The Flamin’ Groovies, one of San Francisco’s pioneering power-pop bands, will reunite for a performance at the 2025 Noise Pop Festival, amid personal challenges faced by former lead singer Chris ...

Cheap Trick formed in the mid-'70s in Illinois with a bag of power-pop tricks cribbed from bands like the Beatles and Badfinger. But guitarist Rick Nielsen was also a fan and student of the era's ...

As some definitions go, power pop has that classic rock instrumentation with harder edges, but with a focus on a great melody and harmony hooks that abound. Many pinpoint the genre's birth with ...