Alan Haber’s Pure Pop Radio
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We Welcome Singer-Songwriter Stefanie Drexler, aka Dear Stella, to Pure Pop Radio: In Conversation Next Tuesday, February 2
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio This week’s post, from just two days ago, featuring a somewhat psychedelic iteration of the phrase “Can I Pet Your Cat,” stretched into a somewhat out-of-whack statement of purpose, was not without purpose, as you may have imagined. The post was designed to see if the phrase, simply… Continue reading
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02-02-21
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio 02-02-21 Can I pet your cat? Alan Haber’s Pure Pop Radio is the premier website covering the melodic pop scene with in-depth reviews of new and reissued recordings, and a wide variety of features. The Pure Pop Radio station brings the greatest melodic pop music in the universe… Continue reading
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Pure Pop Radio, the Radio Station, Says Goodbye after 25 Years
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio After 25 years, Pure Pop Radio, which began in 1995 as a weekly show on WEBR Radio in Fairfax, Virginia, and more recently was reborn as a 24-hour internet radio station, is going off the air for good. The station will stream its final catchy stretch of melodic… Continue reading
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Pure Pop Radio: In Conversation, Fall 2020, Episode One: The Flat Five’s Kelly Hogan and Nora O’Connor
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio Five strong, they possess the tools of their miraculous, imaginative trade; when they slap, strum, pick and make thwoopping sounds in concert with their able-bodied voices, they distinguish themselves from nearly all other like-minded musicians who ply their trade in the recording studio and on stage. Lately, they… Continue reading
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Pure Pop Radio is Bursting with New, Magical Sounds
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio Although you probably won’t ever hear any songs by rocker Marilyn Manson on Pure Pop Radio, you will likely agree with a quote attributed to him. “Music is the strongest form of magic,” Manson is said to have uttered once upon a time. Good for Marilyn, we say!… Continue reading
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What’s New? Lots.
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio Because there have been and continue to be fairly long periods of time without any posts in this space, I thought it would be a good idea to provide a short update on what’s new and happening, as the kids often say. First, more new and new-to-you melodic… Continue reading
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Bill Lloyd’s Latest is Another Winning Collection
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio Bill Lloyd | Don’t Kill the Messenger (Whole In One, 2020) The relatively serene composure elucidated in the gentle repose of “The Kiss of the Summer Wind,” a warm musical hug of a song that closes Bill Lloyd’s latest long player, Don’t Kill the Messenger, heralds a change… Continue reading
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