Lolly Pop


Lolly Pop is a persona of Brooke R. Calder, as produced by Ricardo Autobahn, Monte Moir and Doctor Fink.

Biography

Raised between the United States and Zimbabwe, Africa, Calder relocated to Minneapolis, Minnesota, to work as a dancer for Prince in 1994. Cast in the New Power Generation 's "Get Wild" video, she was later awarded a studio apprenticeship with NPG keyboardist Morris Hayes. Upon completion, she served as a label intern with Twin/Tone Records, marketing side projects of Information Society and Semisonic.
Post Twin/Tone, Calder helmed spoken word project Burning Shakespeare and electro-kitsch trio TELEPHONE!. Circa 2004, Calder was re-positioned as a solo artist and produced by Fink, Moir and Autobahn. In 2007, the video for "Elevator Operator" was featured on RockAmerica while the single was used in the Dash Mihok film, Loveless in Los Angeles.
That same year, Pop appeared at Winter Music Conference, guested in the Paul Moering short film, Climbing Trees, and worked closely with First Avenue.
Next recruited as the female vocalist for British outfit POP INC, Calder continued to contribute vocals to and/or produce U.S. acts Afraid Of Americans, glean, The Red Hour as well as the U.K.'s Cuban Boys. With The Rembrandts' Phil Solem, Calder co-wrote the theme song for the Launch TV comedy Graham Crackers.
In 2019, she appeared with Jerome Benton in the video for Jellybean Johnson's "Put Some Jelly On It". Calder next co-wrote lyrics for the Johnson-helmed Regal The Rare collaboration "Blue Goo", bookending decades of creating with members of The Minneapolis Sound.
Calder most recently collaborated with BBC award-winning director Martin Gooch on Everybody Loves Dancing, co-founded Manual Control Records and runs Calder Creative in Philadelphia.

Charitable efforts

During 2019, Calder helmed a suitcase and donations initiative for survivors of the Drake fire. Throughout 2017, A*O*A donated their sales profits to the NODAPL Legal Fund and continue to provide a $1 royalty to RAICES for each maxi-single sold. In 2004, Calder partnered with First Avenue to raise money for the Tubman Alliance, and organized a female-fronted festival dubbed Girlfest.

Discography

  • 2000: BURNING SHAKESPEARE - No Juliet EP - Self Released Cassette
  • 2001: THOUSAND VOID CRUSH f. BURNING SHAKESPEARE - "Radio Free" - Sursumcorda Records
  • 2001: BROWN RAINBOW - Underground Soundtracks - Self Released Cassette
  • 2002: TELEPHONE! - Love... EP - Self Released CD
  • 2003: TELEPHONE! - *69 EP - Self Released CD
  • 2003: CHUCK LOVE - Continuous - Om Records
  • 2004: TC ELECTROPUNK VOLUME 1
  • 2004: DORY/1DJ - 8Bits - Self Released CD
  • 2005: TC ELECTROPUNK VOLUME 2
  • 2005: SUNNY SMACK - Mezzanine Girls - Self Released CD
  • 2006: THE CUBAN BOYS - Satellite Junkyard - Banoffeesound
  • 2006: THE CUBAN BOYS - BBC Radio - Banoffeesound
  • 2007: LOLLY POP - Elevator Operator - Rockamerica
  • 2007: LOLLY POP - Elevator Operator - Modo Disco
  • 2007: LOLLY POP - Modo Disco
  • 2008: THE PLASTIC CONSTELLATIONS - We Appreciate You - Longtime Listener
  • 2009: POP INC. - "Looking 4 The KLF" - Modo Disco / Rockamerica
  • 2009: TC ELECTROPUNK VOLUME 5
  • 2010: ANDRA - "Love Is 4 Suckaz" Mixtape - Krucial Noize/Kerry Brothers Jr
  • 2010: POP INC. vs. SYMPHONO - "Looking 4 The KLF" - Ninthwave Records
  • 2011: POP INC. - "BLVD "
  • 2012: TC ELECTROPUNK VOLUME 6
  • 2013: J-MI & MIDI-D - "Timeline" - Dance Dance Revolution
  • 2014: glean - Echoes & Waves
  • 2014: GRAHAM CRACKERS THEME SONG - "Steady On " featuring Phil Solem
  • 2015: TOUCH GUITARS COMPILATION - Iapetus Berlin
  • 2015: glean - Shadows & Sand
  • 2016: A*O*A - "I'm Afraid of Americans"
  • 2017: AIDAN CASSERLY - Spoken
  • 2017: THE RUDE AWAKENING - "Pride" - Electro London
  • 2017: LOLLY POP - LINGERIE: Lost Remixes & Bonus Tracks - Banoffeesound Records
  • 2018: A*O*A - "I'm Afraid of Americans"
  • 2019: FRODE HOLM - Third
  • 2021: THE RED HOUR - "Cracks" - Manual Control Records
  • 2022: BROOKE R. CALDER - "Everybody Loves Dancing" - Manual Control Records
  • 2023: REGAL THE RARE f. Jellybean Johnson - "Blue Goo"
  • 2025: BURNING SHAKESPEARE - RADIO-FREE EP - Manual Control Records
  • 2025 - 2026: BROOKE R. CALDER - CINEMA - Currently in production.