Power pop
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Power pop is a subgenre of rock music and a form of pop rock based on the early music of bands such as the Beach Boys, the Beatles, the Byrds, and the Who. It typically incorporates melodic hooks, voc
Todd Rundgren's work with Nazz in the 1960s and as a solo artist in the 1970s was significant to the development of the genre.
Cheap Trick playing in 1978
The Posies, 2000
Weezer plays Musikfest in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, August 2019
New wave music
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New wave is a music genre encompassing pop-oriented styles that emerged in the United States and United Kingdom in the mid- to late 1970s. The term was initially synonymous with punk rock but soon bra
Power pop
…self-empowerment. The sound is primarily rooted in pop and rock traditions of the early-to-mid 1960s, although later examples sometimes draw from punk, new wave, glam rock, pub rock, college rock, and neo-psychedelia. Power pop developed mainly among American musicians who came of age during the mid-1960s British…
Blondie, 1976. L–R: Gary Valentine, Clem Burke, Deborah Harry, Chris Stein and Jimmy Destri.
Talking Heads performing in Toronto in 1978
Elvis Costello performing in 1978
Painting of a Devo energy dome hat