Category: Rock
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interview by Michael McCarthy The Defiants find Danger Danger and Westworld bass player/songwriter/producer Bruno Ravel reuniting with vocalist Paul Laine, who was actually Danger Danger’s singer for 12 years and four albums in between Ted Poley’s time in the band; Ted is Danger Danger’s singer now and has been back in the band for over…
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interview by Michael McCarthy all photos by Dean Karr One of the perks of doing Love is Pop is that I sometimes come to hear awesome artists that I never would have found on my own. Here’s the story of how I came to know and love the French rock band BlackRain, who deliver classic-sounding…
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interview by Michael McCarthy Yesterday’s #albumoftheday was Unsaved Progress by Double Experience: https://loveispop.com/reviews/albumoftheday-review-double-experience-unsaved-progress/ It’s one of my favorite albums of 2016 thus far and I’m sure it will be in my top 20 when I write my best of 2016 list at the end of the year. The way they mix elements of everything from…
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If I’m understanding Wiki correctly, Bonfire’s longtime singer Claus Lessmann left the band in January of 2015 with a few of the other members leaving around that time as well. Currently, it would seem that the only original member left in the band is guitarist Hans Ziller, who controls the name Bonfire. I know what…
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One of the perks to doing Love is Pop is that people send me links to all sorts of promotional music downloads that they’d like me to review. The only trouble is that I’m only impressed by about 20% of them. But of those 20 percent, an awful lot of them are things that I…
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First of all, the name of this musical duo is really DETECTIVE, but they shortened it to DTCV so that people would be able to find them when they search for them online. If they were simply called Detective, people would never be able to find them because they’d be buried in a hell far…
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interview by Michael McCarthy In 2006 vocalist/guitarist Montana Masback, guitarist Sean Kraft, bassist Ryan Kelly and drummer Jordan Lovelace left Rockland County, New York and headed to Brooklyn where they officially formed the mean, gritty rock band Tournament. On March 25th they finally released their long-overdue second album, Teenage Creature, and it was well-worth the…
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The Joy Formidable spent a year holed up in their own studio in their native Wales writing and recording Hitch, their third full-length album, which is a tour de force if a little long-winded. You see, the record clocks in at roughly 70 minutes and many of its songs are over six minutes long, the…
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interview by Michael McCarthy Have you ever seen a magic show by one of the masters – like David Copperfield – and swore it was real? Well, I saw Copperfield perform a few decades ago and still can’t fathom how he did anything that night. The finale is the illusion that especially boggles my mind;…
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“Turn it up / Turn it over and start it again,” goes Goo Goo Dolls’ just released new masterpiece “Over and Over,” arguably their best song in over a decade, which hails from their forthcoming album Boxes, due out May 6th.
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California songs rule, baby.
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This one has me floored. Maybe it’s partially because I woke up today with a flu or something and can’t stop coughing, so I’m really dizzy and anything I’ve tried listening to has made me feel like I’m going to fall on the floor. But I am quite sure I’d be blown away by this…
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The following e-mail from Hey! Hello! arrived in our inbox today, much to our disappointment… It is with regret that Hey! Hello! have to announce the cancellation of their upcoming April UK tour. The shows have been postponed due to singer Hollis deciding to leave the band on the eve of the tour. Full ticket…
