Absolute Powerpop

One of the best things to happen to power pop in the last 10 years was Seth Swirsky and Mike Ruekberg, both accomplished solo artists, join...

Seth Swirsky-Circles and Squares . Seth Swirsky is back with his first collection of new music since 2011's Red Button album, and it mig...

Perhaps the most anticipated release of 2013 to date has been Andrew Curry's "Monsters of Lite Rock" project, funded by Kicks...

As I had hinted elsewhere, I'm doing something different this year at the top of the list. Because I didn't have a clear-cut, slam-d...

In 2007 Seth Swirsky & Mike Ruekberg, established power poppers in their own right, teamed up as The Red Button to give us one of the t...

When the creative pop genius who made up one-half of The Red Button (who had my #1 disc of 2007) decides to unleash a solo disc, and when he...

Every once in a while here I get to break some news (which I never get around to fixing). It's a measure of how atrophied my journalism ...

Stumbled across this video from The Red Button's She's About to Cross My Mind , perhaps the most "popular" power pop album...

The Red Button is a new band featuring Seth Swirsky (who put out the fine 2004 record Instant Pleasure) and ex-Rex Daisy Mike Ruekberg, and ...