Absolute Powerpop

If the name Joe Adragna doesn't leap right out at you, it's because he's been recording for the past few years as The Junior Lea...

John Holk & The Sequins-If You See Her . One of the most pleasant surprises I've come across in a while, this Detroit band with a fo...

The Brigadier-The Secret of No Success . The power pop concept album about life in an office isn't exactly a novel concept as recent rel...

Kyle Vincent and Tommy Dunbar of the Rubinoos are big San Fransisco Giants fans and in honor of the Giants' World Series win earlier thi...

David Mead was one of my favorite artists of the previous decade-plus, from brilliant albums like The Luxury of Time, Mine and Yours and Ind...

The June-Green Fields and Rain . Rainbow Quartz has had a great second half of 2010, with new releases from the likes of The Volebeats, The ...

Not Lame is closing its doors. It didn't come as a shock, with the less frequent updates on the site and the steady stream of "blo...

Time for a shout out to the FDR label, the "other" power pop label from New Jersey (we all know and love Kool Kat). They don't...

Ice Cutters-Ice Cutters. The Ice Cutters hail from Wales, and their debut disc is a fine survey of British pop and British-inspired pop. Eve...

Bill Majoros a/k/a The Foreign Films gave us one of the pop masterpieces of the decade with 2007's double-disc Distant Star , and his lo...

Buva-Not Scary! Friendly . Tom Wolfe a/k/a Buva is back with the followup to 2006's All This Humming, and Not Scary! Friendly builds on ...

The latest entrant into the subgenre of British power pop that started with XTC and continues to this day with the likes of Pugwash, Captain...

Darren Cooper's Three Hour Tour is back, and thankfully this time we didn't have to wait almost ten years like we did for 2008's...

One of my favorite discoveries of 2008 was Scott's Garage and their self-titled debut album which placed a very high #13 on my year-end ...

Back from hiatus! Zombies of the Stratosphere-Ordinary People . Zombies are big these days in pop culture, and if there were any justice in ...

I've become extremely busy at work, with a lot of spillage into non 9-to-5 hours, and I anticipate being so for next week as well. Ther...

Some quick thoughts on some quality music playing on my iPod/iPhone these days: Tom Fuller Band-Maristar . I described Tom Fuller's soun...

The 88-The 88 . Freed from the constraints of their brief major label deal, The 88 continue to be prolific. Their latest, self-titled, relea...

Joe Reyes-Worry Row . A few weeks ago, I tweeted about this disc as kind of an aside, but in the time since it's really grown on me. Jo...

I always liked Luzer, a power pop band whose output during the previous decade was excellent but sporadic. Back in 2000, they titled their d...