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Kind of Like Spitting

{{Short description|American indie rock band}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}}

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Kind of Like Spitting

| image = BenBarnett.jpg

| caption = Ben Barnett playing at Will's Pub, Orlando, Florida, January 2006

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| background = group_or_band

| alias =

| origin = Portland, Oregon, United States

| genre = Indie rock, emo

| years_active = 1996–2006, 2012–present

| label = Count Your Lucky Stars Records
Topshelf
Jealous Butcher
Hush
New American Dream
Ohev/Ganaarecordings
Barsuk
Redder

| associated_acts =

| website =

| current_members = Ben Barnett
Brian Grant
Dante Johnson
Anthony Sanders

| past_members = Ryan Moore
Ryan Matheson
Ben Gibbard
P.J. Aylward
Dan DeVriend
David Jerkovich

}}

Kind of Like Spitting is an American indie rock band. They formed in 1996 in Portland, Oregon. The band is led by singer-songwriter Ben Barnett, whose work has drawn comparisons to Elliott Smith, Mark Eitzel, Billy Bragg, and Robert Pollard.{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/kind-of-like-spitting-p310765|last=Kellman|first=Andy|title=Kind of Like Spitting|publisher=Allmusic.com|accessdate=2011-01-11}}

Over the next decade, Kind of Like Spitting regularly toured in the US, sometimes with David Jerkovich of Novi Split or a backing band. Kind of Like Spitting released twelve albums in seven years. In the UK, the track "Birds of a Feather" was picked up and played by BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel; however, it never received regular airplay.{{cite web|url=http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/gsteel/radioplus/index2.html |title=John Peel show 10th June 1999 |publisher=University of Edinburgh - School of Informatics |accessdate=2006-12-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070708211453/http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/gsteel/radioplus/index2.html |archivedate=2007-07-08 }} The band announced a break-up in 2006 for personal reasons.{{cite news | first = Sara | last = Brickner | title = Blunt Mechanic: Kind of Like Kind of Like Spitting | date = 2010-05-05 | url = http://www.seattleweekly.com/2010-05-05/music/blunt-mechanic-kind-of-like-kind-of-like-spitting/ | work = Seattle Weekly | accessdate = 2011-01-11}}

History

In July 1998, the band released a self-titled EP through Hush Records.{{Cite web|url=http://www.hushrecords.com/catalog.htm|date=January 18, 2000|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000118231256/http://www.hushrecords.com/catalog.htm|archive-date=2000-01-18|title=Hush Titles Now On Sale|website=Hush Records}} In April 2000 You Secretly Want Me Dead was released.

Barnett has been involved in other musical projects, including The Thermals in 2002–2003. Since 2007, Barnett has taught music at the Paul Green School of Rock in Seattle. Barnett was also part of the band Blunt Mechanic, which released the album World Record in 2010.{{Cite web|url=https://www.barsuk.com/artists/bluntmechanic|title=Blunt Mechanic|website=Barsuk.com}}

In 2014, Kind of Like Spitting reunited again but as a trio with Brian Grant on bass guitar and Dante Johnson on drums. In this lineup the band recorded their Topshelf Records debut, It's Always Nice To See You and embarked on a two-week-long tour with Lemuria.

On November 8, 2024, Barnett released a new EP as Kind of Like Spitting, via Near Mint Records.https://open.spotify.com/artist/1oCIe5XjeoEqglbAj10DPK The three-song Soon was the first official release for the band in a decade.

Discography

;Studio albums

;EPs

Singles

  • Birds of a Feather 7" – Grand Theft Autumn Records (1999)

Live

  • Live At CPOP Art Gallery - self-released (2002)
  • Live & Acoustic At Fireside Bowl - self-released (2002)
  • Live At The Electric Factory - self-released (2002)
  • Live At Le Jive Music Café - self-released (2003)
  • Live In Seattle - Hush Records (2005)
  • Phoning It In - self-released (2005)
  • Live In Woodland Hills - self-released (2006)
  • Portland Lounge Series VIII - self-released (2007)
  • Daytrotter - Daytrotter (2015)

Splits

  • Tour CD - with The City On Film and Sterling Silver - Jealous Butcher Records / About Midnight Records / Slowdance Records (1998)
  • Kind of Like Spitting / Rose of Sharon - Jealous Butcher Records (1998)
  • City On Film / Kind of Like Spitting - Sport Records (1999)
  • Home: Volume I - with Jeff London - Post-Parlo Records (2000)
  • Your Livingrooms All Over Me - Lemuria / Kind of Like Spitting - Art Of The Underground (2006)
  • Tour CD - with Des Ark and David Rovics (2016)

Compilation Appearances

  • Nailed to the Stars - Jealous Butcher Records (1996)
  • FLAG - Hush Records (1999)
  • Slightest Indication Of Change - Slowdance Records (2001)
  • Read: Interpreting Björk - Hush Records (2004)
  • MILE - Hush Records (2005)
  • Another Grey Christmas - LocalCut (2007)
  • Metaphysics for Beginners - Redder Records (2007)
  • DECA - Hush Records (2009)
  • From the Land of Ice and Snow: The Songs of Led Zeppelin - Jealous Butcher Records (2010)
  • Not The Same Old Songs: A Tribute To Motown - Artistic Integrity Records (2016)

References

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External links

  • [http://www.barsuk.com/bands/kindoflikespitting Barsuk Records: Kind of Like Spitting page]
  • [http://www.hushrecords.com/?page_id=38 Hush Records: Kind of Like Spitting page]
  • [http://www.last.fm/user/andrewbiles/journal/2006/06/7/151179/ Kind of Like Spitting discography at Last.fm]
  • [http://lemuriapop.blogspot.com/2014/05/menzingers-tour-kind-of-like-spitting.html Lemuria: Menzingers Tour + Kind of Like Spitting Tour]

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Category:1996 establishments in Oregon

Category:Hush Records artists

Category:Indie rock musical groups from Oregon

Category:Musical groups established in 1996

Category:Musical groups from Portland, Oregon

Category:Topshelf Records artists

Category:Barsuk Records artists

Category:Count Your Lucky Stars Records artists