New Releases: The Airport 77s - Don't Let Go (2025)

Published on 18 May 2026 at 08:15

On May 30, 2025, The Airport 77s released their third album, "Don't Let Go".

Washington, D.C., is best known as the home of hardcore, go-go and hot-rodded roots rock, but the Airport 77s carry the torch for one of their hometown’s less celebrated musical legacies: power pop.

For their third record, guitarist Andy Sullivan and drummer John Kelly enlisted one of the city’s power pop legends: bassist Cal Everett, best known as the lead vocalist for 4 Out of 5 Doctors, who released two LPs on CBS Records in the 1980s.

Their new album is on CD and vinyl from Jem Records.

Everett’s McCartney-esque playing anchors a set of songs that draw on outlaw ballads, teenage journal scribbles, lounge pop, doomy psychedelia and arena rock bombast while remaining anchored in the good-natured melodic rock that defined their self-released EP “Rotation” in 2021 and their 2022 JEM Records release “We Realize You Have a Choice.”

Check out the latest album by The Airport 77s!

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