Category: MUSIC

Since I reviewed his 2017 album, Something/Nothing, English singer-songwriter Nick Frater has been keeping up a steady yearly release schedule ...

It’s hard to imagine classic rock – the music genre that defined the seventies and birthed punk and metal – ...

I’ll be honest. This album shook me to the core. Now, this is a proper pop album. Not the shitty ...

If, like me, you believe that rock ‘n’ roll as defined in the 1970s by the Rolling Stones, David Bowie, ...

An introduction to the Bee Gees, one of the best bands of all time, in my humble opinion. But seriously, ...

Faithful readers will be aware that I simply love The Jam viz. Paul Weller (vocals, guitar), Bruce Foxton (bass, vocals) ...

My actual first encounter with music is probably lost to me in the hidden recesses of memory. However, I do ...

I have shared my Beach Boys story before but it bears repeating. Prior to the 90s, I was not a ...

Back to Basics Last time out, we explored the idea that there were four fundamental music genres viz. classical, traditional, ...

XTC is one of the best bands of all time. That’s an opinion I expressed in an earlier post. The ...

Alright, done with covering the best songs from the sixties to the nineties (I will post about why I stopped ...

1991 was the year punk broke. Or so we thought. While the alternative rock genre became mainstream in the early ...

To make these Best Songs lists work for me, even as I progress along the decades, I have made a ...

Form not substance To avoid any misunderstanding about the opinion I am about to express here, please note that this ...

Wow. I thought narrowing down the best songs of the sixties to ten in a list was a difficult task. ...

This post will intersect amongst several of the concerns I seek to cover over here at the Power of Pop ...

The best laid plans…. I intended to release a new album in 2020, with supporting events etc etc etc. And ...

Why understand music genres? Music continues to be a major player in modern life and impacts all spheres of social ...

Mention the sixties and a couple of fixed images come to mind. Men with long hair, women in mini-skirts, hippies ...

Not your typical superhero drama … ...

While I have no problem with shamelessly self-promoting my own music, I would not discredit any of my PoP10 ‘Best ...

Yes, I know it’s a corny cliché but with this National Day weekend comes an opportunity to share my own ...

As mentioned in my PoP Theory article on Story Analysis, besides being a singer-songwriter/composer and a pop culture writer, I ...

After sharing about the best bands of all time, it’s only natural to talk about the best solo artists of ...

Social media has been abuzz of late over Spotify CEO Daniel Ek’s comments in a recent interview published in Music:)Ally ...