Just in Time for Day 3: Very Most, Dollyrots, P. Reynolds, Reporters, Harmony Dischord, Postcode, Watoo Watoo, Brainpool

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Is it too late for a few more Xmas songs? Hopefully not, since only today our true love gave us the trio of Gallic chicks, and we avariciously anticipate with pleasure what the next nine days will bring.

If you like this one by The Very Most, click here for a free download courtesy of Indiecater Records.




Perennial pp faves The Dollyrots have rounded up five of their holy hymns and widgeted them thusly: (We particularly like #'s 1, 2, & 3.) Thanks, 'rots!




We especially like #'s 1, 2 (Reporters), 6 (Harmony Dischord), 11 (Postcode), and 12 (Watoo Watoo) from the 16-song Small Bear Records compilation, Never Mind the Baubles . . .. Many thanks to The Devil (irony . . . or not?) for the alert.




This powerpop carol is quite cool but also big in bytes (43.9 MB), so you decide.

Music of the Sphere: Tony Molina, The Young Evils, Comet Gain, Yoofs, Littler, American Wrestlers, The Letters, Strangeways, Wire, Buzzcocks, Ramones

Many thanks to the dedicated bloggers who posted the following for our listening, downloading, and general intellectual pleasure. Click, gogetters.

Tony Molina - Nowhere To Go - Side One Track One

The Young Evils - Renegades - The KEXP Blog

Comet Gain - "Sad Love" And Other Stories - Polaroid

Yoofs - Something - Newtown Radio Blog
Littler - Didn't Ask - Newtown Radio Blog
American Wrestlers - I Can Do No Wrong - Newtown Radio Blog

The Letters - Don't Want You Back - Killed By Death Records
Strangeways - Show Her You Care - Killed By Death Records
Wire - Outdoor Miner - Killed By Death Records
Buzzcocks - Love You More - Killed By Death Records
Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop & Havana Affair - Killed By Death Records

Schweet Xmas Cheer from The JAC

If you are remembering with pleasure Aussie Joe Algeri's previous Xmas treat we posted, you're already panting in anticipation of what's widgeted below. This one by The JAC is not as ribald but is certainly every bit as sweet. Many thanks to the most excellent blog/online radio show Pop That Goes Crunch for the headsup.

Bloom/Decay - A Dot Dash Freebie

Many thanks to Washington, D. C. powerpoppers Dot Dash for alerting us to the free download of the following tune from their 2013 LP, Half-Remembered Dream. You can catch them live tonight at The Black Cat in D. C. and in Rockville, MD on January 29, along with the B-52's. Their fourth, Mitch Easter-produced (!) LP is due out in January 2015.

Click here for the free download.

From PressWolfPR with (we hope) Love: Pink Frost, Hollows, Shrouded Strangers, White Mystery, Blank Tapes

We were looking for something else at PWPR's Soundcloud page and howled with glee to find the following available for free and legal download. (They've got quite a few others there as well.)

"B-b-but, pp, these are like two years old! We already have them. We don't need them. You are wasting our time." If that's you, we thank you for speaking out, as we like to imagine how it might be to get, like, comments from our visitors. So again, thank you, thank you, thank you.

More to Love from The Candy Strypers

We blushed to hear The Candy Strypers' Paul Hughes noticed we'd posted him before and went all ebullient-like to hear he's just put out a new LP. You can sample Happy Birthday Koala here and check out a couple of personal faves available for free download below. A total of 33 free and legals await you at The Candy Strypers' Soundcloud page. Many thanks to Paul for the thoughtful headsup and tasty pop.

Touched by Strange Hands

We had bought a bunch of songs off Strange Hands' excellent 2012 LP Dead Flowers and didn't even kneaux they were from Bordeaux. Here's a freebie from that LP, followed by another from a psych compilation courtesy of Exploring Spastic Inevitable.

Click here for the free download.

If you're "getting into" this, check out their "Golden Arrows" in our Songdrop Currents mix (upper right of this page) or click here.

Tweest & Shout with Cozy Catastrophes!

Is it possible to be tooo twee? About such things reasonable people will stab and maim and mutilate and get in pillow fights with one another, but we prefer to hear what this Bloomington one-man bander has to say/sing. The following is perhaps the heaviest number on 2013's An Instructive Amusement.



We also enjoyed songs from Way Last June, released this past July on February Records.

Trick Mammoth: Delphine (With A Purpose)

It's almost axiomatic, isn't it, that if a band's from Dunedin, they're going to please? (Yes, pp, quite whatev.) We're not sure how we found these particular Kiwis, but we're awfully glad we did. Check out more at the Fishrider Records site.



You might also enjoy their "Doll," which we dropped at . . . Songdrop. See our Currents mix to the right or click here.

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Infinite thanks to The Abyss Also Gazes for the headsup on this terrific South Bend twosome.

Perfect for Monday: Dead Albatross, Skategang, CATNAPS, hot shorts, Fat Children, Super Medusa

These recent finds are perfect for kicking your Monday aspirations into gear. So what if it's actually Sunday.




We also like #'s 6, 4, 2, 1, 3, & 5 by these Paris poppunks. - from our buddy Alex Twist's excellent Requiem Pour Un Twister label; thanks to Faster and Louder for the headsup and the kind of in-depth analysis you would never hope to find at our sleazy little pseudoblog.


Go here for more 'nip o' the 'NAPS. Ja, sure, we should've waited till vals (sic) day, but, hey, it's yuletide! Speaking of which:






#1's the 1 we like. Your parsecage might vary (but probably won't).

Music of the Sphere: Cancers, Community Radio, Thee Oh Sees, New Pornographers, Other Lovers, Joanna Gruesome, The Tins, Centimeter, Hang David, Annie and the Aeroplanes

Tenderly tender we thanks to the gracious bloggers who've made the following dlable. Click each line to travel.

Cancers - Moral Net - 3hive

Community Radio - Sick In The Car - Rollo & Grady

Thee Oh Sees - Savage Victory - Fluxblog
The New Pornographers - You Tell Me Where - Fluxblog

Other Lovers - Let Me Go - Side One Track One
Joanna Gruesome - Psykick Espionage - Side One Track One

The Tins - Let It Go - Fingertips
Centimeter - Push Me Over - Fingertips

Hang David - Another Day - Cloudberry Cake Proselytism V. 3
Annie and the Aeroplanes - A Million Zillion Miles - Cloudberry Cake Proselytism V. 3

The Sunchymes Say Thanks (And So Do We)

Near the end of the Summer/Winter we posted a nice new mix by Northampton's The Sunchymes. Now as we near the end of Fall/Spring, we're happy to receive a gift from the one-manner thanking us for our support. So of course we want to share it with you, with thanks for yours and thanks to the band for many sunny tymes. We're excited to hear they're hoping to release their third LP sometime next year. You can still buy a copy of the excellent LP Let Your Free Flag Fly at CD Baby.

Update: Original freebie is now low-priced.

Soothing Sounds of PseudoSurfers

How would some shoething soogaze sound right about now? To find out, wick the clidget below. We thank the excellent PSYCHGAZER for the headsup on this Roman band. We particularly like #'s 1 & 2.

Popscotch: Sugar Stems, Legendary Wings, Rotten Mangos, Marvelous Beauhunks, Stellarscope, Everywheres, Walking Who, Dutch Barn

We enjoyed that last hopscotch episode so much we're going to try it again. The setup is simple: we start with recent tunes we've found (and loved) and work our way backwards for x number of months or years. We do not adhere to strict chronological order. Is that all right? Hope you find something you like.


You'll find a number of fine tunes on that Dirtnap Records 2014 Sampler. In fact, here's another one that plunked our twanger:




We're very much liking several numbers on this Austin's band's EP. Thanks to The Proper Yarn for the headsup.

The Well Wishers Tweak "Father Nature"

Tweakin's tiring.

The Well Wishers' chief Wisher, Jeff Shelton, has been tweaking the final song on this year's superb LP A Shattering Sky and is making it possible for all of "us" to profit thereby. We pp's don't usually make "Best Of" lists, but if we did, A Shattering Sky would most definitely be on ours for 2014. Does that mean we're on the verge of shattering tradition, that for the first time in our blog's eight-year history we're gonna succumb to year-end listomania? Nnnnnnnnnnmaybe, but don't hold your breath.

We do, however, want to expend both breath and cyber in thanks to Jeff for making this free download available. The entire LP is available for purchase here, here, and here. Faceoff friendlily here. Some of our previous Jeff-sanctioned posted freebies can be found here.


Click here to get the name-your-price download.

Flowers, Wires, Soda, Matthew Melton, Pleasers: Some Past, Present, and Future Incarnations of . . . Matthew Melton

Not sure if you noticed Matthew Melton's excellent new solosong, "Painted Sign," over there in our Songdrop Currents mix, but if you're into any of the Tennessee-to San Fran-to Austin pleaser's other bands - Snake Flower 2, Bare Wires, Warm Soda, or the forthcoming Pleasers - you might wanta check it out. (Click on all those green artist names for further exploration.) A little research at the Southpaw Records SoundCloud page turned up a handful of freebies we're posting below. We might not be evincing sufficient emotion here, but we've been absolutely loving this guy's music for several years now. Oh, one other thing: we put another Snake Flower 2 song in our Currents mix even though it came out around five years ago. If offended, please shoot us (email, comment, finger, whatever).








Free download at Southpaw Soundcloud page (Scroll down.)


Free download here.

Music of the Sphere: Cousin Dud, Colleen Green, Flesh Lights, Big Cosmos, Teenage Fanclub, Rat Columns, NO/NO, Son of Rams, Lace Curtains, King Tuff

Big neck, too.

We thank the bodacious bloggertypes for making these fab tunes available to us lucky listenertypes. We'd say more, but is it really necessary?

Cousin Dud - Illinois - Indie Rock Cafe

Colleen Green - Pay Attention - Austin Town Hall

Flesh Lights - Middle Age & Just About Due - Side One Track One

Big Cosmos - Fade Into You - Newtown Radio

Teenage Fanclub - Radio - Polaroid
Rat Columns - Walking Back - Polaroid

NO/NO - Crooked Faith - Rollo & Grady
Son of Rams - One Psycho Seven Slider - Rollo & Grady
Lace Curtains - Pink And Gold & Saint Vitus - Rollo & Grady
King Tuff - Demon From Hell - Rollo & Grady

From The Active Listener's Tribute to Love's Forever Changes: Red Plastic Buddha, Smoking Trees, Doug Tuttle, Flower Drums, Chemistry Set, 39th & The Nortons

The Active Listener has just posted an excellent 17-number compilation tribute to Forever Changes, the heralded album by Sixties flower power heroes Love. Below are our favorites from a most redolent bouquet. Forever Changing is available as a free download for a limited time, so take a whiff and act accordingly.







Traditional eyerester (wink)

Ghost Wave Revisited

Tip o' the headgear to Rollo & Grady for the nogginlifting on this one. We've enjoyed this Auckland band for quite awhile now, not least due to previous alertings by the aforementioned R&G. So thanks, R. You, too, G. BTW, most of those previous R&G alertings are still downloadable. Check out more by and about Ghost Wave here, here, here, and here.

From New Planting Seeds Comp: Mark Crozer, Static Daydream, Lovetones, Young Sinclairs, Seeers, Super Vacations

We would have told you about this sooner but only just now got word of it ourownself. The most excellent Planting Seeds Records have released a 14-song compilation  of freebies by a number of our favebands or members thereof. (The postitle enumerates the names of our very favorites, with songs posted below.) Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, & Infinitely Vol 2 will be available for free download until November 17 (of this year), so you have a pleasant cushion of time available for checking them out and deciding what, if anything, to do next. Many thanks to PSR for the, you know, implant.
Update: PSR removed the widgets, as promised/threatened. We still say, though, "Many thanks." Time to go buy-buy.

From The Active Listener Sampler 25: Prince Ruperts Drops, Chemistry Set, Dowling Poole, Delia Haunt, Halasan Bazar, Greek Theatre

Nathan Ford's done it again, and in more ways than 13. This month's TAL Sampler is pretty darned fab, and we've had to exercise an iron grip to keep our fidgety widgeting tendencies in check. (Kind of painful is that iron grip, but at least it's our own.)

Of course you've probably already discovered that for some time now, Bandcamp's been putting all of an EP/LP's playable songs in the same widget, but we like to post the songs individually so you can get right to them. Quirky? Not really and not really important.

But enough of this, let's get to it. We like all the songs, love ten, and are posting our six most favorite. And of course we most humbly and heartily thank Mr. Nathan Ford for his stellar work, no matter how doofusish it makes us look by comparison.

Music of the Sphere: Gulp, Literature, Mentalease, Purling Hiss, Diarrhea Planet, Viet Cong, Nothing, Francisco The Man, Mogwai, And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead

Many thanks to the excellent bloggerers for making the following 'earable and 'loadable. And, of course, multiple ta's to the bands.

Gulp - Vast Space - Rollo & Grady

Literature - The Girl, The Gold Watch, and Everything - Polaroid

Mentalease - 4 Heavy Eyes - Austin Town Hall

Purling Hiss - Learning Slowly - 3hive  - Spiva voonerisms!

The first four of these are in the same post at SOTO. Likewise the last two.
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - A Million Random Digits - Side One Track One
Diarrhea Planet - Bamboo Curtain - Side One Track One
Viet Cong - Continental Shelf - Side One Track One
Nothing - July The Fourth - Side One Track One
Francisco The Man - It's Not Your Fault - Side One Track One
Mogwai - Teenage Exorcists - Side One track One

Friday Freebs: Daddy Issues, Dollyrots, Marvelous Beauhunks, alicetales, Radiator Hospital, Freeks

What we're gonna do here is kind of hopscotch our way back and forth through several months of our "mp3 possibles" list. By the time you get to the bottom, you might be thinking, "This is oldstuff, pp." But then again, you might not.






We especially like #4 as well. (See pic, duh.)

Not sure what they're saying but sure love the way they say it.




Well, we just discovered this last one's no longer a freeb. Please shoot us. (Thanks in advance.)

Eyelids' Open and Shut Case

Those widgeted ditties from this Portland band's just-released 854 LP have got our 'lids simultaneously shut in groovy bliss and open in wide-eyed wonder. (This can be tried at home, but out on the road? Caution, please.) Explore further here, here, here, and here.

Free download here.

Free download here (right-click to download). (Note: download is 20.1 MB, if that matters to ya.)

Compilation of Compilations by The Active Listener, Popboomerang, & Ice Cream Man Power Pop and More

In the mood to sample and freely download 95 powerpop and psychpop tunes? Yeh, thought so. Well, we've had the good fortune to learn of and freely take from several excellent compilations of late, widgeted cornucopias of which are posted below.

From the ever-faithful, ever-active Nathan Ford comes The Active Listener Sampler 24. Our favorites are Nos. 5, 11, & 15, but that one widget below contains all fifteen free and legals.



From fabpop Australian label Popboomerang comes the sixteen-song comp, Up To Our Eyeball In it: A Popboomerang sampler. Our favorites are #2, 6, 7, 10, 12, and 13, but for some reason, Bandcamp has decided you WILL kick it off with #8. But, hey, it's free, they're all in the widget, so who's complainin'?



And last but way the opposite of least comes the extremely tasty supercomp from Mr. Wayne Lundquist Ford, of powerpop blog/Podomatic radio show Ice Cream Man Power Pop and More!. Wayne got permission from 63 artists to post 64 free and legals, so we're pretty sure you're going to find quite a few handsandfeetful of great stuff. We downloaded and sampled all 64, OF COURSE, but our favorites are (deep intake of breath) 2, 3, 6, 8, 11, 12, 14, 21, 26, 28, 29, 35, 36, 39, 40, 45, 48, 51, 53, 55, 57, 59, 60, and 64. We thought about posting a separate widget for each of our faves, but then thought, wellllllll, perhaps not.



Needless to say, but we will anyway, unspeakable but typeable thanks to these generous souls for so bounteously passing out the pop!

pppurcha$e$ at eMusic, Bandcamp, & Amazon - Third Quarter 2014 & Earlier

Let the tri-monthly excitement begin. If you find yourself liking some of the same music as we numbskulls, - yeah, that Wesley Wolfe LP's thrice plunked our twanger - you might want to check out our buydown$ of powerpop, indiepop, shoegazepop, psychpop, garagepop, and whateverpop at eMusic during July, August, and September of 2014. Many's the grin induced thereby, and we hope they're infectious. And for even more gins - and possibly a few griggles - we added some recent and not-so-recent purcha$e$ at Bandcamp and Amazon. Lots of primo tuneage in those stashes as well.

Click here 

to be whisked.

Music of the Sphere: The New P's, Flesh Lights, B. Mould, W. Blair, B. Francis, Wand, Western Medication, I. Dhaaf, Twerps

Pure pop pic.

R&G have been quite on a tear lately, not to slight the other fabbloggers, of course, oh, no no no no no. We thank them all.

The New Pornographers - Dancehall Domine - Fluxblog - our favorite from their new Brill Bruisers

Flesh Lights - Just About Due - Side One Track One

Bob Mould - Hey Mr. Grey - Indie Rock Cafe

Wyatt Blair - Ba Ba Ba (Life's a Bitch) - Rollo & Grady
Black Francis - When They Come to Murder Me - Rollo & Grady
Wand - Generator Larping - Rollo & Grady (pic)
Western Medication - Reflections (Demo) - Rollo & Grady
Iska Dhaaf - Everybody Knows - Rollo & Grady
Twerps - Raft - Rollo & Grady

Vegas With Randolph's Fabulous Freebie

Please please yourself and freely scarper off with this top-notch number from D.C.-area favepoppers, Vegas With Randolph. Three more singles are due out soon, all aiming to whet the appetite for their forthcoming LP, A+1, due out in 2015. (Personally, ours is, like, totally whetted.) Read and hear more here, here, here, here, and here.

Jonny Polonsky's Vision

We've been buying this LA popper for quite a few years now and are very much enjoying his just-released EP of mid-paced rockers, Vision. Pick it up for name-your-price download at Bandcamp and check out the other JP product available there as well. Gather more sights and sounds here, here, here, and here. We begin with our favorite from Vision, but the other three are in the widget as well.



And here's one we bought that always gets us going going . . .

At Second Blush Response

Pawgazer.

We didn't say much about these excellent Adelaide gazers back in July but that doesn't mean we didn't love the music. Oh, no, quite the reverse. Well, Blush Response is back with more, and even though the EP's got "Dead Air," there's definitely no dead air. Oh, no, quite the reverse. Nos. 2 & 4 are our favorites. Read an excellent interview at Sounds Better With Reverb and keep learning more at Facebook.

Jim Noir - The Broadway Jets

That's 11/03, Yanks.

The pride of Davyhulme, Jim Noir, aka "Alan Roberts," returns with his fifth LP, Finnish Line, come November 3. We were happy to receive his email announcing such and to be given access to the free and legal download of "The Broadway Jets." Check out the widget and if you like what you're hearing, click the link below it to initiate downloading activity. We did and did and are glad we did. BTW, Jim, we tried to embed the widget you provided but kept getting an error message. Forgive?

Click here for free download.

Hail, White Fence, & All Thy Works!

Tim 'n' Ty

We try not to play favorites here at Powerpopulist, but . . . wait, what a crock, as that's all we do play here at Powerpopulist. Let us begin anew.

In case we haven't made it fairly clear, White Fence are one of our very favorite bands and have been for some time now. And of course before Fencemeister Tim Presley got out the whitewash, we were loving what he was doing in the more somber but highly uplifting settings of Darker My Love.

Darker My Love - Talking Words mp3

So it's a no-brainer (convenient for us) that when we just now came across Famous Class's Less Artists More Condos (LAMC) issue #12, we would drop all we were doing (sorry 'bout the dishes, Darling) and post it prontito. If you haven't yet picked up the most recent WF triumph, the Ty Segall-produced For The Recently Found Innocent, you should start to click most ricky tick. (And of course, check out LAMC #11, with Segal bandmate Mikal Cronin here.)

Perhaps we're not yet enamored of the work of White Fence touring guitarist Jack Name (aka John Webster Johns) quite as much, but that doesn't mean we won't be or you shouldn't be. So check out the second widgeted tune below if you're so inclined.

Enough jabber. Cue the ears.

Music of the Sphere: Resonars, Conspiracy of Owls, Frowning Clouds, Part Time, Sister Flo, Comet Gain, Alvvays

Wish we looked this good. Sigh.

We're doing this one quick and dirty, whatever that means. Many thanks to the fabulous bloggenhostenheimers.

The Resonars - If He's So Great - Rollo & Grady
Conspiracy of Owls - Three - Rollo & Grady

The Frowning Clouds - Move It - Austin Town Hall (pic)
Part Time - I Want to Go - Austin Town Hall
Sister Flo - White Noise - Austin Town Hall

Comet Gain - "Sad Love" And Other Stories - Polaroid
Alvvays - Atop A Cake - Polaroid

The Sunchymes' Summer Mix of "Through my eyes"+

Less than a month of Summer/Winter left but no worries, Northampton one-man chymer Aaron Hemington sounds great year-round. Listen below, read a spate of bloggerly encomium here and here (click "See More"), get another freesong here, and buy some here. If you overlook the G. Harrison cover widgeted second below, you might well . . . tear up.