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 ...

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 ...

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 ...