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The Leftovers

Delivering hot-wired pop-punk with clear melodic hooks and enough energy to force a fleet of 18-wheelers, the Leftovers hail from Portland, ME, and contain Kurt Baker on bass and lead vocals, Andrew Grain on guitar and support vocals, and Adam Woronoff on drums. Created in 2002, the Leftovers produced their …

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Fad

Sports a ‘60s-like mod appear, the Fad are among the countless bands that arrived of NY City’s neo-garage rock and roll scene of the first 2000s, a scene which has also provided us bands just like the Blam as well as the well-known Strokes. A lot of those neo-garage clothes …

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4 Out of 5 Doctors

Washington, DC-based, brand-new influx/power pop clothing 4 Out of 5 Doctors shaped in the later ’70s across the abilities of guitarist/keyboardist Jeff Severson, guitarist George Pittaway, bassist/vocalist Cal Everett, and drummer Tom Ballew. Though they just documented two albums, an eponymous 1980 debut and 1982’s Second Opinion, the music group’s …

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The Romantics

Such power pop founders as the Raspberries and Big Star might have been woefully underappreciated throughout their preliminary run in the first ’70s, but by the finish from the decade, many of their offspring had used the style towards the higher reaches from the charts — including Inexpensive Trick, the …

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Tommy Tutone

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. …

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Rick Springfield

Although Rick Springfield’s music was frequently dismissed as vapid teenage idol fare, his best moments have actually withstood the test of time greater than most critics would ever have imagined, rising as a few of the most well-crafted mainstream power pop from the 1980s. A singer-turned cleaning soap opera star-turned …

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Tommy & the High Pilots

Tommy & the Large Pilots formed in Santa Barbara, California in early 2008 when songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist Tommy Cantillon’s previous music group, Holden, which have been collectively for five years, abruptly split up. Cantillon made a decision to begin anew and remaining California for NEW YORK, spending a yr …

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