Power pop blossomed in the 70s. Bands combined the melodicism of 60s pop with the harder rock sounds that were coming into vogue. That genre faded in popularity a bit as the 80s dawned. But it never ...

With the break-up of bands such as Big Star and The Raspberries, by the mid-70s power pop looked to be heading for extinction, as prog rock and disco filled the airwaves and record racks worldwide.

Pop bands have captivated audiences for decades, from The Beatles and The Temptations to Destiny's Child and One Direction.

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Euclid Records owner Joe Schwab remembers the first time he stumbled upon a 1986 cassette from the Painkillers, a local power-pop ...

Parisian punky power-pop band Alvilda released their debut album, C’est Déjà L’heure (“It’s Already Time”), last fall via Static Shock. It’s a lot of fun, full of harmonies, breathless rhythms and ...

Classic power pop band Cheap Trick made a return to the music world on Friday, Nov. 14, releasing their new album, “All Washed Up,” after nearly five years without new music. Known for 1970s hits such ...

Since releasing the fun-on-treadmills-on-a-budget clip for their punchy song "Here It Goes Again" nearly two decades ago, the Los Angeles-via-Chicago band OK Go has become as known for its visual ...

On albums like last year's Nattesferd, the Norwegian band Kvelertak have built their own beery, raging, fun-as-fuck take on underground metal, pulling at least as much from good-times '70s Camaro-rock ...