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Sloan: One Chord to Another

Barney Hoskyns, Rolling Stone, 6 March 1997

SOMETIMES YOU JUST feel like telling the '60s to go away. As if all those gleefully plagiarizing Brit-pop bands weren't enough, now we have a whole wave of North Americans (the Posies, Fountains of Wayne, Jason Falkner, et al) taking 30-year-old power pop as their principal point of departure.

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