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Sundance 2021: Edgar Wright’s Quirky ‘The Sparks Brothers’

/ 8 February 2021

Using collage, clay animation, and 2D anime-style art with traditional archival footage and modern black-and-white interviews, Edgar Wright tries to capture the Sparks as a "Hollywood" band with an obsession for European visual art.

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Sparks Still Ignite with ‘A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip’

Jordan Blum

/ 8 May 2020

After nearly 50 years and two dozen albums, Sparks continue their reign of resonantly quirky art pop-rock delights on A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip.

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Nobody’s Girl Sparks New Life into Old Classic, “Merry Christmas, Baby” (premiere)

PopMatters Staff

/ 14 October 2019

Austin trio Nobody's Girl gives a freewheeling, late night holiday party atmosphere to the holiday classic, "Merry Christmas, Baby".

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Dharmasoul Sparks With ‘Lightning Kid’ (album stream)

PopMatters Staff

/ 30 May 2018

New Jersey duo Dharmasoul makes its musical and spiritual home in New Orleans as evidenced on soulful LP Lightning Kid.

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Expect the Unexpected: A Conversation with Sparks

John Paul

/ 13 September 2017

For nearly half a century (and a new album to boot), the Mael brothers Ron and Russell have been confounding listeners' expectations with their ever-changing, stylistically broad brand of artfully rendered pop.

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Angels, Sparks, Flashdance: Frank DiMino Returns With ‘Old Habits Die Hard’

PopMatters Staff

/ 14 December 2016

The voice of Angel, Frank DiMino, offers first solo release, reflects on the power of song.

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Grant-Lee Phillips – “Smoke and Sparks” (video) (premiere)

PopMatters Staff

/ 25 October 2016

Grant-Lee Phillips releases a beautiful new video for The Narrows album highlight, "Smoke and Sparks".

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Few Bits: Big Sparks

Ian King

/ 14 October 2016

The Belgian band's second album has arrived to wring the last drops of warmth out of summer's end.

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Sparks – “The Final Derriere” (Singles Going Steady)

PopMatters Staff

/ 16 October 2015

This is a freaking brilliant video matched by an impressively sublime song.

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Yellow Red Sparks – ‘New Fangs Old Pangs’ (EP stream) (premiere)

Adrien Begrand

/ 15 October 2015

The Southern California duo return with a winsome blend of folk, pop, and Americana.

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Counterbalance: Graham Parker – Squeezing Out Sparks

Jason Mendelsohn and Eric Klinger

/ 5 June 2015

Passion is no ordinary word—ain't manufactured or just another sound that you hear at night. Passion is also all over the 746th most acclaimed album of all time. A 1979 masterpiece is this week's Counterbalance.

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‘The Best of Me’ Offers the Worst of Nicolas Sparks

Bill Gibron

/ 17 October 2014

Like a hack tunesmith that keeps rewriting the same melodies over and over again, hoping his legion of fans don't notice the ruse, we've heard this Sparks song before.