Absolute Powerpop

Been trying to post since last night, but up until only the last hour or so Blogger has been down. Anyway, here's a roundup of news, li...

Just back in from the long weekend, and will be busy today, but I want to quickly pass on the news that eMusic added the fine new Jon Auer a...

Only five or so more days to get 50 free downloads from eMusic, before the promotion gets scaled back. Click over at the top right to sign ...

The Vestals are a power pop band out of Minneapolis led by brothers Ben and Jeremy Gordon, whom Amplifier Magazine called the "Jon Brio...

Don DiLego-Photographs of 1971 This one I didn't discover sifting through the virtual bins at CD Baby (although it is available there );...

Not Lame has now given the red carpet treatment to the new album from Feel, Steps to Reach a Human. The entire album is streaming, and the...

Time to resurrect my "#1 album of" series today, and next on the list going back in time is The Jayhawks' Smile, my favorite d...

Big Star-September Gurls (Live Stockholm 2-19-06) While this is a homemade audience video, it's great just to see Alex Chilton out there...

A few interesting additions to the eMusic catalog this morning. First, a couple of really good indie pop releases: The Happy Bullets-The Vi...

* eMusic added a Live at Maxwell's set from Jon Auer recorded only eight days ago - 16 tracks in all, many from his fine new album Song...

Mike Schmid-The High Cost of Living Now on to the last entry in Singer/Songwriter Day. LA's Mike Schmid has crafted an piano-based pop ...

Yesan Damen-The Never Beginning Story No videos directed by Hollywood celebrities here, just solid songwriter pop from Seattle in the person...

I wanted to give a shout out to three recent releases that I've been listening to a lot and enjoying lately. None are strictly power po...

Well, we've been hyping the week-by-week rollout of tracks from this album, so now that it's officially T-Day and the album is relea...

This one took me by surprise. Found it on one of my CD Baby listening marathons, and it stood out like a shiny diamond ring on a pile of ga...

A couple of weeks ago, we noted that Wiretree had new material up on its myspace page , but lamented the fact that the new stuff was only i...

German power poppers Monkeeman's latest album was the featured disc at Not Lame this week, and from what I've heard of it, it sound...

Many, if not most, of you reading this blog are famiilar with the late, great Cotton Mather, possibly the best Beatlesque power pop band of ...

Corvallis, Oregon is where today's CD of the Day comes from, courtesy of the gents known as Partly Dave. Own Up is their debut disc, an...

I can take or leave Gomez , and while I can't wholeheartedly recommend their new one, How We Operate, there is one great song on there w...