Sprowt

The Not Safe To Drink: Music For Flint Water Crisis Relief compilation album is out and our exclusive song "Sponge" is available on it.

Our contribution to this comp was written about the resilience of our community.

As KING 810 said, "We don't turn and run where I'm from."

Flint, Michigan is made up of some amazing people who, despite the odds, continue to pour themselves into making our home a great place.

This is not said to take away from the water crisis or any of the problems that we continuously face, but to feature the people who won't give up when faced with them.

Thank you to the following and everyone else who makes Flint great. Their perseverance is unmatched and inspiring to say the least.

Flint Local 432 Vehicle City Tacos Flint City T-Shirts Flint Youth Theatre MaMang Spectacular Spudz Healthy Dollar Sutorial La Azteca Taco House Community Foundation of Greater Flint

$5 gets you our song along with 50+ others. All of the proceeds are donated to Community Foundation of Greater Flint's FlintKids.org. Get it at:

NotSafeToDrink.bandcamp.com

Thank you to all of the artists who donated their time and creativity to give value to this.

Thank you to Brandon Mata, Brent Mata and RIOT FILM PRODUCTIONS for helping us make this video.

We just released a music video for our new song “Breakdown.” Please check it out and share it if you like.

Big thanks to the flintlocal432 for letting us shoot the video there. We didn’t want to do it anywhere else!

Also big shout out to Brent Mata, Brandon Mata, and Riot Film Productions for helping make this all happen.

Come see us at The Whiting tonight and/or at the saveyourgenerationrecs stage at bledfest Saturday.

Check out this cool list of bands in front of a neat red photo. 

If you look real closely, we are in that list, along with some other home dogs like Backpacks and Teaheads. 

For $32, you get to see some sweet touring acts and Michigan bands.

We aren’t a big band. 

But, to us, it is unbelievably flattering and exciting to play bledfest.

So even if you aren’t coming to see us, please consider coming out and supporting a festival that give bands like us an opportunity to feel significant.

Hope to see you there,

Sprowt

P.S.

New song coming soon. Music video coming soon. EP coming soon. Lots of shows with friends this summer. 

This week we wrap up tracking for a single we're doing at 37 Studios in Rochester Hills, MI:

We've been polishing up our first 6 song EP. It looks like we'll be ready to record this in early 2015 (January/February).

We just had some sweet shirts made by Mark 3 Graphic Design and Flint City T-Shirts that we'll have at our show with chasing-the-riots-band at the flintlocal432:

As always, we'll have free stickers and free 4 song demos available as well.

The show is on Dec 20th. This is the Facebook event page:

https://www.facebook.com/events/824263304283418/

This is our last show for 2014, so we hope to see some new and familiar people there!

In case we don't:

See you next year.

We had a blast this weekend.

Our first show was in Saginaw on Friday at the Hamilton St. Pub with dontpulltheplug, The Angst, and The Cocks. There were a ton of people there we didn't know, and they were all awesome. Thanks for hanging out, talking to us, and enjoying the rest of the bands with us.

We had no idea there was such a lively scene up in Saginaw, so it was very cool to get the chance to get in on it.

Sunday we played at Mac's Bar with midwestskiesrock, bluffingtheghosts, The Sailor Kicks, and Alex Dwyer.

It was a Sunday night, so not as many people were willing to come out and party hard, but the handful that did were more than enough to make it a good time.

Special thanks to Lansing local musicians Hannah Weir and Summer Winters for coming out and supporting that show.

Local support like that is the best!

Check out their music projects below:

https://www.facebook.com/hannahweir.music

https://www.facebook.com/SummerWinters916

We're playing with themostdangerousanimalband and Nothing Gold on the 15th at Thrive Studio in Waterford

https://www.facebook.com/events/304176636441785

So come out that night and jam with us before we record on the 23rd!

See you soon,

Come out to the flintlocal432 Friday and support not only the awesome local bands, but a venue dedicated to growing the Flint community and its music scene:

https://www.facebook.com/events/281386838736787

We are very lucky to have an all ages space where anyone can experience a myriad of local acts from all different genres.

It was incredibly cool to see a group like intoitoveritofficial choose to play in Flint last Friday over other places in Michigan.

It obviously doesn't have to be a show we play at, but please consider bringing some friends and dropping in on some shows to support the Local.

And in a less serious tone, here is a video of us painting the rock in Flint really fast:

http://youtu.be/Nse-uZj8ZDo

We're wrapping up writing our first EP that we are planning on recording in the next couple of months!

We've released a new demo of one of the songs that will be on the EP. It's called "A Fair Affair" and it represents a lot of change for us.

The demo was recorded by us and mixed/mastered by our good friend Will Luongo. It is available for free download. Please share it with others if you like it!

When we originally started playing, there were a lot of intentionally poppy traits we shot for. But as we've been progressing as a band, I think we've found that we're a lot more comfortable moving toward a Pop-Punk sound than a Power-Pop sound.

We think this is more apparent in our new demo, and hope it will be reflected in the EP as a whole.

On another note, we recently played the annual Punk Rock Prom at the flintlocal432, which was Star Wars themed this year!

It was really cool being a part of that show. Little American Champ played, and they are phenomenal. It's such a great event and a fun time. If you have never gone, please consider checking it out next summer!

We also recently had our first show in Lansing at Mac's Bar with Fusion Shows, which was a lot of fun. We played with the band Squirrel Shaped Fish who are CRAZY good!

We've got some more shows coming up, including Leilapalooza in Battle Creek on July 26th!

Thank you for your continued support. It's very cool to know that anyone is interested in music the four of us make.

Keep an eye on sprowt.net for more updates!

We've released a new song today called "The Young and the Bold."

It was produced by nickdiener of theswellers and was mixed/mastered by Mark Michalik.

We're pretty proud of it, so please feel free to check it out and share it if you like it too!

We'll be playing it and another new song live at the flintlocal432 tomorrow too, so feel free to come out and have a good time with us.

What do you have to offer? All you want to be is tougher, stronger Better at anything than me But we all know that it takes heart We all ...

We released a new song today! It was produced/engineered by Nick Diener and mixed/mastered by Mark Michalik.

2014 is ramping up to be a productive year so far.

We have several things in the works that we're excited about, but here are a couple of them!

In January, we recorded some songs with Nick Diener of The Swellers! We also made some videos of our sessions with Nick that you can check out at our Youtube page here:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbbsE2LV7BPBGUuyOWyCNPJJnCLkZuIhW

They're being mixed and mastered by Mark Michalik and they're going to sound killer! 

Seriously, if you haven't heard Mark's stuff before (you probably have), check him out. He does awesome work.

This month, we're having our first show of the year back at the Flint Local 432! Here's the lineup:

Here's a link to the Facebook event:

https://www.facebook.com/events/253049124871736/

We're having gooooood times over here.

Hope you are as well!

The Swellers ended their tour last night at the Flint Local 432 with 4 other great bands. 

Sadie Lee, Wolves & Machines, and The Most Dangerous Animal all killed it.

We're so flattered to have been able to play a show with all of them.

Thanks so much to the Flint Local 432 and everyone who came out last night!

We had our first shirt printed so we have something to sell at shows. It's inspired by Reptar from the Rugrats (we were are all into 90s cartoons) and we call it Sprowtar:

We're selling it for $10 at our shows to help fund recording!

In the meantime, we have some self-produced recordings coming down the pipeline still, so keep an eye out.

Have a great holiday season. Hopefully we'll see you at a show!

Sprowt had show at The Flint Local 432 again on September 7th that was pretty fun.

We debuted a new song and had the pleasure of playing with some other great bands that night: The Bell Tree, Christine Bowen, My Island and I, and Erwin.

Every group seemed to have a pretty great turn out, and we actually had some of their people sticking around for us at the end of the night.

We just recently hit 100 likes on our Facebook page, which (as many of you know) means we are definitely going to get signed to a major label any day now. /s

Sunday, the 15th, is our show at The Pike Room in Pontiac.

If you (or anyone you know) is interested in coming to this, please contact one of us for a ticket by Sunday.

On Monday, we are going to start tracking drums for all of the originals we've been playing live so we can release some more demos.

Thanks for taking an interest in Sprowt and supporting us!

-Sprowt