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July 24, 1999

This Day in Rock

Richie Valens

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Miracle Of Science

Marshall Crenshaw occupies a small but special niche in modern American rock: He's a power-pop singer/songwriter. Unfortunately, with one foot in the cultish dBs/Mitch Easter camp and the other in the more mainstream John Hiatt/Freedy Johnston tradition, Crenshaw has been all but ignored by aficiona...

1996 RS: 3of 5 Stars

Life's Too Short

1991

Mary Jean and Nine Others

1987

1985

1983

1982

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Power-pop fanatics -- the children of Big Star and Cheap Trick's In Color -- still genuflect in the direction of Marshall Crenshaw, an album whose only crime was to come out at about the same time as synth pop was usurping the place of guitar-based songwriting on the charts. The melodies and arrangements are so clean, plain-spoken, and punchy that it's possible to take their make-it-look-easy...

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