The Intro that opens The Smallgoods’ debut longplayer, is actually a real song, taking us on a Brit-influenced (post)shoegazing tour (which I mean as a good thing, since it recalls the genre’s greatest moments). Before […]
The subtitle of the second album by this New York mod gang, files them under “’60s mod beat pop”, which is pretty close, though I’d also add a detail or two just to straighten things […]
With Brian Merrill’s rawer vocal delivery, alongside the band’s just as rawkier approach, compared to the usual (power) pop suspects, it works in a way similar to that of their labelmates, The Shazam. Sometimes, it’s […]
The New Arrivals WERE what their name says, way back in 1966, and it still took more than 35 years for the world to take notice. An article (found on the back cover of the […]
Whenever I’m about to start writing about “various artists” compilations, in order not to end up being too detailed, I tend to pick out its defining moments (IMHO), without which it wouldn’t be the same. […]
It was a long, three year wait since Jupiter Affect’s debut Instructions For The Two Ways Of Becoming Alice and one thing’s for sure, they still LOVE lengthy titles. Besides the album’s name, you’ll find […]
It seems that these days you just can’t get rid of Danny McDonald… thankfully! His catchy hooks are all over the scene, be it the power-pop soundtrack to an endless summer of his band P76 […]
Though you’ve probably already read comments like this, regarding some other groups, this just seems like another one of those moments when you tend to say that “this isn’t like The Byrds, this IS The […]
After three albums of power-popin’ through the technicolour memories of the sounds long gone by, here’s something of a farewell from an incredible band … at least for a while. Described as a collection of […]
“Captain” Adam Howorth and his “soul” are among the rare ones of the Poptones’ first generation bands that survived and stayed on the label’s roster. This is where the reason for that becomes clear. Personally, […]
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