The band has received regional radio play across Chicagoland and surrounding areas with their 2019 singles “Words in Scary Stories” and “Floating Stone,” and the music video for their latest release “Space Force” gained over 100k views on Facebook.

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They have brought their energetic live show to venues across the Midwest and beyond, playing in 13 US states andĬompleting multiple tours to Texas to play SXSW, all while The Midwest power trio combines the energy and spirit of pop-punk with the colors and improvisational elements of jazz and soaring intricacies of progressive rock to bring forth a sound that is as unique as it is listenable, and as likely to produce a thoughtful discussion as it is a raucous sing-along. Spike and the Spitwads and Middle of the Road Band’s Facebook page is at /middleoftheroadband.Northwest Indiana-based progressive-powerpop band has never shied away from innovation. It’s gotten me through the years and I love the guys I work with. We’ve been really lucky through the years to play as much as we want to play. We’re all trying to find different things to do,” said Vanschoyck, who began playing bass 55 years ago after seeing the Shondells in concert. The rest of Spike and the Spitwads now consists of lead vocalist and guitarist David Deneau aka Spike of Michigan City, lead vocalist and drummer Grant Darby aka Shecky of LaPorte and lead vocalist and keyboardist Bruce Swanson aka Spud of Portage.

“We try to dress ’50s style when we do the Blue Chip. When the ’60s were over we still heard a couple of bands doing ’50s music and early ’60s music and they were getting a great response so we started doing it and we’ve been doing it since around 1975,” said Vanschoyck, who began singing in first grade.

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