Absolute Powerpop

The Great Affairs-Ten & 2 . Denny Smith returns again with The Great Affairs and their latest is a harder-rocking, crunchier-sounding af...

After a year and a half, I've finally updated the Spotify playlist over on the right. It's a bunch of stuff I've featured on the...

The Late Show-Sha La La . Grizzled (and I mean grizzled) vets of the power pop scene will remember Portable Pop, the 1980 release from NYC b...

Nick Piunti-Temporary High . Over the past five years Nick Piunti has established himself as one of the scene's preeminent power poppers...

Streetcar Conductors-The Very Best of Streetcar Conductors . Naming your debut album The Very Best of is a cheeky thing to do, but technical...

The Spindles-Past and Present . The Spindles are a Chicago 4-piece who are not to be confused with the California folk/rock band The Spindle...

Starbelly-Four . It's not quite the crossover team-up of Avengers: Infinity War , but fans of melodic pop have their own summer blockbus...

Wanderlust was one of my favorite power pop bands from the 90s and they did in fact reunite in 2012 but who knows if they will ever again. ...

It shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who reads this site, but Futureman Records has emerged over the last several years as one of t...

Catching up on my music backlog with a few words on some fine new releases. Smash Palace-Right as Rain EP . Veteran Philly poppers Smash P...

Seems like Dave Hill is everywhere these days. His comedy stylings are ubiquitous and if you've watched HBO's Late Night With John O...

Adrian Whitehead-Nerd from the Suburbs . I got heavily into indie power pop in the mid-2000s and started this blog shortly thereafter, so a ...

Today it's a pair of new releases from artists who've been releasing new music almost every year since I started this blog in 2006. ...

Aaron Fox & The Reliables-In Transit . An urban legend has it that you replace all your body cells every 7 years, so perhaps Chicago...

The Junior League-Eventually is Now . Joe Adragna is back as The Junior League for the first time since 2015's Also Rans , and he delive...

Various Artists-Altered Sweet: A Tribute to Matthew Sweet . Futureman Records' Keith Klingensmith knows his way around a tribute album, ...

Mark Lane-New Memory . LA singer-songwriter Mark Lane doesn't release new music often, but when he does it's worth paying attention ...

Scott Warren's been one of the most consistent artists featured on this site over the last 12 years, from his days in Signal Hill Tranmi...

As always the highlight of the year-end list-making in the power pop community is International Pop Overthrow's David Bash's exhaust...

Now the list-making is over (although I will share David Bash's exhaustive lists as usual), it's time to get 2018 in gear with a cou...