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About Me

I have a few new songs posted from the September Acoustic Phily show at the Tin Angel in Philadelphia with Mike Lawson on drums. You can download them.
Here is what the good people at www.shmat.com had to say about fishstick . . .
"Scott Ratinoff from Philadelphia heads up this one man band that upholds the spirit of home produced recordings that actually don't suck. And if he's gotten pretty good at it, well maybe one of the reasons is that he's been doing this for nearly a decade. He has also been released previously on the legendary underground Shrimper label. And like the "-doh" bands from that label, he powers through lo-fi obstacles that commercial radio deems fatal but that true indie philosophy embraces with open arms.
I like these open-faced honest songs quite a bit. One of my favorite tracks is "Somewhere In The Middle" with its prominent drums and bassline. It sort of comes across as Folk Implosion fronted by a mellower Elvis Costello . . . these songs would make Bonnie Prince Billy proud... "
- www.shmat.com

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Member Since: 6/25/2005
Band Website: fishstickusa.com
Band Members: scott ratinoff - guitar, vocals, harmonica, drum beats, actual drums, hand claps, ect. mike lawson - drums, piano
Influences: wilco, bob dylan, grand puba, the neptunes, townes van zant, neil young, pavement, the mountain goats, james brown
Sounds Like: a mix match of the influences
Type of Label: None

My Blog

two new websites

http://www.fishstickusa.com has been updated to reflect the new album. If you sign up for the mailing list you can get two songs off of The Apartment, and one unreleased song.I also have a new websit...
Posted by fishstick on Tue, 06 May 2008 09:07:00 PST

fishstick live on Comcast

fishstick live on Comcast: Interview and SongsThe fishsitck interview is now available on Comcast On Demand. Go to the "get local" section, and then "battle of the bands"The interview took place on So...
Posted by fishstick on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:02:00 PST

the album is at the press

"The Apartment" is finished and at the factory!
Posted by fishstick on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:32:00 PST

the presto gallery

My good friend Preston (who if you haven't heard is a new father) has started a website selling collectable toys and original artwork. He's currently featuring a series of my paintings which are exclu...
Posted by fishstick on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:27:00 PST

The album is almost complete

The Apartment is almost complete! We have finished recording and are ready to move on to the mixing stage. It should be heading off to the press in early October. This album will be a huge depa...
Posted by fishstick on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:08:00 PST

fishstick in the studio!

Starting monday night we'll will be in the studio recording the 8th fishstick album (and 3rd proper release CD)we'll be recording over at Sine Studio http://www.myspace.com/sinestudiosllc there we'l...
Posted by fishstick on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 05:54:00 PST

an article about fishstick

and article, about fishstick, on the web!
Posted by fishstick on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 12:28:00 PST

an article about my artwork . . .

the good folks at crenellation are at it again!http://crenellation.blogspot.com/
Posted by fishstick on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 08:12:00 PST

Six Pack Creek is all myspaced up

we finally got a pagehttp://www.myspace.com/sixpackcreek
Posted by fishstick on Fri, 21 Jul 2006 06:32:00 PST

blog blog bloggity blog

fishstick and a whole bunch of other philly bands got mentioned or linked on this here blog:http://crenellation.blogspot.com/
Posted by fishstick on Mon, 03 Jul 2006 02:18:00 PST