The single “I Don’t Want It” has already been added to Popbang radio as “Single of the week” and received a great review. Check it out in the studio reviews section.

The next album on the list is another one that changed my life and the way I perceived music. Will Owsley is the founder of a legendary powerpop trio called The Semantics, which featured Ringo Starr’s son Zak Starkey on drums. Their sole album Powerbill was only released in Japan and the band never got the break they sought for. You might think that this is the album I’m going to talk about - which I could have gone on about at length - but I’m going to focus on Owsley’s first solo album Owsley released in 1999.

The story as I’ve heard it is that he recorded this album in his home studio, which he financed by touring with Amy Grant. When he started shopping around for a deal a lot of labels liked what they heard but wanted him to re-record the album to make it sound “cooler” or something like that. Owsley refused and waited until he found the label that wanted to put it out as it was, and he was rewarded for his persistence with a grammy nomination for “best engineering”. Ain’t that great?

Anyhow, the album in itself is a masterpiece. Packed with powerpop gems, full of energy and beatle-esque songwriting, it had a great impact on me when I first heard it a year after it came out and inspired me in so many ways, changing the way I write music. “Oh No The Radio” might be one of the coolest opening tracks of all time, and “Coming Up Roses” is a song every songwriter would wish they’d written!

Unfortunately, only one track is available for listening on Owsley’s MySpace. But it’s the beautiful ballad “Sentimental Favorite” so there’s really no reason to complain. I’ve been searching YouTube for any kind of Owsley or Semantics clip withouth luck. If you readers happen to stumble upon a clip, let me know.

The Genuine Fakes were played on Nordic Rocks last night!

Check out XMFan.com.

The show gets a lot of listeners, and it repeats twice throughout the week so it’s actually three plays!

I have been browsing music sites and powerpop blogs all day to find some nice links to put in our blogroll for The Genuine Fakes and I think that I now have a nice line-up.

Some of the blogs that I found:

• Absolute Powerpop
• Not Lame Blog
• Popbang Radio
• Power Pop Review
• Power Pop Station
• PowerPop Blogspot
• PowerPop Overdose
• Powerpopaholic
• Powerpopulist

For more blogs and sites on powerpop, see the blogroll…

“I Don’t Want It” is Track of the Day over at Garageband.com.

Furthermore, Posies cover “Somehow Everything” is now getting some air time in Spain on Onda Madrid 101.3 / 106 FM.

You can now pre-order “Beautiful Escape …Is Coming Right Along” through Amazon.com.

“Irreplaceable” has apparently reached the US and has been played on a Santa Cruz college radio station.

“Irreplaceable” will be featured on Scottish Internet radio: netSounds on Wednesday March 19 at 7 pm (GMT). To listen to the show live, click here. You can also listen to it after that, whenever you like here.

The 35 song, triple disc Posies tribute album “Beautiful Escape - The Songs of The Posies Revisited” will be released on May 20. There will be a release party at Nuemo’s in Seattle at a Posies concert on May 17th. It’s bound to be a great show! Plans are also in the works for a release party in Stockholm since so many Swedish acts have contributed tracks to the album. Nothing official yet though.

The Genuine Fakes’ contribution, “Somehow Everything”, was aired on WMEL Radio last night. It’s being added to a bunch of different radio shows in the US and Australia at the moment. It’s also posted on the Beautiful Escape MySpace again, so if you haven’t heard it yet just head on over there and have a listen.

“Star” was played on Radio Blau in November!

“Star” was featured on Pop On Paper last week.