[2025-08-15] The Spongetones "The 40th Anniversary Concert... And Beyond." including new studio tracks (Big Stir)

Linda · **Posted:** Thu May 08, 2025 11:06 am

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Description
Big Stir Records is far beyond honored to welcome The Spongetones to our artist roster. Power Pop Hall Of Famers with over forty years of recording and performing history to their credit, the North Carolina-based band can be described without exaggeration as legends of the guitar pop form. Consisting today of the trio of accomplished singer-writers - Jamie Hoover (guitar), Steve Stoeckel (bass) and Pat Walters (guitar) - who've crafted their Merseybeat-inspired sound since well before their classic 1982 debut Beat Music, joined by new drummer Eric Willhelm (allowing the beat to continue after the untimely passing of longtime member Chris Garges), The Spongetones enter their fifth decade as a band and recording concern with new music on the way via Big Stir. After all this time, The Spongetones, it turns out, have plenty more to say - and play - in their continuing demonstration of the endless well of possibilities inherent in the three-minute pop song when crafted and performed by masters of the form.

Although there hasn't been a Spongetones studio album since 2009's Scrambled Eggs, the members have all been active with collaborative and solo projects, including Hoover and Stoeckel's duo work as Jamie and Steve and Stoeckel's recent acclaimed solo debut The Power Of And on Big Stir Records. And The Spongetones have continued to deliver the goods as a live act, up through and beyond their recent Fortieth Anniversary Concert in their hometown of Charlotte.

A professional recording of that rapturously-received show will serve as the basis for the next chapter of The Spongetones' story with Big Stir. But beyond a document of the band's onstage prowess - and a de facto greatest hits platter that would be the envy of any power pop combo of any vintage - there will be new studio recordings and, most essentially, new songs keeping the band's legacy sound firmly in the here and now.

Tracklist
1. Anyway Town
2. Not So
3. Here I Go Again
4. She'll Be Gone
5. Better Take It Easy
6. Little Death
7. The One That Gets You
8. Skinny
9. Every Night Is A Holiday
10. My Girl Maryanne
11. She Goes Out With Everybody
12. Where Were You Last Night?
13. Don't You Know?
14. Have You Ever Been Torn Apart?
15. Oh Yeah!
16. Try To Please
17. Boy Meets Girl
18. Must Be Lust
New Studio Tracks:
19. Help Me Janie
20. Honest Work
21. Lulu's In Love

Linda · **Posted:** Fri May 30, 2025 11:34 pm

One of the new studio tracks, "Lulu's In Love":

Linda · **Posted:** Fri Jul 11, 2025 12:22 am

Another newie, "Help Me Janie":

Linda · **Posted:** Fri Aug 08, 2025 12:24 am

The third new track, "Honest Work":

[2025-08-15] The Spongetones "The 40th Anniversary Concert... And Beyond." including new studio tracks (Big Stir)

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