LOGAN LYNN

If the Land of Misfit Toys elected a team of cultural ambassadors, Logan Lynn would be its poet laureate. In Portland’s pulsating music scene, he occupies a singular position- an emo prophet with a penchant for electronic beats, preaching the Good Word to drug-damaged crybabies.

After getting a lo-fi mixtape from 1998 called “This Is Folk Techno” into the right hands, he released his debut album in 2000. Logan Lynn’s “GLEE” is a blissful, sex-drenched romp through some emotionally treacherous territory. Produced by Pfog, heavy themes of religion, sexuality and identity played out alongside upbeat grooves and smiley-face rhythms. Logan Lynn’s debut blended spleen-venting lyrics with “Let’s Dance!” optimism and it’s been said that Lynn “puts the DISCO back into DISCOMFORT.”

His self-titled sophomore effort was released in 2006, using his earlier work as a springboard for exploring fresh sonic territory. The album release coincided with a performance for a crowd of over 400,000 alongside The Presets, Bob Mould and My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult at San Francisco’s Folsom Street Fair. The release of “Logan Lynn” brought with it five music videos which can, for all intents and purposes, be credited for putting Lynn’s music on the map.

A remix collaboration with Producer Carlos Cortes of Portland DJ collective Assemble The Empire yielded an E.P. entitled “Feed Me To The Wolves”, which was released in the fall of 2007. In 2008, Logan hosted the music television show “NewNowNext” on MTV’s Logo Network and his video for “Feed Me To The Wolves” was picked by the network as one of the “TOP 10 OF 2008″!

Lynn was signed to The Dandy Warhols’ record label, “BEAT THE WORLD” RECORDS from July 2007 to July 2010 and released his much anticipated 3rd full length record, “FROM PILLAR TO POST” ON LABOR DAY WEEKEND, 2009, alongside a 4-Volume Remix EP collection called “Blood In The Water”, which features Remixes by Styrofoam, Boy In Static, The Gentry, Ariake Waveband, Y-Tron, and MANY more. “From Pillar To Post” was released to the rest of the world on 11/24/09!

In July of 2010, after completing a Summer tour of the U.S. with Portland electronic rock band The Gentry, Logan Lynn announced that he would be taking an extended break from the music industry to go work full time for LGBTQ equal rights at Portland’s Q Center. Instead of releasing the follow-up to 2009’s “From Pillar To Post” traditionally, Lynn completed his last record “I Killed Tomorrow Yesterday” with Producer Bryan Cecil in 2010 and made it available digitally only to people who donate to Portland’s Q Center. 100% of the profits of Logan Lynn’s swan song go to charity.

Look for Logan on Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Last FM, DList, iLike, and anywhere else that worth checking!

For an extended bio, please check out Logan’s Wikipedia page.

RECENT PRESS

UNDER THE RADAR MAGAZINE

“delightfully warm synth-pop…Feed Me to the Wolves toes the line between Cut Copy’s epic chimes and Ladytron’s dancefloor squiggling.”

+  Under The Radar (September 16, 2009)

URB MAGAZINE

+ Reviewed by Amorn Bholsangngam

The term “emo” has gradually evolved into a derogatory term over the years. Ever since men’s eyeliner sales reached their peak sometime in the middle of our decade, “emo” has been a label that not only musicians but people in general have tried to steer clear of. Yet Portland synth-popster Logan Lynn has embraced the term, unabashedly employing it to describe the musical and lyrical heart that he has proudly displayed on his sleeve. Paired with DJ Carlos Cortes of Assemble the Empire, the singer/songwriter sets his heartfelt confessionals to the sound of blaring synths, driving drum rhythms, and pulsing basslines. Sonically adventurous yet possessing the pop sensibilities that lesser artists would forsake in the name of artsiness, Lynn is set to become the new golden boy of sensitive electro-pop. “Burning Your Glory” is a more pensive moment for Lynn, as he fuses playful electronics with forlorn balladry.

+ Amorn Bholsangngam – URB Magazine (Apr 17, 2009)

USA TODAY

“Fans of electronic compositions and mood music will enjoy Logan Lynn, whose efforts are variously described as electro-pop and emotronic. He has been working on a CD that is scheduled for general release in the fall of 2009.”

+  USA TODAY (Apr 28, 2009)

MTV

Logan Lynn featured and interviewed on MTV’s “NEWNOWNEXT” show on Logo.

+ http://www.logoonline.com/video/misc/274255/logan-lynn-on-newnownext-music.jhtml?id=1594234

Melophobe Magazine

Logan Lynn has a voice that put the audience in a trance. Crooning to hip, mesmerizing beats and sounds coming from DJ Carlos, Logan sang honest, heartfelt lyrics. Carlos drove the laptop at just the right speed, issuing paradise meticulously spun like a shimmering web, capturing us all. Logan Lynn’s music is unique and original, yet has a warm familiarity. I was reminded of velvet-voiced artists like Sade, with his skill at using vocal range so smoothly and beautifully. Logan advised that he was inspired by several female artists like Innocence Mission. I totally enjoyed his strong lyrics throughout, e.g.: “Burn me with cigarettes until I obey / Punish me backwards cuz I’ve been bad / You don’t take no prisoners. . . .” Sweet!

+ Angel Priest – Melophobe Magazine (Jun 29, 2009)

Indie Rock Cafe Music Blog

Having surfaced to the indie music scene for all the right reasons in recent years, and now signed with the Dandy Warhols’ label Beat The World, Logan Lynn has released a set of new singles from his anticipated third album release, From Pillar to Post, due out later this year.

Lynn teamed up with producer Carlos Cortes of the Portland DJ collective Assemble The Empire to record From Pillar to Post. The result: An amazing collection of upbeat, sprawling electro-pop tracks that are not over-produced but engineered to be original and free-flowing.

There’s a lot of musical experience and talented wrapped neatly in this well packaged upcoming release. The guys sent these fresh tracks to share with all of you. Enjoy.

+ INDIE ROCK CAFE MUSIC BLOG – IndieRockCafe.com (Mar 24, 2009)

LOGAN LYNN HAS BEEN FEATURED AT THE FOLLOWING PRESS, TV, AND RADIO OUTLETS:

August 2010

-Featured on You Are Part Of My Revolution’ Blog (Brooklyn)
-Featured on Oregon Music News
-Featured on Local Cut
-Featured on Just Out Blog

July 2010

-Featured on “EQ” (Electroqueer) from the United Kingdom
-Featured on ByronBeck.com
-Featured on NW Music Blog
-Featured on Kris Avalon’s Entertainment Blog (NYC)
-Featured on Just Out Portland Newsweekly blog
-Featured on Willamette Week’s Local Cut
-Featured on Fabulously Gay Blog
-Featured on Shock Treatment Blog (Seattle)
-Featured on Northwest Music Blog (Seattle)

June 2010

-Interview and photo spread in “Dirty” Magazine

-Picked by The Portland Mercury as “Band of the Week”

-Featured in Just Out Portland Newsweekly
-Featured in The Portland Mercury “Queer Underground” issue
-Featured on KEXP Seattle’s “Big Gay Radio” Playlist for Pride month
-Featured on Trustar Vibrations
-Featured in The Seattle Stranger
-Featured on Seattle Gay News
-Featured on Seattle Gay Scene
-Featured on Blogtown
-Featured in Willamette Week
-Featured in The Olympian
-Featured on Oregon Live!

May 2010

-Interviewed by Oregon Music News: “Logan Lynn & The Gentry: Emotronic Goes Post-Punk”

-TV Performance Live @ The Dandy Warhols Odditorium for “Studio 6″, CBS – KOIN 6 News

-TV Performance “Live at 7″, NBC – KGW Newschannel 8

-Featured in Just Out Magazine
-Featured in Portland Mercury
-Featured on Blog Out
-Featured in ID Magazine
-Featured on QPDX

April 2010

-“The Last High” featured on Indie Disco’s “Under The Covers”
-“The Last High” video continues to be featured on MTV’s Logo Channel
(Nationwide, Millions of homes) — Heavy rotation for 3 weeks.

-“The Last High” video added to playlist for gay bars everywhere.

March 2010

-“The Last High” video premiers on Television on MTV’s Logo Channel
-“The Last High” video is featured on MTV.com
-“The Last High” video is featured on VH1.com
-“The Last High” video is featured on LogoOnline.com
-“The Last High” video is featured on Spike TV’s website

-Interviewed on KZME radio

-Featured on “Is This Revolutionary?”
-Featured on “Boom Boom Chik” (NYC)
-Featured on “Girls Sold Out” (United Kingdom)
-Featured on Adam Osgood’s Art Blog

February 2010

-“FPTP” Reviewed in “Mondosonoro” Glossy Magazine (Spain) – 4 Stars!!!

-“FPTP” Reviewed in “GO” Glossy Magazine (Spain) – They recommend it.

-Featured in “Truth Explosion” Magazine
-Featured in “The Deli” Magazine
-Show featured on “Pampelmoose”

January 2010

-”Oregon Music News” picks “FPTP” as one of the “Top 5 Albums of 2009″!

-“The Deli” Magazine calls “FPTP” ‘the best record, electronic or
otherwise, to come out of Portland all year”.

-“Catch Fire” Queer Music Blog gives “Bottom Your Way To The Top” the “Queer Video Of The Year” Award! (Voted on by their readers)

-“Ground Control” Magazine picks “FPTP” as #3 on their list of “Top Albums of 2009″!

-“Indie Rock Cafe” picks “Feed Me To The Wolves” as one of their “Favorite Songs of 2009″!

-“Audio Drums” picks me as one of their “top 25 artists of 2009″!

-“Zip & A Kick” picks “FPTP” as one of the “Best Records of 2009″!

-“Imaginary Trip Sounds” (Portugal) picks “FPTP” as one of their “top 25 Records of 2009″!

-“Girls Sold Out (United Kingdom) picks “FPTP” as one of the “Best Records of 2009″!

-“32 Feet/Second” Picks “Feed Me To The Wolves” as one of the “Top 50 songs of 2009″!

-“Oregon Music News” gives glowing review of my performance the day after “Doug Fir” show.

-“Just Out” Portland Newsweekly writes insanely good review of my
performance at “Doug Fir” show.

-“Willamette Week” feature preview of “Doug Fir” show (print & online)

-Featured in “Just Out”
-Featured on “Byron Beck.com”
-Featured on “Oregon Music News”- Preview of Doug Fir show

December 2009

-Interview with “Out Magazine” as well as a feature story.

-Interview with “GT Magazine” (UK)

-Interview with “Gay Like You” Magazine (Peru)

-“Girls Sold Out” (UK) Interview/Story “The Holidays With Logan Lynn”

-Feature Story on “Nerdy Frames” (New Zealand)

-“FPTP Reviewed (SUPER POSITIVE) in “Edge Weekly” in the following cities: Boston, San Francisco, Miami, New York City, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Fire Island, Fort Lauderdale, Las Vegas, Orlando, Philadelphia, Providence, Provincetown, & Washington D.C. This ran in PRINT and ONLINE for the entire first week of December.

November 2009

-“FPTP” featured on “Indie Spotlight” on iTunes homepage for 2 weeks!

-“Bottom Your Way To The Top” Video premiers on MTV’s Logo Channel
(Nationwide, Millions of homes) — In heavy rotation for 2 weeks.

-“Bottom Your Way To The Top” Video featured on VH1.com
-“Bottom Your Way To The Top” Video featured on Spike TV’s website
-“Bottom Your Way To The Top” Video featured on LogoOnline.com

-“FPTP” ++ Reviewed by “Oregon Music News”
-“FPTP” ++ Reviewed by “NW Music Blog”
-“FPTP” ++ Reviewed by “Just Out” Portland Newsweekly.
-“FPTP” ++ Reviewed by “Loveshack, Baby” (Chicago)

-Interview with “Truth Explosion” Magazine: “Demons & White Light Saved My Life”

-Interview with “Oregon Music News”

-Radio Interview/Online Listening Party with “The Stonewall Society” on
“Rainbow World Radio” (LGBT)

-Interview with “Pop Reviews Now”

October 2009

-“Under The Radar” Magazine recommends “FPTP” and features “Feed Me To The Wolves” on their site

-“Fazer Magazine” recommends “FPTP”

-“Write It On My Left Arm” Video & Logan Lynn CMJ show picked up by MTV “Iggy” and positively reviewed.

-“FPTP” ++ Reviewed by “Drunken Warewolf”
-“FPTP” ++ Reviewed by “Independent Clauses”

-“Bottom Your Way To The Top” featured on “TheSixtyOne”

-“Feed Me To The Wolves” played all month on “Kexp”, “OPB Music”, “Kink FM”

September 2009

-MTV’s “Logo” Channel premiers the “Write It On My Left Arm” video and puts it in heavy rotation for 4 weeks!!! A full month of being in
millions of homes via TV!!!

-“Write It On My Left Arm” Video featured on LogoOnline.com
-“Write It On My Left Arm” Video featured on VH1.com

-Featured on “32 ft/Second”

-“FPTP” ++ Reviewed by “Your Moment Of Zen”
-“FPTP” ++ Reviewed by “The Deli: Portland”
-“FPTP” ++ Reviewed by “Mic Control”

-Nominated for “Artist Of The Month” at “The Deli” Magazine

-LL commercials running on MTV’s Logo Channel during most sponsor breaks.

August 2009

-MTV Re-Airs Logan Lynn’s “NewNowNext” hosting episode

-Interview with “Q” Magazine (Australia)

-Willamette Week premiers the “Write It On My Left Arm” Video on “Local Cut”

-“Dancefloor Mayhem” Remix Contest/Promotion for LL: “Burning Your Glory”

-Featured on “Billboard.com”
-Featured on “Ginger Head Man” Fetish Sex Site dedicated to hot Red Heads.
-Featured on “Just Out” Portland Newsweekly website
-Featured on “Young Creature” (Chicago)

-“FPTP” ++ Reviewed by “The Pop Stereo”

July 2009

-Interview with “The Indie Music Database” (IMDB)

-Featured on “Just Out” website
-Featured on “The Pop Stereo”
-Featured on “Bearotic” blog for hairy bears

-“Melophobe” Magazine gives KILLER review of my show at Holocene

-“Portland Mercury” picks LL as their “Band Of The Week”

June 2009

-Interview with “Queerlife” NewsMagazine (South Africa)

-LL on the cover of “The Portland Mercury” for their Gay Pride issue

-“Just Out” Feature story on me in PRINT edition and ONLINE for Gay Pride

-“FPTP” ++ reviewed by “Knox Road” (NYC)

May 2009

-“USA Today” recommends “FPTP” coming in “Fall”

-2006 version of “Burning Your Glory” licensed as theme song for TV series “Astoria Queens”

-Featured on “You Are The Music”

April 2009

-“URB Magazine” gives “FPTP” GLOWING review and calls LL “The Next
Goldenboy Of Sensitive Electropop”.

-Interviewed on “Azltron” Electronic Music Blog

-Radio Interview with “Woof! Media” (San Francisco) “A Good Band Is Hard To Find”

-“FPTP” ++ reviewed by “Indie Update”
-“FPTP” ++ reviewed by “Think Pink Radio”
-“FPTP” ++ reviewed by “Zed = Zee”
-“FPTP” ++ reviewed by “Bomarr Blog”
-“FPTP” ++ reviewed by “Young Creature” (Chicago)
-“FPTP” ++ reviewed by “Circles of Concrete)
-“FPTP” ++ reviewed by “You Are Part Of My Evolution”
-“FPTP” ++ reviewed by “We Are Hunted”
-“FPTP” ++ reviewed by “Broken Electro + Indie Beats”
-“FPTP” ++ reviewed by “Danish Poet”
-“FPTP” ++ reviewed by “The World In A Paper Cup”

March 2009

-“FPTP” ++ reviewed by “Willamette Week” (Local Cut)
-“FPTP” ++ reviewed by “Azltron Electronic Music Blog”
-“FPTP” ++ reviewed by “Bored and Beats”
-“FPTP” ++ reviewed by “Indie Anen Show”
-“FPTP” ++ reviewed by “Danger! Danger!” (Finland)
-“FPTP” ++ reviewed by “Crappy Indie Music”
-“FPTP” ++ reviewed by “Audio Drums”
-“FPTP” ++ reviewed by “Boom Boom Chik”
-“FPTP” ++ reviewed by “Indie Pop Music”
-“FPTP” ++ reviewed by “Audio Muffin” (LA)
-“FPTP” ++ reviewed by “Indie Rock Café”
-“FPTP” ++ reviewed by “Sound Of Air”
-“FPTP” ++ reviewed by “How Marvelous”
-“FPTP” ++ reviewed by “The Culture Of Me” (NYC)
-“FPTP” ++ reviewed by “The Devil Has The Best Tuna” (UK)
-“FPTP” ++ reviewed by “Queerlife” (South Africa)

-Featured on “Willamette Week’s” Local Cut

-Courtney Love puts LL in her “top friends” on myspace for 2 weeks.

-Featured/Quoted in “Melbourne Community Voice” Magazine (Australia, LGBT)

-Featured on “Boston Band Crush”

-Featured on WK Radio

-“Bleed Him Out” used on Soundtrack to “Water Wings”

December 2008

-MTV’s “Logo” Channel picks “Feed Me To The Wolves” video as one of the “Top 10 Videos of 2008″ and plays the special countdown in heavy rotation from December 2008-February 2009

October 2008

-Original airdate of LL hosting “NewNowNext” at MTV studios, NYC on Logo. This played for 2 weeks.

September 2008

-“Feed Me To The Wolves” Video picked up by Time/Warner & available ON DEMAND via cable providers everywhere for the month of October 2008.

-“Just Out” Review of my performance at “Beat The World” showcase, MFNW, 2008

-Featured in Willamette Week

July 2008

“Feed Me To The Wolves” Video premiers, plays in heavy rotation for 6
weeks into millions of homes in North America via the TV.

-Interview on “Greenland Live”

January 2008

-Nominated for 3 “Pill Awards” – Best New Artist, Best Video
(Alternative), Best Video (Wildcard)

June 2007

Feature stories in Willamette Week, Just Out, & The Portland Mercury.

Pre-2007

Aside from a few mentions in the SF Chronicle and Portland Mercury, Logan Lynn’s music lived in total fucking obscurity (outside of Portland and San Francisco) from 1998 when “This Is Folk Techno” was released until MTV’s Logo channel was created in the mid-2000’s and his videos began to air on “NewNowNext” nationwide all over North America.