Alan Haber’s Pure Pop Radio
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Here at Pure Pop Radio: In Conversation, We’re Working Feverishly…
…on our next big, huge, overflowing-with-goodness episode airing next week–Wednesday, April 30 and Thursday, May 1. On those very special days, we’ll be talking to one of the original DIY music guys, the great and powerful Scott Brookman, whose latest album, Smellicopter, is roaring up the charts, as well it should be. See you on… Continue reading
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Ooh, Scary Good! A Look Back at Harry Nilsson’s Son of Schmilsson
(The following essay was written for the Discoveries Magazine website as part of their countdown to the release of the Harry Nilsson RCA Albums Collection on July 30, 2013, and is reproduced here by permission.) Without question, Harry Nilsson’s Son of Schmilsson was the right album for the right time. When it was released in… Continue reading
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Two Music Geeks Show Debuts Next Tuesday on Pure Pop Radio! Join Our Facebook Event Page, Won’t You?
For those of you who missed our announcement on Facebook earlier this week, we’ve got a very cool new show called Two Music Geeks debuting at 9 pm ET this coming Tuesday, April 22. (We’ve got a nifty Event page on Facebook, too; we’d appreciate it if you’d join the fun by going to https://www.facebook.com/events/503946419712098/… Continue reading
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Yes, the Rumors are True: We’ve Got Another CD Up for Grabs, and the Winner Could Be You!
See, the way it works is we’ve got this pile of CDs and every time we look at that pile, we’ve got to give one of those CDs away. And so we shall. Up for grabs this rainy Tuesday morning is the latest album from one of Pure Pop Radio’s favorite melodic pop collectives, a… Continue reading
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Listen! Download! How About Doing Both? Pure Pop Radio: In Conversation with Andy Klingensmith and Riley Smith is Now Posted on Our PodOMatic Podcast Page
Missed it last week? No worries: Our exclusive Pure Pop Radio: In Conversation interview with Andy Klingensmith and his pal and drummer Riley Smith is now posted on our PodOMatic podcast page. Listen! Download! Do both! We all love ya either way! Andy and Riley talk exclusively to us about Andy’s latest smash EP, Bright… Continue reading
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Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! It’s Early Lennon and McCartney Tonight on Every Little Thing!
Ken Michaels has a real corker of a show for you tonight–a fab kind of corker, if you will! It’s Every Little Thing night on Pure Pop Radio tonight at 9 pm ET–another in our series of celebrations of all things fab! Ken has Anthology kind of tracks on his mind tonight, along with a… Continue reading
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In Conversation is Taking a Weeklong Siesta, But Just Wait ‘Til Next Week!
Our hardworking, nose-to-the-grindstone staff–our dedicated Pure Pop Radio: In Conversation writers, engineers and general do-this, do-that folks–are checked in at some high-end hotel this week–one of the ones that have those fluffy, white bathrobes you can buy for a whole lot of coin. They’re taking a break for whatever reason, meaning that there will not… Continue reading
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We’ve Got a Winner! The Tor Guides’ CD Will Soon Be On Its Way to…
Congratulations and salutations to Dermott Carr, who is the latest winner of a real, honest-to-goodness certified melodic pop music CD from Pure Pop Radio. Watch your mail, for soon the wonderfully vibrant sounds of the Tor Guides will be filling your house with melodic goodness. You too can be a winner. Keep an eye out… Continue reading
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Apples, Apples, Everywhere
(Here is a look at XTC’s wonderful, unfortunately out-of-print, Apple Box. It originally appeared on the buhdge website on November 6, 2005. Note that the two new songs discussed below were also available on a single, promotional CD entitled Apple Bite and as part of the also-no-longer-available Apple Set, which also came with two t-shirts… Continue reading
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The Warbles: They’re Still Fuzzy
(The following review appeared July 4, 2005 on the buhdge website. It appears here with only a few changes made.) With the release in 2002 of the first few volumes of Fuzzy Warbles discs, another cottage industry–that of illicit Andy Partridge demo collecting–was crushed in its tracks. Suddenly, here were great sounding recordings straight from… Continue reading
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