Author: Paris365

  • “I know that you would want it if I could sink my teeth into you,” sing Aly & AJ on their icy hot new single “Take Me.”  The fact that the song is uber-catchy alone makes it sufficient for a song of the day posting, but we have a cherry on top of the ice…

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  • If your favorite rock bands have bummed you out recently because their new albums aren’t very good then you’re in luck here.  Death From Above 1979 has just released their fantastic new album OUTRAGE! Is Now and it’s all killer, no filler.

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  • Written by Love is Pop’s Michael McCarthy under the pen name Michael Beaulieu, Book of Shadows Volume One: Casting is the story of three sixteen-year-old girls who find the Book of Shadows (spellbook and journal) of one of their late great grandmothers.  Upon trying a simple candle lighting spell, our narrator, Emma, discovers that magick…

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  • interview by Michael McCarthy “You want it, you need it,” sings Miljenko Matijevic on “My Dirty Girl,” the second song on Through Worlds of Stardust, the ferocious new album by Steelheart, (due September 15th via Frontiers). It might not be the album what you think you want, but it’s definitely what you need. Even if…

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  • As you may know, TNT’s original vocalist, Tony Harnell, is back in the band and they’ve been playing shows all over Europe while working on a new album.  For a while, though, Harnell had left and the band released a handful of albums with singer Tony Mills.  

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  • interview by Michael McCarthy The following interview with Forever Starts Today’s lead vocalist Christina Murphy and guitarist Troy Hirschhorn was conducted on August 25th, 2017, a noteworthy date because it happens to be the same day that their colorful, debut album Always Hope was released. If you’re a fan of vibrant, female-fronted power pop/punk then…

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  • Acclaimed DJ and producer Agatino Romero was born in Hamburg, but still considers himself an authentic Italian.  His family, you see, comes from Catania, Sicily.  Until a few years ago,  he was on his way as a young professional soccer player with HSV and the Italian club Calcio Catania until a serious injury stopped him.  Since…

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  • interview by Michael McCarthy Uncured is a fierce new band that blends technical death and progressive metal into a unique sound of their own that splits the difference between classic Opeth and vintage Dream Theater. Those are two mighty big bands to stack up to, but these uber-talented guys pull it off and then some.…

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  • Snoop Dogg is the man.  No, not the police.  The other man, the cool one, the coolest motherfucker in the world.  So, when he drops a laid back trap track like “Trash Bag,” we take notice.  The just released video has everything you could want in a music video: Snoop Dogg, bags of money, lovely…

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  • Adam Jensen has become a certified Spotify Sensation since we first started posting his songs — and interviewing him — here on Love is Pop.  His hit “The Mystic” has racked up 1 million streams already while a remix of his debut single “Sandcastles” has over 5 million.

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  • I’m normally not a big fan of prog, but I checked out Sons of Apollo’s just released single, “Signs of The Time” because Billy Sheehan of Mr. Big is the bassist and he’s one of the best on the planet. Plus, the rest of the line up is great, too.  

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  • interview by Michael McCarthy So far, the first and only time I’ve seen Quiet Riot live was in ’93 or ’94 when they were promoting the album Terrified, a record I’d still recommend to fans of the band’s early albums. The show was at an underground club – literally, it was a small basement level…

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  • interview by Michael McCarthy Mystery Skulls, otherwise known as Luis Dubuc, was something of a mystery to me prior to reading the press release for his new album, One of Us. All I knew was that I loved the Mystery Skulls debut album, Forever. You see, I had no idea if Mystery Skulls was a…

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  • I’m only labeling this new Garbage video as a red hot video instead of a song of the day because “No Horses” already was a song of the day when they debuted the audio a week or so ago.  Anyway, this is the apocalypse as seen by Garbage and director Scott Stuckey and, well, everything that…

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