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The Best of Rick Springfield...

The major-label debut from Portland's psychedelic-pop protagonists swirls earfuls of 1960s guitar riffs around 1990s Brit-pop nuances. If Come Down occasionally sounds like Neil Young fronting Oasis ("Boys Better,""Minnesoter") or Lou Reed doing The Verve ("Good Morning"), it just as often turns sel...

Kihnsolidation: The Best of Greg Kihn...

This is the second album from Vancouver's supergroup, featuring Carl Newman (Zumpano), Neko Case, Dan Bejar (Destroyer), & other local luminaries in a joyful cascade of slightly jaundiced power pop songs that'll knock your socks off. The hooks are huge & the wit & songwriting are off the map. '...

This 21-track remastered (and occasionally remixed) reissue of Sneakers' seminal indie recordings sounds like a period piece from a particularly pivotal period in American rock. Rejecting the bombast and indulgences that had marked so much music of the 1970s, along with the bluesy bluster so often a...

Cheap Trick's second album (and second of '77!) doesn't exactly pick up where its classic, hard-edged debut left off; it was the "Power" and this is the "Pop." Their workaholic gigs as an unsigned Midwest bar band in the mid-'70s left them with an impressive backlog of original material, another bat...

20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Donnie Iris...

Empire Records: The Soundtrack...

Cheap Trick - Authorized Greatest Hits...

After a four-year hiatus notable for some film and television soundtrack work, a lapsed contract, and a relaxed songwriting schedule Fountains of Wayne return with their third and best CD to date. The New York-based power-pop quartet delivers a diverse feast of infectious melodies and endlessly clev...