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Ethan Finley

Underneath the Static...

About Me

Emotinal, introspective, and poetic are all words that describe the songs of Utah-native singer/songwriter Ethan Finley. Drawing his ideas from disparate musical influences, Ethan's own brand of pop/rock is unique and eclectic. Ethan describes his love of songwriting: "I'm a fan of songs, a fan of stories. All the musical elements in a song really only serve one purpose, and that is to bring an emotion to life in the listener's heart." Ethan has been writing and playing songs for almost a decade and a half. As a member of the band Two Lost Souls, he experimented with numerous different sounds and styles, from acoustic folk, to jagged edged rock, to ethereal textures. After graduating from high school in 1998, Ethan put his skill at arrangement to good use producing records for other artists at his home studio, Ghostdance Productions. In 2000 he combined forces with singer/songwriter Daniel Gittins-Stone (http://www.myspace.com/digstone) to form The Orpheus Project, an acoustic/electronic songwriting duo. Over the course of two years they won several awards and played in numerous venues and festivals throughout the state of Utah. Some highlights included Ethan's 2001 Salt Lake City weekly award for Best Male Vocalist (2nd place) in Utah, and the band's appearance in the City Weekly's 2002 showdown to SXSW. In the fall of 2002 The Orpheus Project parted. Ethan is currently hard at work writing and recording his first ever solo album, Underneath the Static, which he hopes will represent the best of his songwriting, with tunes ranging from understated acoustic ballads to uptempo power pop to the heavier end of the musical spectrum. Check back often for new studio tracks!

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Member Since: 7/20/2005
Band Members: Ethan Finley: Vocals, guitars, keyboards, programming and production
Influences: Abandoned Pools, Tori Amos, Better Than Ezra, Jeff Buckley, Copeland, Dashboard Confessional, Do As Infinity, Evanescence, Fall Out Boy, Frou Frou, Incubus, Jimmy Eat World, The Juliana Theory, Keane, Linkin Park, Live, Mae, John Mayer, Mr. Children, Our Lady Peace, Paramore, Pete Yorn, The Rasmus, Sixpence None the Richer, The Smashing Pumpkins, Splender, Sugarcult, Third Eye Blind, Toad the Wet Sprocket, The Used
Sounds Like: Toad the Wet Sprocket, Dashboard Confessional, Lisa Miskovsky, Jimmy Eat World, Pete Yorn, Copeland, Sixpence None the Richer, Mae, Guster, Sugarcult,
Record Label: Ghostdance Productions
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Skillet

Every once in a while my luck is good enough that, through no virtue of my own, I stumble across tremendous new music that somehow I'd managed to overlook for way too long.  Few thrills in life c...
Posted by Ethan Finley on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:51:00 PST

Go

Every so often you'll hear a song which in spite of, or perhaps because of, its simplicity and straight-forwardness happens to grab and tug directly at your heart strings.  This song, Go, by Hans...
Posted by Ethan Finley on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:29:00 PST

Grandes Exitos en EspaƱol

Hello again friends.  As many of you may know, I am a student of (among other things) foreign languages, including Japanese and Spanish.  Part of what I love about studying other languages i...
Posted by Ethan Finley on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 03:12:00 PST

Song Preview: Waste Another Year

Hello my friends.  I want to invite you to take a listen to a preview/demo of one of my newest songs, Waste Another Year.  As always, your comments and criticism are always welcome. Peace, E...
Posted by Ethan Finley on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 09:16:00 PST

Check out my good friend!

Hello everyone.  I just wanted to let all of you music lovers in on a little secret: my good friend Mary Lovins has some new music up on her page, and it's very exciting.  Mary and I have be...
Posted by Ethan Finley on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:53:00 PST

Beautifully Dark

Recently I made an iTunes playlist of some of the songs which have been in highest rotation on my iPod.  In trying to figure out a name for it I thought about what all the tunes have in common, a...
Posted by Ethan Finley on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 06:36:00 PST

Forsaken

Hello friends.  As you may have already noticed (or heard) I've posted a new song.  Actually, it's not that new, I began writing it several years ago.  Unfortunately, the subject of the...
Posted by Ethan Finley on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 08:04:00 PST

Leave out all the rest...

After two stellar releases, and the most recent side project of Mike Shinoda's (Fort Minor), I awaited the new Linkin Park album with tremendous anticipation.  What I got was, without a doubt, qu...
Posted by Ethan Finley on Tue, 29 May 2007 07:53:00 PST

I'm sorry! (My account was hijacked!)

Hello friends.  I'm writing because it seems some of you have recently received bogus (and ANNOYING) messages or comments from my account which I DID NOT send.  Somehow my account was hijack...
Posted by Ethan Finley on Sun, 27 May 2007 10:41:00 PST

More Paramore

A few blogs back I posted a little sum'n about this great band called Paramore.  I really love these guys (and gal), they're so energetic and for their age they're really tremendous musicians and...
Posted by Ethan Finley on Sun, 20 May 2007 10:04:00 PST