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Artist
DL Diedrich
12+ albums
Lo-FiSpiders For Loveanti-folkNebraskawichita
about
Daniel Lewis Diedrich (1982-2016) was a songwriter, musician, and visual-artist based in Omaha, Nebraska, and Wichita, Kansas. His music is often compared with early Beck, and The Magnetic Fields. He was a reoccurring member of the Kansas City indie-pop group Electric Needle Room and co-founder of both Spiders For Love/S4L, and Thee Tapeheads. Other noteable projects included Elfsquad, and The Black Out Sounds. Diedrich was also known by an array of solo monikers, some of which were MC DL, Tommy Tapehead, and Hugh Manitee. His earliest influences range from classic country-western singers, such as Johnny Cash, and 90's alternative a'la Nirvana, and The Pixies. Growing up in Wichita, Kansas, Diedrich began writing music at the age of twelve, when he bought his first electric guitar at a pawn shop. He formed a lo-fi noise band called Silver Man with his best friend, and soon released a full length cassette titled "What Is This??," which they passed out in their school. They later changed their name to Scrape With a K, upon finding a drummer. The group was relatively short lived, and played only one show at a friend's birthday party. Diedrich went on to play in several punk and metal bands (namely The Strange Mechanics, Gutwrench), before decidedly going solo. By 2005 he had begun playing in local venues, and releasing original material through websites like Myspace. Eventually, he took his music on the road and later found himself in Omaha, where he lived for about a decade, or
