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Perhaps one of the most underrated power pop rings from the ’80s, the Spongetones released several albums of effortlessly catchy electric guitar pop that captured the experience of ’60s Uk Invasion pop with remarkable precision and innocent attraction. While they hardly ever received much important or commercial interest, their music …

The Stereo system plays catchy rock and roll using the levity of Weezer, blending pop-punk using the big, honest super rock and roll of groupings like Trip and only a hint from the heartfelt, piano romping of Billy Joel. The group started in 1999 when two music artists — Jamie …

Off Broadway was a past due-’70s power pop group from Chicago. That place them ready roughly equal to that of Shaquille O’Neal’s back-up. In cases like this O’Neal was Cheap Technique and Off Broadway was doomed to obscurity. Similar to Cheap Technique, Off Broadway performed a quirky hopped-up mixture of …

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 …

The Rollers — Al Wilson, Eddie Wilson, Don Sampson, and Willie Willingham — disbanded after three Liberty records singles in 1961. Primarily the Jewels, the quartet shaped in San Bernadino, CA, after Al Wilson got from the Navy. “Bonneville” b/w “Got My Attention you,” released January of 1961, got performed …

Formerly from the Sneetches, singer/songwriter/guitarist Mike Levy crafts off-kilter pop that owes just as much to his former band’s sound since it does to diverse influences like Harry Nilsson, the Korgis, and Al Green. Levy started focus on his single debut Fireflies soon after the Sneetches disbanded in 1995; five …

Ahead of his career being a high-visibility manufacturer of unbalanced old rock music artists (Brian Wilson, Jerry Lee Lewis) and pop rings (NRBQ, Greenberry Woods), Andy Paley teamed along with his sibling Jonathan in 1978 to create the energy pop duo the Paley Brothers. They released a self-titled recording that …

Before he sang lead for the Alan Parsons Project, Chris Rainbow had embarked on a solo career in 1974. For six years, he documented within the U.K. for EMI Information and Polydor Information, and he also acted as maker and had written his own materials. His first encounter in a …

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 …

After the 3 O’Clock went not really with a bang but with the whimper of 1988’s too-slick-by-half Vermilion, bassist-songwriter-leader Michael Quercio joined his buddy Scott Miller’s band Game Theory in 1990. (Quercio experienced produced Video game Theory’s 1984 EP Distortion, and Miller experienced contributed “THE LADY With your guitar (Says …