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Automatic Pilot
 
Style(s): Alternative, Modern Rock, Pop
Booking: 219-776-5819
Influence(s): Wilco, Radiohead, Matthew Sweet, Fountains Of Wayne, Cheap Trick, and The Beatles.
Automatic Pilot has been through many incarnations, and band members have come and gone over the years. The project was once conceived as Friend of a Friend, a widely embraced modern rock band that made a big splash in the NW Indiana area from 2001-2002 by playing a variety of venues such as Tower Records, Borders, as well as Uncommon Ground and The Empty Bottle in Chicago. Automatic Pilot was conceived shortly thereafter as a whole new project that cultivates every musical genre from a predilection of all kinds of different styles. The project primarily consists of James Eric Laczkowski, who composes electronic, ambient, pop soundscapes, with hints of alternative rock, in a singer/songwriter acoustic environment. Although James is the primary songwriter, the lineup has changed over time, as the band finds itself constantly evolving. James currently tours the Chicagoland and NW Indiana area as an acoustic act and considers his influences to be The Pixies, The Jayhawks, Matthew Sweet, Fountains Of Wayne, and Wilco. Between the world of alt-country and indie rock emerges a whole new kind of project that is sometimes a pop rock band, and other times, a solo folk singer. |
