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New on Pure Pop Radio 08.16.17: Fernando Perdomo’s Golden Hour, This is Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio Vol. 4, and Sitcom Neighbor’s Shag
Spins and Reviews | 08.16.17 By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio Fernando Perdomo | The Golden Hour (2017) The fourth album from vaunted producer (Cait Brennan, Chris Price, Linda Perhacs) and recording artist Fernando Perdomo is a widescreen collection of heartfelt songs. Recorded at Ardent Studios in Memphis, Tennessee, and played and sung entirely… Continue reading
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New on Pure Pop Radio 08.15.17: Coke Belda Wins Again, Bob of the Pops is Popping Again, and the Bye Bye Blackbirds Soar
Spins and Reviews | 08.15.17 By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio Coke Belda | Coke Belda 3 (Gs) (2017) So natural is Coke Belda’s ability to breathe new life into the songs of the Bee Gees that it would seem perfectly acceptable to call him “Mr. Natural,” at least temporarily, and in honor of… Continue reading
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Benjamin Gibbard, Circe Link and Christian Nesmith, and More on this Tuesday’s Night’s Pop Tunes Deejay Show; Plus Jamie and Steve on In Conversation and, Yes, Thursday Night!
Another power-packed run of Pure Pop’s signature shows on Pop that Goes Crunch Radio is set to fly out of your Internet receptacle speaker beginning tomorrow night. First up is the latest all-new edition of Alan Haber’s Pop Tunes Deejay Show, kicking off at 8 pm ET tomorrow night. You will most certainly dig the… Continue reading
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I Love that Song! #15: “Rockin’ My Life Away” by Jerry Lee Lewis
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio It’s one of those records that just sounds right. It’s 1979, and Jerry Lee Lewis, with Bones Howe in the producer’s chair, is working his sweaty way through a Mack Vickery romp, banging mercilessly on the keys, a-thump-thump-thumpin’ until his fingers are sore, singing some perfunctory lyrics and… Continue reading
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New on Pure Pop Radio 08.09.17: Raspberries Live, Lisa Mychols, and Poppermost
Spins and Reviews | 08.09.17 By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio Raspberries | Pop Art Live (Omnivore, 2017) For a thrilling listening experience back in 1976, you could do worse than planting Raspberries’ Best featuring Eric Carmen on your turntable. Every one of the 10 tracks on offer was bang-zoom top-flight–“Go All the Way,”… Continue reading
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New on Pure Pop Radio 08.08.17: Special Karla Kane/Fun of the Pier All Aboard 2017 Tour Edition
Spins and Reviews | 08.08.17 By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio Karla Kane | King’s Daughters Home For Incurables (2017) Fun of the Pier | 14:42 (2017) It’s the voices that bind these two superlative releases together. It’s as if the recording of each release was purposeful in that regard, as if these releases… Continue reading
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Alan Haber’s Pop Tunes Deejay Show and Pure Pop Radio: In Conversation Debut This Week on Pop that Goes Crunch Radio
There is excitement on the air! This week sees Alan Haber’s Pop Tunes Deejay Show and Pure Pop Radio: In Conversation debut on Pop that Goes Crunch Radio. Every Tuesday night at 8 pm ET on the Pop Tunes Deejay Show, I will spin the very latest and greatest melodic pop releases by artists you… Continue reading
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And the winner of June and the Exit Wounds’ “a little more Haven Hamilton, please” on Vinyl is…
…Andrew Milstead. Congratulations, Andrew! One of the great soft pop albums of all time, June and the Exit Wounds’ “a little more Haven Hamilton, please” is a must for any collection. Spinning it on vinyl is an extra-special treat! Thanks to everyone who entered. More cool Pure Pop contests are coming. Watch this space! Pure… Continue reading
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Special Contest: Win June and the Exit Wounds’ “a little more Haven Hamilton, please” on Vinyl, with Bonus EP
Back at the tail end of the 1990s, a veritable lifetime ago it seems, Todd Fletcher, working with popster Ellis Clark, perhaps best known to Pure Pop Radio followers as a member of Epicycle, fashioned a lovely, genre-defining album of luscious, melodic, classic harmony-filled soft pop under the perhaps unlikely name June and the Exit… Continue reading
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Pure Pop Radio: In Conversation and Alan Haber’s Pop Tunes Deejay Show Join the Lineup at Jeffrey Raskin’s Pop that Goes Crunch Radio
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio This is a day of great joy. Pure Pop Radio: In Conversation, the Internet’s premier melodic pop interview/talk show, and Alan Haber’s Pop Tunes Deejay Show are joining the lineup at Jeffrey Raskin’s exciting Pop that Goes Crunch Radio, which you can listen to by clicking the following… Continue reading
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