Power Pop post 2000 - recommendations needed please

the first two Superdrag albums are stellar.

 

And the 3rd one is even better!

 

the shazam
velvet crush

 

Free Energy

 

Great song. But the album it comes from - the fantastic Life on Planet Eartsnop - was originally released in 1998. However, Myracle Brah continued to release great music post-2000. By the end of the 00's Andy Bopp had retired Myrcle Brah and moved on from power pop. I haven't heard any of this newer material but I'm sure it's interesting.

 

The Click Five

 

Motion City Soundtrack at their most Weezer-ish

 

Another vote for Cirrone! Their first album from 2011 is one of the best albums Badfinger never released! I'm waiting impatiently for a second album by these guys. They do have a Christmas single from a couple of years ago.

I would also check out everything by Michael Carpenter by himself or with the Cuban Heels.

You can hear it all on Bandcamp.com I like that site because you can hear complete songs and download CD quality flac.

 

Mother's Children - glammy hard rock/power pop

 

C'mon Linto, tell us if you like any of the recommendations!

 

My current band is semi decent:

http://www.donovans-brain.net/

Bobby Sutliff

 

And my favorite power pop band, Pezband has a new record that came out this year, "Dangerous People". It's comprised of songs cut in the 80s, but mixed this year. Check it out on CDBaby.

 

What about Dwight Twilley?

 

My cd says 2002

 

He had a release n 2012 with a band called Alto Verde that was very good.

 

Adam Schlesinger from Fountains of Wayne wrote that.

EDIT: dude you have really good taste.

 

Because the general public is not interested in power pop. It's a very niche genre.

 

The very awesome TSAR

 

Second that.

 

that's what i'm actually listening to??? i didn't know it was you.

 

My copy says 2001, contains four bonus tracks and was issued by the British label Rainbow Quartz. I believe both your copy and mine are reissues (or possibly a first time UK issue in my case). Nonetheless his the Myracle Brah discography indicates it was originally issued in 1998, the same year the songs were copyrighted. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myracle_Brah

Thanks for the heads-up. I'll have to check that out.

 

If that was all that Viola did then you would have a great point, but his scope is pretty broad when it comes to great tunes, power pop being just one of them.

 

Anything by The Pillbugs or Mark Mikel.

 

I will have a serious listen over the weekend
thanks everyone