On their second album, War of the Wakening Phantoms , Montreal's High Dials cast off the '60s straightjacket that gave their first ...

While bands like Wolfmother, Jet and Kings of Leon have managed to carve out a niche in the post-millennial alternative music audience for r...

Lukas returns to his power pop roots, mixing in Americana soul for a new recipe that’s all his own. In the mid-to-late 90's, Ted Lukas s...

Since 1998, Ted Lukas has led Tampa Bay's breakthrough Americana band Hangtown, releasing two full length CDs: Here For Now (1999) on th...

From the dinkiest punks to the soggy dregs at the bottom of the '60s garage rock barrel, so many deservedly obscure bands have been comp...

New music from The Marlowes is always welcome. And here on the Rhode Island band's fifth full-length album, Glue, Glitter and Shine, the...

Any Trouble's 1980 debut was a wonderful slice of new wave flavored pub/pop/rock, which despite a fair amount of critical buzz, never r...

Right away in "Let's Away" listeners know the Shazam hear the Move's grass grow. The second track, "Oh No," star...

Someday Tricycle began in the Spring of 2004 when Joe MacKenzie shared a CD of his 8-track demos with drummer Richard Gowen, who he had play...

WOW!!! OK - here's the first clue: There's a Rickenbacker guitar on the cover (so you know you've got our immediate attention) -...

Debut album from Memphis quartet. Nine years in the oven, carefully sauteed with The Posies and Candyskins among others. Crash Into June (th...

Following the demise of Spinning Jennies, one of San Francisco's most revered and long-lived power pop bands, frontman Jeff Shelton for...

It?s mid summer and you sit in a chair on a beach looking at the children playing football in front of you,some gorgeous good looking women...

The Bad Examples put out the original cassette version of "Meat:" as a demo cassette for booking back in May of 1987. As their pop...

There is absolutely nothing new or original on the debut album by Florida pop-punks We the Kings, and that's entirely beside the point. ...

Linus is a firebrand stamp of soft pop genius. All Linus` albums are filled with sunny AM-infused keyboard-based power pop, Linus` vocals a...

If anyone knows power pop, it's Mike Chapman. Having produced everyone from Blondie and the Knack to Sweet and Scandal, Chapman is an u...

Big Kid is a San Diego-based quartet that specializes in classic power pop, and their seven-song debut ...

To call Smoking Popes merely pop-punk would be a grotesque disservice — they've been excelling at it for years. The problem is the image...

The Hutchinsons are a hard-rocking L.A.-based power pop trio led by brothers Jimmy (drums, vocals) and Joe Hutchinson (guitar, vocals), who ...