Click here to view the embedded video. We've got a pair of tickets to give away for Butch Walker & the Black Widows at the Basement on Sunday (Shovels & Rope open). Butch is the producer behind a lot of big-name WNCI artists like Katy Perry and Pink and stuff, but he's also been putting out records on his own since hair band SouthGang in the 80s, then Marvelous 3 , then solo stuff for the past 10 years or so. Walker also recruited Columbus/Galion ex-pat [...]
Butch Walker and the Black Widows deliver expert, unpretentious, feel good rock 'n roll with The Spade

Butch Walker - The Weight of Her Butch Walker - Ships in a Bottle Alright, I'll admit it. When I was 14, I was obsessed with Marvelous 3. They were one of the first good rock bands that I discovered on my own, not just passed on to me from my parents or my older brother, like all of the other bands I liked. I went to all of their shows, I had a "Marvelous 3 wall" (a collage I made of all of the pictures [...]

Nearly anyone who's had their had their hand in the music industry in the last ten years is familiar with Butch Walker . The Atlanta-bred jack-of-all-musical-trades has been clawing his way to notoriety since his teens and coming up on his 39th birthday, he's not even close to stopping now. Popwreckoning's own Joshua got the chance to chat with him recently and he had some fantastic insight to offer on all that he's done. Starting in the hair-glam days of the early nineties, Butch first burst on the scene as the guitarist for Southgang [...]
Georgia-born singer/songwriter Butch Walker is something of a paradox. Over his decade-plus career, he's found moderate success as a member of the punk-pop outfit Marvelous 3 and as a producer whose credits include the likes of Bowling for Soup , Avril Lavigne , and current left-field novelty Katy Perry . Yet while he undeniably plays well with others, one can argue that his best work can be found in his solo output, which ironically has failed to make him a household name. After three albums across just as many major labels, Walker is [...]

Power Pop : Not just an under-appreciated music genre, but the style that made up much of our college radio playlists. In the 1970s it was Big Star who pioneered the sound by combining the melody and harmony of the Beatles with the immediacy of The Who. Cheap Trick was perhaps its best proponent in the next decade, the 1980s. The below bands, most notably the Posies and Teenage Fanclub... Power Pop : Not just an under-appreciated music genre, but the style that made up much of our [...]

It's a slow, gloomy midweek day, and I've got nothing else for ya, so i present: A random Wednesday mix for you, inspired by a friend's stumbing upon the number of songs with honorifics in the titles. Random Wednesday Honorifics Mix: Counting Crows - Mr. Jones (acoustic) The Killers - Mr. Brightside (acoustic) Marvelous 3 - Mrs. Jackson Simon & Garfunkel - [...]