Tom Rothrock

Tom Rothrock is an international musician, composer, record producer, and owner of Bong Load Records. Tom Rothrock has worked with James Blunt, Foo Fighters, Moby, Beck, Badly Drawn Boy, R. L. Burnside, Athlete, Sloan, Gwen Stefani, Motörhead, Elbow, Stevie Nicks, Poison, Elliott Smith, Richard Thompson, and Yonder Mountain String Band. Rothrock has also composed or contributed to soundtracks for notable motion pictures such as About A Boy, Good Will Hunting, Collateral, and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.

Rothrock started Bong Load Custom Records in the early 1990s enlisting former Record Plant Recording Studios co-workers, Bradshaw Lambert and Rob Schnapf. Bong Load Records is notable for developing and releasing Beck's "Loser" single which became the first number one, non-major label single since FM radio became mainstream. Together Rothrock, Schnapf, Beck, and Karl Stephenson recorded Mellow Gold, Beck's major label debut.

In film, Rothrock produced the original songs for the About A Boy soundtrack and score with Badly Drawn Boy. He composed music for the film Collateral directed by Michael Mann and is credited on the song "Goofy Goober Rock" on The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie soundtrack. His recording of R. L. Burnside's "It's Bad You Know" was included on The Sopranos original television soundtrack release.

During 2013, Rothrock returned to collaborate with James Blunt on the album Moon Landing. Working primarily at Sunset Sound Studios in Hollywood, California the resulting release was generally well received among music critics and considered a comeback for Blunt.

In 2016, Rothrock marked Bong Load Records' 25th anniversary by re-launching the label's vinyl record division. He also relocated the Los Angeles company to the arts district of Las Vegas, Nevada.

Selected discography Solo 2014: Brightest Starr Single – Tom Rothrock Featuring Marie´ Digby 2010: All Right Now Ep – Tom Rothrock 2010: FuzzFace Ep – Tom Rothrock 2010: Magneto Ep – Tom Rothrock 2010: Eivissa Ep – Tom Rothrock 2007: Resonator Lp – Tom Rothrock

Produced and/or mixed 2013: Moon Landing – James Blunt 2013: Division Street – Harper Simon 2011: Blue Sky Blue – Pete Murray 2009: Harper Simon – Harper Simon 2009: Black Swan – Athlete 2009: The Show – Yonder Mountain String Band 2008: Unfold – Marie Digby 2007: All the Lost Souls – James Blunt 2007: New Moon – Elliott Smith 2007: Never Slow Down – Roman Carter 2006: Yonder Mountain String Band – Yonder Mountain String Band 2005: Leaders Of The Free World – Elbow 2005: Surgery – The Warlocks 2005: Exploration – Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion 2005: Back to Bedlam – James Blunt 2004: Launchpad – Particle 2004: Greatest Hits: 30 Years Of Rock Who Do you Love Remix – George Thorogood 2003: Action Pact – Sloan 2003: Third Shift Grotto Slack – Jay Farrar 2002: Have You Fed the Fish? – Badly Drawn Boy 2002: About A Boy – Badly Drawn Boy 2001: Hell Below/Stars Above – Toadies 2001: Slow – Phil Tagliere 2000: Supreme Beings Of Leisure – Supreme Beings Of Leisure 2000: Figure 8 – Elliott Smith 1999: Mock Tudor – Richard Thompson 1998: XO – Elliott Smith 1998: Aquamosh – Plastilina Mosh 1998: Come On In – R. L. Burnside 1997: Either/Or – Elliott Smith 1997: Soundtrack – Good Will Hunting 1997: Mr. Wizard – R. L. Burnside 1996: Mic City Sons – Heatmiser 1996: Static Prevails – Jimmy Eat World 1996: Odelay – Beck 1995: Foo Fighters (album) – Foo Fighters 1995: Daredevil – Fu Manchu 1994: Rubberneck – Toadies 1994: Mellow Gold – Beck 1994: Box Set – Wool 1993: Fishy Pants – Muzza Chunka 1993: Test Your Own Eyes – Dog Society 1992: Budspawn – Wool 1991: Swallow This Live – Poison 1991: Timespace – The Best of Stevie Nicks – Stevie Nicks

Selected film composition, film music production and placement 2012: Holy Motors 2004: Collateral 2004: The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie 2004: Shrek 2 2002: About A Boy 1999: The Sopranos 1997: Good Will Hunting