Power pop is the hard rocking, but highly melodic music exemplified by the Beatles’ “She Loves You” or “A Hard Day’s Night,” or the Who’s “Can’t Explain” or “Substitute” in the ’60s: songs with blaring guitars, catchy choruses, and group harmonies. Cleveland’s own Raspberries were a great power pop band, …

Green Day lived the irony of being real working class punks from the wrong side of the San Francisco Bay, who became labeled by cooler-than-thou punkers as “inauthentic” after the tremendous success of their third album, Dookie. Barely out of their teens, singer-guitarist Billy Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt, and …

U2 was the greatest group of the ’80s because its members – singer Bono, guitarist the Edge, bassist Adam Clayton, drummer Larry Mullen – like perhaps only Bruce Springsteen in the U.S., still believed that rock ‘n’ roll could save the world, and had the talent to make that notion …

I vacillate between Tom Waits’ early L.A.-folky, mid jazzy-pop, or later avant-noise periods as my favorite. I guess I just like Tom Waits, but if I had to nail it down to one disc, I would go with his Used Songs (1973-80) collection, featuring the best of the (mid jazzy-pop) …

Looking at the music industry lawsuit campaign from a purely tactical standpoint, the story Michael Croft shared yesterday – that the RIAA sued a 66-year-old woman for sharing 2000 songs via Kazaa when not only had she never downloaded or uploaded a song, but as a Macintosh user she couldn’t …

In an effort to combat the ongoing and largely partisan efforts to paint the status of the War on Terror in the bleakest possible light, coupled with the media’s tendency to focus on the the abrupt and the horrible vs. the procedural and the positive, I offer up these words …

The original Allman Brothers Band is back in the spotlight, and rightly so.

Our “boots on the ground” correspondent Stephen, traveling the Middle East on a musical performance tour, reports from Kuwait. His first two reports are here and here. Thanks again for getting the view out there– I feel so frustrated watching this going on and then seeing the way it is …

Not much defense for this: In what prosecutors say was the first jury conviction ever under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a Florida man was convicted in Los Angeles of selling hardware used to pirate DirecTV broadcasts. Thomas Michael Whitehead, 38, of Boca Raton, was found guilty of one count …

I admit I am on the horns of a dilemma regarding music file sharing: I think it’s inevitable, impossible to stop, the methods being used to stop it including the DMCA are far more damaging and dangerous to the nation as a whole than the “crime” itself, there are very …