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If you're a big fan of Sloan you know that the Canadian band has four singer/songwriters of nearly equal ability, a key to their greatne...

Since posting has been light lately, we're going with three for Thursday today instead of the usual two. John Amadon-Seven Stars . At lo...

Clay Smith and Bill Hayes burst upon the power pop scene in 2007 with Changed by a Song, a classic steeped in the sounds of The Beatles and ...

Bryan Estepa-Vessels . Our favorite Aussie this side of Michael Carpenter is back with his third solo album, and Vessels is another mark of ...

Things always get a little sentimental at Absolute Powerpop when Supraluxe is concerned, since they were the first band reviewed on the site...

Steve LaBate-The Dead Art of Letter Writing . Atlantan Steve LaBate is an interesting guy. He's a writer/editor for Paste Magazine , and...

As Absolute Powerpop has been going for five years now, we've built up quite a list of artists that have had music reviewed on the site,...

John Laprade-World Class Faker . Brooklyn's John Laprade follows up his 2008 EP Blind with his debut full-length, and he shows all the m...

In the 90s it was Oasis who took the sound of 60s and 70s rock of The Beatles, the Stones, The Who and others and brought it into the presen...

Shane Lamb-Better Here . Nashville's Shane Lamb is back with the followup to his excellent 2009 release Disengage , and damned if he did...

Snowbirds-Snowbirds . This Wisconsin four-piece has released what is possibly my favorite debut of 2011 to date, a highly melodic and heartf...

New releases from two bands that are back with their first new music since they were reviewed on this site's early days in 2006: Barnacl...

Hans Rotenberry & Brad Jones-Mountain Jack . I really fell down on the job here, as I missed this brilliant collaboration that came out ...

I plan on resuming normal blogging later today, but I didn't want to wait on this one. After years of absence from the power pop scene, ...

I've been quite busy with work and family obligations the last week, hence the lack of new posts (I haven't even tweeted much). To t...

Portland Oregon's Derby has been a personal favorite going back to their brilliant 2005 debut This is the New You . It was my #1 album o...

Alan Bernhoft-Beatlesque Three . Bernhoft is back with the latest installment in his "Beatlesque" series. The first two primarily ...

I don't know how many of you actually pay any attention to the last.fm "recently played" widget over to the right, but it actu...

Brett Mitchell-Falling Apart at the Seams . Mitchell's third album is a great leap forward from his still-fine previous work, buoyed by ...

It's with great sadness I found out that Gregg Swann passed away last week after a four-year bout with colon cancer. A NYC musician, Gre...