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FLYING SOLO: AN INTERVIEW WITH KELE OKEREKE OF BLOC PARTY
interview by Michael McCarthy I first became aware of Kele Okereke when I read about Bloc Party, the band he’s fronted for roughly a dozen years now, in the British magazine Q in 2005. Immediately after reading about them, I hunted down their debut album, Silent Alarm, and knew I liked it before Kele even…
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#songoftheday = GIGI ROWE: “GOT THAT”
Back in December 2016, we interviewed rising pop star Gigi Rowe, who’d just had a song included in Just Dance 2017. Well, here we are in October of 2017 and we’ve just discovered that Gigi will have a song in Just Dance 2018. too. In fact, it’s “Got That,” the song you’re listening to right now.
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MUSICALLY SPEAKING: AN EXCLUSIVE CHAT WITH JUSTIN MASTERS: PART TWO
interview by Michael McCarthy Today I am pleased to present you with part two of my interview with Justin Masters. As I said in my intro to part one, Justin and I were friends back in the mid-’90s but lost touch when I was in the thick of publishing my heavy metal music zine Ant,…
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MUSICALLY SPEAKING: AN EXCLUSIVE CHAT WITH JUSTIN MASTERS: PART ONE
interview by Michael McCarthy In the early ’90’s, many of the hair bands I grew up listening to put out some of their best albums. Unfortunately, there were so many hair bands by then that the market was over-saturated. It had reached the point where it was like the last days of disco, tipping the…
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#songoftheday = MIMOZA H: “WELL OF MELODIES”
It’s always fulfilling when an artist you thought was brilliant turns around and releases something new a year or two later and they’re still just as impressive. In other words, there’s nothing worse than saying someone is as refreshing as a cool, sudden rainfall on a 100-degree day only for them to put out their…
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#songoftheday = Mcbaise – “Paradis Du Cuir”
If you took Phoenix, Hot Chip and Passion Pit and chopped them up in a blender then made a gorgeous painting out of them and that painting could play music, Mcbaise is exactly what it would sound like. OK, so that’s a bit of a stretch, but those are the three bands I hear in Mcbaise’s…
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#songoftheday = Aly & AJ – “TAKE ME” [POSSIBLY NSFW]
“I know that you would want it if I could sink my teeth into you,” sing Aly & AJ on their icy hot new single “Take Me.” The fact that the song is uber-catchy alone makes it sufficient for a song of the day posting, but we have a cherry on top of the ice…
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NEWS: BOOK OF SHADOWS 2 NOW AVAILABLE AT SALE PRICE OR FREE WITH KINDLE UNLIMITED
Written by Love is Pop’s Michael McCarthy under the pen name Michael Beaulieu, Book of Shadows Volume One: Casting is the story of three sixteen-year-old girls who find the Book of Shadows (spellbook and journal) of one of their late great grandmothers. Upon trying a simple candle lighting spell, our narrator, Emma, discovers that magick…
Thank you for your comment. I don’t know what to think about Marilyn Manson and the Evan Rachel Wood thing…
I met Marilyn Manson twice. I was probally 24? Blonde hair and skinny. He had someone film each one of…
I enjoy getting lost in the gentle aesthetically psychedelic dreamscape that Still Corners creates. I’m an old man who lived(s)…
Greetings! I just released my vocal and songwriter debut today called The Kryptonite EP and was reaching out to send…
Thank you for posting this clip. Truly one of the most astonishing perfoances I’ve ever seen. Kudos to James Cordon…