Absolute Powerpop

A couple of our favorite bands from the Northeast make welcome returns today: Smash Palace-Do it Again . These Philly power pop icons really...

Today it's two releases from artists we've featured before under a different name: The Buzz-Got Me Runnin' EP . The Buzz is the ...

Latvian Radio-Kill the Static . This New York band snuck into my 2009 Top 100 with Seven Layers of Self-Defense, which at the time I didn...

Acid-Acid . This Jersey band may be tough to Google, but their hard-driving Cheap Trick-meets-The Replacements melodic rock is easy to enjoy...

British Columbia's Richard Cummins is an unabashed Beatlemaniac, and his latest EP is an enjoyable homage/tribute to Sir Paul McCartney....

The Brixton Riot-Palace Amusements . These Jersey rockers are back with their full-length debut after 2008's fine Sudden Fiction EP, an...

The gauntlet has been thrown down. For the rest of 2012, power pop albums will have to be measured against David Myhr's Soundshine if th...

The Mike Benign Compulsion-Martha . These Milwaukee power poppers are back with the followup to 2010's excellent Rollicking Musical , an...

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...