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VIDEOS - Tyson and The Friction - VIDEOS
"The Braintrust" - Video by Dylan Stanford
"Mechanical Satisfaction" - Video by Dylan Stanford
SOME BIO STUFF:
Tyson & The Friction was formed in the year 2007.
Hi. I’m Tyson and I make music. I make some of the music by myself and some of it I make with my friends, The Friction. Some of the music is punk, some of it is new wave, some of it is bizarre indiecore that the kids with goofy haircuts seem to like, but all of it is infectious and catchy as all get out. The catchiness is sort of a curse really; listen to some of the songs you’ll understand.
I’ve been based out of Central Illinois my whole life, centered mostly in and around Peoria Illinois, but I am currently making music out of Champaign. I’ve been in a ton of bands and some of them were pretty decent. The bands toured around the country but we always concentrated on the Midwest. I was in the Amazing Kill-O-Watts (Thinker Thought Records), The Red Hot Valentines (Polyvinyl Records), Analog Saves the Planet, and Mandroid ‘Destroyers of the Human Race’ to name a few. I created Tyson and The Friction as a way to combine portions of all of those bands into one life long musical project. Our first release “Listen to the Braintrustâ€, is a 7 song E.P. that picks up where The Amazing Kill-O-Watts left off and drifts off into unknown territory. I formed a back up band that included Chris Anderson (Tina Sparkle bassist), Dylan Stanford (Mandroid keyboardist), Dan Seipel on drums, and Matt Scott on lead guitar. In the studio Marsha Satterfield from Tina Sparkle and the Amazing Kill-O-Watts was gracious enough to sing some beautiful harmonies, as did Matt Maloney from the band Sleepy Sleepy Octopus. The “Listen to the Braintrust†EP is as eclectic and melodic as you can get. It’s like a library book…check it out.
Tyson and the Friction also have an exclusive track on the new Live Music Peoria compilation CD. The CD is called “Playing in Peoria: Another Side of Town†and along with Tyson and The Friction the CD also features other Thinker Thought Records acts such as Scout’s Honor, Tina Sparkle, and The Forecast.
As for the future I am putting together a Single of the Month Club as a way of letting the fans hear new music every month, for free, in the process of putting together what promises to be a ridiculous new album titled “Fantastique Plastiqueâ€. Shoot an e-mail over to [email protected] to join the Single of the Month Club and to get semi regular updates on what is going on.
Keep On, Keepin’ On
Tyson Markley
Bands I've has been in over the years
somewhat chronological
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The Massaged Llamas
Super Fub
Home Jones
HAM
The Kill-O-Watts
The Amazing Kill-O-Watts
The Taco Bros.
Minker
Analog Saves the Planet
The Red Hot Valentines
Karaoke Death Squad
...So Gigantic
MANDROID (Destroyers of the Human Race)
Super Mario Speedwagon
Tyson & The Friction
