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About Me

the spots interview podcast - tapestry (mp3 audio)

cd release show @ speakeasy - fox 6 news (video)
fox 6 good day alabama (video)

we sit in a circle and play electronic instruments and drum heads. sometimes we wear ties. why? because brian epstein was a genius. that's why. almost everything we play is completely made up on the spot, just us reacting to one another. our music has a rare immediacy and we kind of dig that. we show up on time. we're blossoming philanthropists. we like atmospherics. we make rooms feel different and colorful. we are nice to the ladies.

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Music:

Member Since: 2/7/2006
Band Members:

clint wells - guitars
brian t. murphy - keyboards
shane westerhold - drums
shawn avery - bass

Sounds Like:For an EP that is essentially an untouched live recording, this is a pretty good EP. The tracks are all instrumental and very much in the vein of the indie psychadellia vibe mastered by Yo La Tengo and visited by Massive Attack, meaning driving drum beats, entrancing bass lines, and free-form guitar.The EP has seven songs and enough potential to make me wonder how far this band can go, and what their future direction might be. It definitely relies on riding a solid groove, and should these guys ever work in a Phish cover, or cover a song that Phish has covered, may wake up to find tents on their lawn...

- fleabomb.com

Type of Label: None

My Blog

new spots ep

we've been in the studio this month tracking for a second ep. (we like ep's). so far, what we've heard during playback is pretty exciting. hopefully we'll have some new tracks up for you soon.&n...
Posted by THE SPOTS on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:04:00 PST

spots cd on the way

a 7-song spots ep will be available very soon. we hope to have it ready for our gig on june 21. should be a nice chilled out disk of ambient, groovy spots music.also, we updated the photos with some...
Posted by THE SPOTS on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 10:45:00 PST

hello. we are the spots.

welcome to the myspace for one of birmingham’s hottest new bands. we focus on instrumental / groove / chill music. not sure what to call it. the goal is to have fun playing at events where pe...
Posted by THE SPOTS on Wed, 08 Feb 2006 10:53:00 PST