Guitar Pop For Now People—Part 29

10 Recent Tracks + Music Reviewers/Publications (+ Playlist)

Jun 26, 2025

What’s the best place to hear your favorite modern guitar pop songs during the summertime?

On the beach?
Poolside?
Backyard BBQ?
Roadtrip?
At the club?

It’s a trick question.

They’re all perfect…maybe even on the same sunny day and long, balmy night.

Wherever you listen, below are 10 more tracks to add to your summer playlists.

Give the songs a spin and please click the reviewer links (I wouldn’t be able to keep up with the flood of great new music being released these days if it weren’t for them).

See you next time for Guitar Pop For Now People—Part XXX.

⚡️ What Are Your Favorite Tracks Below? 💥

10 Recent Tracks and Music Reviewers/Publications

“What we're getting on new single ‘Can't Get You’ is absolutely perfect power pop. From the first note, this song had me in a state of bliss. Listen to the way those crunching, punching guitars contrast with those dulcet, bittersweet melodies. Listen to that hooky chorus exploding from your headphones. Listen to those lyrics that take us all back to that one person we could not let go of no matter how much we wished we could have.”—Lord Rutledge, Faster and Louder

“Long Rehearsal opens with the title track, which comes in at under two minutes and spends every second of it offering up melodies in its jangly guitars and Inna Showalter’s vocals. It’s a high point for a band that’s already collected several of them, and it should be pretty hard to top.”—Rosy Overdrive

“The title track, along with ‘Pugni In Tasca,’ ‘Terres Basses,’ and ‘Sur La Corde,’ juxtaposes a Ryan Allen and His Extra Arms-inspired sense of vaguely melodic chaos and jangle punk with a power pop sensibility that might be likened to a 2nd Grade style of preciousness, if not for the way it is pulled in every glorious direction by its punk influences.”—Jangle Pop Hub

“I was super excited to hear about The Mayflies USA reunion. The band’s three turn-of-the-century albums are right up there with the best of that era’s hooky pop rock (along with bands like Fountains of Wayne and Matthew Sweet). …Kickless Kids shifts things back into a more guitar pop register. Ringing guitars are definitely up front on tracks like ‘Railway Spines’ and ‘Cabbagetown.’”—Dennis Pilon, Poprock Record

“‘How to Be a Confidante’ is four and half minutes (and two chords) of ramshackle fun. What this tune lacks in compositional sophistication it makes up for in enthusiasm and sheer earworminess. At least once a day, I find myself singing ‘If I’m lucky, I’ll never have another friend like you.’”—Christian Finnegan, New Music for Olds

“‘DBA’ captures the dogged determination required to pursue a music ‘career,’ and it’s a strong melodic gem that boasts excellent riffs.”—Aaron Kupferberg, Powerpopaholic

“Dandyboy Records is a label that continually comes up with the goods and here is even more proof. Autos are a quartet that have a power pop starting point, but the quartet step further afield, partly due to the strength of Brandon Tomavic's laidback rasping vocals.”—Don Valentine, I Don’t Hear A Single

“On Silence Daedalus, the band have put to one side the folkier side of their songs that they seemed more steeped in on their first album to embrace the side of their songs that want not to sway you, but to take you by the collar to dance.”—Nathan Whittle, Louder Than War

“‘Launching a Satellite’ is, like so much of Push Puppets musical output, an example of indie music (indie-rock, indie-pop, pop-rock…call it what you will) that sits outside of time…well, certainly beyond the reaches of fad and fashion, trend and passing zeitgeist.”—Dave Franklin, The Big Takeover

“‘The Rope’ eschews a lot of the noisy alt rock influences that permeated Midas in favor of a cleaner heartland rock style. The guitars rollick and shimmer, jangly riffs wound tightly around a pulsating kickdrum beat.”—Zac Djamoos, The Alternative