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Led by guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter Hans Rotenberry, the Shazam certainly are a contemporary power pop group from Nashville, Tennessee, who’ve gained a loyal pursuing among pop obsessives because of their sharp, rollicking, and frequently witty British-influenced sound. The Shazam had been produced in 1997 when Rotenberry teamed up with …

The Raspberries cut with the epic pretensions and pomposity of ’70s-era rock to happily reclaim the soul and simplicity of classic pop, recalling the heyday from the Uk Invasion making use of their exquisitely crafted melodies and achingly gorgeous harmonies. The group was created in Coach, OH, in early 1970 …

LA pop tunesmith, multi-instrumentalist, and record collector, Brandon Schott graduated in 1999 using a level in songwriting in the Berklee University of Music in Boston, MA. After carrying out time in regional coffeehouses, he set up a trio including himself, bass, kazoo, and guitarist Greg Jamrok, and drummer/kazoo professional Dave …

Chicago power pop trio Materials Issue wedded the limited and melodic industrial selling point of acts like Cheap Technique as well as the Knack using the jangly guitars and cockiness of early-’90s Britpop. Created in the past due ’80s like a songwriting automobile for guitarist/business lead vocalist Jim Ellison, the …

After spending the ’80s as an unappreciated jangle pop guitarist with Oh-OK and Lloyd Cole, and a solo artist, Matthew Nice surfaced in 1991 because the leading body from the American force pop revival. Like his United kingdom counterparts Teenage Fanclub, Lovely honored traditional songcraft, however subverted the proper execution …

Led by ex-Teenage Fanclub/Soup Dragons drummer Paul Quinn, Scottish melodic rockers the principal 5 make ’60s and ’70s-inspired melodic rock and roll not dissimilar towards the drummer’s former employers. In 2001, after documenting four albums using the Fanclub, Quinn made a decision to keep the band and commence focus on …

Alabama-based singer/songwriter Greg Summerlin spent the middle- to past due ’90s because the lead guitarist for the Quinsonics before breaking from his own using a 2003 eponymous single debut. With affects that add the Who as well as the Substitutes to New Purchase and Radiohead, Summerlin’s following albums — Teen …

British expatriate Tobias Kuhn was their studies at the University or college of Wuerzbery in Germany when he met his musical matches in Mike Metallic and Ronny Rock and roll. All of them had been followers of indie rock and roll of the first ’90s and experienced a fondness for …

While these were not as visionary or influential as Big Star, NY City’s the Poppees shared that iconic band’s like of Beatlesque play the classic design at the same time when embracing the Fab Four’s early function was as unfashionable as you can get, plus they lasted simply long enough …

Ghosty were given birth to within a music place in Lawrence, KS, where guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Andrew Connor met drummer/guitarist/songwriter Richard Gintowt even though these were both going to a concert. They forged a connection chatting about music (shock!) and began practicing and executing being a duo in nov 1999. Because they …