Absolute Powerpop

Today we feature a pair of full-lengths that consist of previously-released EPs plus about five new songs. Although it's not a practice ...

Lazy Susan-Places That Made Us . Aussie power pop has been berry, berry good to us over the last decade, and Lazy Susan has been a mainstay ...

Had a very busy week and plan to get back to normal posting this week, but for now I give you Jeff Shelton and The Well Wishers covering ABB...

Washington DC hasn't exactly been a hotbed of power pop, but it's getting there. Lately we've heard from Vegas With Randolph and...

This post will be my clearinghouse for a bunch of releases that have caught my ear, and may catch yours, but which I don't plan to go to...

Travis Elliott-Swan Dive . A couple of Americana/roots-rock releases on tap here today, the first of which is the debut EP from Virginia sin...

Joel Streeter-Matador . San Francisco singer-songwriter Joel Streeter might be one of pop's best-kept secrets. He debuted in 2005 with t...

Lots of interesting power pop developments coming out of Australia lately, and here are the highlights: * Michael Carpenter . If the group o...

NYC's Greg Hoy has been a bit of a pop chameleon over the years, from his traditional power pop days in his band Hoy to the more modern ...

A couple of years ago I reviewed the fine debut EP Hundred Flowers from T.Kao, and now he's back with a new release in the works. Also,...

There's a lot of free music online these days, but even "free" music comes at a cost: your listening time. So it's nice to...

A few months back, I related the tale of how Justin Kline's recordings were stolen and he needed help to finish his new EP. Many of you...

Here are a handful of discs that warrant a mention and a listen: Marc Clayton & The Lazy Suns-S/T . Some fine Wilburyish popicana that s...

As it appears XTC is no longer a going concern, the void left by their Beatles-meet-Brian-Wilson-with-a-British-pop-sensibility sound has be...

The Spanish power pop band The Riffbackers have made their 2009 release The Curtain Shop and Alterations available as a free download on Ban...

Smash Palace has been around since the 80s, but somehow they've managed to come up with what might be their best album in a deep catalog...

The Britannicas-The Britannicas . The Britannicas are a power pop supergroup of sorts, consisting of Herb Eimerman, Magnus Karlsson and Joe ...

Misfit Kid-Hellway to High . North Carolina's Mark Ivantich is Misfit Kid, a name he takes from a 1980 Cars song. He doesn't take hi...

Today's post is thanks to one of my readers, Matt Willis, who brought this Spanish power popper to my attention. Damien Lott released hi...

With the music industry's inexorable transition to digital and the immediacy of the Internet, what's old is becoming new again as th...