Blog: Hyperbolium

Paul Collins keeps the power pop flame blazing It takes a great deal of self confidence to proclaim oneself "king of power pop," but given Paul Collins' seminal role in the Nerves, Breakaways and Beat, and his subsequent appearances solo and with the Paul Collins Band, his claim is as good as anyone's. While fellow Nerve/Breakaway Peter Case founded the rock 'n' soul Plimsouls, Collins refined his AM radio pop craft with the Beat; and as Case created a post-Plimsouls career as a folk-blues troubadour, Collins' dapplings of soul, blues and country always left [...]