Pop Injection

One of the precious few groups featured on Chuck Warner’s Teenline series capable of consistently delivering over the course of an LP, the Wind - alongside Terry Brooks, Amnesia, Wowii and White Witch
- stand fast in the front rank of Florida’s…

Victory Motel is a gritty, powerful, no-frills rock n roll rampage that hs no boundaries. Taking it’s cues from ’60’s Beat and Soul and 70’s inspired Punk and Garage, The Downbeat 5 create their own wall of sound filled with…

92 DEGREES - MONEY MAKES THE WORLD GO ‘ROUND (1990)

Hailing from the Illinois area just like their labelmates Material Issue, 92 Degrees released in 1990 this little known mini LP full of catchy power pop hooks produced by the fabulous Adam Schmitt…

Sometimes there’s something beautiful about a piece of music so deliciously dark. It may seem like a somewhat odd thing to say in that so many of us have been born and bred to believe darkness equals bad. But the…

Longtime readers may recall the saga of Something Fierce, the brilliant and brilliantly funny band I first wrote about here back in August of ‘07.

Well, I’m happy to report there’s some big news on the band front — to wit, an…

Big Star inspired a fevered allegiance among fans of power pop, giving rise to a cult of believers who spent decades spreading the gospel. Their enthusiasm turned this obscure Memphis pop band-one that got little airplay, sold few records, and…

One of the first things I ever did on this blog was anoint this EP the best of the decade. I still stand by that proclamation. “Make it Right” just popped up on my iPod, and since we didn’t have…

Genre: Indie Rock / Lo-Fi
Based In…: Australia
Label: Endearing
Year: 1997
My Rate: 7/10

Allmusic

The second full-length from Laura McFarlane’s Ninety Nine project makes a significant step forward from the first — the influence of McFarlane’s earlier work with Sleater-Kinney
is still present here, but the album’s polished combination of…

“Will”, the latest CD from Clifton Williams and the Blue James Band, was released late in 2008. Clifton Williams is a talented songwriter who polished his craft as a graduate student in music composition. He is supported by some extraordinary bandmates;…

In the mid-’70s, British singer/songwriters like Graham Parker and Elvis Costello launched careers with music that tempered the onslaught of punk to a more melodic rock sound reminiscent of mid-’60s Beatles music and its many followers, and, while retaining punk’s…