While his music has been described in terms of intriguing pairings such as World Party and the Cars, the Guess Who and Joe Jackson, or T-Rex and Graham Parker, Rockville, Maryland-based singer/songwriter Kowtow Popof has continually endeavored to fashion a singular sound. From varied influences such as David Bowie, Cat Stevens, Elvis Costello, and Crack the Sky, Kowtow weaves folk, garage, electronic, and pop music into his own personal blend of rock.

Kowtow has been hard at work following the release and promotion of his third CD, Eat My Dust, pushing the limits of his home-brewed sound, mixing samples and drum loops with more traditional rock instrumentation, and posting the new tunes on the internet via mp3 as they are done. These “e-singles” are compiled in the forthcoming limited edition CD (Spring 2003) entitled Kowtow Drops the Pop Off. The collection will be a teaser, previewing songs from Kowtow’s next proper album, End of Greatness, and from Exalted Headband (Unauthorized Soundtrack), a set of original instrumentals based on a fictitious graphic novel about even more fictitious film and tv shows (both set for release in 2004).

Kowtow also appears on Wampus Multimedia’s latest release, After Hours: a Tribute to the Music of Lou Reed, with “Satellite of Love,” assisted by members of Virginia’s Hitchcock Blonde, Janna Audey, and Rob Santos. Kowtow is currently collaborating with Hitchcock Blonde on several songs and will soon be seen and heard with longtime guitar pal Santos performing acoustic sets in the D.C. area promoting Drops the Pop Off.

Check out Kowtow’s first three CDs -- Songs from the Pointless Forest, Coaster, and Eat My Dust -- available here at Wampus.

Take an interactive look at Eat My Dust.

For more information, contact Kowtow Popof.