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Trip Wire-Cold Gas Giants . Trip Wire (not to be confused with beloved Seattle pub-rockers The Tripwires) is a San Francisco band/collective...

Terry Anderson-Jimmy's Arcade . Everyone's favorite Southern pub-rocker Terry Anderson is back with his first album in six years, sa...

It's EPalooza this week with three fine EPs. Randy Mantooth-Randy Mantooth EP . No, this isn't the musical debut of the guy who st...

Andrew Taylor-From the Outside Looking In . Dropkick frontman Andrew Taylor has been accumulating a collection of songs over the last 15 yea...

Plasticsoul-Therapy . It's been a long wait, and while there have been various new tracks included on compilations in the interim, Steve...

Marble Party-Sometimes a Great Ocean . San Francisco's Marble Party returns with the followup to the excellent Plush , which finished #1...

A quick look at some quality new releases: Ruby Free-Shades . Maple Mars' Rick Hromdaka teams up again with Lisa Cavaliere (his wife) ...

As I've noted on many occasions, I don't normally review singles. But as I've also done on others, when artists of note have sin...

The Hangabouts-Kits & Cats and Saxon Wives . The Hangabouts are back with their long-awaited followup to 2011's Illustrated Bird , a...

Greg Ieronimo-Never Leaving California . Greg Ieronimo, who wowed us with his 7-track debut EP in 2014, doubles our fun here with his follo...

Corin Ashley-Broken Biscuits . Corin Ashley has been through a lot since we last heard from him in 2013 with the wonderful New Lion Terraces...

The Tripwires-Fat City Let's Go! (EP) . They're baaaaack! The Tripwires, everyone's favorite Seattle supergroup (consisting of m...

Hornal-The Game Begins With the Lights Out . Iain Hornal has been quite the prolific sideman over the last several years, playing with Jeff ...

Theo Katzman-Heartbreak Hits . My most pleasant surprise to date of the new year, Theo Katzman's Heartbreak Hits is unlike most of what ...

Brent Cash-The New High . Georgia's Brent Cash has made a name for himself over the past 10 years with a pair of smooth, sleek pop album...

Caper Clowns-The Buca Bus . It seems that my first reviews of a new year are of albums I missed from the previous one, and 2017 is no except...

Mr. International Pop Overthrow, David Bash, asked me to share his best-of-2016 lists with the Absolute Powerpop readership so again I'm...

The Top Power Pop EPs of 2016 1. Cliff Hillis-Love Not War 2. The Scheme-All the Time in the World 3. Preston Cochran-Sunshine 4. Fran ...

As those who follow me on Twitter may have noticed, I agonized over picking a clear-cut #1 for the year, since the top 5 (heck, the top 10) ...