Tag: 2017
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Written by Love is Pop’s Michael McCarthy under the pen name Michael Beaulieu, Book of Shadows Volume One: Casting is the story of three sixteen-year-old girls who find the Book of Shadows (spellbook and journal) of one of their late great grandmothers. Upon trying a simple candle lighting spell, our narrator, Emma, discovers that magick…
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interview by Michael McCarthy “You want it, you need it,” sings Miljenko Matijevic on “My Dirty Girl,” the second song on Through Worlds of Stardust, the ferocious new album by Steelheart, (due September 15th via Frontiers). It might not be the album what you think you want, but it’s definitely what you need. Even if…
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Acclaimed DJ and producer Agatino Romero was born in Hamburg, but still considers himself an authentic Italian. His family, you see, comes from Catania, Sicily. Until a few years ago, he was on his way as a young professional soccer player with HSV and the Italian club Calcio Catania until a serious injury stopped him. Since…
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interview by Michael McCarthy Uncured is a fierce new band that blends technical death and progressive metal into a unique sound of their own that splits the difference between classic Opeth and vintage Dream Theater. Those are two mighty big bands to stack up to, but these uber-talented guys pull it off and then some.…
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Snoop Dogg is the man. No, not the police. The other man, the cool one, the coolest motherfucker in the world. So, when he drops a laid back trap track like “Trash Bag,” we take notice. The just released video has everything you could want in a music video: Snoop Dogg, bags of money, lovely…
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interview by Michael McCarthy So far, the first and only time I’ve seen Quiet Riot live was in ’93 or ’94 when they were promoting the album Terrified, a record I’d still recommend to fans of the band’s early albums. The show was at an underground club – literally, it was a small basement level…
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interview by Michael McCarthy Mystery Skulls, otherwise known as Luis Dubuc, was something of a mystery to me prior to reading the press release for his new album, One of Us. All I knew was that I loved the Mystery Skulls debut album, Forever. You see, I had no idea if Mystery Skulls was a…
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I’m only labeling this new Garbage video as a red hot video instead of a song of the day because “No Horses” already was a song of the day when they debuted the audio a week or so ago. Anyway, this is the apocalypse as seen by Garbage and director Scott Stuckey and, well, everything that…
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“No turning back…” Our latest song of the day is Alvvays’ new tune, “In Undertow,” a mix of synth pop, shoegaze and alternative rock that is ripe for rejoicing because, well, it’s totally awesome! If you’re in the middle of winter right now, listen to this and it’ll thaw you out. It’s so sunshiny it…
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Book of Shadows Volume 2: Rising will be out on its scheduled release date of August 10th, 2017 and is now available to pre-order here: http://amzn.to/2uQq6gg. Be sure to pre-order it today so that your Kindle gets its fix as soon as it’s available. Like magick! Of course, I’ve enrolled Book of Shadows 2 in Kindle…
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interview by Michael McCarthy Today we have the second and final part of my in-depth interview with Eric Martin, the amazing frontman of Mr. Big. It’s my hope that it will get you excited to hear their new album, which is released today on July 21st, 2017 via Frontiers Records! Even if the only Mr. Big…
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interview by Michael McCarthy As you may recall, I wrote a concert review of a Mr. Big show I caught at Mohegan Sun Casino a few weeks back. Finally getting to see them live after being a fan since 1989 was a dream come true. I’d seen almost every heavy metal band back in the…
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“This is the apocalypse,” sings Garbage frontwoman Shirley Manson as their new single “No Horses” comes to its chilling conclusion. It starts off sounding like it’s going to be a synth pop song, albeit a dark one, with Shirley singing, “They’ll love you,
