I love Nick Lowe’s music and I’m thrilled that he’s decided to age gracefully, but still — every time he releases a new album, I can’t help but hope he’s…
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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There are wide swaths of the Neil Young catalog that I’m never going to have any use for, but when I heard he was cutting traditional American folk songs with…
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What can you do when a band has the sack to refer to itself as “New Jersey’s Finest” in a press release? Just bow, tip your hat, and get out…
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We interviewed them last October, but if that wasn’t enough to get you to buy the Chop Love Carry Fire album, here’s more incentive for you: their just-released video for…
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Maret discusses his self-titled debut album, his songwriting philosophy, and how he’s helping shatter the harmonica’s campfire stereotype.
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If you could only listen to five albums, which ones would you choose? In this edition of Desert Island Discs, Stephan Bayley of City Squirrel makes his picks.
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Hutchinson discusses his new album, “Moving Up Living Down.”
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“So who the f#*k is Jamie Kent?” leads off Jamie Kent’s bio, and it’s a fair question — although he’s about to release his sophomore album, Navigation, chances are you…
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“What kind of name is Vassy?” you might be asking, to which I respond, “the kind of name you come up with when your birth certificate says ‘Vasiliki Karagiorgos,’ that’s…
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The Night Tripper brings a taste of his excellent new album Locked Down to Jimmy Fallon. Also in attendance: the Doctor’s producer, who’s in some band called the Black Keys…
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I’m not exactly a gardener, but I’m pretty sure poppies like water, same as any other flower. But hey, whatever Shirley Manson is doing is clearly working for her, so…
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Sadly, it arrives too late for an emotional montage in a very special episode of One Tree Hill — and before summer, which is weird, but hey, poetic license —…
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Careful when you lip-sync at work, folks — you never know when someone with a camera is watching. Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. – We Almost Lost Detroit from Dale Earnhardt…
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Because we always love a story that ends with a fat alcoholic turning his life around and emerging as a multimedia sensation, we’re thrilled to share the news of the…
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I think every new BoDeans album since 1996’s Blend has come with at least a vague sense of disappointment for me, but like Charlie Brown running to Lucy’s football, I…
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Chances are, unless you’re one of the approximately 15 people who live in my neck of the (literal) woods, you aren’t going to be in attendance for Willy Porter‘s Saturday…
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Could I get any more excited for the release of Bonnie Raitt’s new album, Slipstream, on April 10? Possibly, if she’d agree to let me interview her. (Call me, Bonnie!)…
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Mere weeks after releasing their A Valentine EP, US Elevator are set to return with a 7″ single for Record Store Day that finds the band covering Joni Mitchell’s “Both…
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What happens when you give iPods to a bunch of hard-touring musicians? They hand them out to strangers while giving an impromptu concert at the Grand Canyon, of course. And…
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Three years after releasing the rather wonderful You’re Gonna Glow in the Dark, Christopher the Conquered is ready to return with his next record, The Fate of a Good Man….
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Norah’s got another little broken heart for our listening pleasure.
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Ridley Scott debuts the full-length “Prometheus” trailer and we want to go to there.
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Some personal reflection and words of praise for the Boss’s latest album.
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We doubt there was catfish on the menu and are fairly certain that nobody in attendance had the blues, but Gary Clark, Jr. still rocked his performance of “Catfish Blues”…
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I haven’t owned a turntable since the late ’80s and haven’t had one around the house since the early ’90s. I’ve also ditched most of the insane completist impulses that…
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The only real complaint I have about this is that it’s too short — 2:25? Yo, that’s wack — but minor quibbling aside, “Wack But Good People” highlights another side…
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We can’t resist anything Nick Lowe-related. Toss in appearances by Marc Maron, Wilco, and Robyn Hitchcock, and you’re practically daring us not to post this video. YOU WIN, MR. LOWE….
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I became a big Guster fan with the release of their 1999 album, Lost and Gone Forever, but have found myself frustrated with subsequent records as the band’s once-prominent harmonies…
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Long ago, a hockey player had a rock ‘n’ roll dream. It did not end well.