In March 2025, it was announced that Sponge would go on tour with Local H and Everclear . A compilation of outtakes and b-sides from the Rotting Piñata era was announced in October 2025, with a release date of November 14 that same year. The compilation’s title, Electric Cattle Gods:…
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On April 20, 2024, Sponge partnered with Sound City Records to release Planet Girls , their “lost album” previously slated to be released in 1998 before being shelved by Beyond Records. Sponge ultimately re-recorded various tracks off of Planet Girls , added in additional songs, and then changed the name…
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Sponge also announced tour dates in North America during the spring and summer of 2020. However, the shows were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic , with the aim to reschedule them for a later date. In August 2020, Jason Hartless replaced longtime member Adams on drums. Sponge released a…
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Sponge continued recording new music and performed on the Summerland festival tour again in 2016. The band’s eighth studio album, The Beer Sessions , was released on October 8, 2016 through Three One Three Records. In May 2018 at the annual Detroit Music Awards, the original lineup of Vinnie Dombroski,…
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Sponge’s seventh studio album, Stop the Bleeding , was released in 2013 and includes songs from Destroy the Boy plus new tracks. Sponge performed on the Summerland festival tour and also toured with Spacehog that year. In 2014, Sponge won the Detroit Music Awards Foundation’s Outstanding National Single award for…
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In November 2007, Sponge announced that they would release their sixth studio album, Galore Galore , through their new label, Bellum Records. The album was released on December 4, 2007. In 2009, former Sponge producer Tim Patalan replaced Krukowski on bass. The band then independently released an EP entitled Destroy…
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Sponge’s fifth studio album, The Man , was also released in 2005 and includes songs from Hard to Keep My Cool plus new tracks. Both Crud and The Orbitsuns also released albums around this time as both projects became consistent endeavors for Dombroski.
Sponge released their fourth studio album, For All the Drugs in the World , in 2003 through Idol Records . The album includes songs that were previously released independently by Sponge on an EP of the same name, which was only available at shows and on their website. The band…
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In 2001, Dombroski was invited by Alice in Chains drummer Sean Kinney to jam with him in Seattle , along with bandmate Mike Inez on bass and Queensrÿche guitarist Chris DeGarmo . The supergroup independently recorded and released an EP entitled Microfish under the name Spys4Darwin . They performed at…
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