Logan Lynn
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Logan Dennis Lynn is an American songwriter, composer and singer from Portland, Oregon
Portland, Oregon
Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...

.

Lynn is most commonly classified as an artist in the pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

, electronic
Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...

, techno
Techno
Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan in the United States during the mid to late 1980s. The first recorded use of the word techno, in reference to a genre of music, was in 1988...

 and dance
Dance music
Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...

 genres and has released five studio albums, one mixtape
Mixtape
A Mix Tape or Mixed Tape is a compilation of songs recorded in a specific order, traditionally onto an audio Compact Cassette.A Mix Tape, which usually reflects the musical tastes of its compiler, can range from a casually selected list of favorite songs, to a conceptual mix of songs linked by a...

, two singles
Singles
Singles may refer to:In society:* Single persons and associated businesses and discussionsIn retail commerce:* United States one-dollar bills, particularly when requesting change from, or implicitly comparing to, larger denomination bills...

, one compilation record and five EP's. Videos of Lynn's singles have been featured on Logo
Logo (TV channel)
Logo is an American digital cable television channel owned by Viacom's MTV Networks division. Launched in June 2005, the channel's programs are geared towards the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community...

, MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....

, VH1
VH1
VH1 or Vh1 is an American cable television network based in New York City. Launched on January 1, 1985 in the old space of Turner Broadcasting's short-lived Cable Music Channel, the original purpose of the channel was to build on the success of MTV by playing music videos, but targeting a slightly...

 and Spike.

Early life

Lynn was born to parents William Dennis Lynn, a Christian
Christian
A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...

 minister, and Debra Lynn "Debby" Lynn (née
NEE
NEE is a political protest group whose goal was to provide an alternative for voters who are unhappy with all political parties at hand in Belgium, where voting is compulsory.The NEE party was founded in 2005 in Antwerp...

Stockburger). Lynn's paternal grandmother, LaVanda Mae Fielder, was a piano and vocal instructor who worked out of her home. One of her pupils was a young Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
John R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...

.

Lynn's father was a traveling preacher and proponent of a Christian touring sermon series known as "The Strong Family Seminar". This resulted in Lynn's family living on the road for much of his childhood and later changing their permanent residence several times. In 1981, at the age of 2, Lynn and his parents moved from his birthplace of Lubbock, Texas
Lubbock, Texas
Lubbock is a city in and the county seat of Lubbock County, Texas, United States. The city is located in the northwestern part of the state, a region known historically as the Llano Estacado, and the home of Texas Tech University and Lubbock Christian University...

 to York, Nebraska, where they spent the next eight years. While in York, Dennis and Debby had a second son, Landon Lee Lynn (born September 1, 1984). In 1989, the family moved to Midland, Michigan
Midland, Michigan
Midland is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan in the Tri-Cities region of the state. It is the county seat of Midland County. The city's population was 41,863 as of the 2010 census. It is the principal city of the Midland Micropolitan Statistical Area....

, but returned to York for one year beginning in 1993. This was followed by brief stints in Jackson, Tennessee
Jackson, Tennessee
Jackson is a city in Madison County, Tennessee, United States. The total population was 65,211 at the 2010 census. Jackson is the primary city of the Jackson, Tennessee metropolitan area, which is included in the Jackson-Humboldt, Tennessee Combined Statistical Area...

 (1994–1995), another return to York (1995), Olathe, Kansas
Olathe, Kansas
Olathe is a city in and the county seat of Johnson County, Kansas, United States. Located in northeastern Kansas, it is also the fifth most populous city in the state, with a population of 125,872 at the 2010 census. As a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri, Olathe is the fourth-largest city in the...

 (1995–1996), and then his first arrival in Portland, Oregon in the summer of 1996.

Lynn's mother enrolled him in dance classes during his childhood. To encourage their children's interest in the performing arts, the Lynns converted their garage into a stage. Lynn was also involved in local choir and musical theater, and acted in numerous plays in high school.

Lynn would in time develop a disdain for his fundamentalist Christian upbringing. As a teenager, he began listening to musical acts that were blacklisted and forbidden by many Christian literary reviews as well as in the Lynn family home. At 14, Lynn first acknowledged he was gay. When his family arrived in Olathe in 1995, Lynn spent much of his time in Kansas City
Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City, Missouri is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties...

 and vowed from that point on to never return to the rural way of life.

Lynn's exposure to raves in Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

 and then Kansas City would be the inspiration for what would become his signature sound in music. The party outlet led him to get his feet wet as a DJ and he started to write song compositions that released the angst and derision he had continued to feel from earlier stages in his life. Folk music also served as another muse for Lynn, with his tastes in that genre even extending over to female artists with a unified message. Lynn credits Tori Amos
Tori Amos
Tori Amos is an American pianist, singer-songwriter and composer. She was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and was noteworthy early in her career as one of the few alternative rock performers to use a piano as her primary instrument...

 and Liz Phair
Liz Phair
Phair's entry into the music industry began when she met guitarist Chris Brokaw, a member of the band Come. Brokaw and Phair moved to San Francisco together, and Phair tried to become an artist there...

 as motivating him to begin writing.

Lynn attended York High School in York, Nebraska during his returns to that area in 1993-94 and 1995, and then transferred to Jackson Christian High School and finally Olathe South High School
Olathe South High School
Olathe South High School is a fully accredited public high school located in Olathe, Kansas, USA, serving students in grades 9-12. The school is one of four high schools in the Olathe Unified School District . Olathe South High School was recognized as a National School of Excellence for the...

 from 1995-96. After high school, Lynn enrolled at Kansas City's Westport School of Art and Design in the summer of 1996 where he studied foundations in art. He then attended a summer art program in Portland and shortly thereafter he enrolled at the Pacific Northwest College of Art
Pacific Northwest College of Art
The Pacific Northwest College of Art is a private fine art and design college in Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon. Established in 1910, the art school grants bachelor of fine arts degrees and master of fine arts degrees and has an enrollment of about 550 students...

 (PNCA).

1998 - 2006

In 1998 he released a lo-fi demo mixtape of his own work titled This Is Folk Techno that was made with a Casio SK-1
Casio SK-1
The Casio SK-1 is a small sampling keyboard made by Casio in 1985.It has 32 small sized piano keys, four-note polyphony, with a sampling bit depth of 8 bit PCM and a sample rate of 9.38 kHz, a built-in microphone and line level input for sampling, and an internal speaker...

. This gave him exposure to meet and work with other producers. Lynn was eventually granted a studio pass to create his first full length album, GLEE
Glee (Logan Lynn Album)
GLEE is the first full-length album released by Logan Lynn in 2000.-Track listing:-External links:*  — official web site....

, which was released in 2000.

In 2005, Lynn began work for a design firm and fine-tuning his skills in multi-media creation. During this time Lynn also reworked songs from GLEE along with new material of a darker, emo/folk rock sound and released his sophomore studio album, Logan Lynn
Logan Lynn (album)
Logan Lynn is the second studio album, released by Logan Lynn in 2006.-Track listing:-External links:*  — official web site....

, in 2006. Singles such as "Come Home" and "Burning Your Glory" were instant standouts when Lynn began a following of listeners on MySpace
MySpace
Myspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....

. This led to playing in front of 400,000 people at the Folsom Street Fair
Folsom Street Fair
The Folsom Street Fair is an annual BDSM and leather subculture street fair held on the last Sunday in September and caps San Francisco's "Leather Pride Week"...

 in San Francisco.

2007 - present

In 2007, Lynn released an EP
Extended play
An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

 featuring a new single, titled "Feed Me to the Wolves". Along with the main track of "Wolves" and remixes by Kimono Kops and Assemble The Empire, new cuts of "Burning Your Glory" and "Come Home" were featured on the EP.

Lynn was contacted by The Dandy Warhols
The Dandy Warhols
The Dandy Warhols are an American alternative rock band formed in Portland, Oregon in 1994. The band was founded by singer-guitarist Courtney Taylor-Taylor and guitarist Peter Holmström, with keyboardist Zia McCabe and drummer Eric Hedford later joining. Hedford left in 1998 and was replaced by...

. The band had heard his early work and offered him a contract with their label, Beat The World Records. After being signed, Lynn reentered the studio to begin work on his third studio album that contained reworked tracks from the Feed Me to the Wolves EP. Lynn was signed with Beat The World from July 2007 to July 2010.

His association with DList.com owner Daniel Nardicio landed him a gig playing at the gay-themed 2007 New York City Pride celebration. His performance was seen by a representative from MTV's Logo network. The LGBT
LGBT
LGBT is an initialism that collectively refers to "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" people. In use since the 1990s, the term "LGBT" is an adaptation of the initialism "LGB", which itself started replacing the phrase "gay community" beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, which many within the...

-interest channel was interested in building its offering of artists and acts and recruited Lynn. They secured the rights to his music videos for "Burning Your Glory" and "Feed Me To The Wolves". Logo entered both videos into heavy rotation of the series "NewNowNext" as well as "The Click List: Top 10 Videos" in late 2007.

During this time Lynn's addictions reached a peak and he spent a large portion of the year in rehab for chemical dependency at a St. Helens, Oregon
St. Helens, Oregon
St. Helens is the county seat of Columbia County, Oregon. It was founded by Captain H. M. Knighton, a native of New England, in 1845 as "Plymouth". The name was changed to St. Helens in the latter part of 1850 for its view of Mount St. Helens some away in Washington. The population was 10,019 at...

 rehab center. Lynn's stay in St. Helens stopped work on an in-process album for Beat The World Records and caused him to be let go from an in-process reality show with The Weinstein Group. In a slew of interviews and press, it's clear that the profound loss which accompanied Logan's getting help for his substance abuse issues made an impact. From all reports he remains clean to this day.

While in rehab, ADD-TV picked up the "Burning Your Glory" and "Feed Me to the Wolves" videos, and nominated Lynn for Best New Artist and in Two Best Video categories for the HX Magazine/ADD-TV 2008 "Pill Awards". Lynn was unable to leave rehab to appear at the awards show in New York City. Upon his release later in the year, Lynn returned to the album project, but made major changes. "When I got back to Portland, I threw out everything we had recorded and started over", Lynn told Portland's Just Out
Just Out
Just Out is a bi-monthly LGBTQ newspaper published in Portland, Oregon, United States, founded in 1983 by Jay Brown and Renee LaChance. Former contributors to Just Out include novelist Marc Acito, Pink Martini pianist Thomas Lauderdale, and prize-winning reporter Peter Zuckerman.The newspaper's web...

magazine in June 2009. "I had taken the time away to sort things out, but the only way I knew how to do that was by writing songs, so that’s what I did. I came back feeling like a new man and proceeded to make an even newer record." In September 2008, Lynn made his first TV appearance as host of Logo's NewNowNext countdown, in which he discussed his beginnings, influences, and career happenings. Lynn's videos have continued to show up on NewNowNext & "The Cick List" as well as in commercial spots for the channel since 2007.

It was soon announced that Lynn's new album would be titled From Pillar To Post
From Pillar to Post
From Pillar to Post was the first official release by Logan Lynn from Beat the World Records. A special pre-release and digital release was issued from Beat the World on September 4, 2009. This was followed by a physical release in selected stores, as well as a debut on iTunes, on November 24, 2009...

, borrowing an expression that was commonly used by Lynn's maternal grandmother. From Pillar To Post had a digital release date of September 4, 2009. On November 24, 2009, the album was released in selected stores as well as on iTunes
ITunes
iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....

. The widespread physical release date, for all stores nationwide, happened via Caroline Records/EMI in February 2010. The release of From Pillar To Post coincided with a 4 Volume Remix EP Collection of reworked, original songs from the main album. Titled Blood In the Water, it featured collaborations between Lynn and Styrofoam
Styrofoam (artist)
Styrofoam is a Belgian one man glitch electronica project on the independent record label Morr Music...

 and Boy In Static
Boy In Static
Boy in Static is a band currently based in San Francisco, California, composed of Alexander Chen and Kenji Ross. The first Boy in Static album Newborn was released in 2004 on small label Alien Transistor . Mush Records released the second album Violet in 2007...

 as well as 16 other bands and DJs.

Lynn recorded a cover of The Dandy Warhols' song "The Last High", which was produced by Bryan Cecil and released as a single by Beat the World Records on Tuesday, January 19, 2010. The video for the single, directed by Rebecca Micciche, aired on MTV's Logo Network nationwide in February 2010 and has been featured on MTV, VH1, Spike TV, LogoOnline and many other major music video hotspots ever since.

In July 2010, after completing a Summer tour of the U.S. with Portland electronic rock band The Gentry and fulfilling his contract with The Dandy Warhols label Beat The World, 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. "I Killed Tomorrow Yesterday", the follow-up to 2009's "From Pillar To Post", was self-released by Lynn digitally on August 31, 2010. Produced by Bryan Cecil, the physical release is slated for 2011. 100% of the profits of Logan Lynn's "I Killed Tomorrow Yesterday" go to benefit Portland's Q Center.

In June 2011 Logan Lynn’s “Quickly As We Pass” video premiered on Logo
Logo
A logo is a graphic mark or emblem commonly used by commercial enterprises, organizations and even individuals to aid and promote instant public recognition...

 and MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....

 to rave reviews in the press. His latest release, “Blood In The Water” was released the same month and features Logan Lynn remixes by Styrofoam, Boy In Static, Flufftronix and 15 other amazing bands, producers and DJ’s. Logan contributed an original, previously unreleased song titled "Movies" for “Live From Nowhere Near You (Volume 2)” alongside Pink Martini
Pink Martini
Pink Martini is a 13-member "little orchestra" from Portland, Oregon, formed in 1994 by pianist Thomas M. Lauderdale. They draw inspiration from music from all over the world – crossing genres of classical, jazz and old-fashioned pop.-History:...

, The Strokes
The Strokes
The Strokes are an American indie rock band formed in 1999 in New York City. Consisting of Julian Casablancas , Nick Valensi , Albert Hammond, Jr. , Nikolai Fraiture and Fabrizio Moretti ....

, Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam is an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1990. Since its inception, the band's line-up has included Eddie Vedder , Jeff Ament , Stone Gossard , and Mike McCready...

, Spoon
Spoon
A spoon is a utensil consisting of a small shallow bowl, oval or round, at the end of a handle. A type of cutlery , especially as part of a place setting, it is used primarily for serving. Spoons are also used in food preparation to measure, mix, stir and toss ingredients...

, Elliott Smith
Elliott Smith
Steven Paul "Elliott" Smith was an American singer-songwriter and musician. Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, raised primarily in Texas, and resided for a significant portion of his life in Portland, Oregon, where he first gained popularity...

, Queens of the Stone Age
Queens of the Stone Age
Queens of the Stone Age is an American rock band from Palm Desert, California, United States, formed in 1997. The band's line-up has always included founding member Josh Homme , with the current line-up including longtime members Troy Van Leeuwen and Joey Castillo , alongside Michael Shuman and...

, The Dandy Warhols
The Dandy Warhols
The Dandy Warhols are an American alternative rock band formed in Portland, Oregon in 1994. The band was founded by singer-guitarist Courtney Taylor-Taylor and guitarist Peter Holmström, with keyboardist Zia McCabe and drummer Eric Hedford later joining. Hedford left in 1998 and was replaced by...

 and dozens of other bands in July 2011 on Greyday Records.

Studio albums

  • This Is Folk Techno (1998)
  • GLEE
    Glee (Logan Lynn Album)
    GLEE is the first full-length album released by Logan Lynn in 2000.-Track listing:-External links:*  — official web site....

    (2000)
  • Logan Lynn
    Logan Lynn (album)
    Logan Lynn is the second studio album, released by Logan Lynn in 2006.-Track listing:-External links:*  — official web site....

    (2006)
  • From Pillar To Post
    From Pillar to Post
    From Pillar to Post was the first official release by Logan Lynn from Beat the World Records. A special pre-release and digital release was issued from Beat the World on September 4, 2009. This was followed by a physical release in selected stores, as well as a debut on iTunes, on November 24, 2009...

    (2009)
  • I Killed Tomorrow Yesterday (2010)
  • Blood In The Water
    Blood in the Water
    Blood in the Water is a crime novel by Gillian Galbraith. Published in 2007, it is the first of the Alice Rice Mysteries. The protagonist of the series is Alice Rice, a police detective in Edinburgh, Scotland....

    (2011)

EPs

  • Feed Me To The Wolves
    Feed Me to the Wolves
    Feed Me To The Wolves is the first EP, released by Logan Lynn in 2007.-Track listing:-External links:*  — official web site....

    (2007)
  • Blood In The Water Vol. 1-4 - Limited Edition (2009)

Compilation Records

  • Live From Nowhere Near You Volume 2 (2011)

External links

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