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Charlatan Record Cartel’s Sunday Brothers Get Heavy, Man
Spins and Reviews | 05.02.17 By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio Charlatan Record Cartel spotlight popsters The Sunday Brothers get heavy, man, on “Save Me,” the follow-up to their initial, smash “somber, ruminative ballad about that night in ‘Bankside,’” as we called it in our review back in late February. Part of Charlatan’s ongoing, Continue reading
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Charlatan Record Cartel’s Pacific Northwest Band Bonanza is 2017’s Biggest Heretofore Unknown Musical Bounty
Spins and Reviews | 03.01.17 By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio Certainly somewhat close to the excitement that would be garnered by the discovery of a previously-unknown outtake from the Beatles’ Abbey Road album, and most definitely setting off fireworks and shockwaves in the neighborhood of those that pulsated through the melodic pop community Continue reading
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New on Pure Pop Radio 03-01-17: Vegas With Randolph, Terry Draper, The Del Zorros, The Squires of the Subterrain, and More
Spins and Reviews | 03.01.17 By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio Today’s batch of reviews features a preview of a new song from Pure Pop Radio favorites Vegas With Randolph, new releases from a trio of prolific melodic popsters, and much more… Vegas With Randolph | “Women in Airports” Departing from Fountains of Wayne Continue reading
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New on Pure Pop Radio 02.15.17: The New Trocaderos and the Nerk Twins
Spins and Reviews | 02.15.17 By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio This week’s second batch of reviews of new and new-to-you songs and artists added to the Pure Pop Radio playlist kicks off with a powerhouse EP from the New Trocaderos. Take it away, Kurt, Geoff, Brad, Kris, and Rick: The New Trocaderos | Continue reading
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New on Pure Pop Radio 02.14.17: Starring Pop Co-Op (with the Spongetones’ Steve Stoeckel), James Starflower, The Lunar Laugh, and More
Spins and Reviews | 02.14.17 By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio James Starflower | Covers: “Mandy,” “Jungle Love,” “God Save the Queen,” and “Moonage Daydream”; “Shandi” Imagine Marc Bolan veering off of the T. Rex causeway and recording a David Bowie-esque Pin Ups kind of collection and you’re relatively close to where the quartet Continue reading
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New on Pure Pop Radio 02.09.17: Michael Carpenter Times Two, and The Del Zorros
Spins and Reviews | 02.09.17 by Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio We continue to add new and new-to-you songs and artists to the Pure Pop Radio playlist; here are just a few of the latest nuggets playing in rotation. The April Family | What We Know Now (Big Radio Records, 2016) In 1998, Australia’s Continue reading
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New on Pure Pop Radio 1-26-17 Starring Kelley Ryan, The Simple Carnival, and More
Spins and Reviews | 1.26.17 Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio We continue to add new and new-to-you songs and artists to our playlist; hundreds have made their Pure Pop Radio debut in the last few weeks. Here are just some of the most recent treasures we’re playing in rotation, with lots more to come: Continue reading
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New on Pure Pop Radio 1.25.17: Feet First in the Dowling Poole! Jump In…The Water’s Fine!
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio Spins and Reviews | 1.25.17 | by Alan Haber The Dowling Poole | Miles Checks Out, Bright Spark, and Deep Breath EPs (2016) Willie Dowling, late of the much-loved Jackdaw 4 conclave, and Jon Poole, workhorse musical magician of Cardiacs and Wildhearts fame, first joined forces as the Continue reading
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New on Pure Pop Radio: Picking in the Panic Room, Disconnected at Third Man Records, and More
Spins and Reviews 12.7.16 Alan Haber — Pure Pop Radio (Originally posted on 12.07.16) Jacob Panic | Jacob Panic (2016) Picker extraordinaire Jacob Panic traverses his banjo’s fretboard with a sure-footed sense of purpose on five tunes borne from fertile ground rooted in pop and bluegrass. This self-titled EP finds the Baltimore-Maryland singer-songwriter’s multi-instrumentalist clothes, Continue reading
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Joy Spins Eternal Saturday, April 22, for Vinyl Lovers Everywhere. Record Store Day 2017 Rolls into Your Town
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio (Originally posted April 19, 2017) Your mission this week, and not nearly an impossible one, is to compose your want lists and check them twice and, what’s more, map out your travel plans for Record Store Day 2017, happening in your town, and yours too. Record Store Day Continue reading
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