Absolute Powerpop

Ronny Tibbs-Lone Fry . Power poppers and indie poppers unite! - Detroit's Ronny Tibbs has given us 2019's first truly great release....

John Rooney-Joy . John Rooney may hail from Australia, but his latest release is southern-fried power pop mixed by Mitch Easter and produced...

Donnie Vie-Beautiful Things . I'm kind of hestitant to even mention this album since it's not available now - it falls into what is ...

TOP 15 EPs 1. Checkpoint Charley-Great Jedi Mind Trick 2. Roger Joseph Manning Jr.-Glamping 3. Zander Michigan-Kitchen Sink #2 4. Smash...

Happy New Year everyone! Here's the top half of the year-end list: 1. Starbelly-Four 2. Rayland Baxter-Wide Awake 3. Danny Wilkerson...

Let the lists begin! A little later this year but that's allowed me to get some later releases in. Of course, it never ends and I'll...

For those checking in and looking for the lists, I should have them up either later this week or by New Year's Eve at the latest. Thanks...

Various Artists-White Lace & Promises: The Songs of Paul Williams . Andrew Curry has done it again. The man behind some of this decade...

P. Hux-This is the One . It's been a while since I reviewed a Parthenon Huxley (P. Hux for short) album, but this is the one that got my...

It's Election Day in the USA, so here are some releases worth voting for: Creamer-Creamer . If this were a blurb on Kool Kat's sit...

Valley Lodge-Fog Machine . The Dave Hill musical assault continues with the fourth Valley Lodge album and first since 2013's Use Your We...

Quite a few power poppers of note have singles out, so it's time to round them all up in one place. Bleu-Love You So . Bleu McAuley ha...

Checkpoint Charley-Pomp, Twaddle & Bombast: Songs 13-24 . Back in May I was excited to see the return of Checkpoint Charley after a 10+ ...

Caddy-Ten Times Four . Tomas Dahl is back again as Caddy after his work with Aussie band The Stanleys and he continues to be one of power po...

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...