Brat Fest Greatest Hits

As we gear up for our show on Friday at Brat Fest 2013, it's time to look over a little bit some of our favorite Brat Fest moments. It's usually the drunkest I gets all year (like the one time we started out at Brat Fest and ended up at Woof's - well, I guess from one sausage party to another...)

Here's the Road Mania from 2007, which was our first performance at the festival.

In 2008, they featured us in the ad for the show!

And a picture of Ben looking like a champion from the stage that year! (thanks Watson for the sweet shot!)

Wendy's Drummercam in 2009

And bringing the flask was a hugely bad idea that year...

I spent most of that fest in the van finishing up the videos for the Singularity DVD, even after we were done playing (we had to ship it out that day or we wouldn't have made the release party deadline two weeks later!) But when it was done, it was time to party.

2010 we played in a trailer in an area where there was no beer. Let's just forget that one ever happened. In 2011, we took the year off...

2012, however, was our best one yet, and here's some action from the Road Mania.

And we're planning something bigger and better for this Friday at 7pm!
(Click here for details and directions)

May 2013 Newsletter - Send Us Your Craziest Pictures and Short Videos

We Need Your Craziest Face Pics

Hey guys, we need your help. We're looking for the scariest craziest pics of your faces that we can get for our live show next Friday. Take it with your camera phone or webcam, scan an old favorite, whatever you like - but send them to our email address - we want your nastiest faces!  Check this face out!

Also looking for video introductions from YOU!

If you can get yourself on video introducing yourself and the city you're in (preferably with some kind of shot of the city in the background, but not necessary) and say "Hi, this is <your name> from <your city> and I just wanted to say hello to Madison, Wisconsin and Brat Fest 2013." That would be the coolest thing ever. We're going to be using them for our show next week and we'd love to have you involved. If you have any ideas for anything else you want to say (or a Sunspot dedication or request), just send us an e-mai l and let us know what you want to do. We're powering this summer's rock shows with content from our favorite people and that's you guys, who keep us going every day. So, if you have any ideas, send 'em in! Also, thanks for voting in our Sunspot Cover Poll. It was a close call (the winning song literally pulled through by one vote.) You picked the song and now we're going to remake it. We'll have a live video of the track up in June and we can't wait to see what you think! Send in your ideas!

Upcoming Shows

FRIDAY MAY 24TH 7PM BRAT FEST MADISON, WI 

FRIDAY JUNE 7TH MCAULIFFE'S RACINE, WI

SATURDAY JUNE 8TH MOXY FEST, CINCINNATI, OH

SATURDAY JUNE 15TH PHOENIX PARK, DELAVAN, WI

See you soon and Thank Jeebus Summer is Here!

Mike, Ben, and Wendy Lynn

SUNSPOT 

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Brat Fest 2013 - We're Crowdsourcing The Show!

We love you. Very deeply and grossly. And we always had an awesome time at Brat Fest.

So this year we wanted to combine our love of you and our love of the show by finding more ways to make our peeps part of it. If you check our social networks or your email over the next couple of weeks, you're going to have several opportunities to join in the show with us. Here's a press release that we're sending out about the show and remember to contact us if you have any more awesome ideas!


Madison rock band, Sunspot, has always been close with their audience. Whether it's the video blogging from their van with the "Sunspot Road Mania" podcast, hanging out every week with a webcast on Google+, or letting people in to a 24-hour live feed from their 2013 SXSW tour, Sunspot has never been afraid of their crowd. And this year for their special Brat Fest show, Sunspot is going back to their audience by not only getting them involved during the concert, but making them part of the show!

Sunspot has already approached their audience about picking a brand new request for a cover song for the show, but they're also making video requests and video introductions from their fans part of the show as well. Sunspot will be broadcasting a live stream of the concert on their website so that their fans and friends can enjoy it as well from wherever they're from. They'll be interviewing Brat Fest attendees during the day and taking live texts to the band phone number (608-561-2263) as well as their Twitter feed (@sunspotmusic) for anyone who wants to join in with something witty or clever. When you combine that with the band's tendency to improv songs on the spot, it's going to be a "crowdsourced show" where the audience is just as big a part of the concert as the band.

Friday May 24th, 2013 7PM
SUNSPOT
BRAT FEST
WILLOW ISLAND
QUANN-OLIN STAGE
All-Ages
Free


Sunspot has racked up a few awards and a lot of recognition during the past decade, including winning Rock Album of the Year in the Madison Area Music Association Awards for "The Slingshot Effect" (2012),"Singularity" (2010), "Loser of the Year" (2004). They're a symphony of guitars and voices, soaring melodies wrapped around hyper literate poetry and wicked rhythms. Male and female harmonies collide with expert guitar work and pop sensibility. Sunspot is rock music that's smart, fun, and powerful. The band has shared the stage with Death Cab for Cutie, The Flaming Lips, Sponge, SevenMaryThree, Hot Hot Heat, Crash Test Dummies and Sick Puppies. Also, Sunspot licensed their song, “Go, Pack!” to FOX Sports for their Super Bowl coverage, with some residual coverage for the song on NPR as well as numerous Wisconsin radio stations.

New Sunspot Live Acoustic Videos

Here's some live performance videos from Mike and Wendy Lynn's show in Los Angeles in April...


My guitar strap falls off in the middle of the song on this one and it was a severe pain in the ass to try to play the rest of the song and sing, but I still think I pulled it off!





There's also a little gallery of photos of this show right here!

Show in Middleton Tonight! April 25th!

Some fun Instagrams from Mike and Wendy's LA Trip and Show!

Sunspot - Change the World Live - April 13th, 2013