Power pop blossomed in the 70s. Bands combined the melodicism of 60s pop with the harder rock sounds that were coming into vogue. That genre faded in popularity a bit as the 80s dawned. But it never ...

Truly, 1997 was the year that boy bands broke onto the mainstream. These are three pop songs from 1997 that prove boy bands' power.

Classic power pop band Cheap Trick made a return to the music world on Friday, Nov. 14, releasing their new album, “All Washed Up,” after nearly five years without new music.

Beloved NYC power-pop band the dB's bring their first tour in 12 years to San Francisco Thursday, with the quartet's original line-up playing songs from its first two albums at the Chapel. While ...

Doggone it, where’s an American independent power-pop band when you need one? Japan, naturally. When time came to interview the members of the band Blackpool Lights, the Tucson Weekly had a window of ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

With the third song on the third side of his landmark third solo album, 1972’s Something/Anything?, Todd Rundgren planted a ...

In the age of the internet, we've never been more connected to more people, and people have never felt so isolated and alone. It's one of those ideas that's often repeated because it's true: These ...

Years ago, Elle Archer was walking around a nature reserve in her native California with some friends, equipped with a couple of 40s and time to kill. She made an offhand comment about how white women ...