Alan Haber’s Pure Pop Radio
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The Solicitors Plot World Domination! New Album, Blank Check, is Coming At You in October!
We’ve been in love with the catchy pop of Australia’s The Solicitors since we first heard their delectable, Stiff-inspired tunes late last year. With enough tracks written and committed to wax, and after humming Lee Jones’s top-flight melodious melodies to ourselves, it’s nearly time to greet the group’s first album, Blank Check, set to hit Oz… Continue reading
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Take a Trip Back to 1968 on Tonight’s Far-Out Edition of Every Little Thing
It’s back to the groovy, wavy-gravy, fab and gear late-sixties–specifically the year 1968–on tonight’s time travel-esque episode of Ken Michaels’ Every Little Thing, airing at 9 pm ET. Ken hits the Fab Four spot right out of the box with six group and solo tunes, beginning with an early take of George Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord”… Continue reading
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Clap Your Hands and Scream “Yay!” We Have Winners!
Here at Pure Pop Radio headquarters, we love, love, love to give stuff away, and by stuff we mean today’s hottest albums and such. We love to go the post office and send this free stuff on its way across the country, across the waters, to waiting arms in whichever city or country might be… Continue reading
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I Love that Song #6: “European Rain” by the Big Dish
Three albums and six years was all it took for Scotland’s The Big Dish to create a few ripples and take its final bow. Centered around Steven Lindsay’s lovely melodies and gorgeous,velvety voice, the group should have fared better, but for some reason never built up enough of an audience to convince their label, Virgin Records,… Continue reading
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“Hello, I’m Ken Michaels!” Ken Horses Around with the Beatles on Tonight’s Every Little Thing
Tonight’s edition of everybody’s favorite Beatles radio show, Every Little Thing, finds host Ken Michaels horsin’ around during his weekly thematic set, spinning a John Lennon two-fer, and playing a song from Apple artists Lon and Derrek von Eaton. Sounds like we’ve stumbled upon another great hour of fabness! Ken opens up tonight’s show with classic… Continue reading
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A Starr at Every Turn: Ringo Remastered!
(Originally published on the buhdge website in 2007) Ringo Starr | Photograph, The Very Best of Ringo (Capitol, 2007) Fab sticksman Richard Starkey M.B.E.’s best sides finally get a first-class remastering with Photograph The Very Best of Ringo Starr, a most welcome release that earns Capitol Records a back-off-boogaloo’s-worth of goodwill from fans. For one… Continue reading
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The Legal Matters: Equal Parts that Warm a Cold and Snowy Michigan Winter
The Legal Matters | The Legal Matters | Futureman Records (2014) (Win one of two copies of the Legal Matters’ self-titled debut album by filling in the form below!) The next time you rise on a cold and dreary winter morning to find that your overnight brought you two or three inches of snow, and you are… Continue reading
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5:45, 30 Players and One Majestic Performance: David Letterman Explains the Musical Universe
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio (Originally posted July 22, 2014) Every once in a while, a kind of majestic performance of an equally majestic song will play out on one of the late night talk shows. Last night’s blast of majesty happened on the stage of the Ed Sullivan Theater at the end… Continue reading
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This’ll be the Day! Buddy Holly’s in the Spotlight on Tonight’s Edition of Every Little Thing!
We here at Pure Pop Radio love it when 9 pm ET on Monday night rolls around, because it means that it’s time for another installment of Ken Michaels’ Every Little Thing, every Beatlemaniac’s favorite meeting place! On tonight’s show, number 25, Ken kicks off the Fab fun with a set chock full of tracks from… Continue reading
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Reviews from the Pages of buhdge: The Association’s Waterbeds in Trinidad (1972)
(Originally published on the buhdge website in 2006) Unfairly categorized as a singles band, the Association did not, as some would have you believe, make bad albums. They also did not become a less-interesting aggregation in the band’s later recording years, as this lone Columbia album proves. Released a year after the group’s final Warner Brothers release,… Continue reading
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