I came relatively late to the bands of LA’s paisley underground, a 60s-revivialist scene that had about one year of real juice in the early ...

Boy, today was a bad day for me. My work is really stressful right now and, what's worse, my feline guardian angel is sick again and has...

20/20 are everything I love most in music. Their songs are catchy as hell, and they’re hard, but not too hard, and never heavy. There’s a su...

I have mixed feelings about Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers for reasons I alluded to a few days ago. Damn the Torpedoes , released in 1979, ...

Tonight's song is an all-time power pop classic. It's as close to a perfectly constructed pop song as you'll ever hear and shou...

I love the story of how Dwight Twilley and Phil Seymour first met in 1967 at a screening of A Hard Day's Night in Tulsa. That's jus...

A fair bit of the credit for the greatness of the two Dwight Twilley Band albums, Sincerely and Twilley Don't Mind , belongs to the lat...

Power pop was initially a plaintive cry for help from artists who refused to accept the collapse of the 60s dream. So it was backwards looki...

I belong in Power Popaholics Anonymous, the only trouble being that the higher power I'd give myself over to would be Dwight Twilley. Wh...

When you hear something as crunchy and hard and heavy and loose and phallic as the One-Eyed Trouser-Snake Rumba, it’s easy to forget that St...

I’ve been talking a lot lately in these posts about the shift from pop to rock, its meaning, and my preference for the former over the latte...

When I think about how I grew up loving Rod Stewart, the first thing that occurs to me is that his singing has always made me feel so good i...

Tonight’s song is a lovely late-period Small Faces tune that feels to me like Steve Marriott working more or less as a solo artist. The yout...

The Angels have gotten off to a predictably mediocre start to this season, 6-5 after 11 games. It’s a long season and a lot can happen over ...