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Reviews: 3.19.19: Gretchen’s Wheel Rides the (Nada) Surf, and Lannie Flowers’ Pop Waltz
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio Gretchen’s WheelMoth to Lamplight: A Tribute to Nada Surf (Futureman, 2019) Listening to this new collection, a tribute to rockers Nada Surf, with less-than-zero knowledge of the band or its songs, turns out to be the smartest move I’ve made in awhile. Going in blind, I was able Continue reading
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Reviews: 3.15.19: Screen Test Shines Brightly, and Wes Hollywood Applies Some Lipstick
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio Screen Test | Through the Past, Brightly (Northside, 2018) From the ashes of the Flashcubes came Screen Test; under that moniker, Gary Frenay, Arty Levin and Tommy Allen, honoring their influences, brought lightning and thunder to meaty original songs and covers. This compilation brings together seven newly recorded Continue reading
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Reviews: 3.14.19: Joe Sullivan’s Growing Up Schlockstar: Love and Attraction, and Armchair Oracles Hearts You
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio Joe Sullivan | Growing Up Schlockstar (Futureman, 2019) Joe Sullivan’s Schlock Star was an obvious hit platter when it came out in 2014, partly because it was such a surprise and pure of spirit and joyful in song. It stood out among that year’s top releases because it Continue reading
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Reviews: 3.13.19: Wes Hollywood’s Dynamite, and Yorick van Norden’s Melody-Rich The Jester Sings
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio Wes Hollywood | Dynamite (Kool Kat, 2019) From Chicago to your town, Wes Hollywood’s Kool Kat CD debut hits the ground running with a fun, zippy mix of tunes saluting the sounds of early Elvis Costello, Dave Edmunds, and sixties British Invasion bands. Two guitars, bass and drums Continue reading
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Reviews: 3.12.19: Marc Jonson Returns, and The Connection’s Brad Marino Keeps the Beat
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio Marc Jonson and Compañía de Sueños Ilimitada “My Girlfriend Doesn’t Like the Ramones” b/w“I Don’t Want to Go to School Today”(Munster, 2019) Pure Pop Radio favorite Marc Jonson (a guest last year on Pure Pop Radio: In Conversation) joins up with Spanish band Compañía de Sueños Ilimitada for Continue reading
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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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