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Still Whimsical After All These Years: Ray Paul’s “I Need Your Love Tonight” is Top of the Pops
Ray Paul | “I Need Your Love Tonight” | This is Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio Volume 4 (Kool Kat Musik) 2017 Just one month shy of a year since the release of Whimsicality, Ray Paul’s glorious, rock ’em, sock ’em return to recording, which in July of 2016 we called “one of this year’s best… Continue reading
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New on Pure Pop Radio 05.18.17: Songs, Bond Songs: The Music of 007; Chris Price; Fun of the Pier, and More
Spins and Reviews | 05.18.17 By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio Various Artists | Songs, Bond Songs: The Music of 007 (2017) Curry Cuts’ third release, after swimming with lite rockers and second British Invasioneers, continues the label’s successful run of specially-curated themed compilations with this gathering of 26 covers of all of the… Continue reading
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New on Pure Pop Radio 05.15.17: Robyn Gibson’s Bob of the Pops Vol. 1, Cirrone, The Cool Whips, and More
Spins and Reviews | 05.15.17 By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio Robyn Gibson | Bob of the Pops Vol. 1 (2017) A buoyant exercise in the art of homage, Bob of the Pops Vol. 1 finds The Junipers’ multi-instrumentalist Robyn Gibson having a good old time putting his warm, wide-eyed spin on 14 favorite… Continue reading
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New on Pure Pop Radio 05.11.17: Cait Brennan, Bryan Estepa, The Wellingtons, Kenny Herbert, Pat Walsh, and More
Spins and Reviews | 05.11.17 By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio Cait Brennan | Third (2017) Quite simply, and before I say anything specific about Cait Brennan’s miraculous, astounding, audacious new album, the pairing of this one-of-a-kind artist and multi-instrumentalist and ace producer Fernando Perdomo is surely one of those fortified-in-heaven happenings that make… Continue reading
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New on Pure Pop Radio 05.10.17: The Blood Rush Hour, Lannie Flowers, The Del Zorros, Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie, and More
Spins and Reviews | 05.10.17 By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio The Blood Rush Hour | Who Folds First (2017) This fantastic follow-up to 2014’s miraculous And Then… The Unthinkable Happened is just as wondrous and wide-ranging and crafted with care as has come to be expected from Robert DeStefano’s more-than-reliable outfit. Encompassing a variety… Continue reading
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Listen to World Premiere Spins from the Greek Theatre’s Kool Kat CD Debut Tonight
Spins and Reviews | 05.08.17 By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio TONIGHT: We kick off a two-week world radio premiere spin of two tracks from The Greek Theatre’s Kool Kat Musik CD debut, Broken Circle We’ve added hundreds of new and new-to-you tracks to our playlist in the last few weeks. We’re excited to… Continue reading
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Overnight Sensations: The Hangabouts’ 12 (and a Half) Song Triumph
Spins and Reviews | (Originally posted on 04.18.17) By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio The Hangabouts | Kits and Cats and Saxon Wives (Futureman, 2017) Breaking all the rules of the difficult sophomore album syndrome–how to successfully follow up that first, smash recorded salvo has been a recurring music biz pickle since, well, name… Continue reading
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New on Pure Pop Radio: Cindy Lee Berryhill’s The Adventurist
Spins and Reviews | (Originally posted on 02.28.17) By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio Cindy Lee Berryhill | The Adventurist (Omnivore, 2017) Is there a better investment in life than love? Is there a more prosperous road to travel, a more engaging choice of direction, than the bond between one person and another? Can… Continue reading
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Bill DeMain’s Gorgeous, Piano-Based Magic
Spins and Reviews | 05.02.17 By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio A Pure Pop Radio Exclusive: Bill DeMain | “Honey Bear” and “Leroy Boy” (from the forthcoming album Transatlantic Romantic, 2017) Last December, I had the great pleasure of adding to the Pure Pop Radio playlist a gorgeous cover of the Beach Boys’ “Wendy,”… Continue reading
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Charlatan Record Cartel’s Sunday Brothers Get Heavy, Man
Spins and Reviews | 05.02.17 By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio Charlatan Record Cartel spotlight popsters The Sunday Brothers get heavy, man, on “Save Me,” the follow-up to their initial, smash “somber, ruminative ballad about that night in ‘Bankside,’” as we called it in our review back in late February. Part of Charlatan’s ongoing,… Continue reading
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