A group known for putting its own spin on its music is coming to Bellingham.
Postmodern Jukebox was founded in 2011 by Scott Bradlee, a pianist based in New York. He and the group, which is a collective with musicians rotating in and out, takes modern music and reworks it, setting it in various vintage genres, concentrating particularly on the jazz and swing types of the early part of the 20th century.
Among the songs the group has reworked are “Happier,” and “Stay.” The original “Happier” is by Olivia Roderigo and is a folk-pop ballad. In Postmodern Jukebox’s hands, it has become a girl-group number reminiscent of the Shangri-Las. They have similarly reworked “Stay,” originally a pop song by The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber, into a 1950s sock-hop number, slowing it down and giving it a doo-wop backup.
Postmodern Jukebox has toured Australia, Europe, and North America, often doing so simultaneously, since the membership of the collective is large enough to send different artists out at the same time. In addition, because so many people take part, the Jukebox has enjoyed more than 1.9 billion views on YouTube on a channel has over five million subscribers. The group uploads a new music video every week.
Postmodern Jukebox will be at Bellingham’s Mount Baker Theatre on June 9. Event organizers can use brochure printing to create programs that explain the work of the performers at shows like this.
