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GoFundMe Update #3
I hope you will allow us one more update on our GoFundMe, begun by my wife Janet and I in early June. We continue to be on a short leash, albeit a bit less short than when we started this campaign. https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-alan-and-janet-stay-in-their-home Our situation, basically the same, will become more dire as the calendar pages… Continue reading
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Thanks to You…
and you too… for keeping this site alive for the past five years. It was May 21, 2021 that I said adiós to writing and posting reviews of the latest melodic pop albums. It was the same for interviews and the like. I was a busy boy, enjoying myself immensely day after day. Now, in… Continue reading
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Adiós.
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio This jumble of words, painting a vista of zigzags logged during a life dedicated to the promotion of melody, harmony and lyrical wordplay, comes because today is my last day in service to the pop community, which I have observed and reported on for more than two decades.… Continue reading
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Pure Pop Radio: In Conversation, Spring 2021, Episode Three: The Legal Matters Talk Chapter, Verse and Chorus
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio It goes without saying, you might and probably do say, that the coming together of Andy Reed, Chris Richards and Keith Klingensmith as the Legal Matters was a couldn’t-be-denied fait accomplis. After all, the three musicians have been connected to each other, in one way or another, for… Continue reading
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Well Foraged, Three Musicians Talk Chapter and Verse (and Chorus) Tomorrow on Pure Pop Radio: In Conversation
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio Emerging from the forest and well foraged, the three musicians who rounded up a bounty of melody and harmony (see here) tell their story to me tomorrow on Pure Pop Radio: In Conversation. At last, their identities can be revealed! Andy Reed, Chris Richards and Keith Klingensmith, appearing… Continue reading
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Found Foraging for Food in the Forest, Three Musicians Find Melody and Harmony Instead. In Conversation Has the Story
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio It’s a wonder, alright, that in the light of day, covered high above by the outgrowth of trees and clouds overhead, three musicians, looking vaguely familiar, find not food but a selection of melodies, harmonies and songs to pass on to friends and family and lovers of melodic… Continue reading
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New on Pure Pop Radio 4-14-21: Bill Lloyd Defines Power Pop With Curated Selection
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio Bill Lloyd | A Selection of Power Pop 1985-2020 – 15 Songs (Whole In One Records, 2021) Somewhere, somehow, there’s a person who thinks he’s come up with the most perfectly sensible and usable definition of the term power pop but, like the formulas for pantyhose that won’t… Continue reading
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New on Pure Pop Radio 4-7-21: The Weeklings Fool No One, Astral Drive’s Summery Breeze, and Ken Sharp Creates Dreamy Miniatures
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio The Weeklings | “April’s Fool” (Jem, 2021) Really, truly, you just couldn’t–you just couldn’t have picked a better day to release this rollicking, very Lefty, Zeek, Rocky and Smokestack kind of tune, very Merseybeat-ish with a healthy dose of toe-tappery and a clever-beyond-compare aural allusion to a certain… Continue reading
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New on Pure Pop Radio 4-6-21: Einstein’s Sister Returns; Nelson Bragg Returns, too; Kai Danzberg Sings for You, and Aaron Lee Tasjan and Lilly Hiatt Sing Sweetly for Luck Reunion and Third Man
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio Einstein’s Sister | “Begin Again” c/w “Standing Still” (Yummy Pop Tunes, 2020) Announcing the triumphant return of Einstein’s Sister, Moline, Illinois’ melodic pop powerhouse, drummer Marty Reyhons pounds his kick drum and tightly-wound snare while his cymbals swish through the air, awaiting the entrance of an expressive rhythm… Continue reading
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Pure Pop Radio: In Conversation, Spring 2021, Episode Two: Timmy Sean Tells a Tale from the Other Side
By Alan Haber – Pure Pop Radio Despite the restrictions imposed on us all during this ongoing pandemic year, it’s been a productive time for Pure Pop Radio favorite Timmy Sean. His online presence increased exponentially after he produced (overnight!) a rocking version of “Agatha After All,” the pivotal song from Disney Plus’s now-iconic television… Continue reading
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