Artist description Smoove, Greazy, Funky.

Music Style Hot Rockin' Jazzy Funk.

Musical Influences Funk, Jazz, Rock, Reggae, R&B

Similar Artists Red Hot Chili Peppers, Phish, stevie wonder, sly & the family stone, doobie brothers

Artist History SOMETHING PHONIC From the depths of a Wisconsin college town, nestled in the meditative chill climates, emerges a hot rockin’ jazzy funk sound that keeps the feet movin' and the body groovin'. Something Phonic, a tight, richly talented, aim-to-please group of funksters, is serious about fun and good music. Their unique style and energetic performance express the many facets of this existence with sarcasm, humor and sincerity. Having shared venues with Train, Little Blue Crunchy Things, Monovox, Cool Waters Band, The Stokens, Pet Engine and countless others, and having practiced their funkin' butts off, these guys have both the maturity and experience to successfully walk the organic and original paths the music has taken. With an ocean of percussive sounds, tight, witty and sly bass licks, jazzy, expressive keys, and melodic guitar creations, SoPho's lyrics certainly have some waves on which to surf out into the sands of fans kicking it up all around. In 1998, the band began as just a hearty threesome, rockin' their town of Oshkosh and surrounding Wisco area with their creative funky style. Not until 2001, when they acquired the fourth member, one of the most talented "keyboarders" alive, Mark Martin, did SoPho reach an expanded version of the already tight funky sound, becoming full, harmonic, and epiphinated. Their music continues to expand cleverly into funk/reggae/rock realms, never letting down their following of committed fans and pleasing the freshest ears around the country. If funk rock "is an international monument with infinite locations," and "people have been known to gather at funk Rock because of the positive vibrations it emits," then the band will soon become an icon of the ever moving and groovin' funk movement. Writer: Carrie McWithey

Group Members Keith Scanlan, Joe Stevens, Namiah Tribolini, Mark Martin

Instruments Bass, Guitar, Drums, Percussion, Vocals, keys

Albums Organic, Something Phonic, Tales from the Magic Shoppe Volume I,

Press Reviews Oshkosh Northwestern, Manitowac Daily Times, Wausau City Pages,

Location Oshkosh, WI - USA

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