All Around Records

 Finland isn't a place one thinks of when thinking about power pop, but why not, if a band as good as the Bablers are from there? Those ...

  The Bablers Like The First Time Big Stir Records This happy, rocking power pop from a country that should be known more for music, Fin...

  I first heard of the Spongetones sometime in the 1980s, when Don Dixon and Marti Jones worked with Jamie Hoover. I checked them out becaus...

  The Spongetones The 40th Anniversary Concert…And Beyond Big Stir Records This Charlotte, North Carolina institution turned 40 in 2021 and ...

  Various Artists Jem Records Celebrates David Bowie (Singles by The Cynz, Paul Collins, The High Frequencies) Jem Records These three singl...

 Mea culpa -- I’ve lived in the Baltimore region most of my life and have never properly been there. I’ve seen it passing by on the way to D...

  Splitsville Mobtown Big Stir Records This band from Baltimore doesn’t evoke the Randy Newman song of the city name and its dark themes of ...