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“It’s the effortless lyrical and musical wit that keeps the band from becoming just a novelty act. Filled with plucky narrative songwriting and heartbreaking characters, the band’s period-style originals are both authentic and fresh.”- Emma Downs, The Journal Gazette
“Lead singer Lyndsy Rae Patterson is a spitfire, a ball of energy endlessly prancing and kickstepping across the stage in a crazed fusion of jazz moll and rag doll puppet with half her strings cut off.” – Paul F. P. Pogue, Nuvo.
“The for-real gorgeous experience is listening to Patterson take Helms’ witty lyrics and infuse them with a beauty that is one part Billie Holiday, one part Ella Fitzgerald and all parts heart and soul.” – Deborah Kennedy, Whatzup
“These youngish bucks (and doe) provide fine entertainment for you eyes and ears.” – Andy Bean, of the Two Man Gentlemen Band
“On their second short player The End Times Spams Band show that they can hold their own with any other band out there playing pre-big band jazz. These five folks know from “hot” with their early blues-influenced take on hot jazz.” – Sepiachord
“The kazoo growls and the banjo punches and the head spins, grinning all the while. 2 is one of the more consistently satisfying discs I’ve listened to in quite a while.” Mark Turney, Whatzup
- The End Times Spasm Band. Larry, Dieselpunks.org
- Leave the Porch Light On. Kyle Melton, Dayton City Paper.
- Review: End Times Spasm Band. Paul F. P. Pogue, Nuvo.
- Early New Orleans Jazz Comes to Cliff Bell’s. Lawrence B. Johnson, The Detroit News.
- Do the Time Warp. Deborah Kennedy, Whatzup.
- Review of #2. Mark Turney, Whatzup.
- Review of #2. Sepiachord.
- Witty Swing of Spasm Band No Gimmick. Emma Downs, The Journal Gazette.
- End Times Spasm Band Puts the Hot in Hot Jazz. Ben Larson, Fort Wayne Reader.
FESTIVALS & OTHER SPECIAL EVENTS: Free Range Music Festival (April 2012), Bottoms Up Burlesque’s Dream a Little Dream (March 2012), BuskerSquare at A Taste of the Arts (August 2011), Second Sunday on Main (July 2011), Elwood Concerts in the Park (July 2010 & 2011), Roots and Rhythm Festival (July 2010), RiverFest (June 2010), Record Store Day – Wooden Nickel (April 2010), Fort Wayne Museum of Art Grand Re-Opening, Wyeth Opening (March 2010)
VENUES: Acoustic Coffeehouse (TN), Arnold’s (OH), Barley Street Tavern (NE), The Bishop (IN), The Black Sparrow (IN), The Brass Rail (IN), Churchill’s (MI), Cliff Bell’s (MI), Coffee Amici (OH), Columbia Street West (IN), Double Wide Saloon (TX), Green Lantern (KY), The Lemon Grove (OH), Locals Only (IN), The Melody Inn (IN), MOTR Pub (OH), The Paddy Wagon (Ky), Preservation Pub (TN), The Purple Fiddle (WV), Quencher’s Saloon (IL), Replay Lounge (KS), Schlafly Bottleworks (MO), Skinny’s Ballroom (TX), Tidball’s (KY), Trouser Mouse (MO), The Vault (MO), The White Rabbit (IN), Woodruff’s (MI)
LIVE RADIO APPEARANCES: WBOI Meet the Music (August 2011, October 2011, March 2012), WDVX Blue Plate Special (March 2012), WBOI Little Brother Radio (July 2010)