Hey All,

It’s about that time again where we shell out a new song. This one is a nice jammy one that we later discovered was inspired by a great friend of ours named Mike Jennings. He comes to a lot of our shows and we play a tune called Kankamangus (don’t worry, I’ll post it soon). He loves that song as well as many of our others, so as we were jamming on it we realized who this song belonged to.

So this song, entitled “Super Gus” is named after the one and only Mike Jennings, and I guess you can say it’s his theme song, although he doesn’t know it yet. If you are super jealous, as I know some of you might be since you don’t have a Stem-powered theme song, then perhaps this is something we can discuss (for a small fee of course).  Just kidding…about the fee.

I will report on more news soon, as we have some big things coming up such as the premier of the South Swell Knights Movie this week, which we’re on the soundtrack of. Also, we have our show at Porter Bellys in Brighton this Friday, and that should be an awesome time as always. And, at the same time of the show, we will be broadcasting our song “Like You” on air on WFNX radio 101.7 FM. Pretty Sweeeeeeeeet!

Here’s another great jam with Gian Paolo, the singer of Ila Mawana, and us.  If you liked the last tasty jam then you will like this.  This one is more of a straight forward reggae hip-hop from Stemawna. Yes, that is a combination of Stem and Ila Mawana, much like the Wonder Twins, where we say “Form of badass” and create a nice little one off that was a lot of fun to play.   Kind of like a experimental swinger couple that wants to get a friend involved every once in a while.

It starts off with a simple riff, rapping and vocals, and then eventually kicks up into super dance disco dance fever. In fact it swings so hard that the recorder eventually stops working and shuts down, although we kept going this recording ended early at around 12 minutes leaving the remaining jam to never be heard again. Give it a listen and I hope you enjoy.  That last bit before it stops is my favorite part.

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Here’s another great jam with Gian Paolo, the singer of Ila Mawana. We just so happen to share a band room with these guys.  So, one day we were walking in and GP was just finishing up. As he was about to leave, we tossed the idea of working on something together and he decided to stay to jam out on a few random riffs. The result: five tasty jams, all of which have some nasty licks and riffs with AJ and GP going back and forth. On vocals GP was using a spiffy series of vocal effects which balanced Aj’s out quite nicely. This one is entitled “Taking Over”.

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Here is another jam installment from your boys at Stem. This little number is called Miracle it started as a sort of AC/DC style guitar riff that eventually turned into a pretty sweet jam. A chorus part and verse kind of naturally formed out of it, however if we were to make this into a song it would need just a little arranging and clarification. But as one time jam I think its F&*King fantastic. Enjoy and as always let us know what you think.

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Get ready for the Christmas Stem Show coming up at Church. Shit is going to rock.

Here is another little reggae influenced jam. During this session we played acoustic guitars, so everything we jammed on was a bit lower-key, meaning that we weren’t trying to blow your face off with pure volume. This is another where someone just started playing a riff and we just ran with it. I think this one has a good chorus hook to it and the groove is pretty solid, very Sublime-ish. I put a delay on the voice when I mixed it because I felt like it, but I think it works for at least parts of the jam. If we were to turn it into a song we would have to add some kind of bridge, maybe a guitar solo, and shorten it up a bit. But with a good strong chorus hook its not hard to make it into a rather solid tune.

Let me know your thoughts. Enjoy…

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