Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox

“Saucy, sassy, stylish, and a with steady slew of some of the biggest pop songs in recent memory, a night out with Scott Bradlee and his cadre of musical powerhouses spells just one thing - a guaranteed party.” – MTV

“So rad!” – Gwen Stefani

Postmodern Jukebox are a force to be reckoned with. Starting out as the bedroom project of Jazz pianist Scott Bradlee, the US group’s vintage-pop mash ups have racked up over 650 million YouTube views and brought their rotating roster of top-class session musicians into the limelight & onto worldwide tours that have sold 220 thousand tickets to date. The outfit played 155 shows in 2016 alone.
Now, they’re releasing their major label debut album The Essentials in the UK on April 6th alongside a run of live shows, kicking off in Bournemouth on Feb 27th and culminating in 2 nights at London’s Hammersmith Apollo on March 23rd & 24th.

The Essentials collects 18 favourites from Postmodern Jukebox’s weekly postings. Both the songs and the styles span decades – it just happens that the decades in question are separated by about half a century. Bradlee’s choice of material ranges from the 80s hard rock of Guns N’ Roses to more recent hits such as Justin Bieber’s Sorry.

The album serves as the perfect starting point to the world of Postmodern Jukebox, whose weekly videos marry familiar 21st-century pop tropes such as the party vibe of Miley Cyrus or the minimalist angst of Radiohead with the musical styles of yesteryear, from swing to doo-wop, ragtime to Motown, or as Bradlee himself puts it, “pop music in a time machine”.