Pop rock is a music genre which mixes a catchy pop style and light lyrics in its (typically) guitar-based rock songs. There are varying definitions of the term, ranging from a slower and mellower form of rock music to a subgenre of pop music. The detractors of pop rock often deride it as a slick, commercial product, less authentic than rock music.[1]
“The Who By Numbers” turns 50 with a vault-emptying Super Deluxe edition that goes far beyond a simple anniversary remaster. Five CDs, a Blu-ray, dozens of unreleased studio recordings and two major live documents turn one of THE WHO’s most personal albums into a full-scale excavation of the band in 1975–76.
Read more: The Who – The Who By Numbers (5CD Super Deluxe) (2026), 320+FLAC
PRIMAL SCREAM’s 2002 curveball “Evil Heat” returns newly remastered and expanded, sounding every bit as wired, dirty and nocturnal as it did the first time around. Industrial rock, electro-punk, krautrock pulse and narcotic blues all collide here like somebody threw a nightclub into a scrapyard and turned the power back on.
THE MONKEES – The Monkees (60th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (2026)
Sixty years after THE MONKEES exploded from television screens into record collections, their 1966 debut gets the kind of archival treatment such a pop landmark deserves. The new deluxe edition opens the vaults with mono and stereo presentations, demos, TV mixes, alternate takes and bare backing tracks that reveal just how much craft was hiding behind all that youthful chaos.
Read more: The Monkees – The Monkees (60th Anniversary 4CD Deluxe Edition) (2026)
Forty years on, SPARKS revisit one of their slickest and strangest synth-pop records with a deluxe edition that finally gives “Music That You Can Dance To” the full archival treatment. Bright, mechanical, theatrical and knowingly absurd, the album still feels like a disco floor designed by two men who secretly rewired the building overnight.
Read more: Sparks – Music That You Can Dance To (40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (2026)
BLIND CHANNEL return from a year and a half of silence with “Painstream”, sounding heavier, sharper and considerably less interested in playing nice. The Finnish crew pour frustration, self-doubt and bottled-up aggression into twelve tracks where metal, electronics and radioactive pop hooks collide at full speed.
Genre: New Wave, Pop Rock
Country of manufacture (release): Netherlands
Year of release: 1986/2022
Catalog number: MOCCD14241
Artist (band) country of origin: United Kingdom
Read more: Modern English – Stop Start – 1986/2022, Music On CD Remaster, FLAC +MP3
Genre: Pop Rock, New Wave
Country of manufacture (release): Japan
Year of release: 1981/2021
Label: A&M Records
Catalog number: UICY-40350
Artist/Band’s country of origin: United Kingdom
Read more: The Police – Ghost In The Machine (Remastered Japan MQA UHQCD) – 1981/2021, FLAC
Genre: Rock
Format: LP
Year of Release: 1981
Label: MCA Records
Country of Origin: US
Read more: Point Blank – American Exce$$ (Excess) – 1981 (US), FLAC
Genre: Folk-Rock, Pop-Rock, Country, Singer/Songwriter
Release years: 1973–2022
Origin: Born November 29, 1950; Los Angeles, California
Read more: Wendy Waldman – Collection Discography 1973-2022 (7 releases), MP3
Genre: Rock, Pop Rock, Latin Rock, Soft Rock
Country of release: Japan
Year of release: 1981/2010
Label: Sony Records Int’l
Catalog number: SICP 2877
Artist/Band’s country of origin: United States
Read more: Santana – Zebop! (Remastered Japan) – 1981/2010, FLAC+MP3