The Round 1 deadline has past, and 32 bands and artists have submitted official entries. The judges now have the difficult task of ranking these songs, with the top 22 moving on to Round 2. Eliminated artists are encouraged to continue shadowing, as reinstatement is always a possiblity!
As of Monday morning, we also have three non-competing shadow entries. If you missed the deadline (or even if you missed the sign-up period!) you can still submit a shadow entry by following the submission instructions here.
Contestants were asked to write a song featuring a specific color. The whole rainbow and then some was represented, although a few colors stood out as favorites. Check it out:
Your first opportunity to hear all these songs is at the Listening Party hosted by Tommy G, tonight at 9 pm EDT. Join us on YouTube and say hello to the contestants in the live chat.
Who are these contestants? I'm glad you asked. Here's the full list of official competitors:
Brian Gray
I mean, you know. It's like, whatever man.
Website
Boffo Yux Dudes
We're still alive! I'm sure a Miracle Ear and hip replacements are coming soon, but until then, we're cranking out the hits over the last 5 decades!
Blog | YouTube | Twitter | Bandcamp | Facebook | Myspace
The Brewhouse Sessions
A couple few guys who enjoy jam sessions on the deck after a long day's brew session, always striving to improve.
Bandcamp
We are two brothers that grew up playing loud music together in high school, separated by college and life for 13 years, and now reunited across the country from where we started.
We both have an affinity for pop-punk and bands that scream, but also love complex vocal harmony and playing our brass instruments.
All of this to say, we have no idea what our sound is yet.
SoundCloud
"BucketHat" Bobby Matheson is a cubicle-dweller and former television professional who has been doing this music-competition thing for over a decade.
Influenced by artists like They Might Be Giants, Jonathan Coulton and The Mountain Goats, Matheson is a solo musician who takes an unconventional but folksy approach to home-made song-making.
Lately, he has been writing performing and producing music live on Twitch as a delivery method for his craft.
After nearly 15 years of practice, does he finally have what it takes to win a SpinTunes contest? Only time will tell!
Website
Cavedwellers
Originally from Southern California, High School friends started writing songs together after years of playing covers. The originals started coming in 1992, still going strong. These days Truth is in PA and glennny is in the Bay area of California.
Originally from the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Chas has been living in Chicago for the past 7 years. He currently is an understudy for the Second City Comedy Theatre, performs regularly at both CiC and Logan Square Improv Theatres, and has been recording and producing music for local artists over the past year. He hasn't written a song in a long time and is very excited to just have some fun making weird sounds with everybody!
Daniel Sitler
Daniel is a composer and multi instrumentalist. In the past he has written music for folk duo The Magician’s Nephews, Brass based collective Daniel Sitler & Des Amis, and a variety of concert works. He is currently the guitarist in Toledo based indie rock band Adoremus.
The Dutch Widows
The Dutch Widows just want to make music. The only important thing is to turn it over. It doesn't need to be perfect, which is lucky, because it won't be. It doesn't need to be good, which is also lucky for the same reason. We just need to like it, although we won't always. You get the idea.
SoundCloud
The Entertainment Brothers are not brothers. But that's OK because they're not entertaining either.
galoshy
A father with a guitar and a microphone.
Good Guy Sôjàbé
Pronounced “So Jar Bay”. Often referred to as GGS (“Gee Gee Ess”). We specialise in writing songs and then getting upset when no-one likes them. 🏴🇮🇪🏴
Facebook
Governing Dynamics
Guitars 'n' feelings.
Bandcamp
Jealous Brother
Jealous Brother is an original rock & roll band based in Rochester/Wabasha, MN.
Website
Jim of Seattle
Old time songfighter, published through Green Monkey Records, aggressively eclectic
Website | Twitter
Jocko Homo + J-Homomorphism = Jocko Homomorphism
Bandcamp
Just another first-round casualty.
Menage a Tune is JoAnn Abbott and various individuals over the years who she has been able to convince, coerce, blackmail, shanghai, drug, bribe or otherwise get to join her in creating songs. She is a silly person. Ted Kiper is a long-suffering partner coming back for more of her caffeine loaded squirrel antics, and there are rumors' of a Dave, and a David, and maybe even a Stephen who will be joining her this time. Or her grandkids. Even she isn't certain...
Website
New Fangled Trolleys
folky punky folk punk and other acoustic sounds
Spotify
Ominous Ride
It's just me, but I call it a band because the voices in my head demand recognition.
Bandcamp
Phlubbubbubbubb
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The Pleasantry
Cybronica and Grumpy Mike join forces to make some music. They’ve only done this once before with mass appeal and great success. Let’s see what happens.
Website | Facebook | Bandcamp
Sara Parsons
30-something singer/songwriter from California, just tryin' to make the world a little more bearable through music.
Bandcamp | Twitter
One man, an attic and a shed load of plugins bought over lockdown.
Facebook | Bandcamp
For nearly twenty years, Sober has foisted his unwanted twangy nonsense onto the Songfight community. #17 was his first experience with Spintunes, and he's looking forward to getting crushed again by more talented and attractive artists.
SoundCloud
Stacking Theory is more than a band or a broken link to tumblr. Stacking Theory is a philosophy, a way of life, a mantra, an arrangement of small trinkets on a window sill. Stacking Theory is a non-codified collection of opinions about what goes where and why. There can be no one unity, but there can be Stacking Theory.
former godking of spintunes 16. i just got a 7 string guitar, sorry in advance.
SoundCloud
thanks, brain
thanks, brain is made up of neurodivergent musicians who are regularly "thanking" their brains, sarcastically or otherwise, for the way they work (or doggedly refuse to).
Bandcamp
Third Cat is a kind of psychedelic indie pop electronic rock thing. Band members include somewhere between one to four human members and exactly two cats. Third Cat did this SpinTunes thing once before (SpinTunes 15.) Third Cat loves talking about Third Cat in the third person. OK.
SoundCloud
Lofi DIY psychedelic folk singer. Guitars strummed. Kazoos hummed. General thrumming.
Bandcamp
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