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What do you do when you move across the country and still don’t feel at home? If you’re the world famous, you form a band and write songs about being out of place in Los Angeles. The quintet is effectively a band of Massachusetts transplants, led by Will Harris, adjusting to culture shock and trying …

Photos and words David McEneaney The Beths played a jam packed set list to a jam packed Whelans on Wednesday 31st May, and it  was absolutely delightful.When the New Zealand four piece took the stage (beside a giant inflatable fish taken from the cover of their their latest album ‘Expert in a Dying Field’) you could …

Sydney’s iconic power popsters The Nature Strip first came blossomed into existence ten years ago with the release of their album ‘Stars Turn Inside Out’, and they are celebrating this auspicious occasion with the release of an EP that remixes four tracks from the era (but not from the album itself). As can be expected, …

American power pop band Wallows kicked of their Tell Me That It’s Over Tour with a sold-out night at Dublin’s 3Olympia.Belfast’s Lucy Gaffney opened the night. Lucy Gaffney Photos: Wallows Photo’s: Wallows Set List: Hard To BelieveI Don’t Want To TalkThese DaysEspecially YouPleaserTreacherous DoctorTalk Like ThatSun TanQuarterbackOKPictures Of GirlsWish Me Luck1980s Horror Film IIOnly FriendMarvelousScrawnyJust …

He probably had to sit on that car for a bit to get the right shot (see above), but the LA-based Matthew Lurie has been sitting on his second album as Matthew & the Mainstream for far longer. For context: the initial seeds that bloomed into the 10-track record were planted back in 2017 at …

From the current home of power pop in Perth, the most isolated city in the world, bursts the vibrant rock and roll thunder of The Deenys with their punky new single ‘Lonely Paradise’. With an undeniable genetic connection to the cheeky chappie rock of Supergrass through to the attitude and swagger of the Arctic Monkeys …

Resplendent in a coat of many chimes, the new single ‘Powerlines’ from Western Australian band Rinehearts positively bursts through the speakers and showers you in sunshine and joy. With a chorus that’s as towering and awe inspiring as the trees in the Valley of the Giants and a wall of jangling shimmering guitars, there is …

The appropriately named Sunnyboys – the band that possibly did more to bring indie guitar music in a power pop guise into the mainstream in the eighties in Australia than other band – have announced an Australia wide tour. They will be supported by the venerable Even in Sydney and Melbourne while former Screaming Tribesman …

We met Luke Seymoup with the release of the single ‘Paint’ – a gloriously hyperactive piece of power pop – and he has now released the album ‘Tales of Suburban Angst’. Seymoup has continued with what he started out with: a collection of danceable, anthemic pop gems that glisten and sparkle with a self-deprecating sense …