"Peter McPoland is in full-on tour preparation mode as our Zoom interview gets underway. He's been rehearsing a lot at his Los Angeles pad with his band of longtime pals, who will back him on the road show that includes a Bay Area stop. Yet, on this particular day, McPoland is just putting the finishing touches on a keyboard shelf that he's building for the tour."
"McPoland's tour-improvement project is very telling of the artist's current mood - which is to take no shortcuts to get where he wants to go with his music. That is underscored on the recently released sophomore full-length "Big Lucky," which found this former Internet sensation - who first came to fame with the viral hit "Romeo & Juliet" - unplugging from social media and web life in general to focus on recording music in a more old-school way."
He has been rehearsing in Los Angeles with longtime bandmates who will back him on a tour that includes a Bay Area stop. He built a keyboard shelf instead of buying one online and is finishing it as part of tour preparations. He adopted a no-shortcuts approach while making his sophomore full-length Big Lucky, unplugging from social media and web life. He bought a flip-phone, replaced Spotify with an iPod of Beatles tunes, and recorded on a reel-to-reel tape machine rather than the computer tracks used on his 2023 debut Piggy. The result is a collection of fresh, vibrant indie-pop songs to be performed Nov. 8 at August Hall in San Francisco, with tickets starting at $23.
Read at The Mercury News
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