Formed in 1974, NYC’s Marbles were brothers Howard (guitar) and David Bowler (drums) with Eric Li (keyboards) – who Dave met while a freshman at…
Browsing: Power Pop
Singer/songwriter Jack Lee formed The Nerves with fellow San Francisco street musicians Peter Case and Paul Collins. He had moved to LA, but the Sunset…
This late-’70s power pop group came together in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1977 with a line-up of Cliff Johnson (who had previously been the vocalist…
Despite forming in 1971, Chicago-based Pezband were crowned ‘Most Promising New Act of the Year’ in 1978, primarily because of the resurging interest in power pop music…
The Pleasers formed in Surrey at the end of 1976 and spent most of the following year playing in and around London, using a regular…
Poppees came together in New York City in 1973 around a nucleus of Arthur Alexander (guitar, vocals), Paddy Lorenzo (bass, vocals) and Bob Waxman (drums,…
While it is very easy to dismiss this sub-genre of music, the fact remains that power pop (even at its most commercially manipulated) had a…
The Raspberries, a Cleveland-based band, summed up everything classic power pop was about (before the term was even being used); simplicity, Beach Boys-esque harmonies, and delightfully skilled melodies -…
This Sydney-based Power Pop band was formed in 1983 – originally as The Last Word – from the ashes of the former Australian band The…
The Records are best remembered for their cult classic, Starry Eyes, a song that defined British power pop in the 70s. While they never matched the success of…
Barely teenagers at the time, Redd Kross was one of the first bands in So Cal to pick up guitars and lash out at their…
Danny Wilde had been pursuing a solo career for five years and Phil Solem had been trying to get his own band off the ground.…
As one of the first generation of American bands to emerge from the revival of local music scenes brought about by New Wave, The Romantics…
“What we have here is a vital serving of classic pop songs . . . few other records this year have felt so good” said Rolling…
Led by singer-songwriter Jill Kossoris, this Milwaukee power pop band came together from the ashes of a number of other local bands, including Death (drummer…
Shoes (from Zion, Illinois) recorded and pressed their first album, One In Versailles (Un Dans Versaille), in 1974. The title referred to the fact that guitarist Gary…
Starting out as a trio called The Strutters, singer/songwriter Mark Kjeldsen along with rhythm section Bobby Irwin and Ron François re-branded themselves as The Sinceros,…
Formed in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1991, Sloan released their debut album, Smeared, on Geffen in 1992. The fuzzy, shoegaze-heavy LP featured the clever breakout…
One of the most underrated power pop bands of the 1980s, The Spongetones – from Charlotte, North Carolina – released several albums of effortlessly melodic, catchy guitar…
Though they never received the recognition they deserved, Squire was one of the earliest and finest mod revival bands of the late 70’s. Squire were able to…