Josh Joplin Group

Time Out London calls Josh Joplin's show “...a must-see.”
If the popularity of last year’s show in the bleak rainy snow a few days before Thanksgiving isany indication, order your tickets immediately for Josh Joplin Group's return to the Hideout on Saturday, October 17th for a special THROWBACK MATINEE 5PM SHOW! Josh’'ll be fresh from the studio where he will just be finishing up the 15th album of his career.

What could that mean for him in 2027 when it's released?A quick Google search of numerology suggests it may be an enchanting, even seductive record, chock-full of songs “resounding with creative composite vibrations that bring about transmuted works of emotional intensity...” Who knows! But unlike NUMBER 6 and NUMBER 13, which are
both real trash numbers, NUMBER 15 reminds one, that they too were once a teenager, perhaps waiting in line for a matinee show played in the rec-room of a Unitarian church. Joplin has earned critical praise from Spin, Time Out NY/London, American Songwriter, Paste, Magnet, Vanity Fair, and NPR, to name a few. His song “Blue Skies Again,” recorded by Jessica Lea Mayfield, has been downloaded over a million times, while his 2001 radio hit “Camera One”has perennially found new audiences from fans of Scrubs as a featured song Season 1 and Jewel-Osco who discover it wandering the aisles in search of taffy apple salad and Eli’s cheesecake.
Legendary artist manager Russell Carter (Matthew Sweet, Indigo Girls) says of Joplin: “I am willing to bet Josh has written a bad song, but I can tell you I have never heard one.” Joplin’s latest full-length release, GpYr — produced by Josh Joplin and Grammy-winning producer Lorenzo Wolff (known for his work on Taylor Swift’s Midnights and Folklore) — lands somewhere between a concept album and a sonic scrapbook. Spin called it “a collection of pop-infused gems that captures the raw energy of Joplin’s earlier works..