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New Series! Postmodern Jukebox: Reboxed – Bad Romance ft. Sara Niemietz & The Sole Sisters
We're announcing a new series today! Here's the first video of Postmodern Jukebox: Reboxed - a new series of covers of covers that we're rolling out beginning on Monday, Feb 22. In this series debut, Sara Niemietz and the tap dancing Sole Sisters (Sarah Reich and...
How Postmodern Jukebox Met Casey Abrams
By Scott Bradlee If you've attended a Postmodern Jukebox show with Casey Abrams in the cast, you already know what a force of nature he is onstage. He pours his soul into his singing every night. He shreds the upright bass. He occasionally does hilarious things...
New Video! A Very Special Tribute to “Heroes,” featuring Nicole Atkins
I received a number of requests to do a Postmodern Jukebox cover by the late David Bowie in these last few weeks, and to be honest, I wasn't sure how best to honor his incredible legacy. As fate would have it, a received a phone call from my friend Nicole Atkins,...
‘PMJ Is For Lovers’ – 13 Vintage Valentine’s Day Classics
So let's face it: Valentine's Day is really just a commercial holiday invented by greeting card companies, used to guilt couples on spending money on each other. It's brilliant, but I still think it's a silly fake holiday. I do, however, appreciate that it gives us...
New Video! Alessia Cara’s “Here,” Peggy Lee Style ft. Aubrey Logan
Aubrey Logan is back, and we're reimagining Alessia Cara's hit, "Here" as if it was recorded in the heyday of Peggy Lee. Watch her incredible performance: Download / Order "Here" from our ‘PMJ and Chill' album: Buy PMJ and Chill Aubrey is an incredibly rare...
A Q&A With LaVance Colley
"Remember those walls I built..." From the opening notes of the Postmodern Jukebox version of Beyonce's "Halo," it's clear that LaVance Colley is truly a world class vocalist. Audiences that attended our recent US tour were blown away by his tremendous range, rich...
1929 New Orleans Remake of Justin Bieber’s “Love Yourself,” feat. Sara Niemietz
We took Justin Bieber's Love Yourself, way back in time to show how it would have sounded in 1920's New Orleans. The incredible Sara Niemietz gave us one of the best vocals in PMJ history, and something crazy happened at 2:15. Watch here: Download / Order ...
Postmodern Jukebox Passes 400 Million Views On YouTube
We hit yet another milestone yesterday, when the Postmodern Jukebox YouTube channel passed 400,000,000 total views. To put that number into perspective, the population of the United States was 319 million in 2014. The population of the entire world was estimated to...
Know Your Meme: Puddles, The Sad Clown With The Golden Voice
When the front desk at my apartment building called me to tell me that a very large clown was holding a sign with my name on it downstairs, I wasn’t concerned. This was probably a great relief for them; indeed, there are few people that a desk clerk could encounter...
New Video! A ’40s Glenn Miller – Style Remake of “Just Like Heaven,” featuring Natalie Angst
We took a trip to the 1940s this week for another Postmodern Jukebox debut - this time, by a 20 year old vocalist named Natalie Angst. Watch our vintage remake of The Cure's "Just Like Heaven" here: Download / Order "Just Like Heaven" from our ‘PMJ and Chill'...
A Piano Tribute to the Late David Bowie, By Scott Bradlee
I still remember the first time I heard David Bowie's 1969 classic, "Space Oddity." I was in college, hoping to pursue a career in music, and struggling to make sense on what exactly that meant. At a time where, prompted by technology, music was being endlessly...
Adam Kubota’s PMJ North American Tour Recap–You’ll NEVER believe what happens during show 33!
A PMJ Tour Recap by Bassist Adam Kubota: “Private jets…they got us private jets!” It’s a story that I’ve eagerly repeated to so many friends over the holidays. In the early days of Postmodern Jukebox, we were paid in falafels and now we get to ride in our own jets....
New Video! “Bye Bye Bye,” ‘Pulp Fiction’ Surf Rock Style feat. Tara Louise
This week, we gave NSYNC's hit, "Bye Bye Bye" a Quentin Tarantino spin by imagining how it would sound in the soundtrack to "Pulp Fiction." Watch the video debut of Tara Louise - another fantastic young vocalist that we found during our #PMJsearch contest - and enjoy...
The History of Postmodern Jukebox
You probably all remember the first Postmodern Jukebox video you saw. Well, I remember the first one I made. It was back in 2010, and I was living in a basement apartment in Astoria, NY, trying to figure out just what I was going to do with myself. I was in my late...
Postmodern Jukebox Rings in the New Year in Las Vegas
We just returned from a 4 day road trip to Las Vegas to bring in the New Year at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. You know the old adage: what happens in Vegas...goes on the PMJ blog. (In the dressing room after the final show. I was clearly looking at the wrong camera.) Our...