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Jeff Giles
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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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Who needs youth and riches when you’ve got a catchy chorus and some synths?
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Missing the Civil Wars? Jonesing for fresh Lumineers-style folk pop? Look no further.
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Popdose presents “Magenta,” the first single from DeQn Sue’s new album “Zeitgeist.”
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Funk rock gets a bad rap because of the way it’s been misappropriated by frat-friendly bands like 311 and Sublime, but when it’s good, it’s good — check your Funkadelic…
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Apple reportedly wants to give consumers more audio fidelity — but is that enough to fix falling download sales?
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It’s eaten into their ratings and wreaked copyright havoc, but the web could end up becoming the Big Four’s most powerful tool.
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For a song that threatens to start a revolution with boots to the ground, Claire London‘s “Hit the Switch” is suspiciously pristine — a chilly tower of sound sculpted out…
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Japanther? Is that like an Indiantelope or a Mexicostritch? I don’t know, but I do know that the Brooklyn duo’s new single, “Take Me in and Let Me Go,” is…
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Here in New Hampshire, it just yesterday broke 60 degrees for the first time since November, and we’re all in full-on spring fever, so I don’t know what the hell…
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Grab a free track from the Brooklyn duo’s new LP, “Sack Lunch.”
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Modern pop music tends to be so personality-driven that getting an email from a band like Tower is as refreshing as it is bewildering. Who are they? “A new band…
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If Jerry Lee Lewis and Bob Dylan had a baby, and then that baby had a baby with Tom Waits, it might grow up to sound like Luke Elliot‘s “Virginia”:…
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You say “soulful big-band crooner,” and I say “There’s somewhere else I need to be right now” — most of the time, anyway. But Rory Partin is a happy exception:…
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Ryan Hobler‘s “All Along” sounds like early morning sunlight through your bedroom window, with a haunting melody that moves with dreamlike grace — all of which is utterly appropriate, because…
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The Bob Newhart Show is the Newhart sitcom that most people seem to remember most fondly, but for me, it’s his second long-running series, Newhart, that really hits the spot….
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It’s February, which means two things: One, many of us are trying to ward off the coldest weeks of winter with multiple cuddly layers (or, ahem, bourbon); and two, Mardi…
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Nine times out of 10, if I heard a group of people were going around recording musicians’ performances live to 78 using a vintage direct-to-disc recorder, I’d roll my eyes…
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Reunions are the Hostess cakes of the music world — they often sound like a treat, but by the time they’re finished, you’re left feeling dissatisfied and a little unclean….
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How to you go from growing up on a Washington farm to getting a master’s in social work to embarking on a career as a stand-up comic? You don’t get…
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One of the biggest sources of pop music’s appeal is its immediacy — the way a well-written song can take you on an emotional journey in 3:05, and have you…
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Looking to beef up your home theater system, but don’t have a ton of room or a few thousand dollars burning a hole in your pocket? Onkyo is here to…
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If you had to go away for awhile and you could only take five of your favorite albums with you, which ones would you choose? Yes, we know it isn’t…
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“There were a bunch of years there where I kind of lived in tents and people’s closets.” If you’ve been a hardcore Popdose reader for any length of time (and…
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One of the most distinctive and prolific guitarists of his generation, Bill Frisell doesn’t seem to play as much as he seems to exist as an effortless gateway — whether…
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Nashville songwriter Fred Wilhelm opens up about his career and creative process
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The Grammy-winning musician discusses his reunion with keyboardist Bob James and their new album, Quartette Humaine.
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How the hell do you make a living as an actor, anyway? We have no idea, but Amir Talai seems to be figuring it out.