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Atomic Tom

Brooklyn, New York
30 Years Old
Songwriter
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"On a bed of nails she makes me wait"
BIOGRAPHY
I began writing when I was 12 in rural Virginia, and made the city transition to Boston in college. After being chewed up by the Berklee songwriting system, they spit me out and I landed on my ass in Brooklyn where I now wake up every afternoon chanting pop lyrics and cranking melodic riffs with my awesome / sometimes sober band mates to pay for my 2.5 nightly shots of Jameson whisky. This is the life...
LEVEL
professional
GENRES
Alternative Pop, Alternative Rock, Rock
PUBLISHING COMPANY
Luke White Music, I own my own publishing
Contact
Management: info@weareatomictom.com
Publishing: BMI / Luke White Music
Label: unsigned
Booking: booking@weareatomictom.com
Administrative: o2bwanobe@gmail.com
P.R.O.
BMI
INSTRUMENTS
bass / drums / acoustic guitar / electric guitar / keyboard / percussion / piano / synthesizers
INFLUENCES
The Cure, Doves, Rooney, The Editors, Phantom Planet
DAY JOB
Songwriter / Band Leader
I AM INTERESTED IN
in co writing in person
in networking with songwriters
in pitching songs to tv
in getting a record deal
in getting a publishing deal
I WRITE:
When I have time

I Also Write:
by myself
with others
for myself

I Prefer To Write:
melody
music
experience >
SONG CUTS
all for Atomic Tom
SONG PLACEMENTS
The Hills (Aug 2008) AMC TV (July 2007)
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Cadillac Sky

Cadillac Sky should be a lot more tired. It’s early Saturday afternoon at MerleFest and the band–Bryan Simpson, Matt Menefree, Andrew Moritz, Ross Holmes and newest addition David Mayfield–has already logged two performances on the day....

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Sessions: David Bazan

It was pretty slow. I mean, I played [the songs] on acoustic guitar for a long time, but I didn’t know how to transfer them to the other format. I didn’t want it to be a solo acoustic record. I wanted there to be bells and whistles and full band arrangements even if I didn’t want it necessarily to be electric guitar rock....

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Sessions: Vetiver

“It’s always slightly confounding to me whenever Vetiver is depicted with the same tropes that people have read off of press sheets,” says Andy Cabic. “The same sort of milestones get mentioned but then no one really digs to find out that there are those other things going on.”

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Spoon: The Power of Transference

In 1995, Spoon were often dubbed “the next Pixies.” The tag never quite fit, but the two did share a love for writing glorious pop songs and then shrouding them with walls of noise and mystery. Over 15 years, the Austin, Texas band have survived lineup shuffles and early record label neglect, finding their signature style with 2001’s Girls Can Tell and quietly building one of the strongest rock catalogs of the decade.

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