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An Exclusive Interview with Dean Garcia of SPC ECO, S T F U and M A D
interview by Michael McCarthy One of the very first interviews I did for Love is Pop was with Dean Garcia, formerly of Curve, who was promoting his new project SPC ECO, which finds him recording dark and dreamy music with his daughter Rose Berlin on vocals. Since that interview, SPC ECO has released several more…
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#songoftheday = PRIMITIVE OVERFLOW: “LISTEN HONEY”
I’m not a big prog rock fan, but I just found out that Donnie Vie — Enuff Z’Nuff’s longtime vocalist who is sadly not in the band anymore — is involved with this project. I’m rather impressed by it, too.
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NEWS: CHRISTINA GRIMMIE SHOT DEAD AFTER ORLANDO CONCERT
By now you’ve probably heard the news. If not, I hate to have to break it to you. Tragically, Christina Grimmie was shot and killed by someone after her performance opening for Before You Exit at the Orlando venue Plaza Live. Her brother immediately tackled the shooter, who had two guns on him, but during the…
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#albumoftheday / REVIEW: GARBAGE: STRANGE LITTLE BIRDS
Once upon a time — the mid ’90’s to be precise — I interviewed Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue for my hair metal zine, ANT, The Only Cool Magazine That Bites. I asked him what he was listening to lately and he said “Garbage and God Lives Underwater.” I went to Tower Records on the…
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#songoftheday = WHITE SEA: “BLOODLINE”
“I’m a monster / It’s in my bloodline,” sings Morgan Kibby, a.k.a White Sea, on her “Bloodline,” which is one of her most addictive songs to date and also one of her deepest, the lyrics haunting and melancholic. Those words could also be used to describe the song’s video, which Kibby directed herself. It’s beautiful…
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#albumoftheday = LADYHAWKE: WILD THINGS
We last heard from New Zealand’s Pip Brown when she released her 2012 album Anxiety, which was a solid pop record that featured a lot more guitars and considerably less synth and electronic sounds than her self-titled 2008 debut. Unfortunately, many fans — and critics — complained about the change of direction. On her new…
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#albumoftheday = VEGA: WHO WE ARE
A lot of recent albums by the heavy metal bands I grew up with have disappointed me. The latest Def Leppard album, for example. I’ve listened to that one at least 15 times and it does nothing for me. I just can’t get into it. I think it’s their first terrible album, really. Getting to…
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An Exclusive Interview with Piper Kaplan of Puro Instinct
interview by Michael McCarthy In 2011 I read a review of Puro Instinct’s Headbangers in Ecstacy album that made me curious about it, so I went to iTunes and listened to a couple of the snippets and then, well, I was done for. I simply had to buy it! It didn’t matter that I was…
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#videooftheday = BLONDE REDHEAD: “DRIPPING” (VERY NSFW!)
NSFW – NSFW – NSFW — very erotic. Artsy though!
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#songoftheday = BETTY WHO: “I LOVE YOU ALWAYS FOREVER”
This is not my favorite song in the world, but Betty’s rendition is fantastic!
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NEWS: BOSTON CALLING ANNOUNCES A SUPERFAN PRE-SALE FOR ITS MAY 2017 FESTIVAL, TAKING PLACE IN ALLSTON AT HARVARD’S ATHLETIC COMPLEX
FILM FESTIVAL CURATED BY ACADEMY AWARD-WINNING ACTRESS NATALIE PORTMAN AND MORE TICKETS ON SALE TOMORROW, JUNE 2ND AT 10AM EST AT WWW.BOSTONCALLING.COM June 1, 2016 – Boston, MA – Boston Calling Music Festival announces a Superfan Pre-Sale for its May 2017 edition, which recently revealed a new location: Allston at the fields at Harvard…
Great review. Reminds me of your Cinezine days.
[…] and “inert” depending on the outlet. The most useful document from that period is the LoveIsPop review, a critic…
They are so so talented and just simply amazing. I look forward to seeing them again since the last time…
I think you mean complaint, not compliant. This was a great review. Awesome of them to show up even after…
Great band, damn fine documentary.