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About Me

Popland was Kevin Mathews on vocals & guitars and Tim Nolan on bass. Mathews, is a Singaporean singer-songwriter who has previous work under his belt with Watchmen, most notably the number one radio hit My One & Only. Nolan, an expatriate Brit, paid his dues in the eighties with jazz-punk outfit Pinski Zoo and the HowdyBoys. Popland released two well-received albums viz Groovy (1998) and Action! (2001). Mathews & Nolan are now pursuing fresh musical directions.Check out also www.myspace.com/watchmen www.myspace.com/kevinmathews

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Member Since: 2/8/2005
Band Website: powerofpop.com
Band Members: Kevin Mathews - Vocals, guitars & keyboards; Tim Nolan - Bass, guitars & keyboards.
Influences: The Beatles, The Who, XTC, Brian Wilson, Todd Rundgren, the Stones, Neil Young, Gram Parsons etc
Record Label: Zip Records www.ziprecords.com
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

POPLAND, KL

Well, on Friday (8th Dec) morning, Tim, Hairi, Angela and myself made our way up the 2nd link onwards to KL and it took us about 8 long hours to get there! Angela and I got to the hotel (just a stone...
Posted by Popland on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 06:43:00 PST

POPLAND: THE CAMOUFLAGE EP

POPLAND: THE CAMOUFLAGE EP   We at KAMCO RECORDS believe that the days of the Compact Discs are numbered and will soon be consigned to history in the same way vinyl records were. The same goes f...
Posted by Popland on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 08:17:00 PST

powerofpop.blogspot.com

Visit me at www.powerofpop.blogspot.com
Posted by Popland on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 05:44:00 PST

New Steve Wynn Review at Power of Pop!

Check out the review of Steve Wynn's ...tick...tick...tick at www.powerofpop.com
Posted by Popland on Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:38:00 PST

Fufkin.com Feb 06

The February 2006 Fufkin.com page is up. This month wehave the following record reviews:Mike Bennett presents full length reviews of thelatest from Sparks, Robert Pollard, The SpectacularFantastic, Ro...
Posted by Popland on Thu, 23 Feb 2006 06:31:00 PST

GOING UNDERGROUND FEB '06

Hey there, all.Kevin "Power of Pop" Mathews beguiles us once again with a ruthless onslaught of pop music criticism for discerning folks like yerselves! This month, he tells tales of underground troub...
Posted by Popland on Mon, 20 Feb 2006 04:26:00 PST

UNDERSTANDING ROCK MUSIC

"Hot funk, cool punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock 'n' roll to me" (Billy Joel)   How much do you really know about ROCK music? Have you always wanted to make sense of the many genres a...
Posted by Popland on Thu, 16 Feb 2006 03:56:00 PST

POPcast is coming!

An advance heads up - Tim and I will be producing POPcast (i.e. PowerOfPop-cast) which will be available at www.powerofpop.com soon and will feature the best of the pop underground... If you're intere...
Posted by Popland on Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:34:00 PST

POPLAND WANTS U!!!

Heres the deal, boys and girls.   POPLAND will be recording a new album in 2006, which will be released by an American label, probably Zip Records, out of San Francisco. Also we intend to take t...
Posted by Popland on Fri, 10 Feb 2006 09:51:00 PST

Back in the Saddle...

Thanks to all the kind folk to returned to Popland with us last night at the Prince of Wales. To Choon, Shang, Mark, Ric, Fong Cheng, Kheng Yew, Uncle John, Kevin, Ai Meun and her friend (sorry, but y...
Posted by Popland on Fri, 11 Nov 2005 07:42:00 PST