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Dingus

Please Stand By in stores now!

About Me

Click here to purchase our album from Soup Bowl Records.
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Over the past three years, Dingus has been wreaking havoc, chaos, and destruction throughout the upper Midwest with their collage of fun punk carols, catchy hooks and dynamic live shows. Jonathan Walters, Sam Beere-Hasman, and Parker Thompson are now dropping their second album, Please Stand By, their first in over three years.
Dingus combines the jazz influenced vocal class of Ben Folds Five, pop sensibility of Blink 182 and the straight up kick ass driving hardcore punk of Lagwagon. Jonathan Walters' effortless tenor intones and Sam Beere's sweet croons combine for enticing and infectious harmonies that one cannot resist but sing along.

Please Stand By holds ten solid tracks of mesmerizing melodic pop punk featuring romantic laments, hierarchical protests, and songs regarding post high school life. The album contains bass and guitar licks so lush and carefully placed, it is difficult to abandon these three Grand Forks, N.D. natives among today's punk market. Dingus' musicianship is simply palpable and contains a true and innovative girth of modern pop punk, which can be appreciated by a wide alternative audience.
Watch the DINGUS *Deja Vu* live music video

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/1/2005
Band Website: soupbowlrecords.com
Band Members: Sam Beere - Guitar, Vocals
Parker Thompson - Drums, Vocals
Jonathan Walters - Lead Vocals, Bass

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CONTACT.

Label:
Soup Bowl Records
www.soupbowlrecords.com

Publicity:
Brian Schwager / Soup Bowl
[email protected]

Booking:
Ryan Jaroscak / Soup Bowl
[email protected]
Influences: NOFX, Lagwagon, No Use For a Name, Green Day, Blink 182, Propagandhi, Offspring, Noggin Toboggan
Sounds Like: Virb. (stream entire album)
Purevolume.

Record Label: Soup Bowl Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

East Coast Tour Wrap Up and Photos!!!!

Thanks to everyone that put on the shows, all the bands we played with, everyone that came out, everyone we partied with, everybody that actually bought merch, everyone that liked us, everyone that ha...
Posted by Dingus on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:12:00 PST

ABOUT THE HIATUS!!!!!

THE ONLY REASON WE ARE ON HIATUS IS THE FACT THAT OUR LEAD SINGER/BASSIST JONATHAN IS IN SPAIN FOR SCHOOL UNTIL APRIL. NOT SURE ON THE EXACT DATE HE GETS BACK, BUT TRUST ME, WE WILL BE PLAYING SHOWS A...
Posted by Dingus on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 03:59:00 PST

Dingus has shirts

Yep, Dingus has shirts now. They're ten dollars, washer friendly, and they come in black, blue, and green. They have a picture ofa guy slipping off his skateboard, and most don't have any poop stains ...
Posted by Dingus on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:23:00 PST

The CD’s have arrived

Just so you all know, the new CD's have arrived and are sexy as ever! They will be fore sale soon on our myspace page as well as through www.soupbowlrecords.com! For Minnesota folk, they will be dis...
Posted by Dingus on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:22:00 PST

DINGUS SIGNED!!!!

Not to a major label....no.. of course not. what were you thinking? Actually, our friends Ryan Jaroscak and Brian Schwager (from the minneapolis ska band Chicken Poodle Soup) have their own little lab...
Posted by Dingus on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:04:00 PST

does anyone take pics??

OF DINGUS playing a show or something? we have like, the SHITTIEST pictures on our myspace. Does anyone have any NEW, INTERESTING, uninteresting, live, or not live pics that we can post up? if so, you...
Posted by Dingus on Fri, 09 Jun 2006 12:02:00 PST

Buy Dingus' album "Lunch Break" at Interpunk.com

Yeah. Buy it here: http://www.interpunk.com/item.cfm?Item=62552&
Posted by Dingus on Sun, 18 Dec 2005 02:13:00 PST

New Dingus Website!!!

Yeah, that's right. We finally just finished our new website. It's pretty amateur looking, cause this is my first time making a website, and I had to do it for one of my classes and kinda rushed to ge...
Posted by Dingus on Sun, 18 Dec 2005 12:14:00 PST

Bismarck people are crazy!!!

Bismarck People are absolutely nuts!! They're all wacko!!! There was this one drunk guy who kept grabbing my shoulder and asking me to sway with him as we were listening to Jonathan and Josh play thei...
Posted by Dingus on Mon, 14 Nov 2005 08:56:00 PST

LISTEN TO SONGS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey guys, Dingus here. For all you cats that wanna listen to our music, go to our purevolume site where stuff actually works at www.purevolume.com/dingusnd
Posted by Dingus on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST