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MID SUMMER 2019 REVIEWS by Mike Baron IN DEED: Everest (Big Stir) Jangular pop with advanced songcraft. Lead singer Linda Karlsberg will remind some of Lisa Mychols, but this Swedish band charts its own way. “Five Times A Day” has some Explorers Club DNA. “Don’t Need, Don’t Care” is brilliant and mesmerizing, evoking Marmalade Souls and again […]

  ULYSSES: Law and Order (Black Glove) Like a bunch of ADD special ed kids on a sugar high, Ulysses can’t stop from switching it up in the middle to FASTER, HARDER, STRONGER! The title track is a sinister ear worm in a Kinks mode with a police siren. I wish they wouldn’t do that. […]

SILVER JET “Pull Me Up…” I have a friend who is a fellow guitar player and he was in the process of putting together a covers band to, you know, make some money when I suggested to him that he focus exclusively on ’90s music. This was in 2014. He was curious why. I told […]

MOVIE REVIEW “PROMISED LAND” by Doug Young Frac (un)focus Promised Land Starring Matt Damon, John Krasinski, Frances McDormand, Rosemarie DeWitt, Hal Holbrook; directed by Gus Van Sant Promised Land Frack Fluid(TM) is a newly released product that can be used to extract gaseous emissions regarding the national debate surrounding a process called hydraulic fracturing (or […]

COMING SOON!!   There’s plenty of cool new features coming at Pop Geek Heaven. This is one of them. I’ll keep you posted on the weekly video updates as to when this one will be ready. There’s a lot  being worked and developed here. I want to hear your ideas with what you’d like to […]