Welcome back, Lily Allen. It's been a while. Well, OK, maybe only four years, but that's a long time. A woman could have four babies during that amount of time.
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Tag Archives: 2017
#songoftheday = BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB: “LITTLE THING GONE WILD”
This Friday, January 12, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club will be releasing their new album Wrong Creatures, which is their "journey throughout rock's history, taking unlikely twists and turns, both peppered with historic influences but also having one foot firmly in the present." ...
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NEW PLAYLIST: CHRISTMIX 2017 IS HERE
For the past 15 years, maybe longer, I’ve been making an annual Christmas mix CD for my friends and family. This year, I decided to make it a Spotify playlist, since people seldom listen to CDs these days. I thought I would share it here in hopes that it’ll bring you a little...
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JAPAN CALLING: AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH FEMM
interview by Michael McCarthy A dance and rap duo formed by RiRi and Lulu, FEMM are mannequins who have emotions. They are new icons for TOKYO POP. They can’t talk but can sing, however, so each girl’s agent, “Honey-B” and “W-Trouble”, who look identical to FEMM, always speak for them and have participated...
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#songoftheday = LAURE SHANG: “THAT BRA”
The thing that makes Laure Shang one of my favorite Chinese artists is that you never know what she's going to do next. You really don't. In fact, I dare say she's one of the most unpredictable artists on the planet, which, for me, also makes her...
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A TALE OF TWO SISTERS: AN INTERVIEW WITH REBECCA AND MEGAN LOVELL, A.K.A. LARKIN POE
interview by Michael McCarthy “Black flowers grow in a garden / I put them all in my vase,” sings Rebecca Lovell on “Freedom,” one of the most powerful songs on Peach, the new album by sister duo Larkin Poe. She sounds downright ferocious, like she might bite your head off if you look...
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#songoftheday = Amanda Palmer & Jherek Bischoff – “Mother” (PINK FLOYD COVER)
Today the legendary Amanda Palmer unleashed the above cover of Pink Floyd's "Mother" and it's haunting us already. She came up with the moving arrangement with her composer friend Jherek Bischoff and it's every bit as emotional as Pink Floyd's original. I know that's saying a lot,...
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#songoftheday = SIGRID: “STRANGERS”
If you'll allow me to pat myself on the back for a moment, I'd like to point out that Love is Pop was one of the very first sites to post Sigrid's "Don't Kill My Vibe," which wound up being one of the biggest pop songs of...
THE BUSIEST MAN IN THE BUSINESS: AN INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL SWEET OF SWEET & LYNCH (AND STRYPER)
interview by Michael McCarthy The following is my third interview with the legendary Stryper frontman Michael Sweet. We first spoke about Stryper’s blistering 2015 album Fallen, which I still feel is one of their strongest albums to date. (Check out opening track “Yahweh” and you’ll surely agree.) Next, we spoke about Michael’s high...
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WHEN JUST DANCE COMES TO LOVE IS POP: AN INTERVIEW WITH GIGI ROWE
interview by Michael McCarthy Gigi Rowe is no stranger to us at Love is Pop. We previously made a few of her songs #songoftheday picks in 2016 and I actually interviewed her on December 2nd, 2016. It was one of the most fun interviews I’ve ever done, Gigi just gives off this contagious...
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ASK ME YESTERDAY: AN INTERVIEW WITH TOM KEIFER (OF CINDERELLA FAME)
interview by Michael McCarthy Sometimes you wait a long time for one of your favorite artists to release a new album. Sometimes you wait a really, really long time. In the case of Cinderella’s Tom Keifer, I waited roughly 23 years. You see, the last studio album by Cinderella, the criminally-underrated Still Climbing,...
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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Hi there peeps! You may have noticed that it’s been a bit slow around here during the past week or so. That’s because I took some time off from Love is Pop to work on my novel Book of Shadows 4. That said, I did do a few interviews that will be posted...
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#songoftheday = HEAVEN & EARTH: “THE GAME HAS CHANGED”
The song is called "The Game Has Changed" and starts off with some funkilicous bass then bursts into action with a highly caffeinated amount of energy...
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#songoftheday = Laure Shang: “The One That Ran Away”
So, this is what happens when Laure Shang goes punk rock? She comes out with an edgy, guitar-driven track that erupts with four on the floor energy as soon as you hit play. It's called "The One That Ran Away" and it finds Laure in a bit of...
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STREAM, STREAM AWAY: AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH MEGAN DAVIES
interview by Michael McCarthy Several years ago, Megan Davies opened a Youtube account and posted a video of herself doing an experimental, classical guitar piece. It didn’t get many streams, but she kept the account open and eventually started posting other things. Those things being actual songs. Most of them were covers. Some...
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