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More New Music is Flowing on Pure Pop Radio
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s list of new songs and artists added to our playlist, we’ve slotted in more classic sounds now being heard in rotation. Care to peruse? Go, cat…go! Vegas With Randolph | “Three Red Hooks” This Washington, DC-area pop powerhouse’s latest song, a lively ode to rocking steady and having a… Continue reading
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We’re Top of the Pops on this New Music Wednesday!
It’s time for another round of new music that we’ve just added to our playlist. We’ve got a whole lot of new songs and artists to tell you about, so let’s get on to it, shall we? The Dowling Poole | Single: “Rebecca Receiving,” “The Same Mistake Again,” and “Empires, Buildings and Acquisitions (Live in… Continue reading
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Go Inside Emitt Rhodes’ New Album With Producer Chris Price and Visit with Terry Draper on Pure Pop Radio: In Conversation
Pure Pop Radio: In Conversation, Internet radio’s premiere melodic pop talk show, returns on Tuesday, February 9th, for the first of two brand-new installments. First up: Terry Draper, whose new album, Searching, Alan reviewed on January 21st, calling it the “first great album of 2016.” On February 16th, producer Chris Price will take listeners through… Continue reading
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This Week’s Specialty Shows Pop and Roll
We’ve got some exciting new shows to bring to you in the coming weeks (we’ll be announcing them tomorrow). This week, though, three of Pure Pop Radio’s popular specialty shows return. Welcome back Ken Michaels’ Every Little Thing, the weekly Beatles music program of record; Things We Said Today, the weekly Beatles roundtable hosted by… Continue reading
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Emitt Rhodes’ Triumphant Return
Emitt Rhodes | Rainbow Ends (Omnivore, 2016) A review by Alan Haber Emitt Rhodes released three tremendous and influential solo albums during the first four years of the 1970s and then, as quick as that, withdrew from the pop music scene he helped to create and grow after the pressures of writing and recording more… Continue reading
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Next Week: Welcome Back Pure Pop Radio’s Specialty Shows
Next week marks the triumphant return of three of Pure Pop Radio’s popular specialty shows. Welcome back Ken Michaels’ Every Little Thing, the weekly Beatles music program of record; Things We Said Today, the weekly Beatles roundtable hosted by a quartet of Fabs experts; and Brian Bringelson’s Needle Meets Vinyl, where all of the music… Continue reading
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Terry Draper’s Searching is the First Great Album of 2016
As we wrote last week, we’ve been spinning some sumptuous sounds with an ear toward adding them to our ever-growing playlist, now nearly 8,200 songs strong. We’ve been busy doing just that; here is a featured review of one of our favorite artist’s new album; we’ll run down reviews of other recent playlist adds early next… Continue reading
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I Love that Album! #1: Fountains of Wayne’s Utopia Parkway (1999)
Fountains of Wayne | Utopia Parkway (Atlantic, 1999) by Alan Haber If Frank Capra had made a movie based on the songs populating Fountains of Wayne’s Utopia Parkway album, he might have called it It’s a Mundane Life. For 14 songs, Adam Schlesinger and Chris Collingwood explore the normal, everyday concerns of a population of… Continue reading
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We Serve Up a Quartetly Add to the Pure Pop Radio Playlist
The past few days saw us spinning some sumptuous sounds from a top-flight quartet of artists. We’ve added these sounds to our playlist; they’re now spinning in rotation, making the world a brighter, more melodic place. From our old friend JoDee Purkypile comes a new song that the artist describes as “a sad waltz” that… Continue reading
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