Album Reviews
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Need Gift Ideas for the Melodic Pop Fans In Your Life? For You? We’ve Got ’em, All This Week
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio We are now officially in the 2018 holiday gift giving season. I know…it seems like only yesterday, blah blah blah… Well, it does, but here we are again, faced with making those decisions that, year after year, are just plain hard to make. Well, we’re here to make Continue reading
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Reviews| 11.1.18: Exclusive Preview: White Lace and Promises: The Songs of Paul Williams
Various Artists | White Lace and Promises: The Songs of Paul Williams (Curry Cuts, 2018) Singer, songwriter, actor and, really truly, bon vivant Paul Williams has been plying his trade or, more accurately trades, for five decades, making his mark in the wide world of entertainment with Muppets, hit records, and Burt Reynolds in tow (which Continue reading
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Reviews | 10.31.18: Vegas With Randolph’s Fourth Full-Length Serving, Legs & Luggage
Vegas With Randolph | Legs & Luggage (2018) On the Occasion of a Fourth Helping of Vegas With Randolph Five years ago, a whoop-de-do was set into motion at Northern Virginia’s Jammin’ Java to celebrate the release of Vegas With Randolph’s third album, Rings Around the Sun. The musicians approached, instruments in hand, songs in Continue reading
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Reviews | 10.30.18: Everet Almond’s Triple Pop Play on CD
Everet Almond | An Introduction to Everet Almond (Kool Kat Musik, 2018) Everet Almond | Windsor Field (Kool Kat Musik, 2018) Everet Almond | Everet Almond (Kool Kat Musik, 2018) What I know about Everet Almond I could fit literally on the head of a pin and still have room left for a whole lot Continue reading
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Reviews | 10.17.18: The Grip Weeds’ Energetic Trip Around the Sun
The Grip Weeds | Trip Around the Sun (Jem, 2018) Either the members of the Grip Weeds are, to coin a phrase, cautiously rambunctious or they’re settling into a new, more connected mindset. And by connected, I mean tugging liberally on yesterday’s signposts at the same time as they’re poised to swim contentedly in contemporary Continue reading
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Reviews | 10.11.18: Ken Sharp, The Cherry Bluestorms, Lannie Flowers, The Lunar Laugh, and Pat Walsh
Ken Sharp | Beauty in the Backseat (2018) Fancy spinning a big old super-sized love letter to 1970s pop, like the kind you might have heard on AM radio back in the day? Ken Sharp’s fun follow-up to his sterling 2016 long player, New Mourning, might well be just your ticket. Played mostly by Ken Continue reading
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Reviews | 10.10.18: McPherson Grant’s Song
Win McPherson Grant’s debut CD…Enter below! McPherson Grant | Song (2018) From Tiny Volcano’s Scott McPherson in Tacoma, Washington to Pop Vultures’ Jamie Grant in Toronto, Ontario in Canada and back again, the various song parts created by these two melody wizards flew. All told, they combined to make the magic that informs the duo’s Continue reading
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Reviews | 9.27.18: The Toms and the Maladaptive Solution
The Toms | “Life Raft” (2018) From the upcoming new and much anticipated Toms album D7, Tommy Marolda’s enticing, acoustic, rhythmic tapestry, awash in warm sixties sensibilities, is a classic slice of songcraft and performance. “Life Raft” is about holding on, taking advantage of second chances, and doing whatever it takes to keep love alive Continue reading
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Reviews | 9.20.18: Danny Wilkerson, Jay Stansfield’s Charity Single, Dana Countryman and Scott McPherson, and Bryan Estepa
Danny Wilkerson | Wilkerson (Spyderpop, 2018) Working together with Bleu, who produced this superlative pure pop platter and co-wrote the songs, Danny Wilkerson, the always-and-forever Pengwin, has whipped up a self-titled opus that is by far this year’s most affecting collection of catchy, melodic earworms. Joined in the studio by Jellyfish’s Roger Joseph Manning Jr., Continue reading
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New on Pure Pop Radio 7.25.18: The Quite Grand Debut of the Grand Leve
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio Spins and Reviews | 7.25.18 The Grand Levé | The Grand Levé (2018) The music reviewer’s job, the same as it ever was, is to paint a picture with words that convince you that an album either isn’t worth a scintilla of your time (which, of course, we Continue reading
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