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Although they only lasted for just two albums, Vancouver, British Columbia-based indie power-poppers Zumpano were a brand new and unpretentious act whose combination of ’60s soft pop influences and hard-candy guitar rock and roll made them a pivotal area of the Sub Pop label’s image differ from early ’90s grunge …

Gary Frenay is really a light pop songwriter whose most noticeable affects include Carole Ruler, Adam Taylor, Jimmy Webb, as well as the Beatles. He started his profession in the past due ’70s as co-founder of the Syracuse-based new influx band known as the Flashcubes. The group have scored a …

Though they will have exactly the same name being a Four Freshmen-style pop vocal band of the 1950s (most widely known for singing backup with Elvis Presley on many film soundtracks and because of their bass singer, Thurl Ravenscroft, who continued to sing “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch”), the …

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 …

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 …

Indie rock-band the Scourge of the ocean was shaped in the wintertime of 2004 in Lexington, KY, by people of various other Kentucky groupings. Justin Craig and Robby Cosenza had been former people of Pontius CoPilot and current people from the Apparitions if they teamed up with Andrew British within …

The Drive Kings, fronted by singing/strumming brothers Carrick Moore Gerety and Finn Moore Gerety, began existence within the Boston area within the mid-’90s, playing rough melodic songs influenced by Pavement along with other early-’90s U.S. indie rings. Following a few 7″ singles, the males switched gears, refined up their songwriting …

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 …

Neo-power pop singer/songwriter Scot Sax initially made his name among power pop followers with his function in Wanderlust and Bachelor NUMBER 1 (the latter which landed a music within the American Pie soundtrack). For his 1st solo recording, a self-titled work released by Not really Lame in the summertime of …

A longtime fixture from the Bay Area power pop picture, Chris Von Sneidern was among the pop underground’s even more accomplished singer/songwriters, earning a cult following having a string of indie produces through the ’90s. Given birth to in Syracuse, NY, Von Sneidern became a member of a local clothing …