Tag Archives: Power Pop

The Modulators were a fresh Jersey-based power pop music group and regional legends within the ’80s, and with time developed a separate following among pop obsessives despite hardly ever catching the brass band countrywide. The group was founded by Joe Riccardello, a music buff using a flavor for the Beatles, …

Comprised of youth friends, lead vocalist and guitarist Andy Schmidt and drummer Brad Booker, later on attracting bassist Kevin Gagnepain when all three had been signed up for the School of Missouri-Columbia, St. Louis’s Mix have been creating a name for themselves through their comprehensive touring and polished power-pop. Originally …

Hailing from Bethesda, Maryland, Tommy Keene is really a guitarist and singer/songwriter who all plays and creates melodic guitar-based pop/rock and roll. As a kid, Keene played traditional piano before picking right up electric guitar and drums. He spent his teenage years drumming within a rock and roll trio known …

Tommy Hoehn is definitely another in an extended type of musicians from Memphis who must have been big but under no circumstances sometimes came close. Hoehn’s 1st claim to popularity was providing history vocals for Big Star’s Third/Sister Enthusiasts. He also sang some backups for another famous “dropped” Memphis music …

Hoboken’s Bongos — founded like a trio comprising Richard Barone (acoustic guitar, vocals), Rob Norris (bass), and Frank Giannini (drums, vocals) — produced no pretense to be anything apart from a pop music group; fortunately, these were an excellent pop music group, covering electric guitar pop in the Byrds to …

Tommy Tutone were an early-’80s power pop music group led by vocalist Tommy Heath and guitarist Jim Keller. The group’s initial one, 1980’s “Angel State No,” scraped underneath from the American Best 40, yet it had been 1981’s “867-5309/Jenny” that delivered the group to the very best from the graphs. …

Although little continues to be released under Carleton’s name — and absolutely nothing of his continues to be widely distributed — he’s made the right pop/rock and played a notable role in the annals of Cleveland rock. Within the middle-’60s he was tempo guitarist and regular songwriter for the Shed …

Dairy ‘N’ Cookies were a music group in the incorrect place at the incorrect period. If they’d proven up a couple of years afterwards, they might have been area of the poppy end from the past due-’70s/early-’80s punk/brand-new influx explosion. If they’d produced their name a couple of years earlier, …

The Sneetches were among the handful of rings within the U.S. playing traditional British Invasion-inspired, middle-’60s Western Coast-sounding guitar play the past due ’80s. Their brief operate of albums and singles never really had a large target audience, and they by no means discovered the major-label achievement they desired, however …

Tulsa, OK’s pop-rock quartet Admiral Twin includes guitarist/pianist/vocalist John Russell, guitarist/keyboardist/vocalist Brad Becker, bassist/vocalist Tag Carr, and drummer/vocalist Jarrod Gollihare. Called following a drive-in within their hometown, the group shaped from other regional rings and quickly gained a popularity for theatrical concert events and well-crafted power-pop. Their record Mock Heroic …