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Mellowmas
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Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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In which two of Toto’s many former lead singers wish you a very merry Mellowmas — or a maudlin, senselessly overblown one, whichever comes first.
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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Armed with a drum loop and enough Viagra to kill a horse, the O’Jays have returned to sex you up for Mellowmas.
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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Kenny Rogers takes a break from his busy plastic surgery schedule to record yet another Christmas album, and all of us are poorer for it.
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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Because when you’re calling yourselves the New Monkees, you might as well just go ahead and sing Christmas lyrics over one of your songs.
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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What if “The First Noel” happened at a Hot Topic in Orange County? Today, the dorks in Eve 6 give us their “Very Special” answer.
Jeff Giles
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Today, the Kidz Bop delinquents invade Mellowmas and desecrate a holiday classic.
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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The mood is right and the spirit’s up — or at least they were until we heard this double dose of “Wonderful Christmastime” covers.
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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In today’s post, Jeff and Jason uncover long-suppressed memories of cold British seascapes and synthy dread.
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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Just in time for Mariah Carey’s new Christmas special, here’s a peek inside her latest holiday music cash-in.
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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Amy Keys looks like a nice enough person…but beneath that friendly smile lurks a heart of pure, sax-wielding evil.
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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Would you believe that a self-referencing Wang Chung giveaway could end up being one of the year’s best Mellowmas songs? Neither could Jeff and Jason.
Popdose Staff
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In the ever-evolving column we call Friday Night Videos!, there’s always room for expansion. This week, with Thanksgiving vittles solidly out of our systems (and it took a whole two…
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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Just in case your holidays weren’t bland enough, Train and Coca-Cola have joined forces to “shake” them “up.”
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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We don’t agree with Willie Nelson’s decision to cut a Christmas duet with Jessica Simpson…but we understand.
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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On the eighth day of Mellowmas, Laura from General Hospital recorded a holiday album and we are totally not making this up.
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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Yesterday, Jeff promised not to send Jason any more versions of “Last Christmas” for a year. Yesterday, Jeff lied.
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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On the sixth day of Mellowmas, the cast of Glee take Jason’s favorite holiday song and wrap it in sheets of Auto-Tune.
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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Most Christmas albums contain the same old songs, but this year, Susan Boyle has brought us a rather unusual Gift.
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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On the fourth day of Mellowmas, Jeff and Jason wander into a dark, cold place where pitch, intelligible lyrics, melody, and steady tempo have ceased to exist.
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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How do you take the most annoying Christmas standard and make it even worse? Today, we find out!
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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Mellowmas has just begun and already Jason has become weak (and nauseous). See why as the dynamic duo listen to some warm lovin’ Wilson Phillips on Day Two!
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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…Because what could be a better Mellowmas beginning than a soul-scarring song about everyone’s least favorite holiday treat?
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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Like the grumpy warrior-poet Don Henley once rasped, “these times are so uncertain.” In this era of crumbling infrastructure, awful manners, and Sarah Palin, it’s hard to know what we…
Dave Lifton
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The United States’ performance in the World Cup last month, and the attention if brought, caused many commentators, sports and otherwise, to ask if this was the moment when soccer…
Matt Wardlaw
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Featuring a bunch of facial hair, a stack of hits, and at least one unnecessary drummer, .38 Special rocked Long Island in January of 1985. This week, Matt Wardlaw takes us back.
Jason Hare
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In honor of Easter, join Jeff Giles, Jason Hare and Dave Lifton as they talk about resurrection — pop culture style! It’s all in Episode 8 of the Popdose Podcast!
Dw. Dunphy
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All rise. The rules of this courtroom are simple. You will be presented with two songs, one by the plaintiff and one by the defendant. It is your task to…
Jason Hare
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Jeff Giles, Jason Hare and Dave Lifton return for more irreverent conversation on music, movies and Michael McDonald — all in this very special bonus episode of the Popdose Podcast!
Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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Oh, don’t look so surprised — you knew this Mellowmas would end up with Bob Dylan croaking under a Santa hat, didn’t you?