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The Legal Matters: Equal Parts that Warm a Cold and Snowy Michigan Winter
The Legal Matters | The Legal Matters | Futureman Records (2014) (Win one of two copies of the Legal Matters’ self-titled debut album by filling in the form below!) The next time you rise on a cold and dreary winter morning to find that your overnight brought you two or three inches of snow, and you are… Continue reading
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5:45, 30 Players and One Majestic Performance: David Letterman Explains the Musical Universe
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio (Originally posted July 22, 2014) Every once in a while, a kind of majestic performance of an equally majestic song will play out on one of the late night talk shows. Last night’s blast of majesty happened on the stage of the Ed Sullivan Theater at the end… Continue reading
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This’ll be the Day! Buddy Holly’s in the Spotlight on Tonight’s Edition of Every Little Thing!
We here at Pure Pop Radio love it when 9 pm ET on Monday night rolls around, because it means that it’s time for another installment of Ken Michaels’ Every Little Thing, every Beatlemaniac’s favorite meeting place! On tonight’s show, number 25, Ken kicks off the Fab fun with a set chock full of tracks from… Continue reading
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Reviews from the Pages of buhdge: The Association’s Waterbeds in Trinidad (1972)
(Originally published on the buhdge website in 2006) Unfairly categorized as a singles band, the Association did not, as some would have you believe, make bad albums. They also did not become a less-interesting aggregation in the band’s later recording years, as this lone Columbia album proves. Released a year after the group’s final Warner Brothers release,… Continue reading
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Here Comes the Reign Again! Pure Pop Radio and Your Favorite Artists Celebrate the Second British Invasion in Grand Style. Happy Days are Here Again!
Hot on the heels of last April’s spectacular double-album, Drink a Toast to Innocence: A Tribute to Lite Rock, producer Andrew Curry is soon to make waves with his second celebration of the best days of our musical lives. With the upcoming Here Comes the Reign Again: The Second British Invasion, Curry has set his… Continue reading
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Major, Huge, Very Cool, Pretty Big Story Coming Up Tomorrow! Don’t Miss It!
Coming up tomorrow, right here on your favorite melodic pop music website–and you may just have to reign us in on this one!–we’ll have a major, huge, very cool, pretty big story for you about an upcoming album that is sure to be one of your favorite, major, huge, very cool, pretty big releases of… Continue reading
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Our Magic Numbers: 10,000+ and 5,000+. Thanks to You and You and You, Too.
Today is “Thank You Day” here at Pure Pop Radio. First, thank you to all of you who listened to Pure Pop Radio and visited this website over the past two weeks to check out the hundreds of artists and songs that have been added to our playlist. This special explosion of melodic pop songs is our… Continue reading
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Our Two-Week-Long Explosion of New-to-Pure Pop Radio Melodic Pop Songs is in the Penultimate Stage! Today Only! And then there’s…
…Tomorrow! Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah! And next week and the week after, too. We’ll be adding new, recent and heritage music to the Pure Pop Radio playlist on a regular basis from now on, so check back here frequently and help us keep the melodic pop spirit alive by listening to Pure Pop Radio… Continue reading
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