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Oct 23, 2016
5 min

Classic Albums: The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds (A PopEntertainment.com Music Video Review)

Classic Albums: The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds CLASSIC ALBUMS – THE BEACH BOYS: PET SOUNDS (2016) Featuring Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston, David Marks, Tony Asher, Karl Engemann, Mark Linett, Hal Blaine, Don Randi, Bruce Botnick, Helen Shapiro, Keith Altham, David WIld, Lucy O’Brien and archival footage of Dennis Wilson. Directed by Martin R. Smith and Matthew Longfellow. Distributed by Eagle Rock Home Entertainment. 91 minutes. Not Rated. The records exp

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PopEntertainment

Nov 4, 2014
9 min

Echosmith – Hanging With the Cool Kids

Echosmith live at The Barbary in Philadelphia, October 30, 2014. Photo copyright 2014 by Jay S. Jacobs. Echosmith Hanging with the Cool Kids by Jay S. Jacobs The Sierota family, which makes up the buzzworthy new band Echosmith, may not have to worry about being like the cool kids for that much longer. Not when their hit single “Cool Kids” has them topping the charts. The band is made up of three brothers and a sister – guitarist Jamie Sierota is 21, bassist Noah is 18, lead

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PopEntertainment

May 23, 2012
3 min

Steve Ward Shares His Tough Love

Steve Ward Steve Ward Shares His Tough Love by Ronald Sklar The host of the VH1 hit explains how it’s cruel to be kind. “I don’t think we’ve learned anything from success,” claims VH1’s Tough Love host Steve Ward. “We’ve learned everything from failure. So if you have the courage to accept the fact that maybe you’re the problem, and if you were to do things differently, you might invite different results. I think that’s the best place to possibly begin.” So it begins. Again.

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PopEntertainment

Sep 3, 2010
3 min

Classic Albums: Rush – 2112 and Moving Pictures (A PopEntertainment.com Music Video Review)

Classic Albums: Rush – 2112 and Moving Pictures CLASSIC ALBUMS: RUSH – 2112 and MOVING PICTURES (2010) Featuring Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, Neil Peart, Terry Brown, Taylor Hawkins, Ed Robertson and Ray Daniels. Directed by Martin R. Smith. Distributed by Eagle Rock Entertainment. 112 minutes. Not Rated. If you have seen last summer’s great comedy I Love You, Man, you will remember scenes of Paul Rudd and Jason Segel bonding by rocking out the the music of Rush. Rush is the ul

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PopEntertainment

Aug 3, 2010
3 min

Classic Albums: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Damn the Torpedoes! (A PopEntertainment.com

Classic Albums: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – Damn the Torpedoes! CLASSIC ALBUMS: TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS – DAMN THE TORPEDOES! (2010) Featuring Tom Petty, Mike Campbell, Benmont Tench, Ron Blair, Jimmy Iovine, Shelly Yakus and archival footage of Stan Lynch. Directed by Matthew Longfellow. Distributed by Eagle Rock Entertainment. 57 minutes. Not Rated. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ 1979 breakthrough album Damn the Torpedoes! has long been on my personal “Deser

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PopEntertainment

Dec 20, 2009
4 min

Steve Ward – Dispensing Tough Love

Steve Ward Steve Ward Dispensing Tough Love by Ronald Sklar Although Steve Ward makes his living matchmaking and love coaching, the most meant-for-each-other hookup of all may be Steve and VH1. Tough Love, the VH1 series based on his successful matchmaking business and value-added relationship philosophies, has become one of that network’s top ratings-getters. Viewers have responded to the series with the love/hate mixed emotions of tough love itself. Some call it ugly and sa

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Susan Olsen – Gets Down with Her Bad Show

PopEntertainment

Sep 25, 2009
8 min

Susan Olsen – Gets Down with Her Bad Show

Susan Olsen Susan Olsen Gets Down with Her Bad Show By Ronald Sklar “It was a spectactular turd,” says Susan Olsen. She speaks of the infamous Brady Bunch Variety Hour, which inexplicably ran on ABC-TV for a very short time in 1976 and 1977. Olsen played Cindy Brady, the youngest of the clan, on the original series from 1969-1974, and in just about every reunion project since. But she harbors a certain horror for this first Brady reunion, a reincarnation that should have rema

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Parachute – Sleep Is All That They Are Losing

PopEntertainment

May 14, 2009
9 min

Parachute – Sleep Is All That They Are Losing

Parachute Parachute Sleep Is All That They Are Losing by Jay S. Jacobs Most guys in college who have a band are trying to figure out how to get a gig at the local bars or frats. The members of Parachute were recording their major label debut. The band’s catchy rock & soul music caused a buzz out of The University of Virginia – where the band was started by singer/songwriter Will Anderson, guitarist Nate McFarland, drummer Johnny Stubblefield, bassist Alex Hargrave and saxopho

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Rachael Lawrence Doesn’t Really Mind Entering Her 30s

PopEntertainment

Oct 10, 2007
9 min

Rachael Lawrence Doesn’t Really Mind Entering Her 30s

Rachael Lawrence Rachael Lawrence Doesn’t Really Mind Entering Her 30s by Jay S. Jacobs Fame can come from lots of different directions. Rachael Lawrence is determined to meet it head on. A California-born-and-bred multi-hyphenate; Lawrence has spent the last decade or so working as a singer, songwriter, actress, director and producer. She has even been a popular celeb singing coach – teaching voice to the likes of Sara Rue, Bai Ling and basketball player Rick Fox. She has re

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Sixpence None the Richer – There She Goes

PopEntertainment

Jun 14, 1999
8 min

Sixpence None the Richer – There She Goes

Sixpence None the Richer Sixpence None the Richer There She Goes by Jay S. Jacobs Sixpence None the Richer are just one of a long, storied tradition in music– the overnight sensation that had been toiling away in obscurity on the sidelines for years. Sixpence – which is made up of singer Leigh Nash, guitarist/songwriter Matt Slocum and drummer Dale Baker, – had recorded three albums (The Fatherless & The Widow, This Beautiful Mess and Tickets For A Prayer Wheel) that had be

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They May Have Been Gone, But They’re Still Classic

By Isa Barnett

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They May Have Been Gone, But They’re Still Classic

By Isa Barnett