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Magic Spells Abound
 
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Price: $15.00
Artist: Kevin Robertson
 
 
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“Magic Spells Abound” is Kevin Robertson’s (Vapour Trails) third solo outing.  The singer-songwriter and guitarist from Aberdeen, Scotland specializes in a very agreeable style of jangle pop. His music is strongly influenced by a range of influences, including 60’s pop, classic and psychedelic rock, 80’s jangle music and 90’s Brit pop.  ”There is a definitive sense of deliberation, consideration, and clarity in comparison to what has gone before from a production perspective. Gone is the perfectly imperfect 60’s underproduction of his previous releases, to be replaced by a sense of confident crystalline. This increased lucidity of production enables the immediate identification of distinct nuances of beauty as each note finds its place in the overall musical construct courtesy of its increased and exact emphasis. At his most traditionally jangly, psyche-laden tracks such as ‘As The Crow Flies’, ‘Wander On’, and ‘Sunset’, revel in the musicianship and ideas of tracks that juxtapose jangle-pop, folk-pop, psych, and the most brilliantly subtle twanging riffs to take his music in the cleanest direction ever. When other acts have tried to combine such sounds and merely achieve something akin to bizarre guitar led freeform jazz, however Kevin makes an art form out of seamless.  However, the best of this album is devoted to a resplendent chime emphasis that is offered with an absolute gusto in the brilliance of ‘Make Believe’, ‘Cloak And Dagger’, and the superlative standout of the stunning ‘Autumn Brings’.  Kevin has always excelled in the art of chime, but these tracks resonate like never before.” – JanglePophub.com  “I like everything about this album – the masterful arrangements, gorgeous guitar work and myriad instrumental touches – but it’s the marvelous harmonies throughout that really make Magic Spells Abound’ such a great record for me.” – EclecticMusicLover.com  GREAT!!


 
Only Ghosts Remain Plus
Price: $16.00
Artist: Bobby Sutliff
Description:

Ex-Windbreaker Bobby Sutliff was one of Power Pop's treasures.  Produced by Mitch Easter, “Only Ghosts Remain” was one of the most highly praised alb ... read more »

Bob Sings and Plays
Price: $13.00
Artist: Bobby Sutliff
Description: Bobby Sutliff leaves us with one last solo album sixteen years after “On A La ... read more »

We Are Bur
Price: $14.00
Artist: Bur
Description:

RELEASE ON THE KOOL KAT LABEL!  read more »

World Of The Wars
Price: $15.00
Artist: Burning Ferns
Description:

Five years on from their acclaimed second album “Public Mono”, Burning Ferns return with “World Of The Wars”. “World Of The Wars” is the sound of a band grappling w ... read more »

Land Of The Endless Sun (Deluxe Edition)
Price: $14.00
Artist: Cruzados
Description:

The unmistakable sound of southern California rock and roll is alive and blazing bright with the Cruzados’ “Land Of The Rising Sun”.  Scorching hot electric slide guitars scream down the tracks as the rhyth ... read more »

Creaturefeature
Price: $6.00
Artist: Dennis Davison
Description:

A brand new EP from the former Jigsaw Seen frontman!  “I wasn't always about the new and there are bands who have stuck with from their inception. The Jigsaw Seen were certainly one and they are sadly missed, so you know that anything released by Dennis is going to be quality and this EP certa ... read more »

Weathervane
Price: $12.00
Artist: Dennis Schocket
Description:

A founding member of the Baltimore seminal power pop band Starbelly, "Weathervane" is Dennis Schocket’s latest solo outing.  The album sees Dennis in fine, mostly mellow, pop form with the addition of l ... read more »

Mug
Price: $14.00
Artist: Dolph Chaney
Description:

“Mug” is the thirteen-song collection followup to the 2021’s “This Is Dolph Chaney”, and continues Chaney's rewarding collaboration with ace producer Nick Bertling.  What radiates off of “Mug” from its opening ... read more »

Elephonic
Price: $15.00
Artist: Elephonic
Description:

Elephonic is a new project featuring former Lackloves/Blow Pops singer and composer Mike Jarvis.  They are the fully realized, symphonic pop, day-glo dream machine.  read more »

Pop Masters
Price: $13.00
Artist: Flashcubes
Description:

Bursting out of Syracuse, NY in 1977, Flashcubes are still in business with the lineup they ha ... read more »

Rediscovery
Price: $12.00
Artist: Frisbee
Description:

Not to be confused with Frisbie, the very fine power poppers outta Chicago, this is a 2008 recording by Aaron Frisbee.  The record was written and produced as an attempt to deliver a classic 70's so ... read more »

Last Chance To Learn The Twist
Price: $14.00
Artist: Graham Parker & The Goldtops
Description:

“Last Chance To Learn The Twist” is as warm and inviting a record as Graham Parker has ever issued, but it also delivers all the unflinching honesty, literate nuance and passion his admirers have come to expect from him.  “I’ve always appreciated Parker for ... read more »

Make It Sound Like An Accident
Price: $17.00
Artist: Groovy Uncle (featuring Jane Wrangham)
Description:

“Make It Sound Like An Accident”, the 1th album from Groovy Uncle includes contributions from read more »

Art In Heaven
Price: $7.00
Artist: Half Catholic
Description:

Emerging from Rockford, IL, Half Catholic stands as a captivating guitar pop ensemble.  “There’s a lot of time and detail in the arrangements and p ... read more »

Under The Silent Tree: Gentle Sounds With Strings
Price: $23.00
Artist: Honeybus
Description:

10/13 RELEASE!  Over the course of their stop-start five years together, Honeybus ventured into the BBC studios on a dozen occasions, leaving a catalog of recordings that mirrored their latest releases as well as offering up a fascinating alternate history. The songs that make up 1970's ... read more »

Heart Of The Valley
Price: $11.00
Artist: Jeff Larson
Description:

Whenever Jeff Larson releases a new record, we always find ourselves asking the question "Why isn't this guy more well-known and on the radio?. Well, it's true again, as he's released another brilliant g ... read more »

Sunrise Sunset + bonus disc
Price: $12.00
Artist: Johnny Stanec
Description:

Musically somewhere between hooky rock’n’roll and stripped-down acoustic songs, Johnny Stanec has been releasing music under his own name for much of th ... read more »

Love Songs and Murder Ballads
Price: $10.00
Artist: Kevin Bowe and the Okemah Prophets
Description:

After the late 1999 release of "Restoration", Kevin Bowe and the Okemah Prophets kept busy writing material to be recorded by other artists, placing "Testify" on a release by English blues pioneer John Ma ... read more »

Half Past Never
Price: $14.00
Artist: Kevin Bowe & The Okemah Prophets
Description:

Kevin Bowe was NEVER going to make another record of his own songs…. NEVER.  But then Covid happened.  After many years of writing, playing and producing music with people like Jonny Lang, Kenny Wayne She ... read more »

Kid Chameleon
Price: $16.00
Artist: Kid Chameleon
Description: The Kid Chameleon solo project of Liam James Marsh (also critically acclaimed as being one half of the indie-pop duo Fine with Alice Kat) has always had that something so very vital and vibrant about it, although i ... read more »

Rock 'N' Roll Club
Price: $14.00
Artist: Kurt Baker
Description:

New England's Kurt Baker makes some of the finest vintage sounding power pop out there. read more »

Atoms Collide Forever + bonus disc
Price: $23.00
Artist: Lost Ships
Description:

Lost Ships' "Atoms Collide Forever is full of wonderfully jangly guitar pop with catchy melodies and quirky lyrics.  read more »

Swinging Stars
Price: $15.00
Artist: Mapache
Description:

In the past, Mapache recording sessions have been pretty laid-back affairs, with friends coming and going, the sessions starting and stopping at the band's discretion-as relaxed a process as the immaculately sunny vibes that their four albums would suggest. But on their ... read more »

Field Day (40th Anniversary Expanded Edition)
Price: $19.00
Artist: Marshall Crenshaw
Description:

“After the delirious magic of his self-titled debut that included the Top 40 hit ‘Someday, Someway’ and a host of other great tunes - even the best of predictions wouldn't have had a follow-up hitting qu ... read more »

Is That All?
Price: $12.00
Artist: Matt Backer
Description: LIMITED STOCK!!  Guitar-for-hire's 2002 solo effort. Great guitar work (but you expected that) along with some catchy songs. More of a mainstream (think more AAA than pop) offering that still impresses nevertheless. "The first playing revealed it to be a well-crafted coll ... read more »

who do you think you are?
Price: $14.00
Artist: Meyerman
Description:

In 2011, New Jersey’s popper Theo Meyer (Meyerman) delivered a stone-cold, POWER POP gem!  "It's easy for me to become complacent about all the power pop I listen to, to the point where it can fade ... read more »

Storyboards
Price: $13.00
Artist: MOVIE MOVIE
Description:

On “Storyboards”,  MOVIE MOVIE “takes the listener on a cinematic journey, weaving tight narratives and filmic tales over its ten catchy songs. They cleanly combine elements of power pop (“Born to Win”), 70’s and 80’s classic and alterna ... read more »

Now Playing
Price: $9.00
Artist: MOVIE MOVIE
Description:

MOVIE MOVIE, featuring former members of Twin Guns, The Electric Mess, and The Above, takes the listener on a cinematic journey, in song. Their upbeat and catchy rock and roll tunes, combining elements of pow ... read more »

Process and Contact
Price: $14.00
Artist: Nick Bertling
Description:

Started in 2012, Nick Bertling’s Bertling Noise Laboratories was born out of the frustrated creative mind of sideman and session musician Nick Bertling.  After years of working as ... read more »

Orbis Max
Price: $12.00
Artist: Orbis Max
Description:

Orbis Max return and they're bringing fireworks.  Their new, self-titled album offers ten diverse tracks that explore rock, power pop, balladry, and even a to ... read more »

Not The Freeze
Price: $16.00
Artist: Penny Arkade
Description:

A sunshine pop delight with equal parts psych, folk-rock, and even a little garage!  The ... read more »

Last Rays Of A Dying Sun
Price: $15.00
Artist: Rain Parade
Description:

Rain Parade's "Last Rays of a Dying Sun" remains loyal to the hypnotic psychedelic stylings and hook-filled melodies for which the band is well known.  Featuring original founding members and songwriters Mat ... read more »

Full Bloom
Price: $14.00
Artist: Rinehearts
Description:

NEW RELEASE ON THE KOOL KAT LABEL – AVAILABLE OCTOBER 13 – ACCEPTING ORDERS NOW!  read more »

Radio Daze & Glamping
Price: $15.00
Artist: Roger Joseph Manning Jr.
Description:

“Radio Daze & Glamping” contains new music from the Jellyfish co-founder alongside tracks from 2018's “Glamping”. Roger Joseph Manning Jr burst onto the music world's radar as cofounder of Jellyfish in 1990. & ... read more »

Try For The Sun
Price: $16.00
Artist: Sandy Salisbury & Curt Boettcher
Description:

Pre through post-Millennium Curt and Sandy!  These newly discovered unheard compositions of solar euphony are highlighted by Boettcher’s angelic vocals and Salisb ... read more »

Reverse
Price: $13.00
Artist: Scott Gagner
Description:

Abbey Road, Studio 2.  Home of The Beatles, and for Scott Gagner, the realization of a lifelong dream. “I wanted to play the exact pianos that they played, and sing through the mic that John used on ‘A Day i ... read more »

Shindig! Magazine - Issue #144
Price: $0.00
Artist: Shindig! Magazine - Issue #144
Description:

The Move/ELO are featured on the cover: This band ain’t big enough for Jeff Lynne and Roy ... read more »

Like Sunshine
Price: $14.00
Artist: SLD
Description:

RELEASE ON THE KOOL KAT LABEL!  After three years, a pandemic, and the tragic loss of one of its members, SLD is back with its ... read more »

Heavy Rainbow
Price: $11.00
Artist: Soft Targets
Description:

Still sounding fresh today, “Heavy Rainbow”, Soft Targets' 2007 Brit-pop inspired sophomore effort, builds on the distinctive sound established on 2005’s “Frequent Flyer” - complex and sparkling clean ... read more »

Let's Get Started
Price: $14.00
Artist: Somerdale
Description:

RELEASE ON THE KOOL KAT LABEL!  read more »

Nothing Lasts Forever
Price: $15.00
Artist: Teenage Fanclub
Description:

"Foreign Land" is the opening track on “Nothing Lasts Forever”.  N ... read more »

Faking It
Price: $5.00
Artist: The American Professionals
Description:

LIMITED STOCK!  Tread more »

K7
Price: $17.00
Artist: The Cleaners From Venus
Description:

The Cleaners from Venus are these four 70 year-old guys in a band who dress the same and look a bit like each other. They have loads of tawdry adventures, usually with a group of over made-up women a few ... read more »

V
Price: $10.00
Artist: The Electric Mess
Description:

Hailing from New York City, the genre-defying garage- punk quintet ferociously returned in 2020 with their fifth full-length album.  Whether you are familiar with ... read more »

Flaunt It!
Price: $10.00
Artist: The Flaunt
Description: LIMITED STOCK!!  A LOST 80'S CLASSIC UNEARTHED? NAH, IT'S THE FLAUNT FROM 1997!  WOW!!!  The Flaunt were fronted by David Thomas Crow, later of equally awesome power poppers Cherry Blossom Clinic!  This is pure 60's meets 90's power pop. Great vocals, hooks ... read more »

English E.P.
Price: $8.00
Artist: The Jacks
Description:

The story of The Jacks begins in the Summer of 1971, although its creators, Walter K and Mitch G had no idea at the time.  They were 15, and what does a 15 year old ... read more »

The Long Haul
Price: $12.00
Artist: The Mike Jacoby Electric Trio
Description:

It was time to bring in the band.  In 2019, Mike Jacoby released “Long Beach Calling” – the third in a series of albums featuring him on nearly all of the instrume ... read more »

A Company Sleeve
Price: $15.00
Artist: The Pretty Flowers
Description:

Produced by the band’s own Jake Gideon, “A Company Sleeve” calls upon ‘90s and early ‘00s pop-punk and indie-rock and captures a bit of youthful carefree nostalgia.  The somewhat unusual inspiration behind t ... read more »

Golden Beat Sessions
Price: $10.00
Artist: The Pretty Flowers
Description:

Very cool CD of covers done “Pretty Flowers style”!  On “Golden Beat Sessions” the band tackles Teenage Fanclub’s “Radio”, Neil Young’s “Don’t C ... read more »

Dont's and Dos
Price: $16.00
Artist: The Radio Field
Description:

Lars Schmidt (of Subterfuge, a German indie-pop band of the 1990s and early 2000's) had something of a musical resurrection in the pandemic and post pandemic era, as he re-emerged to release music with Veit Konig ... read more »

It Must Be Love
Price: $12.00
Artist: The Rallies
Description:

“It Must Be Love” is album number three for the Tacoma, WA poppers who burst on the indie music scene with their strong debut album Serve in 2017 and followed that up with the terrific Upside Down two years later. Their main strength was in combining memorable tunes with some str ... read more »

Shapes & Shadows
Price: $16.00
Artist: The Sound Of Pop Art/Chris Free
Description:

The Sound of Pop Art (TSOPA) is comprised of Chris Free and Sarah Onyett-Goan, formerly of the Cherry Orchard.  read more »

The Summertimes
Price: $14.00
Artist: The Summertimes
Description:

Already earning high praise following their first single in January (“The Perfect Wave”), and a second in April (“Inside”), The Summertimes' much anticipated self-t ... read more »

And For Our Next Trick
Price: $17.00
Artist: The Tearaways
Description:

A long time coming, the new record by The Tearaways finally winged its way to us from the UK!  read more »

in the meantime...listen to this
Price: $11.00
Artist: TimLee3
Description:

LIMITED STOCK!  As most probably know, back in the 1980s Tim Lee was one-half of fabled Sou ... read more »

Devil's Rope
Price: $11.00
Artist: TimLee3
Description: The follow up to their 2010 "Raucous Americanus" was recorded at various locations including Austin, TX, Knoxville, TN, and Tucson, AZ. Despite the influences of the different recording locales, the results are still the same as Tim explains "It’s not one thing or another… it’s not one genre or another. You know, we’re al ... read more »

Speaking In Code
Price: $11.00
Artist: Tom Curless & The 46%
Description:

Seemingly never sitting still, Tom Curless has been on a remarkable musical journey, captivating listeners with Your Gracious Host and his recent releases as a solo artist, with The 46%, and alongside Crossword Sm ... read more »

JEM Records Salutes Ray Davies
Price: $16.00
Artist: Various Artists
Description:

Every August the JEM Records label releases a new, in-house tribute album to one of rock’s greatest songwriters - John Lennon, Brian Wilson, Pet ... read more »

International Pop Overthrow Vol. 24 (3CD)
Price: $22.00
Artist: Various Artists
Description: If it’s late Summer, then that means it’s tim ... read more »

It's Automatic: The Best Of Young Modern
Price: $17.00
Artist: Young Modern
Description:

The first ever “best of” collection from legendary Beatles/Stones/Byrds/Velvet Underground-influenced Adelaide band who played their first show supporting Radio Birdman in 1977.  Taking their name from a local ... read more »