PowerPop

An idiosyncratic blog dedicated to the precursors, the practioners, and the descendants of power pop. All suggestions for postings and sidebar links welcome, contact any of us.

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Nick Tosches 1949 - 2019

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Okay, it isn't just rock stars who are dropping like flies. Now it's rock critics. In this case, one of the handful of that breed...
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Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Hiroshima Mon Amour

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So as attentive readers may recall, I'm in the process of readying a solo single -- yeah, right, I know; the masses have been clamoring ...
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Monday, October 21, 2019

Closed for Birthday Monkey Business

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They say it's my birthday, and by golly it is! So I'm taking the day off. Regular posting -- including reviews of some new albu...
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Friday, October 18, 2019

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From their 1994 album While You're Down There , please enjoy The Interesting Guys and the most sinister sounding cover version of The C...
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Thursday, October 17, 2019

World's Coolest Living Human Tells All

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From 2004, please enjoy the incredibly great Ian Hunter and his rendition of the venerable "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square....
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Wednesday, October 16, 2019

A Boy Needs a Hobby

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Mine, as you may be aware, is spending vast sums of money I don't have on various musical projects in an expensive New York City recordi...
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Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Closed for Monkey Business

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Had a productive, but long and exhausting, night in the studio yesterday. Regular postings -- including the result of that session -- res...
Monday, October 14, 2019

Your Monday Moment of Words Fail Me

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From 2015, please enjoy the still criminally underrated Tom Jones and his mind-boggling version of "Elvis Presley Blues." Oh,...
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Friday, October 11, 2019

Let Us Now Praise (Should Have Been) Famous Women

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From 2013, please enjoy the inexplicably obscure Foxes and Fossils , at what appears to be a parking lot outside a suburban Applebees, with ...
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Thursday, October 10, 2019

Your Thursday Moment of This Way Madness Lies

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Attentive -- and perhaps unusually forgiving -- readers may recall that of late, for reasons we needn't get into, I've been using ol...
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