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About Me

Atombender is a group of seven close friends from the Ames, Iowa area who came together as a band because of their love of music.
The band has a hard-hitting punk/ska style but also gets the crowd dancing with melodies coming from the horns and moog. The members put as much energy and joy as they possibly can into playing their music and hope to evoke those same feelings in the crowd.
Atombender is influenced by a huge assortment of bands, anywhere from Five Iron Frenzy to Motion City Soundtrack to Comeback Kid. They have drawn comparisons to notable bands in the genre, such as Bomb the Music Industry!, the Hippos, and Less Than Jake.
Atombender has had the privilege of playing across the state, sharing the stage with bands like Andy Zipf (Mono Vs. Stereo Records), Children 18:3 (Tooth and Nail Records), The Envy Corps (Vertigo Records), Flatfoot 56 (Flicker Records), Last Tuesday (Mono Vs. Stereo Records), The Poison Control Center (Afternoon Records), Run Kid Run (Tooth and Nail Records), Twelve Gauge Valentine (Solid State Records), The Wedding (Brave New World Records). They are constantly writing new songs, working to improve, and doing what they love best: playing live shows.

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Member Since: 2/1/2005
Band Website: here among others
Band Members:

JON ::: VOCALS/TROMBONE

SMILEY ::: VOCALS/TRUMPET

MICHAEL ::: KEYBOARDS/LEAD CLAPS

JACOB ::: GUITAR

ZACH ::: GUITAR

ANDY ::: BASS

BEN ::: DRUMS
Influences: Five Iron Frenzy, Last Tuesday, Motion City Soundtrack, Less Than Jake, Squad Five-O, Bomb the Music Industry!, Showbread, Comeback Kid, Streetlight Manifesto, Driver F, Set Your Goals, Four Year Strong, MxPx, every hardworking band, and a lot more.
Sounds Like: The avoidance of reinvention
Record Label: Unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

BIG UPDATES (LIKE TOTALLY HUGE, BROS)

It's been a long time since we gave you a hardcore update. And while a lot of this is old news, a lot of people might not know. Firstly, Bryce Randall has left his position as Atombender's drummer a...
Posted by ATOMBENDER (on tour!) on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:49:00 PST

BASH

Thanks so much to all the kids who came out to Bash on the Farm last night and stopped by to see us and to Children 18:3 and Runway36 for kicking our butts afterwards and rocking out for real.We only ...
Posted by ATOMBENDER (on tour!) on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 08:55:00 PST

Impact 2007

Hey.I just want to give a big THANKS (was that big enough?) to all the people who came and saw us at Impact on friday night. It was a really fun show, thanks to the crowd, and we hope we c...
Posted by ATOMBENDER (on tour!) on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 12:29:00 PST

some updates

Just thought you might want to check this out: AbsolutePunk.net's 'Best of 2006' feature where different bands and labels tell what their favorite releases of the year were. (Go to the A section...
Posted by ATOMBENDER (on tour!) on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:24:00 PST

We got hacked!

The Atombender MySpace was hacked around 1:00 am on August 18th until about 2:32 am when we took control of the account. The hacker sent out a number of bulletins saying all kinds of things about how ...
Posted by ATOMBENDER (on tour!) on Sat, 19 Aug 2006 12:19:00 PST

Recording Studio: Day 1

Summer is hot. Hot like the fat tracks that we laid down today. We got right down to business: suffering from techincal difficulties. While morale was low and success was merely a pipe dream, Chris Fo...
Posted by ATOMBENDER (on tour!) on Sun, 04 Jun 2006 07:41:00 PST

Recording!

Tomorrow morning, the band is heading down to Des Moines to begin our first recording. We're recording with Chris Ford, also known as Christopher the Conquered and the drummer of Stuck With Arth...
Posted by ATOMBENDER (on tour!) on Fri, 02 Jun 2006 02:51:00 PST

A little switcheroo

As many of you know, Jeff Kollasch has left Atombender as bass player. There are definitely no hard feelings or anything, it was just something he couldn't do anymore.On a happier note, our good frien...
Posted by ATOMBENDER (on tour!) on Tue, 04 Apr 2006 03:53:00 PST

Mikey (the Robot) got a new toy

Posted by ATOMBENDER (on tour!) on Tue, 27 Dec 2005 08:46:00 PST

Last Friday

Wow.....last Friday night's Christmas Extravaganza was amazing! We had a lot of fun and it was cool to see lots of people we've never played for. I'm still on a high from it (SEE: MOOD). Thanks ...
Posted by ATOMBENDER (on tour!) on Tue, 20 Dec 2005 06:09:00 PST