Sure, you know what WE say about ourselves:

It's sort of a cross between XTC, TMBG and X, but with more vowels...
a 6-piece nonska band with horns, attitude and a Master's degree in English
or 
At last! A band that can play in 5/4 time and sings about postmodern writers!
or the old standby 
NoisePop AvantPunk IdiotRock -- the music of tomorrow, one day early...

But what do other people say about PopCanon?

Here are some reviews -- many about our last and best CD d'art (1999) and many for our debut CD The Kingdom of Idiot Rock (1997) -- and other stuff about the band that you might find interesting, if you like that sort of thing...

This page is broken up into five sections:

From:
Interstate ezine, XXX     'easily the best track on here ... the horn-bristling PopCanon'
AudioSurge ezine, Michigan     'PopCanon is the pinnacle of nerd-rock, and they RULE the genre'
Milkmag ezine, Wisconsin      'the band has forged its musicianship into a pingingly tight unit'
Splendid ezine, Illinois      'puts a dent into the framework of today's pop nation'
Delusions of Adequacy ezine, NY     'a throwback swinging pop band with clever, off-center lyrics'
Gajoob ezine, Salt Lake City      'fresh, highly recommended stuff'
Lord Litter's RadioShow reviews, Germany      'this is true independence!!'
Eatmag/Focus, Tampa FL music mag      'you don't have to be crazy to like them, but what could it hurt?'
zine INK19, Florida      'only on a PopCanon CD could this all happen'
Flagpole Magazine, Athens GA      'some considerable monkey business'
Mp3Reviews website, on the single Arthole      'this will knock ya off yer chair!'
InSite Magazine, Gainesville      'crazy, intricate rhythmic and musical ideas'
MOON Magazine's Music Scale, Gainesville      'an embarrassment of riches'
The Libyrinth website, devoted to several of our favorite authors:
      The Garden of Forking Paths/JL Borges      'a certain sneaky glee'
      Porta Ludovica/Umberto Eco      'a wonderful gem of eclectic pop music'
      Bronze by Gold/James Joyce & Music      'a Zappa-like sense of cheerful skill'
      Spermatikos Logos/Pynchon on Record      'this is one "symphonic" mix!'
A Serbian music mag, roughly translated      'then you wonder how does the Apocalypse look like?'
A different Serbian music mag, roughly translated      'imagine a crash with the Pixies and a bluegrass musician'
Express Magazine, Alabama      'evokes the spirit of unwritten musicals'
ezine The Fritz, Orlando      'the best darn mango iced tea i've ever had'
music/culture ezine @NZone, Pennsylvania      'feel good sunshine turmoil sponge music'
Lord Litter's RadioShow reviews, Germany      'truly unique music of high quality'
zine It's The Music, Stupid!, Pensacola      'some of the cuts sound like Joe Jackson gone loopy'
Gajoob ezine, Salt Lake City      'an instrumental arsenal to blow the house down'
Throttle Magazine, Virgini a     'pop-induced zaniness'
9Muses ezine, Missouri      'pop music that is unexpected'
dropD ezine, Canada      'eccentric literate weirdness and instrumental thuggery'
Focus/Eatmag ezine, St. Petersburg      'popart flotsam and musical jetsam'
ElimiNatioN, a punk zine, California      'it makes you think, Hey!'
the Tampa Tribune, Tampa      'solid, strange and snotty'
181.4 Degrees from the Norm!, Michigan      'warning: this disk kicks ass'
InSite Magazine, Gainesville      'this jetset septet includes everything that makes rock good'
Babysue music review, Georgia      'offbeat, progressive pop'
MOON Magazine's Music Scale, Gainesville      'smart, funny, chaotic'
ezine The G-Note, Gainesville      'a quirky, foottapping good time'
zine INK19, Florida      'college-educated smart-guy rock'

Two webloggers have some nice things to say about PopCanon
PopCanon wins Honorable Mention in the New Jersey Secular Humanist Network's Original Song Contest!
The beautiful and heartbreaking page of condolences we received at PCHQ after announcing our retirement
PopCanon wins 2000 Hogtown Music Award for 'Favorite Local CD' and 'Favorite Pop Act'!!
PopCanon wins 1998 Hogtown Music Award for 'Favorite Pop Band'! (And loses 1999's Award!)
Comment of Mark Pinske, Frank Zappa's engineer, who mastered the first PopCanon CD
Praise from Eugene Chadbourne, brilliant guitarist/songwriter/avantgardien
The remarks of Paul Reller, genius songwriter behind Tampa's great Clang
An Xmas card from our pals Hairy & Kristen
Commentary from The Berkeley Pynheads
Pun-filled praise from Chris Weingarten, basement funk all-star
A slogan from Howard of microbroadcast station Free Radio Gainesville
A description from Ty Popick, mastermind of the PawnRook4
A backhanded compliment from Rusty Valentine, fantastic drummer and Sideshow Bob lookalike
Excerpt from the IdiotSavantGarde tour diary about the PC/ISG show together
97X's deejays weigh in on PC's performance at '97X Appreciation Night'
From Pose, the bassplayer in Tuscaloosa, Alabama's amazing band PAIN
From Sue of Static Records
From a guy named X-ian, who used to cover the song 'Fishbee Island' in his old band Mixed Desmids
From the PAWS benefit people
From the SpringArtsFest people
Some comments and drawings from PC fans who filled out our new questionnaire

A jihad from Canadian punkrock zine Caustic Truths, Toronto      '...whichever would make them die first'
From indielicious ezine Pitchforkmedia.com     'this release is not worth investigating or purchasing'
From terminally hip ezine Signal Drench      'the most pretentious thing I've EVER heard'
From dull ezine Lost At Sea     'clearly this is self-released for a reason'
From punkrawk ezine Buddyhead, So. Cal     'I seriously don't know why we get certain records'
A sweet & sour review from FolioWeekly, NE Florida      'the shoes are just too big'
From the pro-bees, anti-Sting zine Temple of Sting, NY      'it's just not my cup of tea'
A well-written pan from Milk Magazine, Michigan      'not aggressively awful'
A (literally) painful review from ezine LoveJunkie 514, Pennsylvania      'too bad Frank Zappa is dead'
A superconcise pan from Creative Loafing, Savannah      'funkless art-dross'
From the Angry Thoreauan, Walden      'avoid'
A weird semi-pan from Jam Magazine, Orlando      'severe pretentiousness'
Another weird pan, from Aiding & Abetting #152, Pennsylvania      'a general morass'
From MOON Magazine's Music Scale, June '96, Gainesville      'annoyingly catchy'

Live performance review from Ink19 Magazine, May 2001      'one of those rare gigs that everyone knew ... would be an event'
Live performance review from Moon Magazine, April 2001      'this was the best damn show I've ever seen them play'
Live performance review from Moon Magazine, January 2001      'they brought the house down'
Live Performance Reviewfrom ezine Hardroad.com, October 2000      'this band has two secret weapons'
2000 Hogtown Music Awards blurb from Moon Magazine, November 2000      'these prolific Gainesville veterans invite an adjective pileup'
Blurb from the Alligator's new student edition, August 2000      'a hyper-literate, classically-trained ensemble of genre hoppers'
Gator Times blurb      'the most erudite and quirky mix of jazz and rock ever audible'
Ink19 concert review of MoeFest      'geek dancing in epidemic proportions'
Christina's concert diary, special PopCanon edition, July 2000      'highlights: singer being lefthanded, free stickers, dancing brass section'
Gator Times article about Alyson Carrel, Women In Music, May 2000      'see a woman rocking just as hard as a man'
Long, chaotic 1999 interview from the Common Grounds Newsletter      'That's it! This interview is over!'
1999 Hogtown Music Awards blurb in Moon Magazine, November '99      'smarty-pants art pop'
1999 Gainesville Area Music Awards blurb in InSite Magazine, November '99      '2nd Worst Dressed Band'
Alligator article about the Minuteman Tribute Show at the Covered Dish, November '99
Live Performance Review in Ink19, October '99      'quirk-rock auteurs with a skewed sense of humor'
Scene Magazine in The Gainesville Sun, October '99      'penchant for the offbeat'
Scene Magazine in The Gainesville Sun, April '99      'Labels--stay away: Let us rock in peace!'
Radio Free Gainesville in The Alligator      'HA HA HA - do you want some crackers?'
Appleseed Magazine      'even the set breaks are noisy'
InSite magazine      'oddball hybrid of quirky pop music'
Detours in The Independent Florida Alligator      'quirky alternative pop'
AmpNotes, the GAMA publication      'Gainesville's strangest rock band'
The Local Buzz, in University Reporter      'Charlie Manson's house band'

To other bands, known and unknown
Adjectivally and rhetorically
The question of execution

Last modified: Tuesday, 15 Oct 2002 18:03:15 EST