Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. They produce the music that grabs their audience. The names are household, and when these female performers go on tour, tickets ...

As musical genres go, power pop is one that’s a little tough to define. It’s sort of a situation where you know it when you hear it. But we can say for certain that the style really started to take ...

The early 80s were a time of massive transformation in the world of music. But the old-school values that drove power pop, such as smart lyrics, melodic richness, and instrumental economy, didn’t ...

I fell in love with power pop as a teenager, in part because power pop is music for teenagers. It's a genre built on youthful yearning, largely from youthful artists. The declarative hooks, the ...

As alternative music grew in popularity in the 90s, so did other genres such as power pop. Power pop was defined in the 1970s with bands and artists such as Big Star, Todd Rundgren, and Cheap Trick.

The term “power pop,” while arguably overused, does capture a certain blend of chugging rock rhythms, shimmering acoustic and electric guitars, and sweet vocal melodies and harmonies, usually of the ...