Power pop did not emerge when rock music critics coined the phrase, but instead with 1960s legends like the Beatles. That ...

Last week on Transmission, Jake Rudh featured sunshine pop of the '60s, and this Thursday on the show, we're going to jump ...

Raspberries music is beloved by Bruce Springsteen, Paul Stanley and many others, but author Ken Sharp tells UCR it was a long ...

Perhaps coincidentally—or perhaps not—“Back to California” is a tune that harkens back to that glorious late ‘70s power pop sound, with muscular, driving guitars and a riff that vaguely ...

Cheap Trick formed in the mid-'70s in Illinois with a bag of power-pop tricks cribbed from bands like the Beatles and Badfinger. But guitarist Rick Nielsen was also a fan and student of the era's ...

A gem of 70s power pop, it riffs heavily on the Raspberries and Big Star’s sound to create – perplexingly – a smash song in the 2010s. There are no solos here: the song’s success relies on ...