Brandon Patton is a songwriter and bass player from the United States of America. He has recorded four solo albums, plays bass for MC Frontalot

MC Frontalot

Damian Hess , better known by stage name MC Frontalot, is a Brooklyn-based hip hop musician and self-proclaimed "world's 579th greatest rapper". He is best known in nerdcore hip hop and video game culture, for naming the nerdcore subgenre, and performing at Penny Arcades annual Penny Arcade Expo...

 under the name BL4k Lotus, and performs with Prince Gomolvilas

Prince Gomolvilas

Prince Gomolvilas is a Thai American playwright. He has written many plays which have been produced in the United States and won several distinctive awards....

 in the show Jukebox Stories. He has also played bass for Futureboy and Jonathan Coulton

Jonathan Coulton

Jonathan Coulton is an American singer-songwriter, known for his songs about geek culture and his use of the Internet to draw fans...

. From 1997–2000 he played in the band three against four with Anand Nayak and Jay Skowronek.

He graduated from Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college founded in 1831 and located in Middletown, Connecticut. According to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Wesleyan is the only Baccalaureate College in the nation that emphasizes undergraduate instruction in the arts and...

 and currently lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

Awards

Winner of the Vox Populi for Best Story Song of 2009 (for "Mixed-Up Modern Family") by the 9th Annual Independent Music Awardshttp://www.independentmusicawards.com/imanominee/9th/Song/Story-Song.
2009 Finalist in the USA Songwriting Competition in the Rock / Alternative category http://www.songwriting.net/winners/.
Featured on NPR

NPR

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's song of the day Oct. 8, 2009 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113615266. "Top Music Artist" at the 2005 Temecula Film and Music Festival.
The album Should Confusion was a finalist for "Album of the Year" in the 2004 Independent Music Awards.
Finalist in the 2004 Newport Folk Festival New Talent Showcase.

Solo albums

• How I Allegedly Bit a Man in Gloucestershire (2011)
• Underhill Downs (2009)
• Should Confusion (2004)
• Nocturnal (1997)

Other albums

• Jukebox Stories, The Official Bootleg (2008)
• three against four, Hey Sparkle Eyes (2002)
• three against four, Some of Us Are Here (1998)

Compilations featuring Brandon Patton

• Nerdcore Rising: Music From the Motion Picture (2008)
• Indie Pop Cares A lot (2005)http://www.indiepopcaresalot.org/
• Temecula Valley International Film & Music Festival 2005 Compilation (2005)
• The WSVNRadio Hall of Fame, Vol. 14 (2004)
• Oasis Acoustic Vol. 47 (2004) note: due to a printing error, he is listed only as Brandon

Theater

• Jukebox Stories 2: The Case of the Creamy Foam (2008)
• Love Sucks! A Punk Rock Musical (2007)
• Jukebox Stories (2006,2007)
• The AtrainPlays (2005–2007)

Music Festival Appearances

• Truck America (2010)
• Heart of Texas Quadruple Bypass Music Festival (2008)
• Newport Folk Festival New Talent Showcase (2005)
• Temecula Film and Music Festival (2005)
• NXNE Toronto (2005)