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Downwrite Artists

Travis Shettel
Los Angeles, CA
Travis Shettel (Piebald, TS & The Past Haunts) is constantly writing off-the-dome jingles to tell stories of his current life situations. Topics have included: eating delicious ice cream, a crappy roommate, or even petting an elephant.
SONG COST: $100
Matt Pryor
Lawrence KS
Matt Pryor tours the world with The Get Up Kids, The New Amsterdams and solo. He writes about love, longing, divorce and dinosaurs. He's currently recording the 3rd Terrible Twos album, a project of children's songs as well as his 4th solo record.
SONG COST: $100
Lindsay Minton
Houston, TX
Lindsay Minton is a Jersey native, high school English teacher, and front woman of Texas trio Football, etc. She wants to write sad songs about something other than herself.
SONG COST: $100
Steve Soboslai
Pittsburgh, PA
Steve Soboslai is the singer of Punchline. He wants to write songs for you about your dog or your grandma. He wants to help you find the words to say to that special or very unspecial someone.
SONG COST: $100
Bob Nanna
Chicago, IL
Bob Nanna (Braid, Hey Mercedes, City on Film) has been writing, recording, and performing rock music for 22 years. Here's to the next 40.
SONG COST: $100
Mark Rose
Chicago, IL
Mark Rose is a twenty-nine year old singer/songwriter from Chicago. Former frontman of the band Spitalfield (1998-2007), & lifetime ALF enthusiast-- Mark writes his own blend of R&B infused rock and pop that leaves you somewhere between 1983 & the present.
SONG COST: $100
Josh Berwanger
Kansas
Josh Berwanger first made a name for himself as a member of The Anniversary. His songs are born out of love, heartbreak, fear and frustration and speak to the struggle of someone trying to slug it out in the music business.
SONG COST: $100
Dustin Currier
Chicago, IL
Dustin Currier served as multi-instrumentalist for The Felix Culpa. Now his main effort is playing guitar very loudly and yelling in Cut Teeth, with some occasional tickling of the ivories in Venna. He also composes instrumental pieces for film projects.
SONG COST: $100
Mike Felumlee
Crystal Lake, IL
As a veteran of the respected punk scene of Chicago, Illinois, Mike Felumlee knows how to turn a three minute pop structure into something more than the sum of it’s parts. Perhaps best known for his stints drumming for The Smoking Popes and Alkaline Trio.
SONG COST: $100
Mitch Vice
Indianapolis, IN
Mitch Vice has been fighting the proverbial ceiling of what a new punk rock band in the midwest can accomplish since graduating high school in 2007. Get diploma. Get in van. Get dumped. Get sad. Write song. Play for friends. Get happy.
SONG COST: $100
Brian Southall
Detroit, MI
Brian Southall is a 31 year old musician from the suburbs of Detroit, MI. He has been writing and performing for over 13 years and is most well known for his work with The Receiving End Of Sirens, Boys Night Out and Isles & Glaciers.
SONG COST: $100
Lauren LoPiccolo
Chicago IL
Born within moaning distance of Motown, Lauren LoPiccolo has been writing songs and doing bedroom recordings since "Tunnel of Love." Or at least since "The Rising." Played in The City On Film, Certain People I Know, Bad Boys, and Jack & Ace along the way.
SONG COST: $100
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