Articles tagged "power pop"

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Shake Some Action!: Sunny Days Ahead

by Zach Schonfeld

[8.Aug.08] :. Shake Some Action! won’t garner many points for originality, but hey – that’s the thing about great power pop: creativity is almost secondary to catchiness. Case in point:...

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Jimmy Eat World: Bleed American

by Charles A. Hohman

[6.Jun.08] :. Jimmy Eat World's historic album gets a Deluxe reissue that is mostly footnotes.

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Save Pluto: Age of Lowered Expectations

by Michael Keefe

[5.Sep.07] :. Save Pluto offer a course in Power Pop 101 on their debut.

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All By Himself No More: An Interview With Eric Carmen

by Dan MacIntosh

[28.Aug.07] :. "We had banged our head on the wall long enough and said, 'This isn't going to work,'" remembers Eric Carmen, but the reunited Raspberries show that 30 years later, they're no overnight sensations.

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Static of the Gods: Cycles Follow Signs

by Mike Schiller

[9.May.07] :. Static of the Gods is a fairly run-of-the-mill power pop band with a vocalist that occasionally evokes Gwen Stefani, but is more comfortable mimicking post-Matrix Liz Phair.

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Not only humor gushes from Fountains of Wayne

by Len Righi [The Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) (MCT)]

[30.Apr.07] :. Humor springs eternal in the tunes crafted by Fountains of Wayne, and the 14 tracks on the pop-rock band’s irresistible new album, Traffic and Weather, are no exception. For example,...

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