Alan Haber’s Pure Pop Radio
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Gather, SMiLE: The SMiLE Tour; Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson and the Story of SMiLE; and SMiLE, 2004
(The following article, about Brian Wilson’s SMiLE, originally published on the buhdge website on October 13, 2004, was written prior to the reissue of the original SMiLE album.) Gather, SMiLE The SMiLE Tour; Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson and the Story of SMiLE; and SMiLE, 2004 by Alan Haber They are 10 minutes late getting to… Continue reading
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Save the Dates: Cool King Chris and Jamie Hoover Guest on Pure Pop Radio: In Conversation on March 11 and 12
What happens when one of the best kept secrets in pop music is joined at the microphone by a pop music favorite son? Well, the joint gets a-rockin’ as these two musical mad scientists intertwine the serious–the trajectory of the best kept secret’s career and his currently-waxing new album–with the laugh-filled levity that keeps the… Continue reading
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I Love that Song! #2: “Picture Book” by the Kinks
The act of looking back to simpler, happier times, to times fondly remembered, to snapshots taken by one’s mind and brought to the fore by photographs arranged as artifacts of a life gone by is the subject at hand in Ray Davies’ “Picture Book,” a bouncy, wistful song that appears on the Kinks’ November 1968… Continue reading
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Pure Pop Radio Welcomes Lisa Mychols to the Airwaves Tomorrow Night!
We are honored and thrilled to welcome Lisa Mychols as tomorrow night’s very special guest on Pure Pop Radio: In Conversation. Lisa has been a longtime favorite at Pure Pop Radio since the very early days of her career. During this wide-ranging interview, we hear from her about her music making process and spin some… Continue reading
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Paul and Ringo in the Spotlight Tonight on Ken Michaels’ Every Little Thing!
Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are in the spotlight tonight on the syndicated version of Ken Michaels’ Every Little Thing. In the third segment of every show, Ken puts the fab spotlight on a particular theme. This time, the spotlight falls on Paul and Ringo: Six Beatles and solo classics are spun and, smack in… Continue reading
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Jamie & Steve’s Circling: An Exciting Paradise
Jamie & Steve | Circling | Loaded Goat (2014) ***** There is a certain safety in knowing that you are in good hands–hands that have seen much the same landscape as you, hands and heads and hearts that have witnessed what you have, even if such witness comes from a slightly different perspective. In our… Continue reading
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Lisa Mychols Guests on Pure Pop Radio: In Conversation on March 4 and 5
We are honored and thrilled to welcome Lisa Mychols as next week’s very special guest on Pure Pop Radio: In Conversation. Lisa has been a longtime favorite at Pure Pop Radio since the very early days of her career. During this wide-ranging interview, we hear from her about her music making process and spin some… Continue reading
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I Love that Song! #1: “Honey, Honey” by Abba
I heard the most wonderful sounds coming from my radio. “Waterloo” immediately struck me as such a perfect pop song, with its insistent beat and that wonderful, hooky melody, punctuated by Benny Andersson’s classically-influenced piano stabs. And that chorus: kind of an amalgam of fifties, sixties and contemporary influences. It all sounded so good, so… Continue reading
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