Tag: pop rock
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If you miss the days of pretty hair band ballads, you should appreciate We The Kings’ ambitious new single, “Stone Walls,” which starts off nice and mellow and gradually builds into something potent if not powerful. I’ve always preferred their acoustic tracks and ballads, so this one was right up my alley and is the…
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Let’s face it, during the past few years Weezer have been more of a mainstream pop band than an alternative rock band on albums like Hurley and Raditude. Personally, I loved those albums. I just felt like they always had a pop element to their sound and they were just learning to embrace that. So,…
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The best video since the last OK GO video. This one just might be their best yet.
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At this point in the game, the always impressive synth rock band known as Fitz & The Tantrums has all but become a household name. And they just might achieve that status with this amazing new video for their gorgeous current single, “Fools Gold,” which opens with some heavy break up dialogue that should really…
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OK GO: HUNGRY GHOSTSAs you may remember, I reviewed OK GO’s fantastic Upside Out EP back in August of this year. All four of those incredible, tasty treats are served up deliciously here on the band’s new album, Hungry Ghosts, which is, simply put, baked to perfection. But before we get to the brand new…
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…And then Tokio Hotel went to the discotheque. Sort of anyway. The verses of “Love Who Loves You Back” are sheer synthy pop, but the chorus is entirely danceable and would even seem to be aimed at the clubs. It’s not EDM though. No, this is more like disco circa ’79, the cream of the…
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Wow. This one is out of the ballpark amazing. A gem of an pop rock song that sounds like something The Cars would have done in 1984 while still sounding perfectly modern at the same time. All we know is that every moment of this song is exhilarating.
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The first thing that I have to say about Simian Ghost’s new album The Veil is WOW. And it takes a lot to wow me lately. I generally choose to review things that I feel positively about, but I am not so easily impressed. This album, however, is nothing short of glorious and a sparkling…
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I’m always listening to new music, picking things that stand out among the crowd to review for Love is Pop. The problem is, sometimes you have to listen to a lot of mediocre music before you find something truly marvelous. I was having one of those days when everything I listened to seemed quite dull when I…
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I find it interesting that U2 is credited for writing all of the music for this album with Bono and The Edge credited for writing all of the lyrics. The reason I find this interesting is that they worked with an awful lot of song-writers on this album. Namely, Ryan Tedder, Danger Mouse, Paul Epworth…
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OK GO’s new EP opens with the mid-tempo track “Turn Up the Radio,” a song about getting down to business with one’s significant other. The idea, I think, is to turn up the radio so your neighbors can’t hear you shagging. “I’ve got to lose myself tonight / So turn off the lights,’ sings Damian Kulash…
