• #songoftheday = WARRANT: “ONLY BROKEN HEART”

    If you like old school heavy metal you’re in for a real treat with this one. It’ll have you dreaming about hanging out on Sunset Strip in the hair metal heydays even if you’ve never actually been to Los Angeles. It’s cool like that. A slick, anthemic beast that proves that Erik Turner (guitar), Jerry…

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  • #songoftheday = GOLDFRAPP: “MOON IN YOUR MOUTH”

    “Moon In Your Mouth” is the third song released from Goldfrapp’s forthcoming album Silver Eye, which drops next Friday on the 31st. To my ears, it’s a sonic orgasm. I’m a big electro-pop junkie and it just doesn’t get better than this. I’ll admit that I was disappointed with Goldfrapp’s last album, but I think…

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  • GUEST EDITORIAL: The Women do the Waxing by Dave Perry

    GUEST EDITORIAL: The Women do the Waxing by Dave Perry

    The following is a guest editorial by former music critic and current owner of Vinyl Destination record store, Dave Perry.  It was originally posted on Facebook on 3/19/17. The new point of sale at Vinyl Destination – or POS as those of us in the business world like to call it – lends us a…

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  • CALLING ROYALTY: AN INTERVIEW WITH JIMI BELL OF HOUSE OF LORDS

    CALLING ROYALTY: AN INTERVIEW WITH JIMI BELL OF HOUSE OF LORDS

    interview by Michael McCarthy all photos by David Butler II I could sit here and tell you that I’ve been a fan of House of Lords from the beginning, but that wouldn’t be entirely true. While I did see some of their early videos on Headbanger’s Ball – Saturday nights at midnight on MTV –…

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  • Bellman Redux: His Second Love is Pop Interview

    Bellman Redux: His Second Love is Pop Interview

    Interview by Michael McCarthy I do so many interviews that I sometimes forget who I’ve interviewed already. This has a lot to do with my memory problem, but the fact that I’ve interviewed at least 100 people in my life doesn’t help me keep things straight. Likewise, most of the people I interview do so…

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  • #songoftheday = J.VIEWS: “DON’T PULL AWAY” (FEAT. MILOSH)

    Co-written with Gotye and Milosh (of RHYE fame), this one is the best song I’ve heard so far this month. Kind of takes your breath away. So trippy and intoxicating. I can’t write anymore because my words wouldn’t do it justice. Just listen and feel. J.Views, how did I ever live without you?

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  • #songoftheday = INNA: “GIMME GIMME”

    INNA has been a major fixture on the club scene since around 2009 and has released approximately a dozen red hot singles, and a handful of smashing albums as well, including last year’s killer self-titled full-length. Her songs are always club-ready, and they usually climb the to the top of the dance charts, but she…

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  • #songoftheday = DASHNI – “LOVE WINS”

    “Love wins every time,” sings Kurdish pop star and humanitarian Dashni Morad with a purpose, while heavy beats throb away and the hooks sink their teeth right into you. Suffice to say, “Love Wins” is one downright irresistible dance pop gem — a veritable breath of fresh pop air — but you’re listening to it…

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  • #songoftheday = ADAM JENSEN: “TOMBSTONE”

    A year ago tomorrow I interviewed Boston artist Adam Jensen and we learned about his colorful if not checkered past. One thing is for certain: he’s a hell of a lot more interesting, not to mention edgy, than your average pop slinger (pun intended). On his latest single, “Tombstone,” he invites people to write “bad…

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  • NEWS: BOSTON CALLING 2017 ANNOUNCES ITS DAILY LINEUP

    CHANCE THE RAPPER TO HEADLINE FRIDAY, MAY 26th, MUMFORD & SONS WILL PERFORM SATURDAY, MAY 27th AND TOOL WILL CLOSE OUT THE FESTIVAL ON SUNDAY, MAY 28th LIMITED SINGLE DAY TICKETS  ON SALE TODAY MARCH 3, 2017 at 10AM EST AT WWW.BOSTONCALLING.COM March 3, 2017 – Boston, MA – Boston Calling reveals its daily lineup for this…

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  • #songoftheday = ROBBIE WILLIAMS: “MIXED SIGNALS”

    “Mixed Signals” is the third track on Robbie Williams’ latest album, The Heavy Entertainment Show. It’s also the album’s third single, complete with a video with three very different endings. More importantly, it’s my favorite song from The Heavy Entertainment show. “Party Like A Russian” and “Bad Motherfucker” are pretty fucking great, too, but there’s…

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  • #songoftheday = Bruce Woolley & Polly Scattergood with The Radio Science Orchestra: “Video Killed the Radio Star”

    I’m not sure how this track came about. I only heard about it because Polly Scattergood was kind enough to send me a message on Twitter with the link. As you know, Polly is one of my favorite artists, and I’ve interviewed her twice for this site, so I immediately fell in love with this.…

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  • #songoftheday = THE MAINE: “BAD BEHAVIOR”

    On April 7th The Maine will release their album Lovely Little Lonely. This time they’re going the independent route and who can really blame them? It’s not like they need a record label to support them when this super catchy song has already racked up half a million streams on Spotify since it was released…

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  • MY DEBUT NOVEL, RECKONING DAZE, IS OUT NOW!

    MY DEBUT NOVEL, RECKONING DAZE, IS OUT NOW!

    Late last week I self-published my debut novel, Reckoning Daze, under my pen name Michael Beaulieu.  It’s only available as an e-book right now, but I hope to make it available as a lovely paperback soon.  In the meantime, you can grab the e-book for free from several different sources.  The easiest thing to do…

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  1. Greetings! I just released my vocal and songwriter debut today called The Kryptonite EP and was reaching out to send…