During my 20s, when I was a callow and heartbroken youth, I went on a catastrophic date with a woman who spent half of our dinner talking about her dreams…
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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What’s a winterval? It’s like an interval, only colder, I guess — and it’s also the latest hypnotic eight-minute track from electronic artist Sam Willis, who’s getting ready to release…
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Happy Hump Day, dear readers! To celebrate, here’s a video from a young blooze-rock quartet whose songs sound like they’re probably pretty much all about humping. I mean, not that…
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Trails and Ways’ latest single boasts a martial beat, dreamy vocals breathing life into an addictive melody, and the band is out promoting a good cause in the bargain. I…
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Everyone is fixated on Mars right now, but for a couple of Boston-area musicians, it’s far more interesting to contemplate Life on Venus — and after listening to their latest…
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Popdose introduces a new series taking readers behind the scenes as artists create in the studio.
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Lee Feldman subtitled his fourth album Trying to Put the Things Together That Never Been Together Before, which might read like a Fiona Apple-esque prank if it didn’t fit so…
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Hannah Georgas, where have you been all my life? I’m going to have your deliciously atmospheric “Enemies” on repeat for much of the summer, I just know it. [youtube id=”RFQ2advYqJ0″…
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As habitual readers of this space are already aware, I’m celebrating Woody Guthrie’s centennial by helping put together a tribute album dedicated to raising funds for the Woody Guthrie Foundation,…
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Out here where I live, a May morning is cause for celebration — the snow is behind us, most of winter’s ice has melted, and we’re out breathing the warm…
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They look like they have a combined age of maybe 48 — and they actually might, as their press release says they’re all under 20 — but the Blackwell brothers,…
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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 a fair question, but that hasn’t stopped us from asking music fans who happen to be recording artists in their own right. This edition of
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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 a fair question, but that hasn’t stopped us from asking music fans who happen to be recording artists in their own right. This edition of
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The Woody Guthrie centennial is coming up, and we’re celebrating with music.
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While Paul Simon’s Graceland celebrates its 25th anniversary, a group of musicians rediscovers the bonds between Appalachia and Nepal.
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I’ve reached the point where I’ve stopped watching most trailers, because A) my kids won’t be quiet long enough for me to hear anything and B) every movie gets at least half a dozen of the damn things before it reaches theaters, so if you want to be surprised by anything that happens during the
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The latest single from the band’s latest album, The Echo Show, arrives in my inbox just in time for 90-degree heat and a couple of kids out of school. This sounds…
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If, like me, you shed a silent Gen X tear when Reading Rainbow was forced off the air a few years ago, and if, like me, you felt bad for longtime host LeVar Burton, whose public quest to drum up funding for his (utterly worthwhile) show came to naught, you’ll be happy to learn that
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It’s no secret we love Brandon Schott around here — we’ve interviewed the man, and we gave his latest album, 13 Satellites, a
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Would you want to be stranded with Recess Monkey
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Well, he told us that song he released earlier this week wasn’t actually the first single from his upcoming album, and apparently he meant it: Mika’s “Celebrate,” embedded below, is…
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I’ve reached the point where just reading the word “soul” in a press release is enough to make me roll my eyes, but damn if the Right Now don’t live…
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On the eve of her twelfth album, Carpenter talks about her songwriting journey.
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We like to imagine Josh Dolgen being pursued by zombies or dragons while he sings this, not because it’s a bad song — quite the contrary — but because power…
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He swears this isn’t the first single from his upcoming album The Origin of Love, but whatever — whatever Mika wants to call it, “Make You Happy” is the first…
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With a new album under their belts, Boom and Dr. Rock prepare to head off to a deserted island with their favorite LPs
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The Fleas frontman weighs in on the band’s new album, Invisible Friends, and what’s next in his busy career
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What do two pop culture writers with the same name talk about? Writing about pop culture, of course.
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Who are the Pure Conjecture? Knock three times for what, exactly? And what does a plastic tray of zucchini have to do with this cool breeze of pop-kissed soul? Stop…
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