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Dearest Spill Fans,

We are very excited to have been chosen as one of the four bands up for Yahoo’s Who’s Next! If we win we get to do a special Yahoo performance that will be up for an ENTIRE MONTH on the biggest site on the interweb!

We really hope that you will help us out by voting! We’ve even made a special video and voicemail to ask for your help in person. Please watch and listen to them here and here. Thanks so much for being a fan and if you can head over to music.yahoo.comand click the vote button we’d very much appreciate it!

Thank you!

Hugs,

The Spill Canvas.

Quick favor to ask of you, can you PLEASE vote for us for Yahoo's Who's Next?? That would be seriously awesome. Thanks and hope to see you soon!

love,
Nick
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG20hYGBeLc
http://music.yahoo.com/whosnext

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http://thespillcanvas.com
http://myspace.com/tsc

Picture your next-door neighbor, noticeably talented, quietly charming and
extraordinarily friendly. You watch him growing up in the home beside your own,
fostering a deep love of music, learning to play the guitar, encouraged by his
father to pursue an exploration of these sonic landscapes and claim them for his
own. Years pass and one day you look out the window and realize the little boy
next-door has become a full-fledged musician-and the members of your small town
aren't the only ones who know it.

That is the story of Nick Thomas, the singer, guitarist and mastermind behind
The Spill Canvas. While growing up in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Thomas recorded
his first songs at age 15, funded by his father who strongly encouraged his
son's evident musical talent. Although Thomas admits that results of those
studio sessions were "atrocious," the fledgling singer-songwriter honed his
largely acoustic-based style playing solo shows in and around his hometown.
After performing with a few local bands, Thomas returned to his solo music with
conviction, dubbing it The Spill Canvas.

After sending demo after demo to labels around the county, the music caught the
attention One Eleven Records owner Brad Fischetti. The result of that record
deal was the raw and emotive Sunsets and Car Crashes, which began to amass
Thomas eager fans around the country. After officially transitioning from solo
act to full-fledged rock band, The Spill Canvas recorded their dynamic debut
full-length, One Fell Swoop, with producer Ed Rose (The Get-Up Kids), releasing
it on One Eleven in May of 2005 to great acclaim, eventually selling over 50,000
copies.

While on tour in support of One Fell Swoop, The Spill Canvas caught the eye of
Sire Records President Michael Goldstone at New Jersey's The Bamboozle Festival
in 2006. Ready to take the next step forward, The Spill Canvas formed a
partnership with Sire, which Thomas believes will provide the band with the
promise of career longevity. The band came out with a new five-song EP tiled
Denial Feels So Good in May and they are about to enter the next phase of their
career with their new full-length, No Really, I'm Fine, which was recorded by
Neal Avron (Fall Out Boy, The Wallflowers, Yellowcard) in Hollywood, California,
last spring. "It was such an easy choice to pick Neal to produce our new record
because he's consistently produced so many great records over the years," says
Beck. "He brings out the absolute best in you as a performer," adds Thomas.

The result is an album that's finally as varied as the band's collective
influences, which range from Van Morrison to Otis Redding. For example, the
hypnotic rocker "One Thing" shows how much the band have grown as musicians
since the release of their last full-length; "Bleed" has a psychedelic '70s rock
feel that's effortlessly recontextualized into a pop context; and "Saved" is an
epic anthem that's got a chorus so huge it's hard to believe it can be
successfully encoded in ones and zeroes. "This time around we had so much more
time in the studio and I think that really allowed us to blossom creatively,"
Thomas explains. "We got to make beats by like hitting stuff with hammers and
banging pillows on the wall and stuff like that. There were no boundaries to
what we would experiment with."
To date, the Spill Canvas have toured with bands like Motion City Soundtrack,
Straylight Run, Mae and The Plain White T's, and graced the stages of Austin's
annual music festival SXSW, New Jersey's The Bamboozle and the Vans Warped Tour
in both 2006 and 2007. ("We love Warped Tour, says Ludeman. "What could possibly
be better than an event that caters to such a wide variety of music lovers?")
Admittedly, the the band, who was named one of Alternative Press' "Bands To
Watch in 2007," may not exactly be living next-door anymore, but they have
preserved the sensibility of their humble beginnings. Notorious for their
personal relationship with their fans, The Spill Canvas may spend most of the
year on the road, but their hearts have never left Sioux Falls.

"We come from is such a simple place and when we'd get to those coastal
communities like New York or Seattle, it's almost like an oversaturation because
everybody is in a band and everybody's the next big thing," Thomas explains when
asked why the band members all still live in South Dakota when they're not on
the road. "There's no strings, there's no flashiness to the concepts," he
continues, mirroring Bruce Springsteen's attitude about New Jersey or Van
Morrison's feelings toward Belfast, Ireland. "Our writing is just very honest,"
he adds, "almost too honest sometimes, which I think it's kind of cool."
"With this record you can definitely tell we've matured as musicians and how
much Nick has improved as a lyricist; that's going to happen with as much as we
went through when we were supporting One Fell Swoop," explains Beck, adding that
despite the members are barely of legal drinking age, they're old souls. "We
grew up really quickly over the past few years and for the first time we're
experiencing life to the fullest." That said, even if the band ended tomorrow,
the Spill Canvas would still be proud of their accomplishments. "I think we've
already completed a lot of dreams and while we do have new ones that form every
day, I think at the end of the day you just have to hope for the best," Thomas
summarizes. "I'm from South Dakota and look at what we're doing; sometimes this
all feels like a dream.