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The Bellbats’ make of jangly indie pop owes very much to mid-period Feelies, early Yo La Tengo, and Let’s Dynamic, whose main dude Mitch Easter produced the Raleigh-Durham, NC, trio’s first album. Guitarist Emory Ball, bassist Laura Weislo and drummer Maximum Acker created the Bellbats in 1994 and released a …

The Impatients were an indie/power pop music group that arrived from the fertile Ann Arbor music scene in the first to mid-’90s. Comprising vocalist/songwriter Doug Method, drummer Dan Carroll, guitarist Vijay Kumra, and bassist Sean Rhyee, the group primarily released their initial cassette (a six-song EP properly titled Initial) in …

Based away of Harrisburg, PA, Milkshake Jones is definitely a quartet that mixes the sound of classic power pop having a dash of alt-country twang and a rock and roll guitar edge. Fronted by songwriter and main vocalist John Micek, the group also features Tag Burke on acoustic guitar, Marni …

The Grapes of Wrath were a jangly alternative folk-pop quartet formed in Kelowna, Uk Columbia in 1983 by brothers Chris Hooper (drums) and Tom Hooper (vocals, bass), along with Kevin Kane (vocals, guitar) as well as the afterwards addition of keyboardist Vincent Jones. In 1984, they agreed upon to Nettwerk …

Since his days as the first choice from the Bongos, the leading band from the Hoboken pop scene from the 1980s, Richard Barone pursued a sometimes low-key but generally fulfilling and acclaimed solo career. Barone produced the Bongos in 1980 and led the group through three albums, the singles compilation …

Wise, witty, melodic, and energetic, Like Package is a music group whose music not merely recalls the glory times of power pop, but displays several new directions where the style could be taken. The music group was produced in 1996 by guitarists, performers, and songwriters Eddie Jemison and Wealthy Sparks, …

Power-popsters the Chevelles formed in Perth, Australia in the first 1990s; comprising performers/guitarists Duane Smith and Adrian Allen, bassist Jeff Halley and drummer Julian Buckland, the group debuted in 1993 using the LP Gigantic, implemented three years afterwards by Rollerball Chocolate.

In the name, you may expect a Tom Petty-ish guitar band. You will be further from the tag, but everything you fundamentally get is a typical issue indie electric guitar rock-band, neither annoying nor unforgettable. The only records of unpredictability are sounded by the casual usage of trumpet.

Playing hot-rodded pop with potent hooks and a wholesome supply of rock and roll & move energy, DM3 had been founded by singer, guitarist, and songwriter Dom Mariani, who experienced already founded himself among the movers and shakers around the Australian garage area rock and roll and power pop picture. …

While often lumped along with such Southern alternative pop rings as R.E.M. and Let’s Energetic, Guadalcanal Journal was distinctly not the same as its peers, using a sound which was simultaneously melodic and rhythmically intense, along with a decidedly literary and religious bent towards the group’s lyrics. And at the …