2019 Powerpopulist Faves: R. Stevie Moore, The Bevis Frond, Lolas, Tommy Sistak, The Stan Laurels, The Unswept, Doug Tuttle, The Turnback, Day & Dream, Jordan Jones, Trip Wire,, Mikal Cronin, Gaspar Sanz, David Woodard, The Ace, Mondello, The Speak, The Good Water, The Kaams, Alain Pire Experience, Lauran Hibberd, The 7 & 6, seablite, jeanines, The Ugly Beats, More Kicks, Lucille Furs, Disq, L7, Violet, The Smallgoods, The Decibels, Swervedriver, WHICH WAVE, Guided By Voices, the Suck, The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness, the dates, The Coathangers, Slush, The Maureens, The Cowboys,Reverberations, I Was A King,

So suddenly we jump from the end of June to the beginning of a new year.We hesitate to account for the long layoff because we hope you've come here to hear and maybe even download music and not to read lame explanations for our six months of nonblogging. But so here's what happened: On July 3 "we" had a stroke. Obviously "we" survived. although technically this could be being ghost-written by some other unidentified music-loving blogger. So, yes we're still alive but we did become paralyzed on the left side of our body and are therefore typing this with but our right hand. So maybe that explains something pertinent to someone.Fortunately our hearing was not affected , and we've been able to continue our quest for new music pleasing to our ears and, hopefully, yours.

Some of the songs in the playlist below were released prior to the fateful year just ended, but we didn't discover them until sometime in 2019.Believe it or not, we do take care in putting our playlists together, hoping that we will hook you early and hold your attention and actuate enjoyment all the way through. Sometimes this involves starting gently and building toward a more fevered pace. Not this time , though, for we begin fast and don't let up until the fifth song Hope that 's okay wit' chew. Of course we hope you'll feel  free to cut loose and listen to any song in any order you choose We will point out that all songs showing an orange, slobbering ice cream-eating bowling ball are available for FREE DOWNLOAD, courtesy of the magnanimous Ice Cream Man, Mr. Wayne Lundquist Ford, selections from whose fabulous Summer 2019 compilation were featured in our last blogpost  B.S. (Before Stroke)(See that post, if interested.) So that's enough tawk, let's rawk!

Freebie Faves from Screwballs and Curveballs ICM COMP 2019: The Galileo 7, Ashes For Dreams, Glenn Robinson, Tommy Sistak, David Woodard, The Speak, The Stan Laurels, Jordan Jones, Emperor Penguin, The Details, The Unswept, Day & Dream, Mondello, The Turnback, The Ace, Trip Wire, Building Rockets, Librarians With Hickeys, Psychotic Youth, Tommy & The Rockets, Nick Frater, and Streetcar Conductors

Dude's done it again. Mr. Wayne Lundquist Ford, aka "The Ice Cream Man," purveyor of powerpop, janglepop, hooky melodic pop, and other fine dairy products, has blazed forth with yet another of his annual Summer compilations of primo pop for FREE DOWNLOADing porpoises. (Sure, "blazed" is kind of oxymoronic, but we are proud, pimpled morons.)

We've just finished our annual recon of all 133 songs and have put together a playlist of our very favorites. (See it under the Bandcamp widget of all 133 songs.) If you find a song you'd like to download, click the ////bc link and be swept (or unswept, in one case) away to its Bandcamp page for downloading activity. To download all 133 songs, click the word "download" in the Bandcamp widget.

Many thanks to The Man, The Cool Cool Legend, Mr. WLF, for the expertise and effort involved in making this stellar collection available for y/our listening pleasure. And of course, many thanks to the superb artists for making such terrific music and letting us have it free of charge.

To view our previous posts of Ice Cream Man favorites, click here. (Prepare yourselves for a good long stay and myriad conesful of enjoyment.)

Update - 30.vi.19 - Individual songs are no longer available for free, BUT you can download the whole compilation at once for free. Wayne explains the situation here.

SoundCloud Freebies from the Powerpopulist Archives

As promised (admittedly eons ago), here is the SoundCloud installment in our series of free and legally downloadable powerpop, indiepop, janglepop, etc., etc. songs from the Powerpopulist Archives. We checked just before posting, and all the songs below are shown to be downloadable. (Be advised that sometimes a song that is supposedly downloadable proves not to be so when click comes to shove.)

You can download in a couple of ways.
From the Widget Below
1. While a song is selected, either click the download arrow or
3. Click "View track" and then at the song's SoundCloud page, click "More" and choose "Download file."
4. BTW, not tryin' to toot our own particular horn, but unless you like songs to screech to a halt, this might be a good time to practice our little tip on using your Mouse Scroll Wheel.


From the playlist at SoundCloud
1. Hover over the song and click the 3 dots at the far right of the line.
2. Choose "Download file."

As peviously promised, we've still got a bootyload of old-fashioned word-linked mp3s rounded up and ready to post. Yeah, it might be an eon or two before we do it, but we're still a blogger whose intentions are good.

The three Bandcamp freebie posts can be found here, here, and here.

Note: Song #27, "When Worlds Collide" is by The Colors.

Faves of the Faves - March/April 2019: The Decibels, Smile from Tokyo, More Kicks, An Horse, David Woodard, The Popravinas, R. Stevie Moore, The Well Wishers, The Figgs, The Bevis Frond, Lucille Furs, The Cosmic Raspberry Morning, The Good Water, The Smallgoods, Ride, Violet, Flying Fish Cove, L7, Rascalton, Gaspar Sanz, Disq, Th Da Freak, Ex Hex, More Kicks, Blue Jeans, ViVii, Dressy Bessy, Abbie Ozard

Behold and behear our very favorite powerpop, indiepop, janglepop, psychpop, and other hooky melodic pop songs discovered during the third and fourth months of 2019. Please keep in mind (or, like, totally ignore the fact) that some of these songs predate the current year, even going back as far as 2015 and 2016, for Pete's sake. We just didn't find them until the months indicated. Most, though, are recent releases. If you'd like to see the two monthly lists from which these are curated, click here and here. As always, we do hope you'll find some songs to like or love.

Even More Freebies From the Archives - Downloadable Bandcampers - Phase 3

Perhaps you doubted us. Perhaps we doubted ourselves. Perhaps we waited too long. Perhaps we didn't wait long enough. But here we are, hat and fappy and thrusting and bursting with more free & legal downloadables we've rounded up from the Powerpopulist Archives. We just now checked each and every and verified that all are indeed available for either Free or Name-Your-Price Download. Clicking /////bc will take you to the appropriate Bandcamp download page. As before, if you get to Bandcamp and find a song has a price attached, do one of three things: 1) Click "Buy the Full Digital Album" and be taken to the page where it's downloadable for free or name-your-price (in which case, type "0"in the pricebox); 2) Click the album name just under the song name at the top left-hand side of the Bandcamp page; 3) Pay money to buy the song. We attach no particular importance to the number of songs in this Phase 3 playlist (69); that's simply the way it turned out. Most of the songs are powerpop, indiepop. janglepop, and other kinds of hooky, melodic pop, but this list is a bit more varied than the previous two. It includes some shoegaze, some crunch, and even has a wad of bubblegum stuck in there somewhere. We hope you find plenty to cop, feel, and flow with dopaminiacally. Oh, and, yes, we do have the aforepromised SoundCloud and straight mp3-linked downloadable playlists pretty much ready to post, and when that will be done is anybody's guess. Doubt us do ye? Good move. Click appropriately to find the 50 free and legals in Phase 1 and 50 more in Phase 2.

Faves of the Faves - January/February 2019: I Was a King, The Reverberations, Palmyra Delran, Potty Mouth, The Cowboys, Herzog, The Maureens, Business of Dreams, Crocodiles, Slush, Ex Hex, The Coathangers, Cherry Glazerr, the dates, The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness, the SUCK, Pink Mexico, Guided By Voices, Frankie and the Witch Fingers, Which Wave, Sugarspun, Swervedriver, Palehound

Below are the powerpop, indiepop, janglepop, psychpop, and other hooky melodic pop songs we discovered and most liked during the first two months of this year. As we've been posting lots of freebies lately, we want to point out that these are not freebies. They are, however, very much worth buying, which we've personally done whenever possible. We'll be posting more freebie songs From The Archives in the near future. We hope you find lots of songs here to like or love. If you'd like to see the full January and February playlists, click here and here. Two more things: we recently posted our Faves of the Faves for November/December 2018, in case you'd like to check them out. The song below identified as being by Kim Shattuck was originally identified when we found it as being by Palmyra Delran. Mercy bocooo.

More Freebies From the Archives - Downloadable Bandcampers - Phase 2

As promised, here are 50 more free and legal downloadables from the Powerpopulist Archives. Most are powerpop, janglepop, indiepop, and other kinds of hooky melodic pop.  Clicking /////bc will take you to the Bandcamp page where you can download the song. If you find a pricetag attached there, click either a) Buy the Full Digital Album or b) the album name just under the song name at the top left of the page. We tested all 50 songs just before posting and found them all to be either Free Downloads or Name Your Price (in which case, simply type "0" in the price box). The first 50 freebies are available here (along with some blather about this From the Archives project). If you'd like to work from the playlist in a larger format over at Playmoss, click here. Happy listening, smashing, and grabbing.

Freebies From the Archives: Downloadable Bandcampers - Phase 1

We prowled back through the Powerpopulist Archives and found a bootyload of free powerpop, janglepop, indiepop, and other hooky melodic pop favorites still alive and ready. At post-time, all of the 50 songs below are available for free download. Clicking /////bc will take you to the Bandcamp page where you can download the song. If you find a pricetag attached there, click either a) Buy the Full Digital Album or b) the album name just under the song name at the top left of the page. We tested all 50 songs just before posting and found them still to be either Free Downloads or Name Your Price (in which case, simply type "0" in the price box). Oh, and if the widget below feels a bit cramped, here's the full-size page at Playmoss. We've got more to say but are saying it below the widget.

We already got too wordy up there but wanted to say a little more.

We started this "From the Archives" feature in the early days of Powerpopulist. New visitors kept arriving, and we wanted them to be able to hear freebies we'd already posted that they might like to hear and/or download. We did the feature fairly regularly, but once the Age of Widget took hold, we for some reason let the feature slide.

So we've just spent--and are still spending--many hours combing back though old posts and frankly feel rather well-groomed. There's still tons of tuneage that continues to please us and might well do the same to you. We've picked up quite a few followers and visitors via Facebook, and many of them probably aren't a) aware of how much music we've posted or b) enthusiastic about digging back through twelve years of posts to see what's there.

We've found it to be an endeavor pleasing, yes, but not for the short-of-patience or faint-of-heart. Along with the pleasure came much pain. Cherished favorites had dropped their links or (gasp) completely disappeared from sight. Embed codes had been scrambled so as to create chaotic visuals and deformed widgets. . . . Sorry, just give us a minute. . . . All right, we're okay now. We'd say more but it's just too fucking painful. And fortunately, there is the music that lives on.

Historical Footnote: After posting here a number of our Playmoss playlists, this is the first in which every single song is clickably and easily, freely and legally downloadable. We like that. It takes up less space and it gives you the chance to click through quickly, listen at length if you like, and grab the ones you want for your music library. We're gonna do more of it. (See below.) So, like, TA-DA!

Yes, we've got more of these From the Archives posts coming in the near future. After one or two more Bandcamp-based posts, we've got one coming of SoundCloud freebies, plus one or more of the old-fashioned word-based mp3 links that were the staple of this and other music blogs earlier in the century. Then came the Age of Widget, at Powerpopulist on Monday, May 16, 2011. (So bravo for M. Thibault Stillinrock, who carries on the venerable tradition over at . . . Still in Rock!)

We've said this many times before, but in case we didn't include songs that plunk your particular twanger, clicking /////bc will often take you to other songs and albums by the artists that might suit you better. In the case of compilations, you'll be exposed to oodles more artists, as well.

We also say it ad infinitum but ad reallymeanitum: Abundant thanks to the artists who made and continue to make their fabulous music available, whether for free or for purchase. Because, yeah, we do purchase quite a lot of music, as you can see here (another feature we perhaps need to revive) and at Bandcamp. We also buy from labels, online stores, Amazon and, as a last resort, iTunes.

Faves of the Faves - November/December 2018: the dates, Cupid's Carnival, Wyatt Blair, The Late Show, The Bangles, The Kryng, The Money War, The Higher State, Firefly, Chemtrails, Calva Louise, Steel Tees, Mothboxer, Johnny Mafia, Hot Nun, Jeremy & The Harlequins, White Noise, Neighborhood Brats, Traffik Island, When Young, Hatchie, Lucia

Back in December we got so immersed in putting together our 2018 Powerpopulist Faves post that we didn't post a Faves of the Faves playlist for November and December. No great harm's been done, though, because A) quite a few of the songs appeared in that 2018 list and B) this blog is probably not capable of doing great harm. So here it is, and we hope you find lots of songs to like or love. Oh, and below the Playmoss widget are several songs we loved that wouldn't play in the widget. If you'd like to see the full playlists for November and December, click here and here.

Spaced-Based Powerpop Playlist

Over at the Facebook I Love Power Pop group, Adrienne Meddock of The Beef People issued a challenge: "Can you pick 5 power pop songs with a space theme for my contest over at my blog?" The answer: Why, yes, yes, we can, and then some. Since she herself came up with a list of 13, so did we. It could have been much, much longer, but this'll do for now. BTW, we realize that final song isn't really pure double p, but it's close enough and besides, it touches our tiny, alienated hearts.

Update, a few hours later: A hearty "ribbit" to one TubaFrog for the recommendation of Zolar X, now snuggled into and pushing the number of songs in the mix to 14.

2018 Powerpopulist Faves

Good moves from Bad Moves - and lots of others.

Behold and behear our very favorite powerpop, janglepop, indiepop, psychpop, and whateverpop songs from 2018. We decided to list these alpha songs in alpha order, with one exception: our favorite song of the year, Bad Moves' "Cool Generator," is at the top of the list. All the "The" bands' songs are down in the "T" range. As sometimes happens, Playmoss wouldn't accomodate several songs, so we've put them in their own widgets under the Playmoss widget. Songs Playmoss wouldn't identify by Artist Name and Songname are listed below the widget. Sometimes Playmoss balks at playing songs from Bandcamp, so if this happens, just click on the Bandcamp play arrow, and things should work out fine.

#2 - Ama - Love Demons
17 - Dot Dash - TV - Radio
19 - The Left Outsides - Clothed in Ivy Obscured by Dust

33 - J.F.K - Feel It Again

40 - K7s - Go Away

41 - K7s - It's The CIA

42 - K7s - Listen to My Heart

50 - Michael Simmons - No More Girls

59 - Rabbit Holes - We've Got Drugs, We've Got the Power

61 - Sauropod - Ripping

73 - Swingin' Utters - Human Potential

87 - The Faux Derix - Little Annie Meggs

98 - The Orange Kyte - Anti-Establishment Haircut
122 - Van Go - Live Through This

For you of the Spotify persuasion, we're also posting a widget for that site. Not all of the songs available at Playmoss were also available at Spotify, but most were. Spotify put the songs in a slightly different alphabetical arrangement, but this shouldn't cause many problems.

It's been a fun year musically, and we hope you find lots of songs you already like and some that might be new to you. As happened last year, we'll probably find some goodies we overlooked once some of our favorite music experts post their fave lists, so we'll be updating accordingly. (Truth to tell, we've already been doing that, so shhhhhh.) Please feel free to give feedback and make further suggestions of your own faves in Comments.

Happy New Year and here's to continued musical discovery.

End-of-Year Free-Download Extravagonzo: Ballard, Glenn Robinson, Green Buzzard, Prince Rupert's Drops, Jetstream Pony, The Dandelion Seeds, Sir Robin & The Longbowmen, Burning House, Ben Woods, Vista Blue, Sloucher, The Faux Derix, The Love-Birds, Sauna Youth, Tiger Waves, Fritz, Super Paradise, Ex Norwegian, Thee MVPs, The Brother Kite, Bubble Boys, Charlie Foxtrot, Matt Shane, Murray Darling, Go Violets, Ruby, The Unswept, SCK CHX, Slime

Smile, bae. Your ship's about to come in.

In the spirit of what's generally going on this time of year, we bestow below a bounty of free and legally downloadable songs we've found and liked or loved but just haven't gotten around to posting yet. To download, click the light blue link (bandname or songtitle) or the additional download information we've provided. Of course, it's really the artists themselves (or their labels) who have so beneficently bestowed, so multiple thanks, hugs, etc., to THEM! Hope you have a very merry!

Free download here. Actually, this is by Green Buzzard, one of our very favorite Ozbands discovered in the last couple of years. Cool video here.

Actually by the quite groovy Prince Rupert's Drops; free download here.

The songtitle is "Crazy Sun."

Free download here.

Fun-ish video here.

Pause to take a breath. Okay, back to it.

Free download here. Song's by The Love-Birds.

Free download here.

Another breath. OK, GO!

Thanks to Bill Curran, aka Racer-X, for the headsup.

Thanks to Thibault at Still in Rock for the headsup.

Free download here. Thanks to Wub-Fur for the headsup.

Free download here.

Free download here.

Song's not as oookie as the bandname suggests. Rather Tom Yummy, in fact. Click the down arrow to, like, download.

Are you okay? Have we posted enough this time? We know we've been a bit remiss at posting this year, so we're trying to atone. Did we? (Rhetorical questions, these.)

Faves of the Faves - September/October 2018: The Rallies, Car City, The Chills, The Persian Leaps, Ben Woods, Lisa Mychols, Greg Pope, White Fence, Mike Krol, Ty Segall, Lions Of Dissent, Eyelids, More Kicks, Broncho, Timothy Eerie

Ms. Mychols

Here's a little playlist we put together of our very favorite powerpop, indiepop, janglepop, psychpop, and woteverpop songfinds during the ninth and tenth months of the current calendar year. We sincerely hope you find some tuneage that meets your impeccable standards of taste. If you'd like to see the full playlists for September and October, click here or here. The November playlist's a-building here.

Bob of the Pops Pops Back In and, Like, WOW!

Yes, they've done it again! Messrs. Boryng Bison (aka Gyro Bobins, aka Robyn Gibson of Leicester band The Junipers) and Keith Klingensmith (of Futureman Records) have ginned up a third superb album of covers, all available for free download at Bandcamp. All thirteen songs on Free! Bob of the Pops Vol. 3 are simply terrific, but posted below are our very favorites. Our previous post on Free! Bob of the Pops Vols. 1 & 2 can be found here. Many thanks to Messrs. Gibson & Klingensmith for their abundant talents and for sparing us our precious few.

The Hollies cover


Marmalade cover


The First Class cover


Kaleidoscope cover


The Rutles cover


XTC cover


Elliott Smith cover

Faves of the Faves - July/August 2018: Dot Dash, The Speedways, Tired All The Time, Last Great Dreamers, Lisa Mychols, Summer Magic, The Chills, The Laissez Fairs, Ty Segall & White Fence, Sauropod, JEPH, Tony Molina, Straight Arrows, Shy Boys, Bad Moves, Baits, The Wit, Sonic Blume, Waves of Dread, The Feens, Ghosts/Signals

Below are our very favorite songfinds of powerpop, indiepop, janglepop, psychpop, and otherpop during the months of July and August. Playmoss continues to have "issues" with songs from Bandcamp, so we've put all of those at the bottom of the widget. Da 'Moss won't take SoundCloud at all, so we've put several of those in widgets at bottom of the post. The entire July 2018 and August 2018 playlists are on other pages at Playmoss. (Clicky clicky.)

We do hope you find some songs to like or love. As of post-time, the very first song in the Playmoss widget, Dot Dash's "Unfair Weather," is available for free download at Bandcamp. That Ghosts/Signals song is available for free download at SoundCloud. (Click the down arrow in the widget.)

As sometimes happens, Playmoss didn't provide all the info for a couple of songs, so here it is.

#2 - Dot Dash - TV - Radio

#11 - Sauropod - Ripping