SpinTunes Presents Super Song Fight 2010!
Frequent commenter and musician extraordinaire, Russ Rogers, gave us a lil’ hat tip towards a funky-cool contest you crazy ComicMixers will dig. The contest? Why it’s SpinTown’s SpinTunes Superhero Song Fight contest for 2010! Asking those out there in the interwebs to submit songs inspired by and written about Superheros and Supervillains… SpinTunes now has created a cool little player where you the adoring public can link up to, crank the volume on your favorite cans, and rock out to some gamma irradiated rock and roll.
The contestants are a swath of indie folk/rock/alt-funky goodness. Contributors like Denise Hudson and Joanne Abbot lend flighty ballads (‘Invisible Woman’ and ‘Why’) to the contest. Russ’s group, Godz Poodlz, released a Genesis twinged ode to DC’s resident Hazmat habit wearing hero, the Human Bomb. Over the pond plunker Danny Blackwell drops a ditty titled “Love Song From Robin to Batman” which is pretty self explanatory. And there’s a ton of others all waiting to tickle the hairs in your inner ears with musical hero goodness.
SpinTunes stems from the blog of SpinTown, as run by a Travis Langworthy, a teacher with a good ear for tunage, and a heart of gold. The SpinTune contest is voted on by a panel of judges, so no need to cram the ballot box, but feel free to head here, and listen to the tunes, and let them know what makes your boogie woogie, woogie woo.
Thanks for the write up, Marc! Just to be clear, only the first round challenge for the “SpinTunes” competition was to write a song about a Super-Hero or Super-Villain. SpinTunes will run for four rounds, eliminating contenders with each round, until it’s down to a head to head match-up between just two songs in Round 4. The contenders don’t know what the challenges will be. The Round 2 challenge gets posted on July 1st and there will be whole new crop of songs (based on whatever that mystery challenge might be–but, probably not Super-Heroes again) by July 12!
Anyway, folks can listen to or even DOWNLOAD the whole Super-Album, “SpinTunes #1: Round 1,” for FREE here: http://spintown.bandcamp.com/album/spintunes-1-round-1
I run the SpinTunes & Spintown blog. I just wanted to say thanks for helping promote these wonderful people. They put in a lot of work, and produced some cool music. You’re help in getting people to notice that is much appreciated.
WOW! Thanks for the props!!!! That’s AWESOME!!!!
My song is ‘Invisible Girl’ … but she hopes someday to grow up to be a woman. Unnoticed, of course … :) :) :)
I love your site. It’s excellent. And I’m super stoked to be included in your article, particularly with such cool art alongside it! YAY!
Glad you are enjoying the tunes, thanks for spreading the good word! Everyone is so good, it’s hard to decide who to vote for in the poll!
Thanks for the write up, Marc! Just to be clear, only the first round challenge for the "SpinTunes" competition was to write a song about a Super-Hero or Super-Villain. SpinTunes will run for four rounds, eliminating contenders with each round, until it's down to a head to head match-up between just two songs in Round 4. The contenders don't know what the challenges will be. The Round 2 challenge gets posted on July 1st and there will be whole new crop of songs (based on whatever that mystery challenge might be–but, probably not Super-Heroes again) by July 12!Anyway, folks can listen to or even DOWNLOAD the whole Super-Album, "SpinTunes #1: Round 1," for FREE here: http://spintown.bandcamp.com/album/spintunes-1-ro…
I run the SpinTunes & Spintown blog. I just wanted to say thanks for helping promote these wonderful people. They put in a lot of work, and produced some cool music. You're help in getting people to notice that is much appreciated.
WOW! Thanks for the props!!!! That's AWESOME!!!! My song is 'Invisible Girl' … but she hopes someday to grow up to be a woman. Unnoticed, of course … :) :) :)I love your site. It's excellent. And I'm super stoked to be included in your article, particularly with such cool art alongside it! YAY!
Glad you are enjoying the tunes, thanks for spreading the good word! Everyone is so good, it's hard to decide who to vote for in the poll!
Posted about this (with credited quote and links back to this post) on the music blog/social network, MOG.com as soon as i read it.
Posted about this (with credited quote and links back to this post) on the music blog/social network, MOG.com as soon as i read it.