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Starshine

Aboveground Rock

About Me

BOOKING and PRESS Inquiries:

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RELATED PROJECTS:

MikeL plays guitars, synth, and sings in the band Zephyr Knocks.
www.myspace.com/zephyrknocks

The Frequency Response is his experimental one man jam band project performed with synths, drum machines,theremin, guitars, and samples.
www.myspace.com/thefrequencyresponse

Mike is always looking for new acts of all genres to record and produce for his production company, and psuedo-record label Stellar Evolutions.
www.stellarevolutions.com
www.myspace.com/stellarevolutions ..

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/1/2005
Band Website: starshinemusic.net
Band Members: MikeL.
Influences: FAILURE, NINE INCH NAILS, hole, nirvana, AUTOLUX, On, blinker the star, the tea party, finger eleven, stabbing westward, godhead, a perfect circle, tool, PJ HARVEY, the dresden dolls, fluttr effect, cave in/stephen brodsky/the octave museum/pet genius, alice in chains, MARILYN MANSON, God lives underwater/DAVID REILLY, depeche mode, dope, Edwin (with and without) "The Pressure", I mother Earth, The Prairie Cartel, Eminem, SELF, Foo Fighters, Garbage, guns n' roses, Local H, Jack off Jill, JIM CARROLL, The Beatles, Marcy Playground, JOHN LENNON, She Wants, Revenge, Lusk, The Raconteurs, The SMASHING PUMPKINS, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Portishead, Queens of the Stone Age, Mars Volta, Mark Lanegan, Mike Doughty and Soul Coughing, Count Bass D, Lennon (Murphy), Rasputina, Puscifer, Abbey,SCARLING, Oceansize, Our Lady Peace, PINK FLOYD, PLACEBO, Rainbow Butt Monkeys, Radiohead, Stone Temple Pilots, Stone Sour, System of a Down, Zog Bogbean, Nick Cave, Grinderman, The Dreaming, Clouds, The Faint, The cure, VAST, Syd Barret, The White Stripes, Year of the Rabbit, and you will know us by the trail of the dead, Jesu, Elliott Smith, The Stooges, Muse, Cabiria, Lusk, TV on the Radio, Neutral Milk Hotel, SOUL ASYLUM, Brad Laner, Wired all Wrong, The Icarus Line ,Digital Noise Academy, old school Red Hot Chili Peppers, Violent Femmes, SWEET RELEASE, Sonic Youth, Skinny Puppy, Neverending White Lights, MEDICINE, Cee-Lo Green & Gnarls Barkley, T. Rex, Roxy Music, The Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, Bjork, Ralph Eats Dynamite, Rainer Ptacek and Das Combo, and everything else I've ever heard... ever.
Sounds Like: Orchestrated Noise
Record Label: Stellar Evolutions
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Straight from the horses ass!

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Posted by Starshine on Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:26:00 PST

The June Bug- FINISHED!

I started writing it on June 1st.Finished it on September 1st.Releasing it November 1st.Written, produced, and performed* by Mike Lombardi.*Except: Violin on "The June Bug" and Bass on "The Chase" by ...
Posted by Starshine on Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:33:00 PST

The June Bug- Tracklist

As of... right now...1. Seeds2. "I built a tiny garden, in the corner of my heart"3. The June Bug4. Near Life5. Thunderstorms Pt. I6. Obliquity of the Ecliptic7. Tomorrow is the Next Today8. The Chase...
Posted by Starshine on Sun, 27 Jul 2008 05:45:00 PST

I just had a Near Life Experience.

I have arms and legs that move.With ten fingers and a heart that still beats.I've been thinking.Maybe I should do something with my life.
Posted by Starshine on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:06:00 PST

The June Bug

Inspiration like an illness.symptoms include 10 totally new songs.The only medication is to make myself sick.
Posted by Starshine on Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:10:00 PST

The Little News...

The Songs added to the player were recorded by my good friend and production partner Mr. Jeff Knight.  The Jim Carroll (of The Basketball Diaries & the rock classic "People who Died") sample ...
Posted by Starshine on Sat, 24 May 2008 09:20:00 PST

The Time Now is...

right.The show coming up in March is mostly solo acoustic with a few guests. I will be playing old songs, new songs, Starshine songs, Zephyr Knocks songs, songs that will hopefully be a new duo projec...
Posted by Starshine on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:09:00 PST

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!

tired of hitting the snooze button.trying hard to just wake up. every time. all the time.I don't need another ten minutes of this.
Posted by Starshine on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:47:00 PST

Ive just begun to find my way through the night.

The album; "The Sun at Night" is still being recorded. Or. more accurately. Has resumed recording. Many more hours to go. Maybe Spring. Maybe sooner. Probably later.Dan "well, you can, but it'll sou...
Posted by Starshine on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 03:45:00 PST

The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of the Independant Artist.

We are free.Do you think the apostles wrote the bible hoping they would land a sweet publishing deal that would take them around the world and leave them "knee deep in Shepard's daughters."No. They di...
Posted by Starshine on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 10:55:00 PST