20/20 was formed in Tulsa, Oklahoma, by high school friends Steve Allen (guitar, vocals) and Ron Flynt (bass, vocals). They relocated to Los Angeles in…
Browsing: Power Pop
The story of Australian power pop band The Affections began in Sydney in the mid 70’s when school friends Rob Smith, Rob Risio and George Ellis discovered…
Badfinger began life in Wales in 1964 as The Iveys. After honing their approach as a support act for groups including The Who, The Spencer Davis Group and The…
The Beat was founded by Paul Collins, the stepson of a civilian father attached to the US military, who spent his pre-teens living in Greece,…
Formed in Tasmania (Australia) in 1975, Beathoven was based around the amazingly talented trio of Charlie Touber, Greg Cracknell and David Minchin, supplemented by a…
Beginning in 1969, Greg Shaw’s Who Put The Bomp was a fanzine for aficionados of such then-unfashionable future New Wave building blocks as Surf Music,…
Guitar-playing brothers Lino and Camillo Del Roio formed The Rockhouse Corporation whilst still at high school in Perth, Australia, in 1977. They started out as a…
Bram Tchaikovsky (born Peter Bramall) began playing in local pub bands in Lincolnshire in the late 60s. He joined The Motors in 1977 and was relegated to…
Cheap Trick formed in Rockford, Illinois, USA in 1972. Main songwriter Rick Nielsen and Tom Petersson had originally performed as The Grim Reapers, then Fuse…
The Cretones were a Los Angeles-based new wave and power pop group in the early 1980s. Led by singer/guitarist Mark Goldenberg (who also wrote the…
Hailing from Stoke Newington in London, The Crooks had a lengthy residency at The Pegasus in Green Lanes – and wore mainly rugby shirts and…
This talented quartet from North Carolina moved to Manhattan and began gigging around the city to almost universal praise. Unfortunately, they were unable to attract…
The Flashcubes began life in Syracuse in 1977 as a power pop band, inspired by punk but also influenced by The Raspberries, Badfinger, The Beatles,…
This Coventry (UK) based band enjoyed a minor league role in the new wave but owed more to power pop and astute songwriting than the…
Power pop band Fotomaker was formed in Long Island, New York, in 1977 by bassist Gene Cornish and drummer Dino Danelli, both former members of…
Adam Schlesinger and Chris Collingwood first met as freshmen at Williams College in Massachusetts, where they played in various college bands together. In 1995, they…
When Tasmanian group Beathoven, relocated to Melbourne in 1977 they were “discovered” by American rock svengali Kim Fowley, who was so impressed with the group…
The Jags are a fondly remembered part of the late-’70s/early-’80s UK power pop explosion. The quartet was formed in 1978 by the Yorkshire-based songwriting team of…
The Knack exemplified American New Wave – a short haired, 60s-influenced band playing straight-ahead pop-rock while sporting skinny ties and modish suits. Charting worldwide in 1979 with…
Loaded Dice were a hard-working power pop band that were touted as being the next big thing from Western Australia. Formed in 1974, they started out…