in the Western alphabet, and thousands upon thousands of musical acts, so it’s only natural that every once in awhile, a band will end up…
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Have you ever wondered what inspired the images on your favorite album covers? Popdose kicks off a new series with a look at the artwork for one of 1984’s biggest hits.
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Up until about a week ago, I had no idea who Miranda Cosgrove is, but that’s because I blinked during the last shift change at the factory where tween starlets…
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Mary Chapin Carpenter makes sadness sound good. This is a gross oversimplification of her appeal, one which I hope to correct later on in this review, but at their best,…
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After 11 years and a few lawsuits, Ratt is back with its seventh album. An incredulous Jeff Giles asks the band: you again?
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The 1980s were not, to put it mildly, a good decade for brass sections. We still heard horns on the Top 40, sure — but more often than not, we…
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Writer Steve Almond caught some hell a couple of weeks ago for a pre-release segment from his upcoming book, Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life, which outlined his brief,…
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They may have had the Eye of the Tiger, but the men of Survivor were no match for the potent hallucinogenics that produced this video.
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“That is not a fish. PLEASE tell me that is not a fish.” Not counting the gasp she let out when she saw the box, those were the first words…
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Over the past few years, David Byrne has made his best music as a guest performer on other artists’ tracks, due in part to his increasingly Zelig-like ability to insert…
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I went through a huge BoDeans phase in the mid ’90s — I can’t remember how it started, but what I do recall is that this was before I had…
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If you’ve ever wanted to see a bunch of nerds get worked into a righteous fury over the release of a six-disc collection that brings one of film’s greatest trilogies…
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I know this is absolute heresy for a guy in my line of work, but I’ve never been a big fan of Wes Anderson’s filmmaking. There’s a difference between developing…
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I’ve really pretty much had it with covers records — those of you who follow me on Twitter may have recently experienced my raging disdain for Marc Cohn’s upcoming exercise…