The TriBattery Pops Tom Goodkind Conductor is downtown NYC's first all volunteer community band in a century. The band's founder and conductor is what songwriter Chris Butler of the Waitresses, once called "a master of shrewd thinking," an apt label for the punk-rocker turned community bandleader.
Performing to an American Masterpiece dance by Trisha Brown and Robert Rauschenberg in Manhattan, the band's live performance was praised as "robustly rhythmic" by New York Times dance critic Roslyn Sulcas.

In 2013, conductor / composer Tom Goodkind had the band performing post modern classical originals and Philip Glass provided minimal music for their 10th album, Pops Art. Their 2014 season was dedicated to modern jazz, especially the music of John Coltrane. At their June '14 Irving Plaza performance, they played hard bop to an elated goth audience, opening for Bauhaus founder Peter Murphy. Murphy tried to keep the Pops from performing, but Live Nation promoters insisted the Pops go on and the band lived to tell the story. Their 2015 season will be dedicated to '60s psychedelic pop.

The group records an album annually, and has an album of all of its best material (25 songs) titled "Community Band" available through Apple iTunes. Their music, often up for Grammy Nominations, is distributed to radio stations internationally by College Music Journal. They performs six shows a year, starting with the April Downtown Little League Parade and ending with 4th day of July fireworks near the Statue of Liberty in Wagner Park. The band's logo was designed by Marvel Comics' creator Stan Lee, the childhood next door neighbor of the conductor.