The Forty Nineteens: New Roaring Twenties

Garage rockers The Forty Nineteens are basically a singles band. Get the job done in less three minutes and move on to the next song. On their new album New Roaring Twenties they barrel through eleven songs, with a glint in their eyes. The band name is a pun on Californian State law - the band's guitarists both worked as criminal defence attorneys when the band was founded and music was a means to blow off some steam in their spare time.

Rock 'n' roll is about having fun and that is what these five guys provide by the bucket-load, with lyrics about of road trips and good-natured bad behaviour that won't get them into serious trouble. And as a coup they got Tony Valentino (The Standells) - still kicking ass at 79 - to add his signature guitar sound to Late Night Radio. Swing buy your local car rental and hire a convertible. Drop the disc in the player and turn it up.

Big Stir Singles: The Fifth Wave

The idea behind the Digital Singles Series by the folks at Californian power pop label Big Stir Records was quite simple: every Friday a band from their roster or a like-minded boutique company catering to that niche (Kool Kat Musik, SpyderPop Records, Karma Frog Music and their partners at Futureman Records) releases two songs. After awhile those singles are rounded up for a CD with all the artists' A-sides, followed by the B-sides. The Fifth Wave is the latest edition and it's a jukebox chock full of goodies.

The GoAllTheWays get the party started with Silly Girl, a melodic pop song that has Summer written all over it. As a contrast Saturday Show by Mod Hippie is a mid-Sixties garage rocker. Power pop as a genre reached a peak in the Seventies and The Tor Guides connected all the dots in the correct order for Just A Smile, a song on a par with Big Star and Badfinger. English It's Karma It's Cool's neo-psych song Wooden Buddha brings well-crafted eccentricity to the table. The Armoires, the band fronted by label owners Christina Bulbenko and Rex Broome, make fun of themselves with the violin driven folk rocker Pushing Forty.