Power Pop Tart: Blue Ash ‘Abracadabra (Have You Seen Her?)’
WTMD · Power Pop Tart: Blue Ash "Abracadabra (Have You Seen Her?)" Power Pop Tart jumps back to Ohio in 1973 (not The Raspberries) [...]
Power Pop Tart: Weezer ‘Buddy Holly’
If Power Pop has a musical lineage, then Buddy Holly would be a suitable progenitor. One possible ancestral line might be Buddy [...]
Power Pop Tart: Badfinger “Baby Blue”
Among the founding fathers of Power Pop, Badfinger stands tall and were it not for a series of problems leading ultimately to [...]
Power Pop Tart: Phil Seymour “If You Don’t Want My Love”
WTMD · Power Pop Tart: Phil Seymour "If You Don't Want My Love" Power Pop Tart spotlights just released music from the Power Pop [...]
Power Pop Tart: Todd Rundgren ‘Couldn’t I Just Tell You’
If we look for origin stories with Power Pop music, look no further that Todd Rundgren's classic pop-rock blast of yearning, "Couldn't I Just [...]
Power Pop Tart: Billie Joe Armstrong “I Think We’re Alone Now”
Musicians are stuck at home waiting for the moment to play live again in front of fans but until then, many have taken to [...]
Power Pop Tart: Jellyfish “That Is Why”
WTMD · Power Pop Tart: Jellyfish 'That Is Why' Power Pop Tart surfs the swell back to the summer of 1990 for a sweet [...]
Power Pop Tart: Nick Lowe “Cruel To Be Kind”
Nick Lowe was very busy in the late '70's writing, recording, producing and touring. 1979 saw some of his very best including [...]
Power Pop Tart: The Plimsouls ‘A Million Miles Away”
WTMD's Power Pop Tart puts this period-defining fuzz tone ear worm on the turntable - from July 1983, it's Peter Case, Eddie Munoz, Dave [...]
Power Pop Tart: Tommy Keene “Places That Are Gone”
Bethesda's Tommy Keene was a gifted singer songwriter and guitarist who left the world way too soon. For Power Pop Tart, we look back [...]
Power Pop Tart: Fountains of Wayne “Stacy’s Mom”
Possibly the first Power Pop classic of the new millennium, Fountains of Wayne struck gold with their '03 tuneful, tight and bright [...]
Power Pop Tart: The Records ‘Starry Eyes’
One of the many great things power pop music does is to turn a tale of heartbreak, misery or anger into a head boppin' [...]
Power Pop Tart: Matthew Sweet “I’ve Been Waiting”
Released a month after Nirvana's Nevermind, Matthew Sweet's Girlfriend provided a power pop lifeboat for the grunge maelstrom. The title song was a big [...]
Power Pop Tart: Big Star “September Gurls”
Big Star. There are some bands that you simply cannot skip when talking about Power Pop. Big Star's Brit pop melodies, west coast harmonies, [...]
Power Pop Tart: The Bangles ‘Hero Takes A Fall’
The Bangles emerged from the '60's rock-obsessed Paisley Underground scene in Los Angeles ("Paisley High, Class of 1983," as guitarist Vicki Peterson would joke) [...]
Power Pop Tart: The db’s “Black and White”
WTMD's Power Pop Tart celebrates one of the greats in the genre today with a look back at the lead single from their 1981 [...]
