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Bill DeMain’s Extended Stay Is a Perfect Vision
Bill DeMain | Extended Stay | 2014 | A review by Alan Haber “Maybe home is nothing more than where you hang your hat,” Bill DeMain sings in the cautiously cheery “Looking for a Place to Live,” the first of six sweetly-realized songs on his brilliant 2014 EP, Extended Stay. Autobiographical in nature and a Continue reading
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The New Trocaderos: Turn ’em Up to 11!
The New Trocaderos | Frenzy in the Hips | 2015 | A review by Alan Haber They’re either coming at you with the force of a speeding locomotive riding atop a five-alarm fire, or they’re pushing out the beat at a bit of a slower pace with pop music on their minds. Either way, the Continue reading
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The Kennedys’ West is a Musical Journey Well Worth Taking
The Kennedys | West | 2015 | A review by Alan Haber The overarching theme of the Kennedys’ splendid new album, West, is traveling along purposeful roads. The booklet illustration depicts a rural road–one lane going west, the other east, while the album’s cover shows the couple in a field after the leaves on the Continue reading
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Nick Piunti’s Beyond the Static: A Series of Keenly Observed Glimpses Set to a Pop and Roll Beat
Nick Piunti | Beyond the Static | Two Brains Recording Co. | 2015 | A review by Alan Haber It’s a whiff, or it’s a puff of smoke, or it’s just one of those things, but when the first song on Beyond the Static, Nick Piunti’s smashing followup to last year’s 13 in My Head Continue reading
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Put Your Hands Together and Meet the Weeklings! Yeah, yeah, yeah!
The Weeklings | The Weeklings | Jem Recordings | 2015 | A review by Alan Haber Every red-blooded wannabe rock star gathers his or her tools accordingly: one floor-to-the-ceiling mirror; a tennis racket (real or imagined); hair aplenty (real or imagined); an audience (usually imagined); and a room-busting stereo system to provide the soundtrack to Continue reading
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The Surfin’ Harmony King Rides the Waves: Matt Tyson’s Melodious Monuments to Good Time Music
by Alan Haber (See below for 35 songs that have been added to the Pure Pop Radio Playlist) The act of musicians paying tribute to a favorite artist’s art for the purposes of expressing adulation and exposing some other idea or sound to fans is not a new concept, but it is a great and Continue reading
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Graham Alexander Dazzles With New Album, Repeat Deceiver
Graham Alexander | Repeat Deceiver | Victor Talking Machine Company | 2014 A review, by Alan Haber With his first, self-titled record in 2011, Graham Alexander hit the bricks as the real deal right out of the gate, swinging for the fences with his finely-honed pop sense, great songwriting and performing skills. To up the Continue reading
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Curry Cuts Path to the ’80s for Retro-riffic British Invasion Compilation
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This Week? New Music, Maybe a Review. Next week? TBA…
Welcome to the wonderful, melodic pop music world of Pure Pop Radio. If you’re a regular visitor, it’s nice to see you back where you’ve always belonged. If this is your first time here, welcome…and we hope that you enjoy our show. This week, we may very well have another, all-new, in-depth review for you. Continue reading
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Reset2014: Bill Lloyd Revisits Landmark 1994 Album Set to Pop and Comes Up with a Revelatory Reinvention
Reset2014 Bill Lloyd 2014 A Review by Alan Haber Released in 1994 on East Side Digital, Set to Pop was an important record for Bill Lloyd. He had been successful in a partnership with Radney Foster as Foster and Lloyd, a duo that registered a considerable impact at country radio and a more-than-palpable fan base. Continue reading
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