Category: Album Preview

Sunday Sun returns and Richard Snow’s freebie

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Sunday Sun was ranked very high on my top ten list last year with a trio of EPs that displayed a mastery of power pop melody and crisp harmonies. The band has a new single out on Bandcamp. Check it out!

 

Another favorite band, Richard Snow and The InLaws released a pretty awesome album in 2011. Richard decided that at this point he wanted to give the album away as a freebie, and spread the word of a “world without money.” Whatever your philosophy, you can get this album on Richard’s website for nothing but a click.

Twins “Babe City”

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So who are TWINS? The Waterloo, Iowa, foursome grew up on records from the likes of fellow Midwesterners Cheap Trick (Rockford, Illinois), Raspberries (Cleveland, Ohio), Shoes (Zion, Illinois), Luxury (Des Moines, Iowa) and Poison Control Center (Ames, Iowa), and they take their job of carrying the Midwestern power pop torch very seriously. The bands first proper release Tomboys on Parade drops on April 1, 2014 — April Fool’s Day. So here is a debut advance single to whet your appetite.

Bob Evans “Familiar Stranger”

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Well this is an album that would’ve definitely ranked very high on my 2013 top album list, if it was available in the United States. It’s impossible to get domestically (sold only in Australia) BUT you can easily hear the entire album on SoundCloud. From the opening vocal harmonies on “Footscray Park” you’ll be hooked. I hope one day it will be available to those of us who live in the USA.

Eric Carmen brings in the New Year.

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One of the most enduring power pop legends is Eric Carmen (The Raspberries). Just in time for the start of 2014, “Brand New Year” is Eric Carmen’s first new recording in over 15 years, finding the Artist in a reflective and optimistic mood for the future, both lyrically and sonically. This new song is the first premiere from the upcoming Legacy Recordings 30 track career retrospective, “The Essential Eric Carmen” – set for release March 11, 2014.

Radio Jellyfish coming soon!

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Brand spankin’ new Jellyfish “unplugged” is coming out on Omnivore in December. Radio Jellyfish offers the bare essence of why Jellyfish is one of the most beloved power pop bands in music history: the voices and the songs. Unlike a live concert with dodgy sound or the glossy production brilliance in the studio – this is just the artists performing their hits in minimal arrangements with acoustic instruments. So who’s “joining a fan club”?