"Just another guy with a guitar... drums, bass, saxophone, piano, odd samples, and scary noises...
"One day Tom Hummer decided to make some music."
- from
his Facebook page
"Tom Hummer is a musician from Ames, Iowa, who has released four albums. His style incorporates indie rock, folk, hard rock, industrial, and post rock."
- from
his Locusic page
"A multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter coming from Iowa, who also plays bass with the rock band Thoughts of Crossing since 2003... He began releasing music under his own name with the 2010 album, The Greenhouse Effect, an intriguing and quite unique bland of folk influences and noisy endeavors. Three years later, he came up with the concept-driven and experimental Pairs, where every song, except one, is linked to another. His third album, Sexism Sells, was published in 2015, and contains his most angry and heavy material to date, bringing social commentary to the forefront of the lyrics. This record was quickly followed by the post-rock influenced and largely instrumental Dystopian Blues in May 2016."
- from
his Sputnik Music page
"Tom Hummer is the kind of artist that rewards those of us who are always searching for that hidden, undiscovered gem. His music is infectious and original; haunting, yet inspiring.
"His first three albums show his increasing skill as a craftful songwriter, presenting us with tunes unlike much other music I’ve heard before. Hummer accomplishes this by refusing to adhere to any particular structure or sonic motif. His songs build and explode in both dynamics and ideas while covering a variety of genres: rock, folk, industrial, heavy metal, singer-songwriter, post-rock, to name a few. And yet, Hummer is able to deliver his sprawling epics via cohesive, themed listening experiences. Lyrics and wordplay not only add intrigue to Tom’s music, but they also serve as a device that ties everything together by establishing common themes and concepts that eat at our fundamental understanding of society and the world we live in."
- from
the decription of
the Velocities in Music podcast where he discuss how he writes his music
Credits;
Writing, performances, mixing, production, and mastering all by Tom Hummer
Home page:
http://www.tomhummer.com/
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/tomhummermusic/
BandCamp:
https://tomhummer.bandcamp.com/
To download the whole podcast, right click on the link below and hit "Save as...":
https://archive.org/download/IowaMusicShowcaseEpisode54/Iowa%20Music%20Showcase%20-%20Episode%2054_.mp3
Labels: 2010s, 2016, All the Lights Are Fluorescent (song), alternative music, Ames, Ames area, Ep 054,Halloween, Halloween 2017, Halloween music, horrorcore, industrial music, post rock, prog rock, Tom Hummer
In 1903, apparently some smelly manbat creature terrorized the town of Van Meter, shooting a bright light out of its head. Bullets had no effect on it.
