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Within this genre, the label quickly became the center of a small but ever expanding cult of power pop enthusiasts. Not Lame released over 100 albums, including the annual 3-CD compilation of the International Pop Overthrow festival from 1997 through 2010 (with later years being brought out by Brodeen privately). [4]
The International Pop Overthrow Music Festival was created in December 1997. The name was chosen to pay tribute to Jim Ellison, singer songwriter of Material Issue, a power pop band from Chicago, whose 1991 debut album was entitled International Pop Overthrow. In August 1998, the first International Pop Overthrow festival was held in Los ...
The legacy of Material Issue lives on in the International Pop Overthrow festival that plays in Los Angeles, New York City and Chicago each year. The IPO festival (renamed IPO from Poptopia in the late 90s to honor Material Issue) is the largest showcase of power pop music in the United States and brings in power pop bands from all over the world to showcase what is new in the world of power ...
International Pop Overthrow [50] Adam Schmitt: World So Bright [51] The Spongetones: Oh Yeah! [52] Matthew Sweet: Girlfriend [18] Teenage Fanclub: Bandwagonesque [53] Velvet Crush: In the Presence of Greatness [54] 1992 Chris Mars: Horseshoes and Hand Grenades [55] Sugar: Copper Blue [56] 1993 Blue Ash: No More, No Less [57] [58] Flamin ...
On November 7, 2008, the band played at the International Pop Overthrow in New York City, performing at Kenny's Castaways in Greenwich Village. In 2012, the band released a new single called Speed of Sound. [3] A year later, in 2013, another single followed, The Great Persuader, with a record-label Sparkplug Records. As of 2013, the band lineup ...
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[6] Michael Corcoran of the Chicago Sun-Times stated: "Though power pop (a.k.a. "the skinny-tie era") was the rage in New York and Los Angeles for only a brief time at the start of the '80s, that style of melodic rock has survived in the Midwest for two decades thanks to practitioners such as Cheap Trick, the Raspberries, Shoes and the ...