Pop Geek Heaven

JANGLE ON! APRIL by Eric Sorensen Spring in the mid-Atlantic has taken on the characteristics of Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde; temperature swings of thirty degrees in less than 24 hours have occurred several times in the past week.  As was the case during the winter months, my time-tested pop music sources (the Powerpopaholic website; Kool Kat […]

MOVIE REVIEW FIFTY SHADES OF GRAY & KINGSMAN Contractual Voyeur Killers by Doug Young [linebreak style=”simple”] Fifty Shades of Grey Starring Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Jennifer Ehle, Eloise Mumford; directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson Kingsman: The Secret Service Starring Colin Firth, Taron Egerton, Samuel L. Jackson, Mark Strong, Michael Caine Sofia Boutella; directed by Matthew Vaughn [linebreak […]

AMERICAN SNIPER Taking Critical Aim by Doug Young [linebreak style=”simple”] CLICK ON EACH IMAGE TO READ…. [linebreak style=”simple”] Unfortunately we can’t describe Doug Young adequately in strictly iambic pentameter, so we’ll just tell you that he is an award-winning (and poetic) film critic and that he is “Filmoholic” Critic Man, aka Doug Young, who is […]

  A “NOT POP” ALERT!!! I am so very excited and honored to be able share with you a whole bevy(six total!) of songs from one of my favorite songwriters – PERIOD.  His name? JEFF FINLIN During the Not Lame years, I touted every new release he put out on the site and many music […]

An excerpt from the forthcoming BRIEF HISTORY OF JAZZ/ROCK by Mike Baron.  It may not be power pop, but it’s good music and it will be good!  ENJOY! ======================================================================== CHAPTER 18   “The Hook”   Music writers are always referring to a song’s hook, that sweet release that comes after the tension of the bridge.  Tension […]

Okay, quick post and video. I have been waiting for a week to open these boxes – just did not have the time and I wanted to shoot this video for you when I opened the boxes and went through it all because, well, I thought it might be fun! I had a few surprises […]

Sorry, this one has been long overdue with this show.  I’ll keep up this one more often, shoot for two times a month, okay?  It’s always fun for me to randomly grab something from my shelves and see what I come up with. Often, since I’m a hard rock geek, I pull some of what […]

Here’s the critical info on the artists talked about in this show.   MINK DEVILLE: Soundbites: [download id=”47″]   [download id=”48″]   [download id=”49″]   [download id=”52″] (Personal Note: this song is like a classic Graham Parker & The Rumour treasure)   AMG – Review Of Cabretta/Return To Magenta – HERE and HERE AMG – […]

    Talked about on this show above, the new album FOO FIGHTERS and RORY GALLAGHER. As mentioned in the show, the box set I mention on the show is not necessarily the best introduction to Rory and the albums that appear on the box are not even in order of release. Nonetheless, for $20, […]

The NOT POP area will cover many different areas of music styles and genres because, of course, it’s not all about power pop.  Most of us are what I call ‘music pantheists’ – we worship at the altar of many different kinds of music. We’re music geeks first before applying the classification of ‘power pop […]