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The Traveling Elephants were a Japan band who took the majority of their inspiration and sound through the Beatles. Their people included Yoneou, Koji, Takefumi, and Tokuo. The quartet released three Japanese-only albums: Confident Eleven (1991), Second Trip (1992), and Brick Street (1994).

Among the essential rings in the LA power pop explosion from the later 1970s and early ‘80s, 20/20 never quite scored popular single, however they were a robust draw for the Western Coast within their heyday, and their personal song, “Yellow Supplements,” became a cult favourite, covered by several later …

Although Mockers have included a big cast of musicians hailing from all corners from the U.S. rock and roll picture, the band’s foundations had been laid by two preteen Beatles followers surviving in Spain in the first ’70s. Tony Leventhal and Seth Gordon had been the kids of NY expats …

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.

The Truck Delecki’s, who pull their name from an bout of The Andy Griffith Present, certainly are a side project from the SpongeTones’ Jamie Hoover and Let’s Get Mikey’s Bryan Shumate. Both released Letters in the Desk of Count number S.Truck Delecki on Everlasting Press in 1996 with help from …

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, …

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 …

Led by singer and guitarist David Minehan, the Neighborhoods had been a Boston-based rock-band whose sound and approach discovered them surviving in many camps simultaneously, fusing the tuneful approach of the power pop group, the rebellious attitude of the punk band, as well as the big sound and swagger of …

Having a like for the British Invasion era of 60’s rock and roll while we were young in Chicago, Mike Galassini (vocals/ bass), Steve Steffens (vocals/ guitar) and Dane Svoboda (drums) dusted off their Beatles files and began 92 Degrees. Finding out about to additional power-pop acts like the Doughboys …