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Maren Morris – The Fillmore – Philadelphia, PA – April 26, 2019 (A PopEntertainment.com Concert Phot

PopEntertainment

Apr 28, 2019
1 min

Maren Morris – The Fillmore – Philadelphia, PA – April 26, 2019 (A PopEntertainment.com Concert Phot

Maren Morris – The Fillmore – Philadelphia, PA – April 26, 2019 Scroll through more concert photos above. Photos by Ruth Bekele © 2019 #Country #April26 #RuthBekele #EDM #ConcertPhotography #Zedd #2019 #MarenMorris #TheMiddle #PA #philadelphia #TheFillmore #ConcertPhotoAlbum #ConcertPhotos

Hayley Orrantia – The Goldbergs Actress Likes Her Music Like She Likes Her Tea

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Apr 23, 2018
10 min

Hayley Orrantia – The Goldbergs Actress Likes Her Music Like She Likes Her Tea

Hayley Orrantia Hayley Orrantia The Goldbergs Actress Likes Her Music Like She Likes Her Tea by Jay S. Jacobs On television, Hayley Orrantia is known as Erica Goldberg, the brainy and tough only daughter of a Jewish family in the Philadelphia suburban town of Jenkintown back in the 1980s. In real life, Orrantia is brainy and tough, but she hails from deep in the heart of Texas, and she’s completely a modern woman. One more thing that Orrantia does have in common with her char

Bob Seger – I Knew You When (A PopEntertainment.com Music Review)

PopEntertainment

Nov 28, 2017
3 min

Bob Seger – I Knew You When (A PopEntertainment.com Music Review)

Bob Seger – I Knew You When Bob Seger – I Knew You When (Capitol) You may take it from the wistful title and the cover photo of a fresh-faced, 20-something Bob Seger staring out at you that his latest album would be a celebration of the music he grew up listening to. Instead, I Knew You When is a look backward, but more to the Detroit rocker’s glory days than his inspirations. The album has the feel of past glories like Night Moves and Live Bullet, which is a pleasant surpris

Old 97’s & Nicole Atkins – Union Transfer – Philadelphia, PA – May 2, 2017 (A PopEntertainment.c

PopEntertainment

May 8, 2017
1 min

Old 97’s & Nicole Atkins – Union Transfer – Philadelphia, PA – May 2, 2017 (A PopEntertainment.c

Old 97s & Nicole Atkins – Union Transfer – Philadelphia, PA – May 2, 2017 – photo by Chris Sikich © 2017 Old 97’s & Nicole Atkins – Union Transfer – Philadelphia, PA – May 2, 2017 The reliable rock of Old 97’s makes them one of the best modern bands. Their latest record, Graveyard Whistling, is more country than anything they have done in a while and their live programming reflects this. From the first notes of Most Messed Up‘s “Nashville,” lead singer Rhett Miller jumps righ

Steve Earle – With a Little Help From His Friend

PopEntertainment

Aug 8, 2016
13 min

Steve Earle – With a Little Help From His Friend

Steve Earle – WXPN XPoNential Music Festival – Wiggins Waterfront Park & Marina – Camden, NJ – July 23, 2016 – Photo by Chris Sikich © 2016 Steve Earle With a Little Help From His Friend by Jay S. Jacobs If you think of the term “cult artist,” chances are you will picture Steve Earle. Earle broke out of Nashville in the late-1980s, releasing critically acclaimed and best-selling albums like Guitar Town and Copperhead Road. However, Earle was always a bit too rock and roll a

Kiefer Sutherland – World Café Live at The Queen – Wilmington, Delaware – May 11, 2016 (A PopEnterta

PopEntertainment

May 17, 2016
4 min

Kiefer Sutherland – World Café Live at The Queen – Wilmington, Delaware – May 11, 2016 (A PopEnterta

Kiefer Sutherland – World Cafe Live at the Queen – Wilmington, DE – May 11, 2016 – Photo by Jim Rinaldi © 2016. Kiefer Sutherland – World Café Live at The Queen – Wilmington, Delaware – May 11, 2016 Onstage, actor Kiefer Sutherland – best known for the TV series 24, but who has also done many movies over the years including Stand By Me, The Lost Boys, A Few Good Men and Mirrors – good-naturedly acknowledged that he had taken on a different business model for his first cross-c

Kiefer Sutherland Hits the Road

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May 9, 2016
2 min

Kiefer Sutherland Hits the Road

Kiefer Sutherland Kiefer Sutherland Hits the Road Kiefer Sutherland, highwayman and guitar-slinger? Yeah, it surprised us too. Not that an actor is a frustrated musician, you hear of that all the time. However, much like the inscrutable secret agent Jack Bauer from 24, which cemented Sutherland’s stardom, his sidelight as a singer songwriter seems to have been top secret. Even more surprising, his coming debut album Down in a Hole seems to be a country record. Not current

Peter Wolf and the Midnight Travelers – World Cafe Live – Philadelphia, PA – April 9, 2016 (A PopEnt

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Apr 12, 2016
3 min

Peter Wolf and the Midnight Travelers – World Cafe Live – Philadelphia, PA – April 9, 2016 (A PopEnt

Peter Wolf – World Cafe Live – Philadelphia, PA – April 9, 2016 – Photo by Jim Rinaldi © 2016 Peter Wolf and the Midnight Travelers – World Cafe Live – Philadelphia, PA – April 9, 2016 Philadelphia radio station WXPN called the night “Big Night Out,” and that is was, with an auction and a tasting of local craft beers. However, the biggest part of the night out was Peter Wolf, the former (and sometimes current) voice behind 70s and 80s boogie band The J. Geils Band. Wolf had

Delta Rae – World Cafe Live at the Queen – Wilmington, DE – August 29, 2015 (A PopEntertainment.com

PopEntertainment

Sep 4, 2015
3 min

Delta Rae – World Cafe Live at the Queen – Wilmington, DE – August 29, 2015 (A PopEntertainment.com

Delta Rae – World Cafe Live at the Queen – Wilmington, DE – August 29, 2015 – Photo copyright ©2015 Jim Rinaldi. Delta Rae – World Cafe Live at the Queen – Wilmington, DE – August 29, 2015 It almost feels too simplistic to compare Durham, NC’s faves Delta Rae with Fleetwood Mac. After all they both have multiple lead singers (Rae has two women and two men, while the Mac had two women and only one man) and play a wide variety of musical styles – including aspects from rock, p

Carson Lueders Interview from Pop Nation Tour

PopEntertainment

Aug 26, 2015
1 min

Carson Lueders Interview from Pop Nation Tour

#interview #youtube #Country #CarsonLueders #PopNationTour #PopEntertainmentcom #video #hiphop #vine #IsadoraBarnett

Uncle Kracker – Something New Under the Sun

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Aug 17, 2015
10 min

Uncle Kracker – Something New Under the Sun

Uncle Kracker performing at Xfinity Live in Philadelphia, August 22, 2015. Photo copyright 2015 Deborah Wagner. Uncle Kracker Something New Under the Sun by Jay S. Jacobs Music has always been a rainbow coalition of sounds for Uncle Kracker, a mélange of rock, hip-hop, country, jazz, soul, blues and more. That’s what they played on the radio (remember the radio?) when Kracker was growing up, and that’s what he has played ever since. Kracker has literally been in music since

Tiffany Houghton Takes on the Coke or Pepsi Challenge!

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Sep 16, 2014
1 min

Tiffany Houghton Takes on the Coke or Pepsi Challenge!

PopEntertainment.com’s Rachel and Maggie sat down to play a quick game of Coke or Pepsi with Tiffany Houghton! See what she chooses in this 60 second round! #TiffanyHoughton #MaggieMitchell #Country #Challenge #softdrinks #PopEntertainmentcom #Pepsi #singer #Coke #RachelDiSipio

Dallas Smith – Hitting the Tippin Point

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Nov 22, 2013
11 min

Dallas Smith – Hitting the Tippin Point

Dallas Smith backstage at the Santander Center in Reading preparing for a show with Florida Georgia Line and Colt Ford on November 17, 2013. Photo copyright 2013 Sami Speiss. Dallas Smith Hitting the Tippin Point by Danielle Speiss Dallas Smith is a veteran of the stage, but he is a newcomer to the US country scene. He's had a highly successful career as front man for the Canadian rock band Default, whose first record The Fallout achieved platinum album certification and spaw

Crazy – The Hank Garland Story (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

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Jun 28, 2010
4 min

Crazy – The Hank Garland Story (A PopEntertainment.com Movie Review)

Crazy – The Hank Garland Story CRAZY – THE HANK GARLAND STORY (2008) Starring Waylon Payne, Ali Larter, Lane Garrison, Scott Michael Campbell, David Conrad, John Fleck, Timothy Omundson, Brent Briscoe, Beau Baxter, Raymond O’Connor, Steve Vai, Katharine McPhee and Nicole Steinwedell. Screenplay by Rick Bieber, Jason Ehlers and Brent Boyd. Directed by Rick Bieber. Distributed by Favored Nations. 104 minutes. Rated R. Hank Garland may have been a brilliant country music sessi

Little Big Town – The Band Has Landed

PopEntertainment

Nov 10, 2007
6 min

Little Big Town – The Band Has Landed

Little Big Town Little Big Town The Band Has Landed By Mark Mussari It’s an impossible task trying to define Little Big Town. There’s no one like them in country music – or in any genre of music for that matter. And their singularity goes far beyond their unique configuration of two men and two women. Flying high on the heels of their platinum-selling CD The Road to Here (Equity Music, 2006), which spawned such mega-hits as “Boondocks” and “Bring It on Home,” the band has rec

The Lowdown on Lobo

PopEntertainment

Apr 23, 2007
5 min

The Lowdown on Lobo

Lobo The Lowdown on LOBO by Ronald Sklar Coming through the static of the waning days of AM music radio in the early 1970s was Lobo. Though many mistook him – if they even thought of him at all – as a vocal group instead of an individual performer, Lobo (real name: Roland Kent LaVoie) took the money and ran, leaving a brief but beautiful stamp on an era grooving on anything-goes pop music. His quickly strung pooka-bead-necklace of hits include the amazing but unjustly forgott

Little Big Town – Four Distinct Voices in Perfect Harmony

PopEntertainment

Jun 20, 2006
4 min

Little Big Town – Four Distinct Voices in Perfect Harmony

Little Big Town Little Big Town Four Distinct Voices in Perfect Harmony By Mark Mussari As a vocal group Little Big Town exists on a rarified plane. The country-rock quartet – whose album The Road to Here has already sold over 500,000 copies and spawned a mega-hit in the stomping Southern anthem “Boondocks” – consists of two women and two men. That would be singular enough in the country field, but all four members of this powerhouse group, who also write much of their own mu

Joss Stone – Soul Sister

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Sep 27, 2003
7 min

Joss Stone – Soul Sister

Joss Stone JOSS STONE SOUL SISTER by Jay S. Jacobs You can’t help but notice the voice. It is strong, sensuous, assured. It soars to a crescendo or sighs to a whisper. It flat-out belts a soulful, joyful noise that reaches for the heavens and tries to box with God. Yet it doesn’t fall victim to the showiness of the Mariah Carey / Christina Aguilera wannabes. This woman ain’t gonna use ten notes when one is good enough, even if she has the ability to do so. The voice is

Chuck E. Weiss – Chuck E.’s In Love

PopEntertainment

Feb 16, 1999
5 min

Chuck E. Weiss – Chuck E.’s In Love

Chuck E. Weiss Chuck E. Weiss Chuck E.’s In Love by Jay S. Jacobs “How come he don’t come and p.l.p. with me down at the meter no more…” With that opening line to a hit song in 1979, singer/songwriter Chuck E. Weiss was introduced to American popular culture. Problem was he didn’t write the song – or even sing it. In fact, “Chuck E.’s In Love” was about him, a tribute written by friend Rickie Lee Jones. No one really ever expected the song to become a smash hit. But it did, w

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