Power Pop Overdose

Power Pop Overdose on Mad Wasp Radio 208 09/06/2025

Episode Summary

This week we’re stacked with new music from Sharp Class, The Gnomes, The 1981, Vanity Mirror, Rum Bar favorites The Chelsea Curve and Tad Overbaugh, plus The Deep Drags, The Valery Trails, We, Outfit w/ Daniel Romano, Token Hearts, and Loose Lips. We’re also digging deep into the PPO Archives for underheard gems from Chicago legends The Kind and True Hearts, Boston’s The Sighs, and cult favorites The Cold, The Movies, The Tickets, PPO standouts The Headboys, and The Realists. It’s another great hour of hooks and harmonies, tune in!

Episode Notes

Sharp Class - Ivory Tower (Live at The Night Owl, Birmingham, England)

The Gnomes - I'll Be There (single)

The 1981 - Soft Goodbye

Vanity Mirror - White Butterfly

The Chelsea Curve - The Chelsea Curve - Never Come Down (single)

Tad Overbaugh - Mended Man

True Hearts - Just Another Teenage Anthem

The Kind - She'll Make Everything Right (Chicago, 1978)

The Sighs – She's Not The Girl I Used To Know

The Cold - Three Chord City

The Movies - Photograph1982)

The Tickets - People Next Door

The Headboys - Stepping Stones

The Realists -I've Got A Heart

The Deep Drags - Dullards

The Valery Trails - Everything is Temporary

Daniel Romano - Servo

Token Hearts - Behind These Walls

Loose Lips - Too Late To Call