Introducing: Popular Music’s “Sad Songs”
By Zac Pennington | September 22, 2023
By Zac Pennington | September 22, 2023
Introducing: Popular Music’s “Sad Songs”
Zac Pennington premieres a track, and talk the “Gena Rowlands routine.”
Zac Pennington
Zac Pennington is one half of the basically un-Google-able group Popular Music, and was formerly the creative director for the band Parenthetical Girls. He currently lives in Melbourne, Australia.
Popular Music’s new album, Minor Works, is out Friday, October 13 via Sanitarium Sound Services.
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Introducing: “Hideout”
By Zac Pennington | June 19, 2017
By Zac Pennington | June 19, 2017
Introducing: “Hideout”
A song premiere and breakup letter from Comedienne, or the artist formerly known as Parenthetical Girls.
Zac Pennington (Parenthetical Girls) Talks the Weeknd’s Kiss Land
By Zac Pennington | September 23, 2013
By Zac Pennington | September 23, 2013
Zac Pennington (Parenthetical Girls) Talks the Weeknd’s Kiss Land
“This ain’t nothin' to relate to.” Pop music has enough victims. I don’t mean to say that pop music itself is some kind of toxic malignancy — this...
Zac Pennington (Parenthetical Girls) Talks Van Dyke Parks’ Songs Cycled
By Zac Pennington | August 14, 2013
By Zac Pennington | August 14, 2013
Zac Pennington (Parenthetical Girls) Talks Van Dyke Parks’ Songs Cycled
Opinions are fickle things. What appeals to the pleasure centers at first blush doesn’t always maintain stamina. Likewise, the longer it takes for...
Zac Pennington (Parenthetical Girls) Talks Taylor Swift’s Red
By Zac Pennington | April 2, 2013
By Zac Pennington | April 2, 2013
Zac Pennington (Parenthetical Girls) Talks Taylor Swift’s Red
The first heated argument I had on the topic of Taylor Swift began in the latter months of 2009. These were heated times — post-Kanye, after...
