Beavis and Butt-Head’s least favorite band is back with its fifth — fifth! — album, leaving Jeff Giles to ask once more: You Again?
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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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It’s got to be a pain in the ass being Rivers Cuomo. On the one hand, he’s a talented songwriter and solid vocalist who happens to front the only band…
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Stop right there, George Jones and Willie Nelson fans. If you think of fiddles and pedal steel when you think of country, you still get angry when you think about…
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How much thought do you put into your food? Not long ago, buying food was a much more involved process — people had relationships with their butchers and grocers, they…
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As anyone who takes spirituality seriously knows, it’s only natural for a person to experience ebbs and flows in his relationship with whatever higher power he believes in. But what…
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During its brief lifespan, Blu-ray has been helped along by the usual early adopters, but now that the format has beaten out HD DVD for next-gen dominance, if it’s really…
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Hey, remember the late ’90s? When the Internet bubble was at its biggest, our biggest political worry was who Bill Clinton had been keeping under his desk in the Oval…
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Lionsgate, the studio that gave us Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights and the Saw movies, is branching out into music — and if you read those words and guessed that the…
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Perez Hilton may not know his ass from a hole in the ground, and his unwelcome attempt to go from gossip hound to media mogul might be going down in…
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Fans of Brandi Carlile and KT Tunstall have a friend in Jen Murdza, who delivers on the promise of 2007’s Reboundin’ with Good Little Worker Bees, an 11-track showcase for…
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In 1974, Land of the Lost was a scrappy, heartfelt Sid & Marty Krofft series that aired Saturday mornings on CBS, a weekly case study in how to wring every…
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Jay Nash has shared the stage with Sara Bareilles, but he’s more of a rocker than that association might suggest; rather than an earnest white boy straining for soul (a…
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Nearly a decade after his last solo album, Timothy B. Schmit has returned, leaving Jeff Giles to reluctantly ask: You Again?
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Playing for Change, the globetrotting multimedia charity project that blends cutting-edge technology with lo-fi live street performances from artists around the world, is one of the coolest compilations to come…
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Pete Seeger’s unlikely late-career resurgence continues with Live in ’65, Appleseed Recordings’ latest contribution to the folk icon’s vast catalog. Culled from a performance at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Music Hall, these…
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Blending the porcelain pop of Coldplay with artfully ramshackle rock, L.A.’s Chasing Kings may seem a little staid compared with some of the more experimental bands on the indie landscape,…
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Rod Stewart is one of the most soulful vocalists on Earth, as well as one of rock’s finest interpreters. He also sucks. This Rod dichotomy has been a part of…
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Like my dear, esteemed colleague Ted Asregadoo, I’m fond of liquor, particularly the hard stuff. Unlike Ted, I tend to approach my drinking with a “seasons” philosophy; although bourbon is…
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We like to think that once a musician has “made it big,” life is an endless series of MTV shoots and screaming fans — but like any career, it has its ups and downs. In a frank Popdose Interview, Jeff Giles discusses the less glamorous side of rock & roll with three musicians who have been there.
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Lita Ford ended a 15-year layoff this week with her new album, Wicked Wonderland, leaving Jeff Giles to ask once more: “You Again?”
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Synopsis: A poor little boy wins a ticket to visit the inside of a mysterious and magical chocolate factory. When he experiences the wonders inside the factory, the boy discovers…
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If you’ve been looking for an excuse to make the jump from DVD to Blu-ray, look no further. Matter of fact, thanks to Disney’s brilliant strategy of bundling DVDs with…
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It’s the most-watched film in history, and unless you’re an extremely unusual person, you’ve seen it more times than you can count — but The Wizard of Oz still somehow…
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Hey, who are those dudes? Believe it or not, it’s the 2009 version of Foreigner — and they’ve got a new album, Can’t Slow Down, that leaves Jeff Giles repeating his now-familiar query: “You Again?”
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Selena Gomez co-credits her full-length debut to a band called the Scene, but let’s get this out of the way up front: On Kiss & Tell, Gomez sounds no more…
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It’s easy to hate Paramore. With her diminutive stature, big vocals, and perpetually scrunched-up face, singer Hayley Williams comes across like a younger, snottier version of Avril Lavigne — an…
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If you love hauntingly beautiful melodies and ethereal harmonies, you’ll want to make the acquaintance of Brandon Schott, whose new album, Dandelion, arrives in stores today.
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Mariah Carey’s last album, 2008’s E=MCÁ‚², marked the spot where she broke Elvis Presley’s record for Number One singles by a solo artist — and it also boasted the biggest…
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Cleveland has a reputation for being a sort of American cultural black hole, but like a lot of bad reputations, it isn’t entirely deserved: having spent an enjoyable February weekend…
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She went to Spain on a Fulbright scholarship, but Haroula Rose is firmly rooted in Laurel Canyon on her debut EP, Someday, a dreamy, beautifully packaged five-song effort that features…