Max Diez

Jack The Stripper recently spoke with Ulysse Cottin and Armand Penicaut of Paris based indie-pop band, Papooz, ahead of their upcoming performance on 4/25 at Great American Music Hall in SF.  Tune in on Friday, April 25th at 3pm to hear their conversation.

Latest album, RESONATE, is more immediate, raw while remaining melodic, melancholic and intimate, blending sentimental ballads and dance calls. The album recaptures the epic breath and the amorous nonchalance that characterized Papooz’s early steps. It’s like the meeting of the amorous sweetness and California vibes of Metronomy with the psychedelic groove of MGMT.

Their love for music spans across the vast landscape of Los Angeles highways, the artsy posture of New York, the psychedelia of the Summer of Love, the sophistication of post-punk, the intimacy of folk, and the flirtation with funk. A grand, hedonistic, and electric mix infused with a burst of pop and refreshing nonchalance!

Join Velvet Einstein on Friday, April 25th at 11am to hear his conversation with Indonesian composer // singer-songwriter, Peni Candra Rini.

The Kronos Quartet will perform Rini’s composition, Segara Gunung, on Friday, April 25th at SF Jazz during this year’s Kronos Festival.

Together, they discuss a number of topics including:

Tune in on Thursday, April 10th at 1:30pm when Sex 14’s hosts Tompkins Square founder, Josh Rosenthal, to discuss the label’s upcoming release, Treasures Untold : A Modern 78 RPM Reader, for Record Store Day on April 12th.

Treasures Untold : A Modern 78 RPM Reader is a 10 x 10″ 155 page hardback book with CD, ltd ed of 1000, numbered foil stamp. Released exclusively on Record Store Day US & UK/EU – April 12, 2025.

The CD contains ten covers of 78-era songs by artists such as Luther Dickinson, R.Crumb, William Tyler, Muireann Bradley, Gwenifer Raymond, Michael Hurley, Billy Childish and more. Eight of the ten songs were recorded specifically for the project.

The writing is by collectors, ethnomusicologists, dealers, archivists and producers, including an interview with Ian Nagoski and Dick Spottswood, 14 year old collector and DJ Jay Burnett, Eli Smith (Brooklyn Folk Festival), John Heneghan, Nathan Salsburg and more. Book designed by Grammy-nominated Barbara Bersche (Lomax Haiti box set, Harry Smith B-sides box set).

Tompkins Square, an 8x Grammy-nominated label based in San Francisco, celebrates its 20th Anniversary this year. Purveyors of reissues (Robbie Basho, Michael Chapman, Mal Waldron, Bola Sete …) as well as early/first recordings by Muireann Bradley, William Tyler, Ryley Walker, Gwenifer Raymond, James Blackshaw and many others.

Join Sex 14’s on Wednesday, April 9th at 12:30pm when he hosts a very special in-studio performance and interview with singer-songwriter-instrumentalists, Evie Sands & Bridget St. John, ahead of their upcoming show at The Chapel in SF on April 10th.

The show at The Chapel is a rare, stars must be aligned, pairing of two revered legends in their own time -sharing 1 stage promises across-career highlights and delights – meaningful, memorable, illuminating and sly fun.

Although these two cherished icons of Northern Soul (Evie) and British “Psych Folk” (Bridget) may appear to be continents and genres apart, their free-spirits feel connected, with both sirens possessing treasured singular voices within the music biz cacophony who have managed to persevere, staying true to their artful paths with a multitude of grace and with both still full-on creatively – hence the tour’s title – “A Woman’s Work Is Never Done”.

Evie’s last full length was proclaimed “a revelation” by esteemed British mags MOJO and Uncut, her definitive Angel of the Morning figured significantly in last year’s controversial series – “Baby Reindeer”, while Bridget will have a new EP: Musical Brothers interpreting songs of her Les Cousins Soho (’60’s London’s Greenwich Village) mates: Nick Drake, John Martyn, Michael Chapman and Kevin Ayers. Evie’s adept band will support. Expect surprises.