Tag: features
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I Heart Sharks first broke onto the scene — the blogosphere, especially — with their much-praised 2011 album Summer, which featured such sun-kissed, blissed-out pop rock gems as “Animals,” “Neuzeit” and the super infectious title track, “Summer.” Now they’re primed to garner even more worldwide buzz with the release of their first EP, To Be…
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interview by Michael McCarthy Recently, one of the publicists who consistently sends me great music — James at I.M.P. — sent me a press release about Juliette Jules, a young Parisian singer who was celebrating her 16th birthday by giving away her first EP, Black Crow. Being a big fan of French music, I immediately…
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Last Monday’s #songoftheday was a track called “Pefect Vision” by a new five piece band from Philadelphia called Cheerleader. In our write up about the song, we remarked that it was one of those rare songs that’s so mind-blowingly good that we’re tempted to make it not merely our #songoftheday but a #songoftheweek. Now that…
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review by Michael McCarthy all photos by Joshua Bernard Nina Persson’s eagerly-awaited 4/14/14 stop in Boston was part of her campaign for her first ever solo album, Animal Heart, thus the tour being dubbed the #animalheart tour by Nina herself on Facebook and Twitter. The Boston date followed shows in Vienna, VA and Philadelphia, PA.…
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The UK’s Bat and Ball are an immensely-talented outfit with co-lead vocalists Abi and Chris Sinclair hailing from West Country. While the two began writing and performing with various bands in their early teens, they never actually played in a band together until they both moved to London to study at Goldsmiths College, at which…
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We’ve been fascinated by Petite Meller ever since she left a link to her “Backpack” video on our Facebook page last September. If you watched the video when we posted it, then chances are you remember it. It was the gorgeous homage to vintage French cinema shot on the French Riviera. Meller herself describes it…
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Émilie Simon began her career with a self-titled release in 2003. I happened upon it by chance when I was looking for a few new CDs to buy on Amazon France, as I had been a French music junkie since 1997 or so. I had no idea what she was going to sound like, but…
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interview by Michael McCarthy If there’s ever been someone we’ve interviewed here on Love is Pop who needs no introduction it’s Nina Persson. But, just in case her name doesn’t ring a bell, Nina is the beloved vocalist of The Cardigans. In most of the world, they’ve had roughly two dozen big hit singles, their…
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Following the release of her super hot and steamy video for “Sexercise,” Kylie Minogue has now launched Sexercise.tv, which features several different videos for the bounce, bounce, bouncy song that’s sure to have gym memberships on the rise already. Sexercize.tv was created by Chandelier Creative, a New York City based creative agency founded by Richard…
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You may recall Eemia’s SHY being our album of the day recently. If not, you should check it out because it’s a truly amazing EP from an extremely talented new artist who’s sure to become pop’s new “it” girl soon enough. With songs that meld together pop, soul and R&B for a sound that’s truly…
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As you’re about to find out, Jann Klose is an eclectic artist who’s equally at home singing, writing songs, composing music and acting. The amazing thing is that he’s brilliant at every single one of these things. Last year when I reviewed his superb album Mosaic I wrote that, stylistically, his voice and songwriting split…
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Recently one of my favorite artists, Charlotte Martin, made a post on Facebook about her new album, Water Breaks Stone. I left a comment asking whom I should contact about covering the album for Love is Pop. A fellow fan of Martin’s work, Michael Rider, saw my post and commented to ask if I’d like…
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The End Records Free Sampler 2014 Includes: Rich Robinson, Nina Persson, Davidge & more [recommended] The Sound We’re Making – A Spartan Records Sampler Includes: Daisyhead, Schematic, Waypoint & more Merge Records Summer Sampler 2013 Includes: Mikal Cronin, The Love Language, Eleanor Friedberger, She & Him & more [recommended] Bar None Records Free Sampler Summer…
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Yesterday we unveiled our review of Slo Light, the debut solo album by Massive Attack collaborator Davidge. As promised, today we’re presenting our exclusive interview with the man himself. Did you write the songs on Slo Light entirely by yourself and then find people to sing them or did you write them with the singers?…
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We live in a time when music is veering off in lots of interesting new directions. New genres are being born right before our very eyes and old genres are shifting into new territory. Artists like Lorde, Banks and Haim are all breaking the old rules and getting lots of attention for it. Enter Ego…
