Absolute Powerpop

With an album titled Blood, Sweat and Beers from a band named 7 Day Hangover, you wouldn't be expecting sensitive singer-songwriter pop...

Some interesting new stuff from Not Lame this time around. First off, they feature the Rhett Miller and Jason Collett releases we've ...

Since it seems lately that I've been featuring hard-to-find releases, I'm quite pleased to note a release I recently featured is eas...

I've always liked the Eels, a/k/a Mark Everett, but I've never been a huge fan. Last year's double-disc Blinking Lights and Ot...

Despite my less than enthusiastic thoughts about his forthcoming album Subtitulo, regular readers know that I'm still a big fan of Josh...

Today's CD of the Day comes from Finland, home of the Latebirds. Their August 2005 release Radio Insomnia, though, was a Made In The US...

New discs featured on Not Lame tonight, but since the wife and I spent the evening watching Walk The Line on DVD, the post will be up tomor...

A couple of pretty good releases from UK bands were added today. First off is the self-titled release from the Irish band Turn. This one i...

First of all, if you're wondering what happened to #5, it was posted out of order last week . I've been a fan of Michael Penn from t...

Joe Kennedy's Van Cortlandt Park is an impressive debut album chock full of lush, sunshiney pop. Put his cd on, close your eyes, and yo...

Here's a good one to grab off eMusic - Not Lame had featured this disc just a week or two before we started this blog. Indie-Music.com ...

The other night, we noted that Not Lame was featuring a 2001 release by a band called The Other Half, which really sounded good from the sa...

If anyone in the independent power pop world is going to make the breakthrough into the mainstream a la Fountains of Wayne, it has to be LA...

Sometimes when I'm researching my cd of the day, I come across someone who says it better (or at least the same) as I would, so I'm ...

I think it's been a whole 30 hours or so since I posted about Supraluxe, so I must be slipping or something. Anyway, they're the so...

With still a little over three hours to go, we've already broken our single-day record of 210 visits to the site (not that I'm the k...

Here's what's new over at the Kat: George Prentice-Long Story Short . This one looks interesting - Prentice says he's influenced...

If you missed out on this one when it came out last summer, there's no excuse now. Waltham's (from the Mass. town of the same name)...

This release isn't power pop - not even close. In fact, I'd almost hesitate to call it alt-country either; it's almost more tra...

This one flew under the power pop radar when it was released last June, which was a shame. Hailing from Minneapolis, Divorcee has drawn fro...