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May 31st, 2008

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Tampa Bay Punkers Return With New Band, CD And Musical

May 16th, 2008 (NEW WORLD BREWERY, YBOR CITY) marks the temporary return of
some of Tampa’s favorite sons. Joe Popp (Joe Popp, dogs on ice, American Stage’s Macbeth,
Jobsite’s MAXWELL), now living in New York City, has assembled a power three-piece trio
described by some as a “Minutemen/Replacements sandwich”. The group features former
Tampanian Brian McCabe on bass. You will remember McCabe from when he played with
Popp in the raucous post-punk outfit dogs on ice that opened for Green Day at The Brass Mug
and released two CDs and a 7” in the early 90’s. Brian also performed with Popp in the Mac
Wellman rock musical Whirligig in 1999 at TPAC, and also served time with Will Quinlan
and the Pagan Saints. Joining the reunited band mates is ferocious skinsman and King of Beef
studio proprietor, Tylor Durand, whom Brian and Joe both met through mutual friends in New
York City many years ago. The Hornrims formed in February of 2007 and they have been
writing music and playing out ever since.

The Hornrims soon to be released debut CD, Holland, will be available by the date of the New
World Brewery Show.

To add more icing to the Tampa cake, The Hornrims are also going to be composing the new
musical Pericles that Popp is writing for Jobsite Theater that opens in August of 2009.

Joe Popp Celebrates New Band's Premiere
By Julie Garisto, St. Petersburg Times
May 13, 2008

Joe Popp is back.

The former Tampa resident — known locally for his early '90s band dogs on ice and later his popular self-titled act — continues to keep one foot in the local scene, even after relocating to New York almost a decade ago.

"The greatest thing about Tampa for me is that I got a chance to develop a lot of work I wouldn't have been able to develop anywhere else," he said.

"(In New York) I just worked with Michael Greif, director of Rent, on a show (In the Bubble) and I wouldn't have had an opportunity to do that in Florida. It's sort of a tradeoff . . . but I'll take artistic control and less money over heavyweight, high-flying, highfalutin' stuff any day."

The return of Popp, 42, to the Tampa Bay area this weekend celebrates the premiere of his new band, The Hornrims, a hard-rocking power trio. It includes former Tampa musician Brian McCabe on bass and New York pal Tylor Durand on drums.

"We were like, 'What happened to bands like The Minutemen, The Replacements and Husker Du?' — bands that just played loud rock without this sheen of production, without the slickness of the video and the young people wearing fashionable clothes," Popp said recently.

The Hornrims will play with Nessie and Deadly Fists of Kung Fu at 9 p.m. Friday at New World Brewery, 1313 E Eighth Ave., Ybor City. Tickets are $6. (813) 248-4969.

Popp, McCabe and Durand return to Tampa with The Hornrims
By David Jenkins, Jobsite Theater
May 08, 2008

I've known Joe Popp since early 1999. I met him at an audition in the Jaeb Theater at TBPAC for a weird little show called Whirligig, in which I was eventually cast. I felt like Joe and I hit it off pretty well, and we've worked together on and off since.

He provided the "theme song" to The History of the Devil (the first time around) - a cover of the Stones' Sympathy for the Devil. He provided a 15-minute rock opera, JY2K, for our first collection of original works. We did a full-length original musical of his, MAXWELL. He even did a guitar cover of Billy Joel's Summer, Highland Falls for me to 'guitar-sync' over for the beginning of subUrbia. Now he's working on some songs for Embedded, and his new band is creating the final show for our 10th anniversary season - an adaptation of William Shakespeare's Pericles.

Popp and his current bandmates Brian McCabe (who also played bass in Whirligig and played in Joe's previous band dogs on ice) and Tylor Durand are returning to Tampa next Friday night, May 16, to play a show at New World Brewery with a local favorite of mine, Nessie, and Deadly Fists of Kung Fu. Their new outfit is called The Hornrims, and they are more than worthy of your attention.

If you're a lover of good music or want to get a preview of the band that will be fronting our production of Pericles or want to say hello to your local Jobsiteers or just blow off a long week with a few damned fine pints - come out and represent.

It's not Jobsite Rocks, but both Nessie and Popp have played previous JR events. They've done a lot to support us, so let's come out and support them. It's just $6 at the door and the bands are supposed to start around 10p.

Represent!

Joe Popp returns home Friday with The Hornrims
By Wade Tatangelo, Creative Loafing
May 13th, 2008

joepopp2.jpgJoe Popp, acclaimed Tampa rocker/actor (American Stage’s MacBeth, Jobsite’s Maxwell), returns from his current digs in New York City for a concert Friday (May 16) at New World Brewery, Ybor City. Popp’s fronting a power trio called The Hornrims, which have just finished recording an ace new record titled Holland. The disc is a smart, gruff, catchy collection of timeless, Replacements-style rock featuring memorable numbers like “Last Mistake,” the title-track and “Billion Stars,” which all can be heard here. The Hornrims plan to have the album available for sale at New World.

Singer/guitarist Popp is joined in The Hornrims by former Tampanian Brian McCabe (bass) and NYC drummer Tylor Durand. Local music trivia: Popp and McCabe ’s old band dogs on ice opened Green Day’s famed Brass Mug gig in ‘91. Show info:

The Hornrims w/Nessie/Deadly Fists of Kung Fu, 9 p.m. Fri., May 16, New World Brewery, Ybor City, $6.

Note: The Hornrims play first, hitting the stage at 10 p.m.

Joe Popp is back in Tampa
By Scott Harell, The Bradenton Herald
May 15, 2008

Ten years ago, everyone even peripherally interested in west central Florida's original-music scene knew the name Joe Popp. They knew the band, a trio of bald-headed, guayabera-wearing pranksters that plied energetic, punk-inflected rock everywhere from dive-bar stages to Shakespeare in the Park. And they knew the man, a loud, funny, thoughtful guy whose boundless creative energy seemed able to find an outlet anywhere - in comedy, in the theater, in writing, in rock 'n' roll.

Such energy needs inspiration as badly as it needs outlets, however, and in 2000, Popp - the man - headed for New York City in search of new challenges. He found them: a job as Technical Director for the City College of New York's recording program; side businesses building amplifiers and crafting custom skateboards; and marriage, with an adolescent daughter, Gabrielle, thrown in for good measure.

"It's not like the old days, where you have a band room you can go to five nights a week," says Popp of his new life. "I've gotta get home and watch 'Matlock,' watch 'Murder, She Wrote.' That's what old people watch, right?"

He also managed to stay musically active. Popp worked on several theater projects, including his own and writer Rinne Groff's "Of a White Christmas." He even composed music for Groff's "In The Bubble," a 2007 production loosely based on the '70s John Travolta TV movie "The Boy in the Plastic Bubble," and helmed by "Rent" director Michael Greif. Currently, Popp is putting together his own punky adaptation of Shakespeare's "Pericles," to be debuted by Tampa's Jobsite Theater in August of next year.

Despite his successes in musical theater, however, he always missed the feeling of cranking up the amplifiers and blasting out straight-up rock tunes with a couple of friends.

"People think I'm this theater guy, but I hate almost everything I see," he says with a laugh. "Especially musicals. They tell you it's a rock musical, and you go and it just does not rock."

It was a call from Tampa early last year that finally got Popp moving toward forming another rock act. Local community radio station WMNF 88.5 FM wanted to know if Joe Popp "the man" would be interested in reuniting Joe Popp "the band" for a show in celebration of the station's 28th birthday. Popp called his former drummer, Jeff Wood, to discover that symptoms from a brain tumor Wood had been fighting for several years had advanced dramatically; the local legend was no longer able to play his drums. His personal struggle forced Popp to consider his own mortality, and count his blessings. (Wood, a friend and inspiration to nearly everyone in the Tampa Bay music community, died last September.)

"I just thought, 'here's this guy, all he wants to do is play, and he can't,' " he says. "I can still play; I should be doing the thing that I feel like I should be doing. Even if it's one night a week, and even if I forget everything about the songs we learned last week."

He began pestering friend, former bandmate (from Popp's seminal early-'90s post-punk outfit Dogs on Ice) and fellow naturalized New Yorker Brian McCabe to take up the bass again. McCabe finally relented - but only after drummer Tylor Durand, a mutual friend, threw in.

The resulting outfit, The Hornrims, mixes Popp's penchant for gruff, muscular rock with simple hooks and the eccentric sensibility of old-school groups such as Minutemen and The Replacements. Their debut CD, "Holland," is arriving any day now, and serves as an apt introduction to a band less interested in following youthful trends than in making their own music, their own way, on their own time.

"It chooses you," says Popp of rock 'n' roll. "You feel like you have to do it. But it's good to be in a band again. The theater thing just isn't as rewarding as being up there with your two bandmates and just killing it."

If you go
Who: The Hornrims, opening for The Deadly Fists of Kung Fu and Nessie
When: 10 p.m. Friday
Where: New World Brewery, Ybor City
Cost: $6

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