Absolute Powerpop

Honeywagen-Atomic Cafe . This Kansas City band is back from a near decade-long hibernation with Atomic Cafe, and it's a jangly delight o...

Here's another round of artists previously featured here who have new material out: Artist: The Great Affairs Last Seen on AbPow: Novemb...

Here it is, in all its glory. Haven't had a chance to listen yet myself, but note how meta Track 7 appears to be.

Brandon Wilde-Hearts in Stereo . I first came upon this Brooklyn singer-songwriter thanks to his fine 2006 debut Songs From the Deep Sleep, ...

In 2007 Seth Swirsky & Mike Ruekberg, established power poppers in their own right, teamed up as The Red Button to give us one of the t...

The Big Sweet-Ultraviolet Rain . It was almost a year to the date we looked at this Ohio band's debut album, Shot of Bliss , and they ha...

Dropkick-Time Cuts the Ties . I've been listening to this prolific (9 full-lengths plus a handful of EPs in the last 10 years) Scottish ...

Kevin Peroni a/k/a Wiretree has been an AbPow favorite over the years, with 2 full-lengths and an EP placing highly on our year-end lists. S...

Let's start the work week off with a couple of old friends here at AbPow. The Riffbrokers-Every Pilot's Blinded by the Sun . Seattle...

More and more artists are using Bandcamp, which allows for full streaming of tracks, downloads (many free or name your price), etc. Here ar...

Phil Angotti-People and Places . In my power pop travels over the last several years, I've seen Phil Angotti's name show up here and...

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...