The Raspberries: Raspberries
Review by Metal Mike Saunders, Rolling Stone, July 1972
RASPBERRIES opens with the finest burst of lightweight English rock I've heard all year, a raunchy 16-bar guitar intro, and followed by a verse that sounds ...

The Story of the Raspberries
Interview by Metal Mike Saunders, Phonograph Record, October 1972
"I couldn’t say what I wanted to say till she whispered 'I Love You', so please, baby, go all the ...

Blue Ash: No More, No Less
Review by Metal Mike Saunders, Phonograph Record, June 1973
I WISH, I wish, I wish. There's this song, 'I Remember A Time', on Blue Ash's debut album. Not that the whole album isn't magnificent, mind ...

The Raspberries: Side 3
Review by Metal Mike Saunders, Rolling Stone, October 1973
SINCE THEIR last time out, the Raspberries must have heard Blue Ash, or some vaguely threatening noises from the other side of Ohio, because a lot ...

Can Blue Ash Sing The Whites?
Report by Metal Mike Saunders, Phonograph Record, January 1974
YOU REMEMBER Blue Ash. They put out an album last year that all the critics loved. It was sort of Beatle-Byrdsish, yet quite original in its ...

The Raspberries: Starting Over
Review by Andy Childs, ZigZag, March 1975
APPARENTLY UNKNOWN to most of the British pop press and record buyers alike, the Raspberries have made six highly successful singles (five of them made the ...

The Raspberries: Starting Over
Review by Dave Marsh, Let It Rock, April 1975
A YEAR AGO, the Raspberries seemed like nothing so much as a prefabricated rock band in the tradition of the Monkees. ...

The Kinks: Schoolboys In Disgrace
Review by Miles, NME, January 1976
I LIKE THE KINKS a lot, but have to say that this album is a pretty uninspired collection of ...

Roger McGuinn: Cardiff Rose
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, June 1976
ABOUT EIGHT OR nine months ago I was preposterously drunk in the Bottom Line club in New York watching the Roger McGuinn ...

The Rubinoos: The Rubinoos
Review by Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, May 1977
THE RUBINOOS, Beserkley Records' hot new quartet of Bay Area teenagers, lead off their debut album with a new version of Tommy James' 1967 classic pop ...

Greg Kihn: Again; The Rubinoos: The Rubinoos (Beserkley)
Review by Paul Rambali, NME, June 1977
JOHNNY RAMONE recently pointed out that, if they had come out now instead of the mid-60’s, 'You Really Got Me' and 'Doo Wah Diddy' wouldn’t stand ...

The Rubinoos: The Rubinoos
Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, July 1977
THE RUBINOOS sing a song all about how rock & roll is dead. It shouldn't really worry them either way, because in Rubinoo-land everyone's a bubble-gum ...

Dwight Twilley: Twilley Don’t Mind
Review by Bud Scoppa, Phonograph Record, August 1977
EVERYBODY KNOWS that people who write record reviews are supposed to complain every so often about what a crummy year it’s been for music, and how ...

The Dwight Twilley Band
Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, November 1977
EVEN ACROSS thousands of miles of trans-Atlantic telephone cable and several time zones Dwight Twilley exudes excited confidence. He's sure the time has come for he ...

Cheap Trick: In Color
Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, November 1977
ANYTHING BUT a cheap trick, in fact. You may wonder why you keep seeing this bunch mentioned in esoteric magazines like Who Put The Bomp as ...

Greg Kihn: The Marquee, London
Live Review by Paul Rambali, NME, December 1977
BY WAY of introduction, says Greg Kihn, short, smiling, bopping, "We're from Berkeley; that means we don't give a shit about ...

The Dwight Twilley Band: Just Another Bunch Of Hairdressers' Dummies Out Of Hicksville, USA
Profile and Interview by Paul Rambali, NME, January 1978
(AND YES, THEY DO WANT TO BE TEEN IDOLS...) ...

Power Pop part 1: Suddenly, Everything Is Power Pop!
Overview by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, February 1978
A BRAND NEW YEAR and a brand new word for the media to fool about with, eh? What's it all about then, this Power Pop business? ...

Power Pop part 2: The C&A Generation In The Land Of The Bland
Comment by Jon Savage, Sounds, February 1978
TICK TOCK f – the clock/the pendulum swings...Oh it's so inevitable in post-punk letdown – the Pistols' 'split': sooooo symbolic – that attempts would be made ...

A Power Pop Primer
Guide by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, April 1978
If one may hazard an absurd guess based on no real information, it will probably be around November of this year when some smart punk rocker ...

Cheap Trick: Heaven Tonight (Epic)
Review by Mitchell Cohen, Creem, August 1978
DANIEL AND GLORIA met at a rock flea market when their hands reached for the one over-priced copy of Hackamore Brick's One Kiss Leads ...

The Raspberries: Best Of The Raspberries (Capitol)
Review by Penny Valentine, Melody Maker, March 1979
THE ONE clever thing that Eric Carmen's earlier outfit did was to put Overnight Sensation out in the summer, the one time the record could exploit ...

Badfinger Back In Business
Retrospective by Dan Matovina, Trouser Press, May 1979
WHAT WOULD eventually become Badfinger started out as a part time local band in Swansea, Wales during the post-Mersey beat boom of 1964-66. Back then they ...

The Knack: How You'll Be Getting It
Report and Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, June 1979
I LEANED over and whispered in the ear of the blank-looking blonde girl seated next to me: "I'm a stranger in this town, so maybe you ...

The Knack: Get The Knack
Review by Robot A. Hull, Creem, October 1979
PREAMBLE: In these inflationary (and indifferent) times, one expects a great deal from the investment of his/her time and/or money. Consequently, I have designed this review ...

The Romantics: The Romantics
Review by Mitchell Cohen, Creem, April 1980
I CAN'T ACCEPT Shelley Hack as a Charlie's Angel (Spelling-Goldberg should burn in Nielsen purgatory for rejecting Claudia Jennings, who proceeded to smash up her car ...

Altered Images: Pinky Blue (Epic)
Review by Lynden Barber, Melody Maker, May 1982
IF THE jolly-jolly blancmange and Jellytot frills on the cover of Happy Birthday didn't, like the kid at the party who stuffed all the eClares, turn ...

Power Pop: Flamin' Groovies/ Dwight Twilley/ the Knack
Essay by Tom Hibbert, The History of Rock, 1984
IN THE MID SIXTIES, within the music of groups like the Kinks, the Byrds and the Who, musical aggression and melodic invention had co-existed. But with ...

Shake Some Action! The bands that put the Bomp in U.S. beat
Retrospective by Tom Hibbert, The History of Rock, 1984
IN THE mid-Sixties, within the music of groups like the Kinks, the Byrds and the Who, musical aggression and melodic invention had co-existed. But with the ...

Big Star: The Grand, London
Live Review by Tom Hibbert, Mojo, November 1993
AT THE BACK OF the hall stood a tall and bulky figure, taking light refreshment and delivering his expert verdict on the performance of the all ...

The Soul of the Plimsouls
Report and Interview by Bill Wasserzieher, The Bob, October 1995
HOW IRONIC that it took a film about an RTD bus careening through the spaghetti network of Los Angeles freeways, unable to slow below 50 mph ...

The Scruffs: Wanna Meet The Scruffs?
Review by Jason Gross, Perfect Sound Forever, May 1998
THE MOST part of the whole wave of CD reissues is seeing these obscure gems that you're positive no one else could possibly care about to ...

It's Been Real: The Real Kids
Interview by Dave Laing (Australia), Ugly Things, 1999
WHEN I FIRST picked-up a dog-eared copy of that issue of Big Star in a Melbourne store in 1981 I was 16 and hooked on the ...

We Have the Power: A novice’s passport to the glorious sonic world of Power Pop
Guide by William Higham, Rock's Backpages, May 2001
"Power pop is what we play. What the Small Faces used to play and the kind of pop the Beach Boys played in the days of ...

Gary Pig Gold's Top Ten All Time Power Pop People (in Chronological Order)
Guide by Gary Pig Gold, fufkin.com, July 2001
CERTAINLY WE COULD all be arguing blue-faced until that mythical Next Big Thing finally arrives over just what exactly IS "Pop," Powerful or otherwise. ...

Skinny Tie Heaven! The RBP Power Pop Top 100
Guide by William Higham, Rock's Backpages, August 2001
Chiming and choogling, winsomely pretty and archly melodic, freshfaced and faux-naif... yep, it's that formidable sub-genre POWER POP, a blissful marriage of melody and energy that ...

Skinny Tie Heaven! The RBP Power Pop Top 100, Part 2! (50 - 1)
Guide by William Higham, Rock's Backpages, September 2001
William Higham concludes his epic list by nominating the Top 50 PP classix of all ...

The Raspberries: Rebirth Of The Cool
Guide by Dave DiMartino, Mojo, November 2002
Who are they? The inspired combination of two of Cleveland's finest unsung rock bands of the late '60s – Cyrus Erie and The Choir – this ...

The Jook's On You
Retrospective and Interview by Dave Thompson, Goldmine, 2003
MENTION THE NAME of the Jook a decade or so ago, and chances are, you'd be met with a blank gaze from anybody outside of a ...

Big Star: Big Star Story (Rykodisc)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, January 2004
Mildly unsatisfactory smattering of tracks by genius Memphis quartet/trio – the acme of twisted '70s power ...

Happy Happy, Joy Joy: Emitt Rhodes
Retrospective and Interview by Erik Himmelsbach, LA CityBeat, January 2004
EMITT RHODES still doesn’t know what hit him. Thirty years ago, he was the new Paul McCartney, an ambitious kid who craved the perfect pop song. ...

The Raspberries: House of Blues, Los Angeles
Live Review by Bill Holdship, LA CityBeat, October 2005
IN 1972, NOTHING sounded quite like the Raspberries' 'Go All the Way' and 'I Wanna Be With You' when they came roaring out of mono car ...

Spies In The House Of Pop: The dB's and their star-crossed third album, Like This
Retrospective and Interview by Fred Mills, Harp, June 2006
BY THE SUMMER of 1982 things were looking a bit grim for the dB's. ...

'We Can't Stop Now To Think About The Past, We're Moving To Fast': An Appreciation of the Flamin' Groovies on Sire
Overview by Dave Laing (Australia), Ugly Things, August 2006
(Note: the following piece was written prior to the recent release of the wonderful UK 2CD set At Full Speed: The Complete Sire Recordings, which brings ...

Peter Holsapple: An Interview
Interview by Jeremy Gluck, Bucketful of Brains, Fall 2009
IN '82 WE WERE all listening to the dBs' second album, Repercussion. The Barracudas, having been shown the ejection seat by EMI, were in a lull; ...