Power pop is experiencing a new wave of younger artists, and the music is great! We've assembled a round table of music geeks to listen to a dozen of today's best newer power pop artists. On the panel is Steve Coulter (Tsar) aka author SW Lauden, The Well Wishers' Jeff Shelton, and Tik Tok'r Allen Lulu. Get your pen and paper ready to write down these great recommendations as we nerd out to some excellent tunes!
Be sure to check out our previous round table episode: Power Pop in the 90's!
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S.W. Lauden is the editor of Remember The Lightning (Substack) and the semi-annual Remember The Lightning Guitar Pop Journals (print/e-book). His power pop-themed crime fiction novellas include That'll Be The Day:A Power Pop Heist and Good Girls Don't. S.W. Lauden is the pen name of Steve Coulter, drummer for various LA-based pop rock bands including Ridel High, Tsar, and the Brothers Steve. Follow him on Instagram @SWLauden
Jeff Shelton, former band leader of the Spinning Jennies, and long time host of the radio program, "The Power Pop Show," is the man behind The Well Wishers. Bandcamp is his primary home base:
https://thewellwishers.bandcamp.com/. Be sure to check out his latest record, "Just So You Know." It's full of rockin', infectious ear candy!
Allen Lulu goes by the handle @areallulu on TikTok where he features unstreamable & nearly forgotten Power Pop albums from days gone by as well as new artists. He is the instigator & one of the admins of The Listening Post: The 80s on Facebook, a group dedicated to hunting down, listening to, rating and reviewing every rock album from that decade, where there are thousands of albums in and still, somehow only in 1983. (If that interests you, ask to be included and I will let you in) In his past life he was the frontman for the Los Angeles rock band, Throttle Back Sparky, whose 2005 album will see a remastered re-release on vinyl in 2025.
