John M. Borack is a music journalist and musician from Southern California.

Journalist

Borack's music reviews, columns and feature articles have appeared in periodicals such as '' Goldmine'', ''Amplifier'', ''

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'', ''The Garden Grove Journal'', ''Audities'' and ''Popsided''. He first began contributing to ''Goldmine'' in 1985 and as of 2010 continued to write the "Rave On" column for the magazine. He currently writes the "Power Pop Plus" column for ''Goldmine''. Borack is the author of the 2007 book ''Shake Some Action: The Ultimate Power Pop Guide''. He credits

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with helping to shape his appreciation for music and in 2010 published the book ''John Lennon: Life Is What Happens''. In his biography for

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, he describes himself as a "

power-pop Power pop (also typeset as powerpop) is a form of pop rock based on the early music of bands such as the Who, the Beatles, the Beach Boys, and the Byrds. It typically incorporates melodic hooks, vocal harmonies, an energetic performance, and ch ...

maniac". Among his contributions as a CD liner-note writer, he supplied the liner notes for the 1997

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compilation ''Poptopia! Power Pop Classics of the '80's''. In late 2021, his latest compilation project, titled ''We All Shine On: A Tribute to the Music of 1970'' will be released via SpyderPop Records.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Borack, John M. Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American essayists American music critics Writers from California