Tag: 2016
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We last heard from singer/songwriter KT Tunstall in the form of her Invisible Empire // Crescent Moon album, which was a haunting and delicate, folky affair. Her latest single, “Evil Eye,” is perhaps best described as pop. Irresistible pop that’ll surely brighten your day and make you listen to it on repeat, the two qualities…
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S.M. Entertainment dismissed Jessica Jung from Girls’ Generation in 2014 due to scheduling conflicts related to the activities of her fashion brand Blanc & Eclare and the group’s schedule. Considering that she was a fan favorite, firing her could’ve been career suicide for Girls’ Generation, or SNSD as they’re known in Korea, but the group…
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LOS ANGELES, CA – JUNE 20, 2016 – In celebration of the release of their critically acclaimed sixth studio studio album Strange Little Birds, Garbage will perform tonight on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Tune in to ABC at 11:35pm/10:35pm CST to catch the band’s return to late night television. Strange Little Birds was released last Friday, June 10, via…
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Christina Aguilera co-wrote her melancholic new single ,”Change,” with Fancy Hagood and Flo Reutter. All proceeds from download sales will be donated to the National Compassion Fund to benefit the victims and the families of the Orlando mass shooting.
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Last month I was introduced to Brandyn Burnette’s music via his pensive single “Karma,” which already has 20k plays on Soundcloud alone. He categorizes his music as neo-soul, but to my ears “Karma” was sheer electro-pop bliss. In any case, I had to hear more after that taste and was lucky enough to get an…
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This Friday night, June 17th, Kristin Kontrol will be playing The Middle East Restaurant and Nightclub located at 472-480 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139. If her name doesn’t ring a bell, perhaps you’ll recall her as Dee Dee from the popular rock band Dum Dum Girls, which she was lead vocalist for during the past…
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Elisa has been one of my favorite artists for over a decade now. In Italy, she’s a superstar, a veritable household name. In a perfect world she’d be just as popular here in the States, which she really should be when you consider that 95% of her music is in English. To that end, she’s…
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Dawn Richard delivers another twisted R&B song destined to toy with your head with her latest single, “Not Above That.” It’s so far out there that I’m not even sure I should be calling it R&B. Maybe there should be an R&B sub-genre called gloom for songs like this? I suppose you could call it…
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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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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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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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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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“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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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…
