Category: MUSIC

Urgh A Music War is a 1981 British film featuring performances by punk rock, new wave, and post-punk acts, filmed in 1980. For me ...

In my recent opinion piece on music appreciation, I opined that music has become less time sensitive in the new ...

Global pandemic aside, the last 20 years have been horrendous for music and the music industry. The music culture that ...

Album covers are relics from an ancient age. When a 12.375 inch (31.43 cm) square cardboard sleeve provided the canvas ...

Here we go. No sooner than I declare that I will be writing less about music here at the Power ...

Regular visitors to the Power of Pop would have noticed a shift in content focus, from music to film and ...

John Lennon would have been 80 today. Of course, it’s almost 40 years since Lennon’s murder in 1980. I have ...

“We can’t rewind, we’ve gone too far” is a lyric from “Video Killed the Radio Star” and perfectly encapsulates my ...

Ryan Hamilton & the Harlequin Ghosts is a transatlantic collaboration, with frontman Ryan Hamilton hailing from just outside of Fort ...

The Fast Colors began as an idea discussed between Chris Toh and myself over a meal – forming a classic ...

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 new album from The Neighbourhood shook me to the core. Now, this is a proper pop ...

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 appreciation is probably lost to me in the hidden recesses of memory. However, I ...

The Best Beach Boys Songs of All Time : I have shared my Beach Boys story before but it bears ...

Last time out, we explored the idea that there were four fundamental music genres viz. classical, traditional, popular and avant ...

An introduction to the best XTC songs of all time! XTC is one of the best bands of all time. ...

An introduction to the best Beatles songs of all time. ...

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. ...