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Reviews: 6.6.19: New Releases: The Weeklings, Alex Chilton, Bryan Estepa, and Jacob Panic
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio The Weeklings | “I Want You Again” (Jem, 2019) It is a bushelful of happy that greets me on this day, almost a month since I last posted due to various bits and bobs. Finding a new Weeklings song in my email inbox–an old-fashioned Weeklings song, if truth Continue reading
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Reviews: 5.9.19: When Joy was Job One: Ken Sharp’s “World’s Fair” is an Affectionate Trip Back in Time
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio Ken Sharp | “World’s Fair” (Jetfighter, 2019) Think back to when you were a kid; think back to the things you had that were cool and full of joy, that you just had to bring to school the next day and show your friends and the kids who Continue reading
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Reviews: 4.24.19: Armchair Oracles’ Guitar Pop Shines, and Lannie Flowers McCartneys Things Up
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio Armchair OraclesCaught by Light (Kool Kat Musik (CD), 2019) Comprising 10 songs drawn in bewitching colors, doused with the spirit of decades of classic guitar pop and seasoned by Norway’s quartet of the moment, Caught by Light jumps to the front flank of 2019’s finest releases. Armchair Oracles, Continue reading
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Reviews: 4.10.19: Brian Gari Paints a Heartfelt Musical Picture
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio Brian Gari | Jeanne’s Album (Original Cast, 2019) A kind of old-fashioned, heartfelt song cycle, Brian Gari’s tremendously affecting and musical Jeanne’s Album chronicles his life with his wife Jeanne through their ups and downs and up agains. With keyboards and guitars primarily played by Gari and Peter Continue reading
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Reviews: 4.9.19: John Howard’s Emotional Rescue, and Anchor and Bear’s Tasty EP
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio John Howard | Cut the Wire (You are the Cosmos, 2019) In the end and at the end, when we take stock of ourselves, when we reflect on a life lived on purpose and with purpose, we remain the product of what we achieved; our footprint is the Continue reading
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Reviews: 4.4.19: The Armoires’ Two Songs of the Moment
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio The Armoires | “(How Did You Make) A Mistake Like Me?” b/w “Not a Good Man” (Big Stir Digital Singles, 2019) The 23rd release in the ongoing Big Stir Digital Singles series is a whizzing whizbang that juggles velocity and an ever-present cadre of moving parts that sizzle Continue reading
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Reviews: 4.2.19: Charming Folk-Pop from Scotland’s Ally Kerr, and The Lunar Laugh’s ’80s and ’90s-meets-Motown Track
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio Ally Kerr | Upgrade Me (Much Obliged, 2019) It could be said that the observations and life lessons drawn as lyrical imagery in Ally Kerr’s beautiful new songs are proper fodder for listeners trying to assess the validity of their paths in life. Let’s go with that as Continue reading
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Reviews: 3.21.19: The Squires of the Subterrain’s Radio Silence: Ghosts are Afoot
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio The Squires of the Subterrain | Radio Silence (Rocket Racket, 2019) In the achy, far-from-silent world that the characters of Christopher Earl’s new songs inhabit, ghosts, or feelings that go bump in the night, are afoot, the past is a bubbling mess ripe for healing, and actions have Continue reading
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