Small Town Junkies is singer songwriter David Stump of Northeast Ohio. He plays alternative rock with attention grabbing lyrics and attitude. He started playing guitar at age 20 and competed in Battle of the Bands in Oxford, OH his Jr. Year, taking second. His style is hard-hitting post-grunge modern alternative rock and takes influence from bands such as Sublime, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Weezer, Staind, and Seether. Some success was found when David was sponsored by NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) with the emerging song, “Fighting the Stigma” released in Q4 2016 to promote mental health awareness via music video. David lives with schizophrenia and is a mental health advocate.
Small Town Junkies EP, a 4 song EP recorded, mixed and mastered, in Nashville, TN. was released later in the year 2016 and had some local radio success with the song, “Vampire Summer”. This was followed up quickly in 2017 with the 8 song album, Underground Rock. David had other side projects during 2017 including an acoustic album (Dave Stump Acoustic) and an album made from the confines of the internet via musicians on Fiverr.com, in Internet Rock. Additionally in 2017 David recorded 4 ambient non-vocal instrumental stoner space rock albums that culminated in an early 2018 release, Best of Stoner Space Rock.
David’s latest release, a full 12 song LP, The Music Industry is Dead., was recorded in Nashville, TN and is scheduled to go public September 28th, 2018 and available for pre-sale July 27th, 2018. Notable tracks from the new album include, “The Music Industry is Dead”, “Never Enough”, “Not Alone”, and “We Made It”. David continues to play open mics in local areas to test out new material and plans on returning to Nashville to record a release for 2020. David spends most of his time listening to, writing, and recording music…
Fast forward to 2022… Dave spends the majority of his time in his at home studio writing, producing, recording, mixing, and mastering music/songs.
–“Stump bleeds the blood of the 90s, putting in fine work writing songs that channel the greatness of Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden while still dripping with his own unique vision. This is full-on ragged glory in action that delivers an indisputable realness of experience. Rock fans need to latch onto Small Town Junkies and play this stuff loud.”—Mike O’Cull, independent music journalist