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Welcome to episode 46 of The Popko Project podcast where I’m joined by Eyal Filkovsky, founder of the music contest called The Big Break. The Big Break is a FREE contest for musicians in Pennsylvania where the winning band gets a free produced music video, track recording, photo shoot, and more (visit thebigbreakcontest.com) We talk […]
Welcome to episode 37 of The Popko Project podcast where I’m joined by Mitch Evans of Anytime Soon, a pop punk band out of Scranton, Pennsylvania. We discuss their brand new EP called Variables streaming everywhere RIGHT NOW. How it came together, the delays caused by covid-19, some of the clever marketing avenues taken to […]
Welcome to episode 32 of The Popko Project podcast where I’m joined by a dear friend of mine, John Phillips. He’s what I call a musician turned entrepreneur. He’s been in successful cover bands, original bands and he currently managages a few bands local to the Northeastern, Pennsylvania region. He’s even tour managed for bands […]
Welcome to episode 30 of The Popko Project podcast where I’m joined by the band Spud, a progressive Americana rock band out of Lehman, Pennsylvania. They will be releasing a new album in the upcoming months so we got into a little bit about that as well as how they started, what their lineup is […]
Welcome to episode 28 of The Popko Project podcast where I’m joined by Nick Duvall, owner and master craftsman at Duvall Leatherwork in Kingston, Pennsylvania. Before opening Duvall Leatherwork, Nick was also the frontman of the metal band, Cyphilis, later knows as Spitcan. The band was extremely popular in Northeastern, Pennsylvania and even caught the […]
***Disclaimer – none of the commentary in this podcast is in any way directed at the current staff or management team at the Times Leader Media Group*** Welcome to episode 25 of The Popko Project podcast where I’m joined by Rich Howells who served as staff writer and editor of the Weekender. I always felt […]
Welcome to episode 16 of The Popko Project podcast where I’m joined by Jim Mirabelli, the man behind the wildly popular, informative, and successful NEPA Pizza Review. Jim is an NEPA native who has been doing pizza reviews under NEPA Pizza Review for 9 years now. One of his pizza review videos has recently surpassed […]
Welcome to episode 15 of The Popko Project podcast where I’m joined by The Tribe, a soul and R&B group from Northeastern, Pennsylvania. We discuss their new album called “Language!” which is available to stream everywhere, and how they recorded it during a pandemic. We also get into the history of the band, their new […]
Welcome to episode 14 of The Popko Project podcast where I’m joined by Bridget Chomko who served as an intern for the Weekender in 2007 before being hired full time as a sales rep later on that year. For those of you who don’t know, the Weekender back in the day was THE BIBLE when […]
Our first news appearance to discuss The Popko Project and “Shirts for the Scene” came on PA Live with Haley Bianco. Thanks for helping us kick things off!