The Spongetones

THE SPONGETONES likely need no introduction to our audience: singer-songwriters JAMIE HOOVER (guitar), STEVE STOECKEL (bass) and PAT WALTERS (guitar) have been crafting, recording and performing neo-classics in the British Invasion mold together since well before their iconic 1982 debut album BEAT MUSIC. Their induction into the Power Pop Hall Of Fame might have been assured by that album, ranked as the #13 genre album of all in John M. Borack's authoritative guidebook Shake Some Action, and the equally-beloved TORN APART EP (1984), between them featuring the essential oft-anthologized classics like “She Goes Out With Everybody,” “My Girl Maryanne,” and “Have You Ever Been Torn Apart?” – just to cite a song apiece from the band's three world-class creative forces. But the band's catalog extends well into the '90s and 2000s, with a series of terrific albums and frequent live shows in their native North Carolina and beyond cementing their reputation not only as guitar pop progenitors, but some of its finest present day practitioners as well.

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