Pop Geek Heaven

TREE HOUSE SOCIETY    DOWNLOAD – “Margarita on the Porch” – HERE (right click and ‘save as’) [linebreak style=”25.png”] Sometimes you know, you find yourself wanting to listen to some specific songs, and then you realize they simply do not exist. So you buy a guitar, you start strumming on it, you suck, you start […]

SHPLANG In 1994, singer-songwriter Peter Marston, a veteran of the LA pop scene with the Phlaix, the Onlys and the Corsairs, met up with John Krause, a visual artist and designer best-known for his work on The Simpsons.  John also dabbled in music, so the two met up to see what would happened and what […]

For many of you old school power pop fans, if you looked at the name “THE RAVES” and did not recognize it, guess what? HUGE DISCOVERY for you. Old school power pop, done right, done good, done REAL good….and with a most unusual story behind the band. The Raves are a power pop band based […]

  A project many years in the making, POP GARDEN RADIO host and power pop impressario Adam Waltemiere has found a way to mid-wife this project in 2013 and it’s cause for celebration for many power pop geeks.  Just take a look at the list below, download a long from the tribute and listen to […]

LATE CAMBRIAN [arrow style=”14.png” alignment=”center”] DOWNLOAD – “Lovers Point” – HERE (right click and ‘save as’) Late Cambrian is a Brooklyn Indie Alternative Rock band. If The Strokes and Phoenix adopted a rock baby from Elliot Smith and The Arctic Monkeys the baby’s name would be Late Cambrian. They have won numerous awards on Ourstage […]

THE ERIC BARAO BAND [arrow style=”14.png” alignment=”center”] DOWNLOAD – “On Holiday” – HERE (right click and ‘save as’…) [linebreak style=”25.png”] Eric Barao is a singer-songwriter from Massachusetts. He is a graduate of Berklee College of Music with a degree in songwriting. In 2000, Eric co-founded the powerpop/rock band The Cautions with guitarist/songwriter Jeff Caglarcan. In […]

BALLARD (a/k/a DARREN RILEY)   [linebreak style=”24.png”] [arrow style=”14.png” alignment=”center”] DOWNLOAD – “Pretty Colours” – HERE (right click and ‘save as’) Darren Riley aka Ballard, has been a musician for around 25 years. In that time he has been in countless bands, from playing bass for one of the Drifters to fronting his own Mexican […]

BABY SCREAM   Of all the bands from Argentina with songs in English it is surely Baby Scream, the project lead by Juan Pablo Mazzola, the one with the richest history of releases, travels, tours and collaborations, specially overseas. Baby Scream has 7 albums and EP’s released, most of them in countries other than theirs, […]

RED JACKET MINE   What is the Seattle sound? Truth is it changes. Frequently. Garage rock reigned in the mid-’60s. Grunge exploded out of the Emerald City in the early ’90s and the world is still reeling. Today, hip-hop acts like Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Shabazz Palaces, and Blue Scholars rule the roost. Red Jacket Mine […]

  Here’s the (only)thing.   KURT BAKER is one of the absolute best new artists in the power pop genre to arrive on the scene in the last five years.  You need to own everything and everything from him. There’s a reason I chose him to be “Surprise Box” #100, an important and cool milestone for […]