The following is an FOJ (Friends Of Jefitoblog) Television Alert! First: Our good pal Amir Talai will be starring in Campus Ladies, the new Oxygen Network sitcom, starting January 8th….
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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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The following is an FOJ (Friends Of Jefitoblog) Television Alert! First: Our good pal Amir Talai will be starring in Campus Ladies, the new Oxygen Network sitcom, starting January 8th….
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I wasn’t going to do one of these “year in review” things — they’re a lot of work and nobody ever agrees with you anyway — but when I sat…
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Hey, hey, it’s Big Star Day here in Bootleg City! Presented for your downloading pleasure: What’s Goin’ Ahn, twenty-three tracks of demos, outtakes, and various other detritus left over from…
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Hey, any Buffalo Tom fans out there? I’ve never been the most passionate of fans — and my favorite BT album is Big Red Letter Day, which I imagine most…
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Anthony Hamilton – Ain’t Nobody Worryin’ (2005) purchase this album After a long string of nowhere deals and disappointments, Anthony Hamilton has been on a hot streak lately — starting…
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[One of the most polarizing features of jefitoblog, I think, is my tendency to give more-or-less equal time to music I hate. Lotsa music blogs are proselytizers for certain artists,…
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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (2005)purchase this album The critical consensus I’m hearing seems to point to this as 2005’s Album of the Year….
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Various Artists – Our New Orleans: A Benefit Album for the Gulf Coast (2005)purchase this albumVarious Artists – Higher Ground Hurricane Benefit Relief Concert (2005)purchase this album Disaster. Relief album….
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Now here’s a band we haven’t discussed yet — Squeeze. Today’s Bootleg City consists of live cuts from 1980 and 1981, the period leading up to and around East Side…
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Beckley-Lamm-Wilson – Like A Brother (2000) purchase this album One of the commenters on our look at Dennis Wilson’s Bamboo mentioned Beckley-Lamm-Wilson’s Like A Brother, and it got me to…
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The BoDeans – Joe Dirt Car (1995) purchase this album They seemed poised to make the jump on several occasions, but Waukesha’s finest (otherwise known as The BoDeans) never quite…
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When last we left Nick Lowe Á¢€” at the end of Part One last week Á¢€” he was mired in a sales slump and battling the bottle. After the commercial…
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To many people, they’ve never been more than a hokey novelty act, but I am in no way ashamed to admit that I fell in love with the gritty, deep-fried,…
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Radney Foster – See What You Want to See (1999)purchase this album As the bespectacled half of the late-’80s country duo Foster & Lloyd, Radney Foster was the logical choice…
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Doesn’t look like the godfather of punk, does he? Well. Maybe not the godfather, but perhaps a kindly uncle. Either way, Nick Lowe’s footprint on punk — hell, on all…
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Nicole Krauss, The History of Love (2005)purchase this book The grass was slippery with mud. In the distance I could see a rowboat tied to the dock. I looked out…
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Dennis Wilson – Bamboo Here it is, as promised: Dennis Wilson’s second and final solo album, the unreleased Bamboo. And actually, if you want to get right down to it,…
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Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham – Moments from This Theater (1999) purchase this album Spring, 1999: I’m at Slim’s, in San Francisco, making a rare visit to the city in…
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Tommy Keene – Ten Years After (1996)purchase this album Power pop: It’s a genre close to my heart, and yet one not often discussed here. This is mostly because, as…
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Scott Stapp – The Great Divide (2005)purchase this album Fight Song (download)You Will Soar (download)
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Last week’s installment in our Hall & Oates Guide got big love from Stereogum and Entertainment Weekly, among others, forcing me to further question my belief that the blogosphere is…
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Dan Chaon – You Remind Me Of Me (2005)purchase this book The baby’s large eyes settled on him, and though this had been one of his happiest nights in his…
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‘Tis the season for downloading! Even though I don’t really care about Christmas per se, and fully sympathize with the pain Christmas music causes most people, I have a perverse…
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John Mayer Trio – Try! (2005) purchase this album The name “John Mayer” has become synonymous with the sort of lazy, disingenuously sensitive pop that female college freshmen love and…
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The Guide subjects here fall into roughly three camps, I think: Artists who I periodically enjoy and think are interesting; artists who I think are important in some way; and…
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Greetings, friends, and welcome back from what I hope was a deeply enjoyable, tryptophan-enhanced food coma. As I mentioned previously, the Jefitos celebrate Thanksgetting — it’s the day after Thanksgiving…
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I realize that many of you think I sit around listening to Toto and Big Country all day, but it ain’t so. Well, not that I don’t listen to those…
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Get your turkey on, bitches! For a variety of reasons I shan’t explain, me and mine actually celebrate the day after Thanksgiving — it’s called Thanksgetting, and it’s sweeping the…
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Great Big Sea – The Hard and the Easy (2005)purchase this album Given that Great Big Sea’s music is divided between modern pop-folk and traditional songs from their native Newfoundland,…