The Sunshine Fix

{{Refimprove|date=March 2020}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox musical artist  | name = The Sunshine Fix | image = | caption = The Sunshine Fix in 2005 | image_size =  | background = group_or_band | alias = | origin = [[Athens, Georgia]], US | genre = {{hlist|[[Indie rock]]|[[experimental rock]]}} | years_active = {{hlist|1993|2000–2012}} | label = {{hlist|[[Elephant 6]]|[[Kindercore Vinyl|Kindercore]]|[[spinART Records|spinART]]|[[Emperor Norton Records|Emperor Norton]]}} | associated_acts = {{hlist|[[The Olivia Tremor Control]]|[[Circulatory System (band)|Circulatory System]]}} | website = | current_members = | past_members = [[Bill Doss]]<br>Kevin Sweeney<br>Sam Mixon<br>Dave Gerow }}

'''The Sunshine Fix''' was an American [[indie rock]] group that released three albums from 1993 to 2004. Their main singer and songwriter was [[Bill Doss]], known from [[the Olivia Tremor Control]]. The name predated the Olivia Tremor Control and remained in use until Doss's 2012 death.

==History== Doss started the project while in high school, and self-released an album on cassette called ''A Spiraling World of Pop'', later re-released under the [[The Elephant Six Collective|Elephant Six]] banner. Doss then met up with [[Will Cullen Hart]] and [[Jeff Mangum]]; together, they formed [[the Olivia Tremor Control]], and the Sunshine Fix moniker was put into hiatus (although, as an aside, it became the title of an Olivia Tremor Control song, which appears on the ''[[Singles and Beyond]]'' compilation).

Following the dismantling of Olivia Tremor Control in 2000, Doss began recording under the Sunshine Fix name again, releasing a single and preparing an [[Extended play|EP]], which was released by [[Kindercore Records]] in 2000, featuring members of the Olivia Tremor Control, [[Of Montreal]], [[Elf Power]], and others.

In 2001, Doss formed a more stable band, adding Kevin Sweeney and Sam Mixon, and released ''[[Age of the Sun]]'' on [[Emperor Norton Records]].<ref name=AllMuWes>{{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p441929|label=The Sunshine Fix|last=Westergaard|first=Sean}}</ref> A tour with the Four Corners followed. In 2001, drummer Dave Gerow joined the fray to tour in support of ''Age of the Sun'' with acts like [[Guster]], [[Ugly Casanova]], and Sloan. They continued touring and recorded ''[[Green Imagination]]'' at the home of Widespread Panic bassist Dave Schools and mixed by Andy Baker at The Bakery in Athens, Georgia. ''Green Imagination'' was released on [[SpinART Records]] in 2004.<ref name=AllMuWes/> Although the record received a generally muted critical reception, the band continued to tour in its support. Doss continued to record songs for a new Sunshine Fix album until his death. He had said that the new material has a darker direction - "more Leonard Cohen than John Lennon"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://opticalatlas.com/doss7.html |title=Optical Atlas|website=Opticalatlas.com |access-date=2020-03-31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070312112343/http://opticalatlas.com/doss7.html |archive-date=12 March 2007 |url-status=usurped}}</ref>

==Discography== The Sunshine Fix released albums and EPs on a variety of record labels. ===Albums=== * ''[[A Spiraling World of Pop]]'' ([[Elephant 6]]; [[Compact cassette|cassette]]; 1993) * ''[[Age of the Sun]]'' ([[Emperor Norton Records|Emperor Norton]]/[[Kindercore]]; [[CD]]; 2001) * ''[[Green Imagination]]'' ([[spinART Records]]; [[CD]]; 2004)

===EPs and singles=== * ''[[Sunshine Fix EP]]'' ([[Elephant 6]]; [[7"]]; 1999) * ''[[The Future History of a Sunshine Fix]]'' ([[Kindercore]]; [[CD]]; 2000) * ''[[That Ole Sun]]'' ([[Emperor Norton]]; [[7"]]; 2001 * ''Happy Happy Birthday to Me Singles Club Single No. 13 (Split w/Always Red Society)'' (HHBtM Records; [[7"]]; 2009)

===Compilation appearances=== * "Friends Win" on ''The Powerpuff Girls: Heroes And Villains'' ([[Rhino Entertainment|Rhino]]; CD; 2000) * "Currency Exchange Communion" on ''U.S. Pop Life, Volume 5 - Athens: The Invention to be Nobody & Nowhere'' (Contact; [[CD]]; 2000) * "Ordinary Extraordinary" on ''Kindercore Fifty'' (Kindercore; [[CD]]; 2000) * "Sounds Around You" on ''Beikoku Ongaku Vol.16'' (Beikoku Ongaku; [[CD]]; 2000)

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{cite web|url=http://www.thesunshinefix.com/index2.html |title=The Sunshine Fix official website |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020204082544/http://www.thesunshinefix.com/index2.html |access-date=2020-03-31|url-status=usurped |archive-date=2002-02-04 }}

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