Michael Fortes reviews one of the year’s best new albums – a folk-pop masterpiece by veteran singer/songwriter and one-time Jewel collaborator Steve Poltz.
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Michael Fortes began writing for Popdose upon its launch in January of 2008, following a music writing journey that began with his high school newspaper and eventually led to print and web publications such as Performer Magazine and Bullz-Eye.com. Born and raised in The Biggest Little State in the Union (otherwise known as Rhode Island), Michael relocated in 2004 to San Francisco, where he works as an office professional during the day, sings harmonies in Sugar Candy Mountain at night, and religiously supports the local San Francisco Bay Area music scene nearly every chance he gets.
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In today’s Class of ’09 update, Michael Fortes reports the latest developments with the subjects of Parlour to Parlour Episode 3, instrumental duo Silian Rail.
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In a very personal Flashback ’90, Popdose writer Michael Fortes revisits the lows and highs of Cheap Trick’s Busted, song by song.
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Where are they now? While we wait for the next round of Parlour to Parlour video interviews, Michael Fortes catches up with last year’s Parlour to Parlour subjects, starting with an exciting development in the world of The Brother Kite.
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Crazy cat ladies, candy corn campfires in the clouds… it can only mean two things: new music from the Happy Hollows, and Michael Fortes is bloody mental!
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Trip hop meets New Romanticism as X:THC’s new multimedia project takes Popdose writer Michael Fortes on a deep existential trip.
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Michael Fortes has stumbled and fallen for the alluring songs and hypnotic voice of Berkeley’s Ash Reiter, and he thinks the same might happen to you too.
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Is the “new” Jimi Hendrix album really worth all the hullabaloo? Popdose writer Michael Fortes digs deep to find out.
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Popdose writer Michael Fortes has developed a case of the warm and fuzzies after reviewing Juliana Hatfield’s new acoustic album, Peace & Love.
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Michael Fortes closes the book on Parlour to Parlour in 2009 with a look back at the year-long journey and a show of thanks to all who lent a hand along the way.
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Michael Fortes concludes the Parlour to Parlour journey with a family reunion and some metal shredding in, of all places, the south of France!
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Michael Fortes brings the Parlour to Parlour journey back home to the Bay Area for a visit with Steve Taylor, a piano-toting blue-eyed soul busker from Oakland.
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Michael Fortes uncovers a power pop goldmine in Seattle when he finally meets The Tripwires’ John Ramberg in Episode 23 of Parlour to Parlour.
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My original intent in returning to Seattle, after spending some time there with the Purrs, was to interview a band I had seen in 2008 that had left a lasting…
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It was the need to present an acoustic side of Eli and Mary Chartkoff’s music that caused the Cobra Lilies to form. And the band from which they came, the…
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As we enter the home stretch of the Parlour to Parlour journey, the artists preceding some of these final episodes became important to me not just for musical enjoyment, but…
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What’s taking the Brother Kite so long to finish their next album? Michael Fortes finds out in a visit to the band’s Mason, NH studio in Episode 19 of Parlour to Parlour.
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In Episode 18 of Parlour to Parlour, Michael Fortes chats up Bill Spooner, former singer/guitarist and co-founder of the legendary San Francisco band The Tubes.
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Michael Fortes heads to northern California for this week’s edition of Parlour to Parlour, where he catches up with former Stratford 4 frontman Chris Streng.
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I knew that the Spring Heeled Jacks Original Swinging Jass Band’s debut album, The Dicky Comstock Show, was going to be good. The band’s bassist/arranger (and a very good friend…
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Michael Fortes scores a last-minute interview in Portland with Norfolk & Western — and totally blows it — in this week’s episode of Parlour to Parlour.
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What exactly is a “pleasure pad”? Michael Fortes finds out with San Francisco band The New Up in this week’s episode of Parlour to Parlour.
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Singer songwriter Lila Nelson takes Michael Fortes to some of the most intimate places in her home… and ends up doing some Parlour to Parlour filming herself!
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As a member of Chris Robley’s band the Fear of Heights, keyboardist/vocalist Rachel Taylor Brown had already endeared herself to me with her warmth and unique charm. Then I heard…
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Michael Fortes learns how Julian Lennon inspired one of his favorite Chris Robley songs, and presents a brand new one, as Parlour to Parlour heads to Portland.
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Episode 10 marks a couple of big firsts for me. This was the occasion of my first visit to Seattle, which was surprisingly sunny and blue-sky laden in spite of…
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How can Michael Fortes refuse a beer in the afternoon and still call Parlour to Parlour’s visit with Le Switch’s Aaron Kyle a “true rock n’ roll day”? Your call.
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Vic Chesnutt has a tour coming up in the Fall, as well as a new record out on September 22 called At The Cut. And Popdose has a sneak peek of the new LP just for you!
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Michael Fortes drops in on husky-voiced singer/songwriter Angela Correa, a/k/a Correatown, as Parlour to Parlour continues its swing through L.A.
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This week’s episode of Parlour to Parlour captures some of the excitement in the air as the energetic L.A. band The Happy Hollows were preparing for an appearance at Austin’s South by Southwest festival and feverishly working on recordings for their debut full-length album, Spells.