power pop

Listening booth — Pugwash, “Answers on a Postcard (live)”

Chris Holmes
posted on October 3, 2011
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The latest album from Thomas Walsh’s band Pugwash, The Olympus Sound, really is one of the finer records of 2011. If you love power pop as much as I do — hell, even if you don’t

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Listening booth — Josh Fix, “The Water in My Brain”

Chris Holmes
posted on March 31, 2011March 28, 2011
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Today's Listening Booth features a track from Josh Fix's debut album, Free At Last. It also celebrates a very special

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Gray Flannel Mixtape: Power Pop for Now People

Chris Holmes
posted on March 21, 2011June 12, 2013
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Today's Gray Flannel Mixtape offers up 15 of the greatest power pop songs of all-time. Because who doesn't love power

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Album cover of the week: Jesus of Cool

Chris Holmes
posted on March 21, 2011February 10, 2015
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This week's album cover is a gem from the heyday of New Wave power pop - Nick Lowe's 1978 debut album Jesus of Cool (aka Pure Pop for Now

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Listening booth — “At Least It Was Here”

Today's listening booth spotlights the theme song to the NBC sitcom Community - "At Least It Was Here" by The

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New release roundup (Ace Frehley, Muse, and more…)

Chris Holmes
posted on September 27, 2009June 18, 2013
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Man, I take a short break from updating the site and, just like that, I’m buried under a pile of new music releases. Not to mention, of course, the Beatles remasters. So with no big

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Listening Booth – Be Bop Deluxe, “Ships in the Night” and “Maid in Heaven”

Chris Holmes
posted on July 28, 2009June 12, 2013
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I’m headed out for a mini-vacation so I’ll leave you with a double shot from one of my favorite bands – the criminally overlooked Be Bop Deluxe. Bill Nelson deserves a place in

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Back in the New York Groove

GFS reviews Ace Frehley in concert at the Nokia Theater in New York City - April 4, 2008, on the Rocket Ride

Listening booth — Pugwash, “Answers on a Postcard (live)”

Listening booth — Josh Fix, “The Water in My Brain”

Gray Flannel Mixtape: Power Pop for Now People

Album cover of the week: Jesus of Cool

Listening booth — “At Least It Was Here”

New release roundup (Ace Frehley, Muse, and more…)

Listening Booth – Be Bop Deluxe, “Ships in the Night” and “Maid in Heaven”

Back in the New York Groove

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