I ran across Songfight the other day via Boing Boing. It's an online songwriting contest; several themes are posted and you have one week to write, perform, and upload a song for your chosen theme.
Some of the submissions are great. (Some aren't, or at least aren't to my taste.) I spent an hour or so sifting through the archives and picked out some favorites and made a mix. It's just a quick glance at what they have to offer, and there are probably more great tracks that I missed, but check it out. All MP3s are free downloads.
- * Bite Size - Mellified Man
- * Indier Than Thou - MC Frontalot
- Shut Up And Sit Down - deshead
- Sarah Vowell's Motto - Figure 8
- Five Minutes - Josh Woodward
- Shower Scene - Josh Woodward
- Left/Right - Hobbes
- I'm With Steve Now - Gyre (featuring Emma Lee)
- We Are All Famous - Ants (Invisible)
- The Truth About Aspartame - Consume
- * Piece of My Heat - The Def Author
- Massive Intelligence Failure - Southwest Statistic
- The Truth About Aspartame - The BeWells
- * Hollywood Fantasy - Loyalty Day
- * Bonjour, Mon Amie - Josh Woodward
- * Things To Do In New York - Fifteen Years
- As Icons of My Youth Fall Silent - Forty Second Songs
- Quentin Tarantino - Doctor Worm
- I Thought I Loved You - Sven Mullet
The asterisks mark songs that are my particular favorites, but they're all pretty interesting. Track #2 is not actually from Songfight, but MC Frontalot has participated in the past and I thought it went well in the mix. Sue me.
Notice anything? Josh Woodward made the list three times. I was curious, so I checked him out. Turns out he's got a blog and he's local to me, relatively speaking. Findlay's about two hours away. I don't know if we'll make it over to see him at a live show, but perhaps we'll take a detour on one of our trips up to Michigan if the timing is right. He seems like an interesting guy... not many songwriters use grep to write songs.
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