After a 20-year hiatus, Radney Foster and Bill Lloyd are back together, with plenty to discuss — including their reunion, the new album, and more.
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He’s never been a household name, but Steve Conn has produced, played with, and written for a long list of artists over the last several decades, and if you’re a…
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I was recently interviewed, along with my fellow Popdose Podcast co-hosts Dave Lifton and Jason Hare, by the Brown Tweed Society — I imagine the article will run whenever they…
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Popdose takes a look at the nuts and bolts of writing for a daytime drama with the Emmy-winning head writer of One Life to Live.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 1 (Warner Bros., 2010) After six films and billions of dollars in box office grosses, this is the end — or the…
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In the old music industry, losing a record deal often meant the end of a career. For Mike Errico, it was only the beginning.
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For almost 15 years now, Lee Feldman has been one of the best-kept secrets in playfully literate pop music — a smartly played piano and a heartbreakingly pure voice in…
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After a few years of plundering my parents’ vinyl collection and taping songs off the radio, I finally got around to buying my first cassette in late 1985. This was…
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After a three-month hiatus, Jeff, Jason, and Dave are back to rip apart a Billboard Top 10 from 1985. It’s the Popdose Podcast, Episode 16: CHART ATTACK! Edition!
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I’ve had Live at Shea Stadium for a couple of weeks now, and I’ve spent them alternating between watching 30-minute chunks of the film and struggling with what to say…
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As some of you may remember, I interviewed One Life to Live‘s musical director, Paul Glass, for a Popdose feature a couple of years ago. We’ve stayed in touch since…
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Like many of you, I’ve always been a sucker for books about rock music, either about the music itself (e.g. Paul Zollo’s Songwriters on Songwriting and Jimmy Guterman and Owen…
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Since the advent of recorded music, there’s been a more or less constant tension between the audiophile segment of the marketplace and the great unwashed hordes of transistor-toting plebes who…
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She’s become sort of a rock artist emeritus for the chablis-sipping set, but once upon a time, Bonnie Raitt’s music was raw and direct: her first three albums featured guest…
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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…
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Shawn Mullins – Lullaby Everything – Hooch Little Feat – Hate To Lose Your Lovin’ Joe Satriani – Always With Me, Always With You Sarah McLachlan – Building A Mystery…
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You may not know him by name, but chances are you’ve heard Jeff Pescetto‘s work — not only has he written, produced, and performed on songs for a long list…
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The world doesn’t need another greatest hits album — we’ve already got three goddamn Essential REO Speedwagon collections, and enough bargain-basement repackaged crap to fill truck stop carousels from coast…
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Toad the Wet Sprocket – Whatever I Fear Indigo Girls – Shame On You Sister Hazel – All For You Sheryl Crow – Home Big Head Todd & The Monsters…
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I love Ry Cooder’s music in almost all of its many guises, as you may already know, so I was thrilled to find this terrific in-studio set lurking in Wolfgang’s…
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Statistics chosen at random from the latest Harper’s Index, with corresponding mp3s. Rank of “disappointed” among terms used by Americans in an October survey to describe their feelings about the…
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Before the Internet came along to pump information directly into your brain at the click of a mouse, rabid music fans had to rely on good old-fashioned release sheets to…
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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…
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It’s the first Hump Day of the new year, and we’re guessing that means you’re feeling a mite sluggish and worn down, so we can get away with posting a…
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The world doesn’t need another greatest hits album — we’ve already got three goddamn Essential REO Speedwagon collections, and enough bargain-basement repackaged crap to fill truck stop carousels from coast…
Jeff Giles
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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…
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The American (Focus Features, 2010) That’s a pissed-looking George Clooney with a gun on the cover, so The American must be a pulse-pounding spy thriller, right? Wrong, suckas! Director Anton…
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Stacie Collins, Sometimes Ya Gotta… The cover might look like a rejected panel from Marvel Comics Goes to the Rodeo, but there’s nothing cartoonish about Stacie Collins’ Sometimes Ya Gotta……
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Willy Porter & Carpe Diem, Live at BoMA While you’re busy making New Year’s resolutions, here’s one worth adding to the list: acquaint yourself with the music of Willy Porter,…
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Inception (Warner Bros., 2010) For all the high-tech gewgaws that help modern Hollywood filmmakers get their visions to the screen, we’re living in a depressingly undemanding time for cinema —…