Tag: #songoftheday

#songoftheday = MANDY MOORE: “I’D RATHER LOSE” (#songsforourtimes #5)

March 22, 2020

“If the only way to win / Is by breaking all the rules / I’d rather lose,” sings This is Us star Mandy Moore on “I’d Rather Lose,” the first track from her gorgeous new album, Silver Landings.
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#songoftheday = JOJO: “CHILL (STAY IN)” (#songsforourtimes #4)

March 21, 2020

“All I want is for you to use common sense / Stay in right now / For Humanity,” R&B singer-songwriter JoJo sings on her new song “Chill (Stay In),” which is definitely a #songforourtimes.
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#songoftheday = OH LAND: “I MISS ONE WEEK AGO” (#songsforourtimes #3)

March 20, 2020

“I Miss One Week Ago” by Danish singer/songwriter/composer and Love is Pop favorite Oh Land is the first COV-19-inspired song we’ve come across. Although it’s somber, it does put things in perspective as she contemplates how a week ago she was stressing about losing her phone and now, well, everything is different.
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#songoftheday = LENKA: “THE END OF THE WORLD”(#songsforourtimes #2)

March 19, 2020

Today’s song of the day is Lenka’s “The End Of The World,” which hails from her exquisite sophomore album, Two.
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#songoftheday = GLEN HANSARD: “SONG OF GOOD HOPE” (#songsforourtimes #1)

March 18, 2020

As of today, I’m starting something new on Love is Pop. Until the COV-19 virus, otherwise known as the coronavirus, is behind us or we’re at least in a much better position than we’re in right now, I am going to post a song of the day each day that’s relevant to what’s going in…
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FRENCH-AMERICAN STYLE: AN INTERVIEW WITH ARIANE

March 17, 2020

interview by Michael McCarthy The following interview with French American singer/songwriter Ariane took place last Thursday on the 12th of March 2020. Not long after many people in the United States had finally started to feel the gravity of the COV-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. I think both she and I felt a little strange doing an…
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#songoftheday / #amlistening = BIF NAKED: “JIM”

February 18, 2020

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.
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#songoftheday / #amlistening = POLLY SCATTERGOOD: “RED”

February 15, 2020

Spoiler alert: the above video for Polly Scattergood’s seven-minute+ new single, “Red,” is part two of a five-part short film she’ll be releasing this Spring. We’ve included part one here as well.
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#songoftheday / #amlistening = ADAM JENSEN: “INMATE 8576”

February 8, 2020

“Lost my head inside this cell / I’m all alone / This place is hell,” sings alt-pop/electro-pop singer/songwriter Adam Jensen on his powerful new single, “Inmate 8576.” It’s the first new song we’ve heard from Mr. Jensen in quite some time and it turns out he has a good excuse for not releasing anything new…
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#songoftheday / #amlistening = POPPY: “ANYTHING LIKE ME”

February 2, 2020

“You shouldn’t be anything like me,” pop star turned heavy metal kid Poppy sings insistently on her ferocious new single, “Anything Like Me,” which finds her sounding not unlike a female Marilyn Manson. “I’m sorry for what I’ve become / Because I’m becoming someone,” goes part of the first verse of the take no prisoners…
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#songoftheday / #amlistening = Yael Naim – “How Will I Know” (Live at Studios Ferber)

January 24, 2020

There’s a strong foreboding feeling to French-Israeli singer/songwriter Yael Naïm’s new single, “How Will I Know,” for which she’s just released a devastating live video recorded at Studios Ferber.
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#songoftheday / #amlistening = ROBBIE WILLIAMS: “TIME FOR CHANGE” + ALBUM REVIEW

December 19, 2019

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, which comes with four bonus tracks, it comes to 28 tracks total.
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It’s a #premiere! It’s a #songoftheday! It’s “The Stones” by Ismay!

December 5, 2019

Today we are pleased to exclusively premiere Ismay’s delightful and ethereal musings about very rare, glow in the dark stones that a friend once showed them. As they discuss in our interview below, they were a new type of stone, unlike anything they’d ever seen before. Suffice to say, they made such a strong impression…
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#songoftheday / #amlistening = BAR BRUTAL BAND: “SPECIAL TERMS” DEMO

November 19, 2019

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.
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DISCOVER A SUPERSTAR IN THE MAKING: AN INTERVIEW WITH MICKY JAMES

October 1, 2019

interview by Michael McCarthy When I went to see Phantom Planet at The Sinclair in Cambridge, Massachusetts on the 19th of September, I couldn’t have cared less about whoever was going to open the show. I’d been a big fan of Phantom Planet for around 15 years and had never seen them live so they…
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