Episode 407 - Marko DeSantis & S.W. Lauden on Popsicko

2023-02-22

Download

Santa Barbara Independent July 8, 2021by S.W. Lauden There’s a parallel universe in which this article is about Popsicko’s triumphant two-night stand at the Santa Barbara Bowl. A world where this high-energy alternative-rock band takes a triumphant victory lap in front of an adoring hometown crowd after nearly three decades at the top of the charts, countless world tours, and piles of platinum records. Given the buzz around Popsicko in the early ’90s, the above scenario seemed entirely possible. “[Popsicko] plays songs s...

Santa Barbara Independent
July 8, 2021
by S.W. Lauden

There’s a parallel universe in which this article is about Popsicko’s triumphant two-night stand at the Santa Barbara Bowl. A world where this high-energy alternative-rock band takes a triumphant victory lap in front of an adoring hometown crowd after nearly three decades at the top of the charts, countless world tours, and piles of platinum records.

Given the buzz around Popsicko in the early ’90s, the above scenario seemed entirely possible. “[Popsicko] plays songs stocked with simple chords and catchy refrains that you can shout along to, yet blissfully devoid of overproduction and triteness,” Danny Gellert wrote for a Santa Barbara Independent cover story in 1995. “This is rock and roll that’s informed of every pop music phase since the British Invasion, yet reinvents itself like none of it ever happened.”

But you’ve probably already guessed that’s not how this story ends.

So happy to welcome S.W. Lauden back to talk about this album.

Sit down, strap yourself in, there's some stuff here...

LINKS

Popsicko

Big Stir Records

S.W. Lauden

Marko DeSantis

The Santa Barbara Independent

The Whiffs

Paint Fumes (band)

Billy Tibbals