Album Reviews
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Reviews: 3.7.19: Vanilla’s Mystikal Trip is Quite a Show
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio Vanilla | Mystik Knights of Tacoma (Charlatan Record Cartel, 2019) Win one of two copies of Vanilla’s Mystik Knights of Tacoma. Enter below. Vanilla’s latest, a remarkable, cogent collection of songs, some of which have trickled out over the past few years, tackles universal themes of self-preservation, love, Continue reading
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Reviews: 3.5.19: The Big Believe Meets Tania, Kenny Herbert is the Luckiest Man in the World, and the Well Wishers are Feeling Fine
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio The Big Believe | “Tania Was a Truth Teller” b/w “Girl With Cassettes” (2018) A paean of four-on-the-floor Blondie in 2018? That’s the engine driving the intrigue-laced “Tania Was a Truth Teller,” the first of the two top tracks that make up The Big Believe’s late-2018 pop blast; Continue reading
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Reviews: 2.26.19: The Boys With the Perpetual Nervousness Craft a Masterpiece of Melody and Harmony
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio The Boys With the Perpetual Nervousness | Dead Calm (Pretty Olivia, 2019) When Spain’s Pretty Olivia Records released a split single with The Tree House Melodies and the mysterious-but-familiar-sounding The Boys With the Perpetual Nervousness back in July of last year, it was fairly obvious, at least to Continue reading
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Reviews: 2.15.19: Friday (on My Mind) Special: The Weeklings Rock Out at High Noone
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio The Weeklings featuring Peter Noone“Friday on My Mind” (Jem, 2019) It’s Friday, it’s special, and it’s time for this important question: What happens when a quartet of old pros meet up with an old pro from the 1960s, get amped-up, plugged in and blast out, in smashing fashion, Continue reading
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Reviews: 2.14.19: Valentine’s Day Special: I Heart Bertling Noise Laboratories’ … into thin air
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio Bertling Noise Laboratories | … into thin air (2019) Multi-instrumentalist Nick Bertling, who makes and records the noise in these laboratories, is a marvel. His previous work, covering favorite pop and rock songs on 2017’s A Little Touch of Bertling in the Night and waxing his own creations Continue reading
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Reviews: 2.7.19: Caper Clowns and Sons of Morning
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio Caper Clowns | “Second to None” b/w “Verboten” (2019) The hits just keep on coming! The fourth single from Caper Clowns’ fantastic sophomore long-player, A Salty Taste to the Lake (one of our Favorite Records of the Year: Stars of 2018), is a double dose of delight. The Continue reading
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Reviews: 2.5.19: Lannie Flowers, The Keys, Clifford Ulrich, and Scott McGinn
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio Lannie Flowers | “Summer Blue” (2019) If there is one thing that people living through the chill of winter can agree on, it’s that the warm summer months can not come soon enough. This 11th in the ongoing series of free Lannie Flowers songs being given away during Continue reading
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Reviews: 1.31.19: Tim Jackson’s Pure Pop Debut is Right on Time
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio Tim Jackson | Better Late than Never (2018) The thing you need to understand about Tim Jackson, whose debut album is one of the finest first musical volleys in recent memory, is that his record collection is likely pretty similar to the one that has overtaken your living Continue reading
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Reviews: 1.30.19: Smith and Jones’ Top-Flight “Secondhand Heart”
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio Smith and Jones “Secondhand Heart” (from the forthcoming album Something Worth Learning (2019) Deftly chronicling the lack of an in-for-a-penny, in-for-a-pound element of romance missing from a relationship, Abby Smith and Sophie Jones’ glorious and catchy new single, released in advance of their forthcoming second album, Something Worth Continue reading
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Reviews: 1.29.19: Rogers & Butler, and Coke Belda
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio Rogers & Butler | Diana Dors (Zip, 2019) Edward Rogers teams up with Smash Palace’s Stephen Butler for a smashing four-song EP full of rock and pop swing, anchored by the pretty title song, a love letter to the English actress Diana Dors, “forgotten to the past.” Rock Continue reading
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