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Broken Spindles
Background information
Origin	Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
Genres	Indie rock electronic synth-pop trip hop
Years active	2001–2011
Labels	Saddle Creek
Past members	Joel Petersen

Broken Spindles was a band solely consisting of Joel Petersen of Omaha, Nebraska, who also played bass, guitar and keyboards in the Faint. The band's music ranged from instrumental electronic songs to sparse piano pieces to rock-influenced pop songs. Broken Spindles originally started in 2001 as the soundtrack for a friend's film. It developed into a solo project with the first release in 2002 on Tiger Style Records. In between touring with the Faint and Beep Beep, Petersen found time to write music for Broken Spindles.

Discography

Albums

• Broken Spindles (2002), Tiger Style
• fulfilled/complete (2004), Saddle Creek
• inside/absent (2005), Saddle Creek
• Document Number One (2008), self-released
• Kiss/Kick (2009), blank.wav

Compilation appearances

• "Move Away (Broken Spindles Remix)" on Lagniappe: A Saddle Creek Benefit for Hurricane Katrina (2005), Saddle Creek

Remixes

• Yo Gabba Gabba - "Summer Remix"
• Her Space Holiday - "My Girlfriend's Boyfriend"
• AFI - "Miss Murder"
• of Montreal - "Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games"
• Good Charlotte - "Keep Your Hands Off My Girl"
• Manic - "Carolina Ghost"

See also

• Beep Beep
• The Faint

External links

• Official site
• Saddle Creek Records: Broken Spindles
• Broken Spindles on Myspace

Interviews

• Lazy-i Interview: October 2002
• Lazy-i Interview: June 2004
• One Times One Interview: March 2004

• Musical groups from Nebraska
• American remixers
• Saddle Creek Records artists