Marshall Crenshaw

Marshall Crenshaw occupies a small but special niche in modern American rock: He's a
power-pop singer/songwriter. Unfortunately, with one foot in the cultish dBs/Mitch Easter
camp and the other in the more mainstream John Hiatt/Freedy Johnston tradition,
Crenshaw has been all but ignored by aficionados of both. He deserves better. Crenshaw's
early '80s albums for Warner Bros. were filled with soaring evocations of youthf... More >

Picking 'em better than he writes 'em ("Twenty-Five Forty-One," "The `In' Crowd," "Theme From `Flaregun'")