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#albumoftheday – The North Atlantic All Star Band: One More Christmas (The Gift)

Posted Dec 1, 2022

Once upon a time I published a hair metal zine called ANT, The Only Cool Magazine That Bites. During that time, there was a rock band out of the Boston area that I fell in love with called Ragtime. They weren't exactly a hair band but I think they'd agree that they were...

#songoftheday = METALLICA: “ONLY HAPPY WHEN IT RAINS (LIVE)” (#songsforourtimes #20) + A-HA: “LIVING AT THE END OF THE WORLD (#songsforourtimes #21)

Posted Apr 20, 2020

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Yeah, yeah, I know, this isn't exactly a hopeful song and it isn't about the end of the world either. But I do feel like "Only Happy When It Rains," a Garbage song which Metallica covered at the Bridge School Benefit on...

#songoftheday = BRITNEY SPEARS: “TILL THE WORLD ENDS” (#songsforourtimes #16)

Posted Apr 3, 2020

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What could be more uplifting right now than a high octane Britney Spears dance track about, you guessed it, dancing until the world ends?...

#songoftheday = BON JOVI: “ROOM AT THE END OF THE WORLD” (#songsforourtimes #14)

Posted Mar 31, 2020

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One of my favorite songs on the album is "Room At The End Of The World," which isn't a song devoid of melancholy, but it's also one that I find full of hope. ...

#songoftheday / #amlistening = BIF NAKED: “JIM”

Posted Feb 18, 2020

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Bursting with layers and layers of guitars atop sonorous drum beats, "Jim" tunnels its way deep into your head and runs circles around whatever song you had stuck in there before it. ...

#songoftheday / #amlistening = ROBBIE WILLIAMS: “TIME FOR CHANGE” + ALBUM REVIEW

Posted Dec 19, 2019

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This year Robbie Williams finally did something I've been waiting for him to do for over 20 years: he released a Christmas album, appropriately entitled The Christmas Present. Not only that, it's a double album. If you get the deluxe edition,...

#songoftheday / #amlistening = BAR BRUTAL BAND: “SPECIAL TERMS” DEMO

Posted Nov 19, 2019

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Bar Brutal Band, has just released a spot on new single, albeit in demo form, called "Special Terms," which I simply had to share with you. It's just too good for me not to. ...

#PREMIERE / #SONGOFTHEDAY WITH INTERVIEW: MICHAEL RIDER’S “CAPITAL”

Posted Sep 27, 2019

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review by Michael McCarthy Today I’m delighted to premiere Manhattan-based dream pop singer/songwriter Michael Rider’s new protest anthem, “Capital.” From its punchy main beat to its layers and layers of instrumentation and subtle vocal samples, which glide along under Rider’s lead vocals like a surfboard under his feet, its production is complex enough...

#songoftheday / #amlistening = BABYMETAL: “ELEVATOR GIRL” (ENGLISH VERSION) + U.S. TOUR DATES

Posted Sep 2, 2019

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Japanese metallers BABYMETAL have just released a new, English version of their smash hit "Elevator Girl" and we're loving it here at Love is Pop HQ! Like the original version, it kicks some serious ass. ...

#songoftheday / #amlistening = TEMPTRESS: “NAKED”

Posted Jun 22, 2019

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"Naked" is the latest single by South London production/artist duo Temptress, which consists of Jess Belgrave and Vlad Woodham-Smith, who've run up a couple of million streams since 2016. It doesn't take a genius to figure out why that it is when you listen to...

WORLD PREMIERE / #songoftheday = NATHASSIA: “GODDESS”

Posted Apr 25, 2019

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I am pleased to present you with the global premiere of her latest single, "Goddess," which finds her once again in the world music vein as she calls on and portrays the Goddesses Athena, Venus, Diana, Inanna and Laxmi as she sings...

#songoftheday / #amlistening = ILIRA: “WHISPER MY NAME” + “DO IT YOURSELF”

Posted Apr 4, 2019

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Rising pop princess ILIRA has two red hot tracks out right now via Insanity Records/Sony, "Whisper My Name" and "Do It Yourself."...

#songoftheday / #amlistening = DOE PAORO: “SILVER SPRINGS”

Posted Apr 1, 2019

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It's no secret that singer/songwriter Doe Paoro is one of my favorite artists. If you frequent this site, you undoubtedly know that I regularly interview her. So, it should come as no surprise that I'm in love with her cover of...

#songoftheday / #amlistening = Phildel: “Electric Heights”

Posted Jan 23, 2019

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Critically-acclaimed UK pianist-singer-songwriter Phildel's new single "Electric Heights" hails from her upcoming third album, Wave Your Flags, which is due out on 3/22, and we've been listening to it several times a day since discovering it last week....

CONCERT REVIEW: moon tooth // cryptodira // chuggernaut // sundress: BOSTON 12/8/18

Posted Dec 15, 2018

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review and photos by Joshua Bernard When I was younger, I used to be really into local, underground music. I would find local bands and follow their careers, attend their shows, and watch some of them go from being little local bands to somewhat major bands. I loved the intimacy of being able...

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