Power pop
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boston.com - Top arts and entertainment stories | November 07, 2009
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THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING Arlington: Power-pop sensation Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs, a vocalist and guitarist for the Bangles in the 1980s, team up to play some of their favorite songs Friday, 8 p.m., at the...
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Wikipedia | October 26, 2009
Power pop
Power pop (or powerpop) is a popular musical genre that draws its inspiration from 1960s British and American pop and rock music. It typically incorporates a combination of musical devices such as strong melodies , crisp vocal harmonies ,...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | October 14, 2009
Divergent bands crash into Altar Bar with new albums
...story of rebirth through overcoming obstacles -- a message the band believes in and hopes the listener can take away." Fashionable Power Pop On the debut album from Beware Fashionable Women, you'll hear Beach Boys-style harmonies...
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Blogcritics | October 12, 2009
Music Review: Youth Group - The Night Is Ours
...reviews for various items. … 2008 album from the Australian Pop Rockers. Built around the pure vocals of Toby Martin, the sound of Youth Group is reminiscent of Power Pop and Indie acts such as Matthew Sweet. However it is Martin's ...
In this article: Youth Group, Alphaville, Patrick Matthews, Death Cab for Cutie, The O.C., Forever Young, and Matthew Sweet
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SB Nation | September 11, 2009
RBR Friday (Not So) Random Ten Is Wearing Lots of Studio Hair Gel
...be - they all have that fantastic power-pop sound somewhere deep down beneath the layers of big hair and bad keyboards. And when it comes to Power Pop, you start with The Raspberries. Natch. A disturbingly catchy diversion by a Dutch band,...
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L.A. Times - Music News | September 09, 2009
Remeet the Beatles
...the Beatles!" Since then, the Smithereens have released an album of Beatles B-sides and one that takes on the Who's "Tommy." Power pop elders Cheap Trick also released a CD/DVD of its live performance of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts...
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Boston Herald | September 05, 2009
MATTHEW SWEET and SUSANNA HOFFS
Saturday, September 5, 2009 - Updated 0m ago Power-pop papa Sweet and Bangles princess Hoffs dig out their 45s and old vinyl and play their faves to wondrous effect. Where Vol. 1 focused on the '60s, this collection of cover tunes zeroes...
In this article: Susanna Hoffs, Matthew Sweet, Big Star, All the Young Dudes, I've Seen All Good People, Sugar Magnolia, Ian Hunter, and Grateful Dead
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Drowned in Sound - News | August 27, 2009
Brendan Benson - My Old, Familiar Friend
...and the Posies' Frosting on the Beater both prodded at the corpse in a satisfying manner. But it's a difficult formula to get right. Power pop songs are pooled from a small and tightly refined rubric-crunchy guitar lines, soaring vocal...
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New York Daily News | August 17, 2009
New Music Tuesday: Needy tone of lyrics and brilliance of melodies round out Benson's sound
...have been a B-side left off Squeeze's "Argy Bargy." It doesn't hurt that Benson's boyish voice often resembles Glenn Tilbrook's. Power pop favors such forever-boys. You can hear the same sense of arrested development in such current...
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Times Online | January 31, 2009
Power-pop: Encyclopedia of Modern Music
...Sharona, the slick, more-power-in-reserve coolness of the Cars' My Best Friend's Girl and the driving riffery of Tom Petty's American Girl. Power-pop classics of the 1990s, such as Matthew Sweet's guitartastic Girlfriend and Jellyfish's...
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Power pop (or powerpop) is a popular musical genre that draws its inspiration from 1960s British and American pop and rock music. It typically incorporates a combination of musical devices such as strong melodies, crisp vocal harmonies, economical arrangements, and prominent guitar riffs. Instrumental solos are usually kept to a minimum, and blues elements are largely downplayed. Recordings tend to display production values that lean toward compression and a forceful drum beat. Instruments usually include one or more electric guitars, an electric bass guitar, a drum kit, and sometimes electric keyboards or synthesizers. While its cultural impact has waxed and waned over the decades, power pop is among rock's most enduring subgenres.
- Name:
- Power pop
- Origin:
- 1960s United Kingdom and United States
- Stylistic Origins:
- Pop rock, Rock and roll, Beat music, Rhythm and blues, Garage rock
- Subgenre:
- Bubblegum pop– Jangle pop – Mod revival
- Instruments:
- Standard Drum kit - Electric guitar - Keyboard - Bass guitar - Synthesizer
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