Vinnie Dombroski is an American musician, best known as the lead vocalist and main songwriter for the rock band Sponge. He also fronted the short-lived supergroupSpys4Darwin, and has been a member of several Detroit-based bands throughout his career.
Dombroski played drums for the band Loudhouse, which would release one full-length album titled For Crying Out Loud in 1991.[7][8]
Sponge
In 1992, most of the members of Loudhouse would get together and form the band Sponge with Dombroski as the singer rather than the drummer. Dombroski would see his first mainstream success with Sponge's debut album Rotting Pinata, particularly the song "Plowed" which would chart number 9 on the mainstream rock chart in November 1994.[citation needed]
Crud, Spys4Darwin, and the Orbitsuns
In 2000, Dombroski and Sponge guitarist Joey Mazzola recruited bassist Robby Graham along with former Sponge drummer Jimmy Paluzzi to form the side project group Crud.[9] 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 Endfest on August 4, 2001 and continued working together into the following year. Around this time, Dombroski also began performing and recording music with the side project the Orbitsuns. It was also around this time that members of Crud (Dombroski, Mazzola, Paluzzi, and Graham) began performing as Sponge, but only for a handful of local shows. Dombroski and Mazzola then created a new solidified lineup of Sponge consisting of drummer Billy Adams, guitarist Kurt Marschke, and bassist Tim Krukowski.[10]
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