Absolute Powerpop

Throwback Suburbia-Shot Glass Souvenir . I often take an expansive view of "power pop" in the choice of releases reviewed on here,...

Jeff Litman-Outside . After bursting onto the power pop scene three years ago with the excellent Postscript NYC's Jeff Litman is back, ...

Secret Powers-More Songs About Her . The men from Missoula are back with what has become an annual tradition: a new album. More Songs About ...

Minky Starshine-Womanity . Boston's Minky Starshine is back with the followup to 2009's excellent Unidentified Hit Record , and they...

Oberon Rose-Wunjo . With Wunjo, Connecticut's Tom Oberon has crated a stunning debut of melodic psych-pop that stakes out the early pole...

Two discs from 2011 that warrant a listen: Amateur Hour-This Year's Epiphany . Missed this one when it came out last summer, but had I h...

Here are the remainder of David Bash's lists, including best reissues, compilations, box sets, etc.: II. Top 5 Compilations-Various Arti...

As has become a yearly tradition of late, I turn things over to the esteemed David Bash of International Pop Overthrow for his always-compre...

Two excellent new discs to kick off 2012: Justin Levinson & The Valcours-This Side of Me, This Side of You . Boston-area piano popper Ju...

We bid adieu to 2011 with a couple of quality discs: Trolley-Things That Shine and Glow . This Milwaukee band has kicked around since 1995...

1-Steve Robinson-The Ride of Our Lives 2-Tim Culling-Goodbye Western Son 3-Marshall Holland-Statistically I Should Say... 4-The Janglemen-5 ...

As I had hinted elsewhere, I'm doing something different this year at the top of the list. Because I didn't have a clear-cut, slam-d...

40-Peter Baldrachi-Tomorrow Never Knows 39-The Smithereens-2011 38-Sloan-The Double Cross 37-Gabe Dixon-One Spark 36-Snowbirds-S/T 35-T...

As I pointed out last night on my Twitter feed , I had to scale back from a Top 100 to a Top 75 this year because I didn't find 100 disc...

Today I'm going to quickly note several discs I've been enjoying to clear the decks for next week's Best-of-2011 lists. And the ...

As we teased over the summer, Jeff Shelton and The Well Wishers are back with Dreaming of The West Coast, their sixth full-length release. I...

Several artists we've featured here on the site are out with new EPs, so here's a quick look at them: Steve Robinson-The Time of Our...

Today we feature a couple of bands that draw on The Replacements for inspiration. Teenage Rasputin-Sorry 'Bout the Moon . This Long Isla...

Longtime readers of this site know that I'm a big David Mead fan, but his last release, 2009's Almost and Always, left me a little c...

Greg Pope-Monster Suit (Original Soundtrack) . The pope of power pop (or should we just call him the "power pope"?) is back with a...