Absolute Powerpop

It's kind of appropriate that I'm posting this review on a Friday, as NYC's Heap are the perfect weekend band: loud, energetic a...

Shakermaker-Shakermaker . Given that the band is apparently named after an Oasis song, you might expect brash, Beatles-influenced BritPop fr...

Theyyyyy're back. James Hall & Co. have brought us Sunny Days Ahead, the long-awaited (OK not that long - the first one came out ab...

3 discs for a holiday weekend - at least in the US, where Monday is Memorial Day: Vic Kingsley-These Frequencies . Vic Kingsley is a Miami b...

Only Makebelieve-Message from a Mockingbird . This Ohio band's debut album was four years in the making, and it most definitely sounds i...

Adam Merrin is back with a full-length disc, and best of all it's free. For those unfamiliar, Merrin mans the keyboards for The 88, and ...

This is a bit of me putting the horse behind the cart - you may recall the latest from Pugwash (a/k/a Thomas Walsh) was #8 on my first quar...

May is turning out to be roots-rock month here at Absolute Powerpop. On the heels of last week's featured Brewery Records releases , her...

Rainbow Quartz has picked up last year's most excellent (#39 on the year-end list) Orchid Highway disc for US distribution and it hits ...

The Brixton Riot-Sudden Fiction . Although the name might call to mind the classic Clash tune "Guns of Brixton", this New Jersey ...

Most of you are familiar with Walter Clevenger, perhaps the pre-eminent roots-rockin' power popper around these days, but many of you ma...

I'm tempted to merely say "what he said" and link to this fairly scathing review of Bryan Scary & The Shredding Tears...

It's always good to see new releases from dependable power pop artists, and proof of that fact comes courtesy of none other than Craig M...

We've always enjoyed Arthur Yoria around these parts, so I'm happy to report that he has a new single for free download at his site...

Early last year, I featured Later , the impressive debut from then 19-year-old John Krueger which came in at #90 on my year-end top 125. He...

Down by Avalon-Down by Avalon .This Chapel Hill, NC band has given us a quality debut that will appeal to fans of Coronet Blue, The Nines an...

"Vinyl Generation" is an apt moniker for myself and probably the lion's share of my readership, and the faux classic Columbia ...

I have a bunch of stuff to comment upon, but not enough to devote a full review to, so in the spirit of Larry King's old "dot dot d...

Now that the top 25 of 1Q08 is out and I'm on the bad side of Bryan Scary fans, it's time to get back to the business of featuring d...

At long last, here is the Absolute Powerpop Top 25 of 2008, First Quarter Edition. Looks like a good year for self-titled discs: 1. Clint S...