We like to think that once a musician has “made it big,” life is an endless series of MTV shoots and screaming fans — but like any career, it has its ups and downs. In a frank Popdose Interview, Jeff Giles discusses the less glamorous side of rock & roll with three musicians who have been there.
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Lita Ford ended a 15-year layoff this week with her new album, Wicked Wonderland, leaving Jeff Giles to ask once more: “You Again?”
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Selena Gomez co-credits her full-length debut to a band called the Scene, but let’s get this out of the way up front: On Kiss & Tell, Gomez sounds no more…
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If you love hauntingly beautiful melodies and ethereal harmonies, you’ll want to make the acquaintance of Brandon Schott, whose new album, Dandelion, arrives in stores today.
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Discerning folk fans have long known that nobody does New England folk like the people at Boston’s Signature Sounds. With a catalog boasting some of the finest efforts from distinguished…
He has a successful indie label, a new free EP, and an exclusive song for Popdose’s readers. How could we refuse an interview with Zach Curd?
The once-popular R&B vocal group that gave you “I Swear” has returned with its first American release in seven years…prompting Jeff Giles to sigh, “You Again?”
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One of the year’s most divisive films — and I mean that almost literally — writer/director Jody Hill’s Observe and Report had the misfortune of following the loathsome Paul Blart:…
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Two years after his untimely death, Dan Fogelberg has a new album out, which leaves Jeff Giles throwing common courtesy to the wind and asking: You Again?
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It’s Beatles Week here at Popdose, and Jon Cummings kicks things off by leading the staff through a list of our personal Fab Four favorites.
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