Absolute Powerpop

Crawpuppies-World's Much Bigger . The second album from this Indiana band (after 2004's Peaceful Amnesty) finds them on the dividing...

The Brigadier-Time is a Wound . The prolific Matt Williams (known to you and me as The Brigadier) is back with a new full-length, and Time i...

Sloan has a new EP on the way, and they're offering up the title track, "Take It Upon Yourself", as a free download. The only ...

This California band has a couple of quality discs under their belt, and now they're back with a brand new EP titled All Here Now. And f...

About five months ago, we featured this Ohio band's 2009 reissue of their 2007 debut This is Not Here, and now they're back with th...

Here's a long-lost video for Brothers in Stereo's "The Worst Crowd" a great tune from their fine self-titled disc from 200...

If George Martin, Billy Preston, Murray the K et al. have been known as the "Fifth Beatle", then Jeff Larson could be called the T...

The sideman gone solo power popper has become a bit of a cliche on this site (a good cliche, mind you), and the latest entrant into the fiel...

These classic power-garage-poppers are back with 2 fine new tracks. Listen below, or if you're in a non-Lala-authorized place, listen to...

Are you ready to rock? Knoxville's 1220 would like you to answer that question in the affirmative, as they straddle the line between pow...

David Grahame has a new untitled album out, and Bruce at Not Lame has the limited 75-copy run. Aside from the limited quantities, there...

About three months ago, I touted the release of this disc from one of power pop's leading lights, but realized I never gave it a proper ...

Fate Lions-Good Enough for You . Fate Lions are a Dallas-area band that makes low-key, but interesting and melodic pop. So it wouldn't b...

Evan Hillhouse-Transition . Evan Hillhouse was one of the finds of 2006, when at 17 he pulled off an assured, tuneful self-titled debut. The...

They don't make albums like this any more. (OK, they do, but they're hard to find, which is why I've been blogging here for the ...

Jon Auer & Cheap Star-Two for the Money . A very intriguing split EP between the Posies power pop legend and the upstart French band fre...

Jangle lovers and lovers of harmony, you're in for a treat. Mike Barnett, the Missourian whose 2006 release Nowhere Tennessee was featur...

Grand Atlantic-How We Survive . The Aussies with the big pop/rock sound are back with the followup to 2007's This is Grand Atlantic , an...

Heads up, power poppers! Portland's Throwback Suburbia returns with the followup to their fine 2006 release Eight Tracks , and has taken...

The Offbeat-To the Rescue EP . The Year of the EP continues as another outstanding one comes down the pike, this time from the Brit popsters...