Before meeting the SpinTunes 20 contestants, you should know that our faithful Listening Party host Tommy G of Boffo Yux Dudes is hosting a special, all-request Warm-Up Listening Party tomorrow, Monday March 13 at 9 pm EDT.
Throughout the tournament, these Listening Parties are your chance to hear all the competing entries for the very first time, but this time we're taking a trip down memory lane with your favorite SpinTunes songs from years past.
If you have requests you want to hear from the archive, email SpinTunesContest@gmail.com with the titles and, if you know them, which album(s) they're from. Tommy G may also take requests in the live chat if he's able, but if you want to guarantee you'll hear your song, make your request ahead of time!
Please join us tomorrow night at this YouTube link or embedded below:
Now, let's take a moment to get to know each other. We have a great crop of contestants this year, with a wide range of backgrounds and musical styles. I can't wait to hear all your submissions! Read on to meet all the folks who signed up for SpinTunes 20:
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Haven’t done this thing in too long. Right now I’m on a boat with other past Spintunes participants and I know it’ll be A Thing if I don’t sign up this year. Or maybe I’m just telling myself that as some form of self-motivation. So let’s hope I can finally make a return to both writing AND recording a song within the deadline, no matter how poorly it may turn out. ;)
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Been writing songs since I was fifteen, some fifty four years ago. Had songs of mine recorded by luminaries of the English Folk world of the 1980s and by the Catalan Rock Bands Pete Flipat and The Saturday Blues Project.
Old guys who should know better. The ones your parents warned you about. Allan Morgan and Tom Giarrosso head this version of BYD with Scott Mercer, using rabid optimism that they'll be remembered for more than just all those Elvis Traffic interactives with DJ's around the USA. But no one reads these blurbs anyways. I'll send a secret mp3 to anyone who emails with 'You're full of it, I've read it and you owe me' as the subject line to boffoyux at gmail dot com. You're welcome.
YouTube | Website | Blog | Bandcamp | Twitter | Facebook
Boy on the Wall
Brian makes pop songs as Boy on the Wall. A SpinTunes contributor since ST13!
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Just two brothers, based in St Pete, trying to find some time to make music in this hectic world.
Soundcloud
Bubba is a MN based musician, writer and actor. He has many albums (link to them on his website) and his theater company, Gnarly Bard Theater, produces original one act musical each fall.
The Ghost of the Kraken is the specter of a once amiable friend turned foe who now haunts the studio. He has no website.
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"BucketHat"" Bobby Matheson is a 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!
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Cavedwellers
Cavedwellers are Glennny and Truth. They have been a band since 1992, when they were born in a cave in Dana Point, CA. They both write and sing and play all the instruments. Glennny mostly makes music in California with Berkeley Social Scene. Truth mostly makes music with Mandibles in the Philly burbs. But the Cave will not die.
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chewmeupspitmeout
This is my second Spintunes under this name, I've been FAWMing for 13 years under the name sailingmagpie, I've released a load of stuff and done a few Nur Eins under the name The Serviettes and I live every day under the name Dan.
Instagram | Bandcamp | Spotify
Daniel is a singer songwriter currently living in Bowling Green, Ohio. They play upright bass in a duo called Brain Weasels and are working on writing and recording with the My Broken Demo Tape collective. They were a finalist in SpinTunes 18 and are excited to return to the competition.
Dotumantaraye
i like making music :D
i'm new to songwriting though
Eddie has been a professional multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and performer for over 20 years. In that time he has performed on three continents and Canada, been nominated for a Peabody Award, and is Grammy-adjacent from his work on Patty Griffin's 2019 Best Folk Album winner "Patty Griffin". Currently he regularly tours the US playing trombone in the Squirrel Nut Zippers (yes, they're still around). From 2010-2022 he lived in Austin Texas but has now moved to a small town in Maine where he spends his time wondering why he did that.
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Good Niche Gracious
Good Niche Gracious combines the eclectic musical stylings of Cybronica and Jocko Homomorphism with Phlub’s percussive expeditions.
Governing Dynamics
Ambient shoegazey post grunge whatever-noise. Again.
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Hot Pink Halo enjoys pushing buttons.
Website | Bandcamp
Huge Shark is the solo project of San Diego, California musician Valerie Polichar, focusing on singer/songwriter music with electronica, pop and folk influences.
Bandcamp | YouTube | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram
"Does not play well with others"
One third of AvidFan, one third of Good Guy Sôjàbé, I am also three thirds of myself.
Bandcamp | Good Guy Sôjàbé Bandcamp
Jealous Brother
Jealous Brother is the greatest americana rock and roll band that you never heard of. Unless you've heard of them in which case they are probably middle of the pack. Or if you know them personally in which case you're like "wait, they have a band?"
Website
Jeff Walker
Baritone Singer-Songwriter from Tampa, Florida, driving mostly in the Country/Americana lane, but drifting across the yellow line pretty frequently.
Soundcloud
Chumpy and the Jerk: Geek rock for nerds. Nerd rock for geeks. SpinTunes 13 champion. Semi-regular Song Fight champions. Semi-irregular podcasters.
YouTube
Jim Tyrrell
Singer/Songwriter from New Hampshire.
Facebook
Jocko Homomorphism is a solo artist who likes to experiment with synthesizers and sing about math.
Bandcamp
Over a lot of years I've collected a bunch of influences including rock, Blues, bluegrass, jazz, metal, folk, funk, fusion, country, Bach, electronica, Musique concrète, TV Themes and probably a few more.
In the last few years I have become fascinated with Electronic music. After decades of guitar, bass and drums it's a blessing to discover a world of new sounds and techniquess. It's difficult for me at this point to make electronic sounding music but I keep trying. Since lyrics are required in Spin Tunes, I will try to incorporate electronic sounds behind, and maybe within, the vocals.
This February was FAWM #9 for me and this year will be 50/90 #7.
Looking forward to meeting some new folks and hearing a different side of some old friends.
Website | Bandcamp | Reverbnation | Facebook | Twitter
Lazy Contrition
UK based songwriter with an eclectic taste.
Loren Dempster
Loren Kiyoshi Dempster uses a combination of cello, computer, electronics, composition, improvisation, notated scores, and world music influences to create and perform music. He is deeply interested in the relationships between movement, space, and sound, and has created and performed music with many collaborators, including Trio Tritticali, Harrison Atelier, Jonah Boaker, Chris Ferris, projectLIMB, Dahlia Nayar, and Margaret Paek. He has also toured with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Since moving to Appleton, WI from Queens, NY, Dempster has taught as a guest artist at Renaissance High School for the Arts and as a Lecturer at Lawrence University.
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Mandibles
Mandibles is back to waggle some jawbones and tickle some fancies.
Soundcloud
Mandrake
i make things that are weird and strange sometimes because i feel like it.
Newgrounds
Last year sucked. This year, I plan to not only sign up, but actually write and record a few songs. Now to figure out this Band in a Box thing I have...or find a new partner.
Night Sky is Sally on lyrics, Steve on drums, and Matt on the other stuff. We like to tell stories amidst funky grooves and objectively too many saxophones. Night Sky started with Song Fight entries in 2020 and competed in SpinTunes 17 and 19.
YouTube | SoundCloud
Ominous Ride
Ominous Ride hails from the darkest depths of the mortal soul, orchestrating nightmares and delusions to the melodic bray of hellhounds. In other words, I'm a California English professor who likes to dabble in music.
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I record covers and have been a regular contributor to the PRF Monthly Tribute Series for the past five years. I’m also a longtime member of Three Day Stubble.
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Wistful saxophones, weeping guitars and a whole world of worries. A demented '60s Cali commune where flower power coexists with dark arts. These sutures suit you. What will survive of us is love.
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This is the best music.
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SuperGroup of members from Just Ducky, OutLyer, and Walnuts at Mach 5, together for some fun and anarchy. Dog approved!
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German autodidact since more than 30 years with a wide musical horizon.
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roddy
Singer songwriter
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Seb
Seb
Siebass was born and raised in DC, and likes to hang out with his friends and climb things in his spare time, which is a vanishing commodity since having a child in 2017 and 2019. He plays guitar, drums, bass, and provides some vocals in The Vico Cycle, a DC area band. He does his own weird music under the moniker Siebass, or occasionally family friendly music as DadBodRadBod.
Siebass website | Vico Cycle website | Soundcloud
Writing, singing, and teaching songs that lead the way toward a more beautiful and just world, Simon creates collaborative music making opportunities that engage the body, mind, and spirit and encourage everyone to sing together, free from judgement or shame.
Based out of the Delaware/Philadelphia area Simon puts on house concerts, community events, and facilitates volunteer projects for the Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware and GreenBridge CDC. He is also a part-time Environmental Educator at Stroud Water Research Center.
This is Simon's first time joining SpinTunes. He is excited to participate and grateful to all those who help make it happen.
Feel free to reach out for more info or booking at simonjamesoriginalmusic@gmail.com or find me on Patreon.
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Sober has been foisting his twangy drivel upon the ears of the Songfight community for 20 years. He wasted his GI Bill money on an expensive dumb business degree. Now he narrates audiobooks, so way to go with that expensive dumb degree, Sober.
This will be his fourth time losing the SpinTunes competition. Since his last loss, he moved from Texas to Maine, where he lives in an early-1800's home that is aggressively falling apart.
Soundcloud
Jam first, then cream!
Bandcamp
Based in Ellicott City, MD, Susan Veit Heslin has been writing songs and playing music most of her life. She loves creating and listening to music. Susan composes and performs on guitar and piano and also loved to collaborate with other artists.
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POWER METAL from OK
Soundcloud | Bandcamp
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The Alleviators
Travis (aka Governing Dynamics) and Beka (aka Rebecca Brickley) met during Spintunes #2 and instantly started sharing music. With Travis's post-grungy guitars, occasionally clever lyrics, reasonably competent production skills and Beka's soothing (except when it isn't, for dramatic genre reasons) voice, honest lyrics and effortlessly vibing keys, they found they complimented each other well. Ten years, many tweets, and several collabs later, it finally occurred to them - "hey, why not a project where we write music together?"
The Alleviators is that project.
Bandcamp
The Disappointed Skeptics Club
Just a guy writing songs about people finding the stuff the don't believe in.
Bandcamp
The Dutch Widows is an ongoing conflict between ambition and ability. Expect liberal use of auto-tune on everything. Mostly here for the covers bonus round.
Bandcamp
He used to be known as Timmy. Now he's the Evil Genius formerly known as Timmy.
The Pannacotta Army
Pop punk "trio" (me, myself, & I)
Massachusetts via Ohio
Instagram | Bandcamp
The Practitioners are a Production crew based out of the circle city. Its main members consist of Nahlej and DJTJB. The duo works with an eclectic sonic palette including lo-fi, punk, indie rock, hiphop/trap, boombap, jazz, and funk. These sorcerers blend analog and digital music to make something familiar but also quite unique. They are also not great at writing bios.
Soundcloud | Bandcamp
Single Pint of Failure is old enough to be your father, but more fun to hang out with.
Single Pint of Failure should not be confused with a Bad Sandwich.
Producing High Weirdness from Washington DC
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Tunes by LJ
It appears I was in too much of a hurry (or too lazy) to write any bio when I entered for this. Is there way to amend that now?
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome to email me a bio and/or any links, and I'll be happy to edit the post!
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