Category: Pop
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Well, suddenly the internet is ablaze with Kylie Minogue’s fantastic new single, “Into The Blue.” And I do mean FANTASTIC. Wow. Everything about this song is perfect. It starts off with some jangly, almost frenzied piano and soaring strings but soon that goes away — temporarily — and we’re smacked with a slamming beat as…
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The story of Painted Palms is an interesting one. When cousins Reese Donohue and Chris Prudhomme first began making music together Donohue was living in San Francisco and Prudhomme was living near New Orleans. They started sending ideas for songs back and forth via e-mail and before they knew it they were creating songs together,…
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OK, I have to say it — Lily Allen is bouncing back with her delicious new single, “Air Balloon,” which dropped today on January 13th, 2014. (Well, OK, she already came back with recent singles “Hard Out Here” and “Somewhere Only We Know,” but now she’s back again, so that’s good enough for me!) Co-written…
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interview by Michael McCarthy During the past few years, singer/songwriter/pianist Lily McKenzie has collaborated with Breakage, Wiley, Brackles and Fatty DL, among others. Songs she’s lent her vocals to have been released by various dance music labels including heavy-hitters like Hed Kandi and Viper Records. Today — January 13th, 2014 — sees the release of her debut single as…
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Yes, you’ve read the subject line correctly — the immensely talented, rising pop star known as Neon Hitch has just released a free mixtape. (Grab it here: http://www.neonhitch.net.) It’s called 301 to Paradise and it’s six tracks, assuming you count the intro. Every track is fantastic and proves that Neon Hitch is going to be…
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Rose Elinor Dougall is perhaps still best known as a former lead vocalist of The Pipettes. But she has kept rather busy as a solo artist since leaving the popular girl group in 2008, releasing some very well-reviewed singles, such as “Start/Stop/Synchro” and “I Know We’ll Never,” as well as a much-beloved album, Without Why.…
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As the story goes, three-time Grammy-nominated pop singer Leona Lewis wasn’t planning to record a Christmas album this year, figuring she’d be busy writing the follow up to Glassheart, but her mentor Simon Cowell thought that it was time and she subsequently reconsidered. And, hey, you can hate Simon Cowell all you want, but this…
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I must admit that I’d never heard of The Rocket Summer before I came across this new Christmas EP on iTunes. But I’m always on the market for new Christmas songs, being quite the Christmas music junkie, so I checked out the previews of these tracks and had to download the EP. While the name…
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Mindy Smith is an American singer/songwriter who was born and raised in Long Island, New York but eventually ended up in Nashville pursuing a music career. Her music has been called folk, country, Americana, bluegrass and even pop. She’s often compared to Norah Jones and Alison Krauss. Snowed In is her second Christmas release, following…
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Best Coast — the dynamic duo comprised of singer/songwriter/guitarist Bethany Cosentino and multi-instrumentalist Bobb Bruno — have been labeled *a lot* of different things since their mighty impressive 2010 debut, Crazy For You. Dream-pop, power-pop, alternative-rock, alternative-pop, indie rock, indie pop, lo-fi, surf pop, garage rock — take your pick. But there’s a reason why…
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Yesterday Robyn posted the photo you see below on Instagram with the text “We are making music again. #royksopprobyn”. The photo shows the singer posed in front of Röyksopp’s Svein Berge and Torbjørn Brundtland, who she previously collaborated with on two tracks, Röyksopp’s single “The Girl and the Robot” and the song “None of Dem”…
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White Lies has decided to follow up their recent album Big TV, which we’ve already reviewed here on Love is Pop, with a new EP called Small TV, which they’re currently selling 1000 copies of on CD and once they’re gone it will be gone forever. Well, except for on the internet, where it’s sure…
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In 2008, when twin brothers Max and Spencer Ernst were just 16 years old, they became the youngest songwriters signed by Cherry Lane Music Publishing (now BMG). Cherry Lane’s roster includes such heavyweights as Black Eyed Peas and John Legend. In 2009, singer/songwriter Chelsea Lee was signed to Atlantic Records. In 2011, she released her…
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As the story goes, Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong was a big fan of the country duo known as the Everly Brothers, particularly their 1958 album Songs Our Daddy Taught Us. He was so into the album, in fact, that he decided he wanted to cover it. But he wanted to do it as a…
