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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 | 9.20.18: 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 5.2.18: Michael Carpenter Special: The Supahip’s The Two Sided Face and Carpenter, Smith and Jones’ Tom Petty Tribute
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio Spins and Reviews | 5.2.18 Michael Carpenter Special: The Supahip | The Two Sided Face (2018) Carpenter, Smith and Jones | Petty (2018) The many, varied hues on the palette from which Michael Carpenter draws to paint his long line of musical masterpieces are particularly plentiful these days. Continue reading
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New on Pure Pop Radio 3.14.18: Linus of Hollywood and The Weeklings
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio Spins and Reviews | 3.14.18 Linus of Hollywood | Cabin Life | Magic Beach, 2018 You’ve got to be carrying around on your shoulders a teeming bushelful of confidence to name your album Your Favorite Record, but that’s what the regally-named Linus of Hollywood called his very first Continue reading
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New on Pure Pop Radio 3.13.18: Michael Simmons, David Myhr, and Radio Days
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio Spins and Reviews | 3.13.18 Michael Simmons | First Days of Summer | Crab Apple, 2018 You will likely know musician and high school educator Michael Simmons from the much-missed sparkle*jets u.k., from Yorktown Lads, whose Cameron Lew makes quite fine music on his own, or Popdudes, a Continue reading
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New on Pure Pop Radio 1.17.18: Andy and Jason Reed Make their Move, Farrington Serves Up Enlightenment, and Tommy and the Rockets Have Fun in the Summer Sun
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio Spins and Reviews | 1.17.18 Andy Reed and Jason Reed | Make Your Move (2018) Andy Reed, whose engineering, performing and songwriting resume measures many miles long (The Legal Matters, et al), and his brother Jason help to usher in the new melodic pop year with this sterling Continue reading
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