Pop Geek Heaven

Okay. I’ve been SO busy w/ life, day job stuff and working on so many projects outside of PGH(and doing everything – everything – at PGH on my free time) that I’ve not gotten this down to a system yet with doing these compilations. That will change now that we’ve moved into 2012.  I’ll get […]

Scott Homewoods Top 10 Releases Of 2011   Tom Waits – Bad Love Forty years into his incredible career and Waits still astounds me with every release. I first encountered Waits’ music during his first incarnation in the ’70’s as a psuedo beat poet/lounge pianist and quickly became enamored of his lyrical originality and skill […]

BITS AND PIECES   Heard about The World Record (www.theworldrecord.net) on the net and asked Andy Creighton to send me a copy of Guitars Forever.  This 2006 release is a stunner from the get-up-and-shake-it opener of “We’re #1” all the way through.  Creighton has a gift for simple but memorable riffs and he never stints […]

Okay. This will be a HUGE help to me. We are going to be doing a lot of these in the coming year.  They will be FUN, helpful and interesting.  (The next one will arrive in a few weeks) This first one, though, may not be that way.  I need some important feedback from you […]

Episode 6 features discussion, information and music samples from Suzy & Los Quattro,  All Night Chemists, Blue Cartoon, Blankety Blank and The Effection.   ENJOY! (IMPORTANT NOTE:  I have posted this episode for the next few days WITHOUT sound samples for you of the band talked about – did not have time before leaving for a […]

Old fans of Not Lame may recall seeing Michael Oliver‘s name 10 years or so ago, with a really solid power pop effort called “Go, Dog, Go!”, which has not been available in many years.  After a long break, Oliver returns with a song for Pop Pioneers and the news of an upcoming album – […]

WOW – get ready.  There’s two weeks of links below – and a lot of smiles, relevant information and new things you are probably not aware of – but soon will be that you are!   This area is designed to be down ‘n dirty – quick, rapid-fire links with no fluff.  So…LET’S GO! ======================================================== First […]