Power pop

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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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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...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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...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 ...

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...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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...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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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...

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...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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...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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...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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