Lunchtime on Sunday, local lads Fly With Vampires will be entertaining their rapidly growing fan base with their melody-driven power pop.
This album is dedicated to and revels in the expressive power of pop music.
Newman, the Canadian band New Pornographers is virtually peerless in the world of power-pop and indie-rock.
The hook-heavy foundation of Dog Problems is aided by involvement from power-pop greats such as Steve McDonald (Redd Kross) and Roger Manning (Jellyfish).
The crunchy, urgent power-pop of "Hand Me Down" opens the album on a particularly auspicious note, as crunchy guitars and Flotard's incomparable voice simultaneously destroy and mesmerize.
Calling itself Peter Bjorn and John, the trio began experimenting with its format: Keyboardist Yttling switched to bass, while the band as a whole refined its catchy power-pop sound.
The one problem with that observation: The group is from L.A. Which, come to think of it, is a great sign that power-pop fused with punk is thriving here, as well.
Though its career as a hit-maker dried up shortly after its 1986 debut, Crowded House continued to churn out glorious power-pop singles through the early '90s, following the Top 10 gems "Don't Dream It's Over" and "Something So Strong" with a sturdy string of tracks that deftly balance briskness and melancholy.
Fountains of Wayne's massively hooky power-pop songs have made it a critical darling, landed the group in the Top 40 (for 2003's ubiquitous "Stacy's Mom"), and even spawned one of the most spot-on musical commentaries in recent years: Robbie Fulks' "Fountains of Wayne Hotline" lays the band's formulas bare in hilarious fashion.
That power makes it easy to pop up onto a water-ski-size board and surf off across the waves.
Such blinkered reverence is at odds with the world in which the Beatles and Bond came to stardom, when the spending power of neophyte teenagers dominated pop culture and a song or movie could be top of the pops or a box office hit one week and gone the next.
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It's not all touchscreen, though -- several buttons (controlling a pop-up flash, power, zoom toggle, and shutter release) are also part of the somewhat bulky build.
The camera itself looks very similar to the P310 -- there's a nifty mode dial up top, along with a zoom toggle, control dial, power button, stereo mics and a pop-up flash.
With an uplifting, "people power" theme combining references to British history and pop culture, the rambunctious ceremony covered subjects as diverse as the Industrial Revolution, the National Health Service, popular children's book characters including Peter Pan and Mary Poppins, and pop stars past and present.
Unable to compete with the purchasing power and supply chain prowess of national chains, the mom and pop shop seemed destined for the dust heap.
The device includes a fixed micro-USB connector and a pop-out flexible cable to plug into your computer or another power source.
Mom and pop shops flourished, the market was fragmented and studios had a lot of power.
Hit the power button and you'll have to wait for about three to four seconds for the display to pop on.
Then bugs pop up over the next few weeks in the U.S. Elsewhere, there could be significant power and utility outages.
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