powerpop

Bull City frontman Jim Brantley, calls the band versions of my music "powerpop" to give you some idea of the style.

ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Abel Pharmboy none@example.com 2009

The Essex Green made the journey from pastoral whimsy to this sparkling piece of Cars-esque powerpop from 2006, with palm-muted guitars and cheesy organ.

F&M playlist 2011

Though they never broke up, North Carolina's powerpop-punk charmers went quiet for much of the last decade, while frontman Mac McCaughan and bassist Laura Ballance set about turning their Merge record label into one of the US's classiest indie powerhouses (Arcade Fire, Spoon etc).

Superchunk: Majesty Shredding Tom Hughes 2010

A stylish London five-piece, named after the legendary producer, whose excitable publicity material describes their music as "particularly English powerpop, somewhere between Roxy Music and the Strokes, the Killers and Kanye West, Pulp, R&B and Frank Sinatra".

First sight: Spector 2011

Here you had the opportunity to watch a Kiwi powerpop band called the Ruby Suns playing beneath flashing disco lights in a gay club called Revenge, or Darwin Deez plying his hotly tipped, distressingly coiffed and vaguely Strokes-ish singer-songwriter trade in a karaoke bar on the pier called Horatio's.

The Great Escape 2010

When he re-started S-Curve originally founded in 2000 he used Nabbr to launch his first signing, We the Kings, a young powerpop band that built an audience with a steady flow of homemade webisodes.

Who Let the Videos Out John Jurgensen 2010

Chungking's song was only released as a single last month, but it's got the perfect early 80s powerpop going on.

She memed me DAVID BISHOP 2007

They may talk big, but Pittsburgh powerpop band the SpacePimps have a huge sound and packed resume to back it up.

Space Pimpin’ All Over the World 2007

And that's fine by us, since summery indie powerpop is always welcome here, especially when it's delivered with the finesse of Have You Seen Lucky by John Kastner.

NMEWATCH: NME Gives The World The ‘Bloc Head’ 2006

Alternately, if it is a dour Goth type crowd, I go for lots of peppy powerpop, “My Sharona” and “Walking on Sunshine”, etc.

Hello Whatever I Will Call It 2003