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Bill DeMain 's upcoming album Transatlantic Romantic will be out in 2017. According to the first three songs it's already close to a favourite record of the year.

The seventh album of Pugwash is out in 2017. A crowdfunding campaign just started at Kickstarter . ... You haven't pledged yet?  Yes, it's Jason Falkner (of Jellyfish ) in this picture below. And he is playing and working on this record, too. So hurry up and go to Kickstarter NOW!

You never heard of Warren Zanes ? Maybe you should... Zanes has been all of these things: a Ph.D and professor at several American universities, a Vice President at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, a writer whose subjects range from Jimmy Rodgers to Dusty Springfield to the Wilburn Brothers to the history of Warner Bros. Records, a musician who made three records with 1980s rock and roll band the Del Fuegos and four as a solo artist, a thinker-for-hire who has worked on several high-profile music projects, including, most recently, the upcoming George Harrison documentary directed by Martin Scorsese, and the Executive Director of Little Steven Van Zandt's Rock and Roll Forever Foundation, where his work is an extension of his non-profit experience and his teaching at Case Western Reserve, the School of Visual Arts, the University of Rochester, and other institutions. Time Out New York has said of Warren that he is " as smart a pop songwriter as there is. " E...

Aimee Mann - Mental Illness Aimee Mann ’s Mental Illness , her first album in five years, is a return to a more musically soft-spoken but still lyrically barbed approach. The Oscar-nominated, Grammy-winning singer remains a student of human behavior, drawing not just on her own experiences to form the characters in the songs but tales told by friends. “ I assume the brief on me is that people think that I write these really depressing songs, ” Mann says. “ I don’t know—people may have a different viewpoint—but that’s my own interpretation of the cliché about me. So if they thought that my songs were very down-tempo, very depressing, very sad, and very acoustic, I thought I’d just give myself permission to write the saddest, slowest, most acoustic, if-they’re- all-waltzes- so-be- it record I could… I mean, calling it "Mental Illness" makes me laugh, because it is true, but it’s so blunt that it’s funny. ” Mental Illness will be out on March 31, 2017. Pre-order ...

Almost a year ago I made a serious attempt to get everything together for a project: a Third Record of Owsley . There are a couple of stunning songs (demos, unreleased songs, collaborations) out there and as far as I know many more are in the vaults. So I asked at Facebook if there is Interest in such a project (and man - there is!) and started a poll to look for a possible success of a crowdfunding campaign. So all signs looked good. A lot of other musicians, friends of Will Owsley and his family showed interest too. Sadly the project wasn't realized. To cut a long story short: I created a third record myself. And I think it's a good one. It's called Feel No Pain . If you are interested in the record, just write me here: powerpopsquare@gmail.com

2016 is coming to an end - it's time to look at this year and its best music: 1. Emitt Rhodes - Rainbow Ends In 1973, after battling bad contracts and industry demands, Emitt Rhodes saw his last release, Farewell To Paradise . Emitt Rhodes never recorded another full-length LP. Until now. Rainbow E nds released by Omnivore Recordings - it is his first new album in 43 years. After connecting with producer Chris Price in 2013, Rhodes revived his home studio with help from Price and an all-star band, all of whom had been enamored of Rhodes’ work: Roger Joseph Manning Jr. and Jason Falkner (both solo artists, members of Jellyfish , and currently in Beck’s studio and touring band), indie producer and musician Fernando Perdomo , Rooney’s Taylor Locke and New Pornographers’ drummer Joe Seiders . They would cut the new record live in that space. More special guests appeared to make this momentous release even more special: Aimee Mann , Susanna Hoffs ...

The new song by Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness is my first highlight for 2017.