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…
Jeff Giles
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…
Okay, jefitoblog faithful…you’ve stuck with me through Toto and Big Country. Can you handle an in-depth look at Norway’s most successful pop export? I’m sure many of you think I’ve…
“The radio, that was my big influence … Bands that were faceless, that didn’t really have anything other than what you heard on the radio. And I liked the real…
LetÁ¢€â„¢s talk about the blues. It only seems appropriate, after all, given that itÁ¢€â„¢s Tuesday, the bluesiest day of the work week Á¢€” last weekend a distant memory, Friday a…
IÁ¢€â„¢ve been working up to a Ry Cooder IdiotÁ¢€â„¢s Guide for awhile now. HeÁ¢€â„¢s one of my longtime, all-time favorites, but heÁ¢€â„¢s released so many albums in so many different…
Now here’s a band that would be huge if the world made any sense. A trio of non-threateningly scruffy alterna-pop minstrels, singing songs about love and loss, hope and heartbreak,…
Á¢€Å“Randy Newman Finds Something New Under the Sun,Á¢€ proclaimed the back cover of his 1968 debut, and even if that wasnÁ¢€â„¢t entirely true Á¢€” his music, after all, has always…