PowerPopSquare - Sampler Vol. 8

So, here's sampler no. eight. hope you all like it. Some more to go!

01 Jay Clifford - Know When To Walk Away
02 Coldplay - Life In Technicolor II
03 Nada Surf - Blankest Year
04 Goldfrapp - Fly Me Away
05 Ben Folds Five - Army
06 Neil Diamond - Delirious Love
07 Badly Drawn Boy - You Were Right
08 Nik Kershaw - What Do You Think Of It So Far¿
09 Ron Sexsmith - Cheap Hotel
10 Owsley - Class Clown
11 The Polyphonic Spree - Light & Day
12 Josh Rouse - Sad Eyes
13 Gomez - Hamoa Beach
14 Kt Tunstall - Another Place To Fall
15 Cary Brothers - Ride
16 Howie Day - Collide
17 Feist - I Feel It All
18 Brendan Benson - Trouble With You (Demo)
19 Ben Folds - Songs Of Love

PowerPopSquare - Sampler Vol. 7

01 - Spoon - The Book I Write
02 - New Radicals - Mother We Just Can't Get Enough
03 - Badly Drawn Boy - A Peak You Reach
04 - Coldplay - I Ran Away
05 - Chairlift - Bruises
06 - Gomez - Girlshapedlovedrug
07 - Aimee Mann - Pavlov's Bell
08 - Del Amitri - Here And Now
09 - Colin Hay - Waiting For My Real Life To Begin
10 - Nik Kershaw - Fiction
11 - Ben Folds - Landed (Strings Version)
12 - Blue – Jayhawks
13 - Mike Viola - The Strawberry Blonde
14 - David Mead - Rainy Weather Friend
15 - Jesus & Mary Chain - Just Like Honey
16 - Howie Day - Brace Yourself
17 - Imogen Heap - Hide And Seek
18 - Jason Falkner - Lost Myself

PowerPopSquare - Sampler Vol. 6

01 Nik Kershaw - Somebody Loves You
02 Nada Surf - Always Love
03 Travis - How Many Hearts
04 Ryan Adams - When The Stars Go Blue
05 Ben Kweller - Nothing Happening
06 Ben Folds - Cologne
07 Crowded House - Lost Island
08 Brendan Benson - Alternative To Love
09 Leo (Bleu) - Sukaz Are Born Every Minute
10 Beck - Lost Cause
11 Stephen Duffy & The Lilac Time-Bank Holiday Monday
12 Aimee Mann - Momentum
13 Nada Surf - Whose Authority
14 Nik Kershaw - Die Laughing
15 Neil Finn - She Will Have Her Way
16 Michael Penn - High Time
17 Jude Cole - Raining On The Moon
18 Uncle Devil Show - I Had A Drink About You Last Night
19 Goldfrapp - Monster Love

PowerPopSquare - Sampler Vol. 5

01 Travis - Selfish Jean
02 Badly Drawn Boy - Born Again
03 Brendan Benson - Cold Hands Warm Heart
04 Aimee Mann - Wise Up
05 Keith Caputo - New York City
06 Nik Kershaw - Already
07 Sufjan Stevens - Chicago
08 Michael Penn - Walter Reed
09 Jon Brion - Here We Go
10 Gomez - Don't Make Me Laugh
11 Jason Falkner - The Knew
12 Ron Sexsmith - Not About To Lose
13 Stephen Duffy - In Iverna Gardens
14 Hotel Lights - Down
15 Colin Hay - Overkill (Acoustic Version)
16 Josh Rouse - God Please Let Me Go Back
17 The Dbs - World To Cry
18 Badly Drawn Boy - Welcome To The Overground
19 Jason Falkner - Goodnight Sweet Night

PowerPopSquare - Sampler Vol. 4

01 Jim Boggia - So Full
02 Ben Folds - Gone
03 Beck - Everybodys Gotta Learn Sometimes
04 Jason Falkner - Start Over Again
05 Jon Brion - Gotta Start Somewhere
06 David Bowie - Thursday's Child
07 Crowded House - Pineapple Head
08 Ron Sexsmith - Hard Bargain
09 Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
10 Nik Kershaw - One Day
11 David Mead - Make It Right
12 Ben Kweller - Penny On A Train Track
13 Ben Folds Five - Don't Change Your Plans
14 Aimee Mann - 31 Today
15 New Radicals - Flowers
16 Calexico - Bisbee Blue
17 Coldplay - Warning Sign
18 Crash Test Dummies - My Own Sunrise
19 Del Amitri - Don't Come Home Too Soon

PowerPopSquare - Sampler Vol. 3

Here you have number three:

PowerPopSquare - Sampler Vol. 3:

01 Stephen Duffy - Home
02 Stephen Duffy - Don't feed the rats
03 Jason Falkner - In your eyes
04 Hotel Lights - Chemical clouds
05 Ben Folds - Learn To Live With What You Are
06 Coldplay - Yes
07 Aimee Mann - That's how i knew this story would break my heart
08 Del Amitri - Last Cheap Shot At The Dream
09 Travis - Chinese blues
10 Ben Lee - Whatever It Is
11 Bleu - We'll Do It All Again
12 The Nines - Dance just for me
13 Badly Drawn Boy - Something To Talk About
14 Nik Kershaw - All About You
15 Ryan Adams - New York, New York
16 Pelle Carlberg - Riverbank
17 Ron Sexsmith - All In Good Time
18 Jason Falkner - Say it's true
19 Tears for Fears - Size Of Sorrow

And again - the amazon link:

PowerPopSquare - Sampler Vol. 2

So I found a legal way to post at least song clips of the sampler - and here is volume two:

PowerPopSquare - Sampler Vol. 2:

01 Coldplay - Don't Panic
02 David Mead - Wherever You Are
03 Bleu - Somebody Else
04 Owsley - Coming Up Roses
05 Stephen Duffy - The kite & the sky
06 Jason Falkner - Author Unknown
07 Travis - Don't be shy
08 Lloyd Cole - What's Wrong With This Picture
09 Hotel Lights - Let Me Be the One
10 The Shins - Caring Is Creepy
11 The Nines - Drama Queen
12 Ron Sexsmith - Brandy Alexander
13 Jason Falkner - Clumsy grace
14 Travis - Colder
15 Ron Sexsmith - Hands Of Time
16 Stephen Duffy & The Lilac Time - This morning
17 Hotel Lights - Norina
18 The Nines - Darkening Sky
19 The Shins - Australia
20 Coldplay - Amsterdam
21 Ben Folds Five - Lullabye

Here is the amazon link to the songs:

PowerPopSquare - Sampler Vol. 1

So, something new to this blog: Some time ago I started to create my own PowerPopSquare mixtapes - til today there exist thirteen sampler.
If you like this, please respond, so I'll post further ones.
And if you have any easier or better way to post links to the songs in a legal way, please tell me!

Here it is - PowerPopSquare - Sampler Vol. 1:

01 Stephen Duffy - Another Time

02 Ben Folds - Annie Waits

03 Bleu - Come n Go

04 Ben Lee - Catch My Disease

05 Owsley - Sentimental Favorite

06 Stephen Duffy - 17

07 Jason Falkner - Feeling no pain

08 Travis - New Amsterdam

09 The Shins - New Slang

10 The Nines - Take What You Want

11 Ron Sexsmith - Happiness

12 Jim Boggia - Shine

13 Jason Falkner - Honey

14 Hotel Lights - Amelia Bright

15 Coldplay - Strawberry Swing

16 Bleu - No Such Thing As Love

17 The Shins - Phantom Limb

18 Ron Sexsmith - Brighter Still

19 Coldplay - A Spell A Rebel Yell

20 Ben Folds - Golden Slumbers

21 Hotel Lights - The Waves

The easier way is this (unfortunately not every song from the sampler is available in the amazon store...):

Owsley Live - Listen!

Without many words - just listen (Owsley live in Nashville 2004):




Owsley - Live in Nashville 2004

+ + + News May 2010 + + +

I'm still shocked about the sad loss of Will Owsley.
But I want to give you a music news update for may 2010:

Mike Viola: Three albums in 2010 & Vinyl!
Mike has a new band: VICTOR. The new album "Electro De Perfecto" will be released soon.
He produces also CD with Ned Brower (from Rooney) called "Great To Say Hello" und finally works on a Kelly Jones & Mike Viola duet EP. All this in 2010? Maybe. But there's more:
"Hang On Mike", the last Candy Butchers album will get a re-release on vinyl. Mike is looking through demos and unreleased material (39 songs!) and wants to include this in the package as mp3s.
Read more here.

Ron Sexsmith
Ron finished his new record. Seems it will be released in 2010.
Producer is Bob Rock, who also worked with Metallica, Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, the Cult, Our Lady Peace or the Offspring.

Aqualung
The new Aqualung CD "Magnetic North" was released some days ago. Have a listen!





David Mead
... is just now creating a new album of sun-themed music called Vitamin D. He writes in his blog: "Vitamin D is produced by our bodies when we are exposed to sunlight. It makes us happy. Until we are burnt to a crisp."
He already posted 3 songs here.

Rooney

While listening to Rooney - a band formed in Los Angeles in 1999 - you will rediscover a lot of Jellyfish or The Beatles sound.

Discography:
2003 Rooney
2007 Calling the World
2009 Wild One EP
2010 Eureka

Listen to their last EP - Wild One

You can order the new album "Eureka" (incl. autographed CD + T-Shirt) here:

http://rooney.hasawebstore.com/

Owsley

Will Owsley - or Owsley - an american songwriter & producer released two CDs in 2000 und 2004, both have written powerpop all over:

Owsley - listen @ amazon.com

The Hard Way - listen @ amazon.com

Sadly he stopped with his own music career and is now supporting other artists like Amy Grant.

Here's a little something to cheer those up who hoped for new material (like me) - a recording of a live performance from 1999:

Owsley - Live (1999)

Bleu - again

Last week (while expecting our baby any day...) there was an internet-stream of a Bleu gig. You still can watch it here:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/bleu-is-live

For all who haven't got the chance to see Bleu live (like me from Germany), I converted & cut the concert into a live album - here it is:

Bleu - Live 2010 @ Ustream

Bleu!

Another fav of mine: William James McAuley III, or short Bleu , is an american songwriter and musician. Besides his solo work (he has released three CDs: Headroom, Redhead and A Watched Pot) there are collaborations with Mike Viola (ELO, The Major Labels).

Bleu - No Such Thing As Love

Bleu - Come 'n' Go

A Watched Pot - Listen & buy at amazon.com

Official Website

Listen to new songs from his upcoming CD FOUR

(Ya Catch More Flies With Honey Than Vinegar, How Blue!)

PowerPop

Where to start?

Some years ago, while I started to discover new musicians and bands by this new thing named ... internet, I found a lot of similar music I could not sort by a genre. The songs where very melodic, pop-like and beatlesesque but anyhow different. Years later I learned the genre was named PowerPop.

So, for everyone who is into this music and especially for those who still are not - I created this blog. I will talk about my favorite artists like Mike Viola, Bleu, Owsley, Ben Folds (Five), The Nines, Ben Kweller, Jason Falkner, Stephen Duffy & The Lilac Time, Brendan Benson, David Mead, Jim Boggia, Nik Kershaw and more.

And I will post rare stuff by these artists (and I hope that's okay for them), but no official released songs or albums.