Willwoodmusic

Will Wood (born: ), also known as Willwoodmusic and Will Wood and the Tapeworms, is an American YouTuber, singer-songwriter, and multimedia artist.https://www.youtube.com/@WillWoodmusic/about Known for his eccentric, yet reclusive, public persona and provocative performance art,https://americansongwriter.com/bringin-it-backwards-interview-with-will-wood/ Wood's music is defined by his hypnotic melodies and peculiar lyrics, while his live performances are marked by the usage of keyboard smashing, head banging, and screaming.https://thesmokesignal.org/2021/01/29/under-the-radar-will-wood-and-the-tapeworms/ As of 2023, he is currently on an "indefinite hiatus" from his music career.https://v13.net/2023/01/will-wood-guest-blog-album-in-case-i-die-and-hiatus-from-music/
== History ==
He was conceived in 1992, despite the use of three forms of contraception, and began playing the piano in 1998. He first started writing songs about the "hallucinations ripping apart his mind" in junior high. He later bounced around several colleges taking psychedelics and developing his style of writing and art by "damaging his brain permanently" through the use of chemicals.https://filmfreeway.com/WillWood Around the early 2010s, he joined the band "A Verbal Equinox" under the name William Sunshine. The band later broke up shortly after the release of their one and only album.https://genius.com/artists/A-verbal-equinox There was also an EP released under this name, "A Demonstrative Manifesto."https://www.discogs.com/release/20034256-William-Sunshine-A-Demonstrative-Manifesto
Between 2013 and 2014, Wood, together with Jonathon Maisto, worked on an experimental project inspired by electro swing, punk, hip hop, and other "experimental influences."https://thestereosexuals.bandcamp.com/album/bigger-than-yours The project was named "The Stereosexuals" and the pair worked on a total of fifteen songs. However, only three songs out of a total of fifteen were released.https://genius.com/artists/The-stereosexuals Later, in 2015, Wood went on to perform with his own band, which he called "The Tapeworms." The band consists of Mike Bottiglieri on guitar, Matt Berger on saxophone, Mario Conte on drums, Vater Boris on bass, and Will Wood as the lead singer.
Under the moniker "Will Wood and the Tapeworms", he released his first full-length album, "Everything is a Lot," which consisted of what he considered his "best songs." A few months later, Wood recorded his second album, "SELF-iSH," which was released in 2016.https://genius.com/albums/Will-wood-and-the-tapeworms/Self-ish In 2018, he recorded a live album, "The Real Will Wood," which later served as the soundtrack to a "genre-bending surrealist mockumentary" of the same name. The "fourth-wall breaking" and "surrealist" mockumentary was released on February 8, 2020, on Amazon Prime Video.https://genius.com/albums/Will-wood-and-the-tapeworms/The-real-will-wood-music-from-the-award-winning-concert-film-livehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EV8f3YfnV0
In 2020, Wood released another album, "The Normal Album," which was financed by a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo and Patreon, which reached its funding goal within a day of its launch (~$28,000).https://www.newjerseystage.com/articles/2020/05/28/will-wood-to-release-the-normal-album/https://www.newjerseystage.com/articles/2020/07/01/will-wood-releases-music-video-for-well-better-than-the-alternative// However, the album was released under his own name. A year later, he released a new album, "In case I make it," following another crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo.http://theafterhoursreview.com/2021/09/22/will-wood-hates-sex-drugs-rock-n-roll-exclusive-interview/ In 2022, he released a single entitled "Ferryman" with fellow singer-songwriter Shayfer James.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em3QhcVZZhU His newest album, "In Case I Die," was released in 2023. The new album consisted of 20 songs, each performed live in 2022. He is currently on hiatus from his music career and is hosting a podcast titled "Life in the World To Come" with Chris Dunne.https://lifeintheworldtocome.podbean.com/
== Trivia ==
* He is from New Jersey.https://scadradio.org/2018/11/04/interview-with-avant-garde-artist-will-wood/
* He faked having a daughter as a prank, even hiring a nine-year-old girl to come up on stage during a show and claim to be his daughter. In a later interview he said of the prank: "I’m sorry I lied about having a daughter. I don’t regret it."
* He once nearly cost a radio station thousands in fines from the Federal Communications Commission for "going on air with a fake British accent and dropping F-bombs."
== References ==
Category:Music YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2013