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  • Later this year Boston born Adam Jensen will release an EP and I’m very excited about it after hearing his just released, red hot single, “Sandcastles.” It’s a pristine blend of thought-provoking alt pop and serious electro that packs gentle acoustic guitars with sonorous beats that stomp all over you, resulting in one uber-catchy tune.

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  • It’s album number three for London-based garage-pop band Yuck and, thankfully, the third time is a charm here. They financed this one via PledgeMusic and I guess it worked out for them because the album was finished and is now available for your purchase, which I strongly suggest that you do because it’s quite charming,

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  • I loved and still love the first album by Sweden’s Bombus, The Poet and The Parrot. To my ears, it was an instant classic. A mix of old school thrash, modern metal, AC/DC and Motorhead, all thrown together in a pot that produced a spectacular soup. Well, now they’re back with album number three — their

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  • AJ Unity are a duo comprised of Naomi Suzuki, one of the most popular singers from Japan in the UK, and Philipp Moll. The two first collaborated when Moll produced one of Naomi’s solo albums and they sensed that they were destined to make more music together. So, they came up with the name AJ…

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  • review by Michael McCarthy all photos by Joshua Bernard and may not be reproduced without his permission Last night our resident Love is Pop photographer, Joshua Bernard, and I headed into Beantown (that’s Boston) to catch Emmy The Great’s show at Cafe 939 at Berklee (the famous music college).  It proved to be an interesting

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  • This past Sunday, the 21st of February, I was treated to an invitation-only Kacey Musgraves concert at Mohegan Sun Casino in CT. I’m not sure how I got invited, as I’m far from being a high roller, but needless to say that I’m quite happy that I was. Especially since the concert was fantastic. Opening

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  • It’s hard to imagine that what you’re hearing above started off as a piece of classical music on a piano, eh? We know stranger things have happened, but we can’t recall the last time when a #songoftheday had such an odd background story. That’s not why you should like it though. You should like it…

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  • I was already excited about Iron and Wine’s Sam Beam making an album with Jesca Hoop — one of my favorite singer/songwriters — and now that I’ve heard “Every Songbird Sings,” I’m practically drooling. On their own, each of their voices tends to give me chills, they’re just so perfect that I am in awe…

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  • Trippy. Ethereal. Gorgeous. Brilliant.

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  • When it comes to indie singer/songwriter Emm Gryner, I always have very high expectations. This might have something to do with the fact that her album Northern Gospel was my #1 album of 2011 and that her album Torrential was my #12 album of 2014. Suffice to say she’s one of my favorites, so forgive

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  • “I’m sick of this record already,” begins “Ordinary Life,” a song roughly halfway through the album that is about, well, being sick of ordinary life. While he sings about losing the will to live in Boston, floating and waiting to die, the song isn’t intended to inspire suicides. Quite the opposite in fact, “Just because…

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  • Bombus is back, motherfuckers! OK, so, maybe that’s a bit too dramatic, but you’ll feel like using some exclamation points yourself after you listen to the band’s contagious new track “Deadweight,” which hails from their new album Repeat Until Death, which is due out via Century Media Records on February 26th, 2016.

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