Brent Snyder
From a single wide trailer in Appalachia to the glittering stages of Nashville, Brent Snyder is making his dream of being a country music superstar a reality through a unique perspective, sound, and voice. With his signature “cowboy in shorts” look, impressive vocals, and sharp wit, Brent effortlessly blends the worlds of music, fashion, and comedy into a unique live show experience. A regular at venues like, The Bluebird Cafe, The Listening Room, The Lipstick Lounge, and more, Brent continues to evolve and bring something new and fresh to everything he does. His work has been featured in a PBS Documentary, Swedish Television, and garnered attention and accolades from the Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI). Set to release a new EP later this year titled, “a buncha BS”, the first single, “nerve”, was Brent’s biggest release to date with thousands of streams, hundreds of playlist adds, and even a few radio spins! The second single from “a buncha BS”, “Big Bang”, will be released September 12th.
A BUNCHA BS- The Era- NOTES FROM BRENT
“a buncha BS” is layered. On one hand, BS is Brent Snyder. This music and era will be representative of what I do, what I sound like, who I am, and what I can do artistically from A to Z. On the other hand, it’s a commentary on how life, sex, social expectations, genre, and reality are also a buncha BS (bullshit). I want to have fun, bend genres and genders, tell the truth, and make music and art that FEELS right and wholly me.
If we have to boil down my art to a singularity, then music is my life. BUT, why play in one corner of the sandbox when you have so many toys. During the “buncha” era, I plan to show EVERYTHING I bring to the table. On this page, I am happy to invite you into my world, but remember, its all just a buncha BS. <3
a buncha BS
The EP- November 14th, 2025
at the end of July 2024, i had a partial menty b. hehe oopsy. I had released “I Need a Storm” to decent reception but I wasn’t fulfilled. I had been in Nashville 6 years at that point and I was proud of the music I was making but it never felt 100%. After escaping back home to the mountains of Appalachia, I realized why I fell in love with music in the first place. it was an escape. for a weird, “sissy” kid from a trailer in the mountains, 90s female country music was an imaginary landscape that felt like a shimmery dream and I always wanted to be inside that dream.
After hearing Sabrina Carpenter’s album, Short n Sweet, something clicked and it all came back to me. I remembered what I love most is entertaining. Getting someone to pay attention, escape from their reality, and get lost in a world i’ve created for them.
a buncha BS is that. This is my universe. You’re entering me. (if i had a dollar...)
a buncha BS, the EP, is 6 handcrafted, perfected, & polished droppings direct from my brain. spanning the gambit from tongue in cheek pop-country to heart wrenching appalachian balladry, by the end you will know EXACTLY who I am.
if you listen to a buncha BS forwards in order, it represents my life from moving to Nashville to now.
if you listen to a buncha BS backwards in order, (not in reverse tho, chill out), it represents my life from birth to moving to Nashville.
i am so excited to share this entire collection of songs that i have worked so hard on. (hard on. hehe)
References/What to Expect
Artists: Jo Dee Messina, Sabrina Carpenter, Shania Twain, Beyonce, Kacey Musgraves, The Chicks, Kelsea Ballerini, Remi Wolfe, Terri Clark, Chapell Roan, Orville Peck, Prince, Reba
Genres: 90s Female Country/Pop-Country (Jo Dee, Terri, Shania) mixed with modern commercial pop/pop-country (Sabrina, Kacey, Beyonce)
Albums: Short n Sweet, Cowboy Carter, I’m Alright, Come on Over, Wide Open Spaces, Subject to Change, Deeper Well, Fly, Golden Hour
Instruments/Production: Clean and bright pop, ancient appalachia, triangle, interesting vocals, vocal stacks, clean harmonies, live drums, cowbell, 60s beachy guitars, steel, fiddle, and banjo embellishments
Current producers/musicians involved in the project: Brent Snyder (executive producer, vocals, vibes, & theramin lmao), Kristian Veech (co-producer, mixing, mastering, literally every instrument), Majo Herrera (drums), Cristian Hernandez (Bass), Wyatt Parks (Electric Guitar), Tom Shubsda (Drums), Mary Smith (Drums), Steven Bowman (Fiddle)
perfect timing for the Big Bang…
Explodes on September 12, 2025
This song actually started with the hook “way back”. I had the chorus melody in my head but no lyrics and when I would hum the big bang part, i heard “way back”, so i filed it away and thought it sounded like a walker hayes kinda vibe.
You may or may not know, my dog Remington is not very affectionate. He is very much like me. Independent, wants his space, will come to you on his own terms. He never sleeps with me and one morning I woke up and he was laying right beside me! I was so filled with joy i just burst out (in the way back melody)…”FEELING SPOILED BY THE UNIVERSE CAUSE WHEN I WAKE UP IN THE MORNING I SEE YOUR SMILE FIRST…”
that paired with the fact that i had “big bang” as a song title idea in my phone for a few months, led to this cosmic confection.
When I made the work tape, I thought it sounded like Prince or modern Beyonce (think Bodyguard), but when I took it to Kristian, he played it once on acoustic guitar, and we knew exactly what it was.
My band was instrumental (pun intended) in making this song come to life. I was preparing for a big run of shows and wanted to incorporate the fresh “big bang” but we hadn’t had time to make a demo for the band to reference. So I went to rehearsal, played them the worktape, and we built it in the room together. The magic you here in the musicality of this song is 100% my band. I had them play on the recording because this big bang journey was so special to me as an artist but also as a HUMAN.
I hope you enjoy Big Bang as much as I do and I hope it brings some light and levity to our world.
do ya got it?
made you oh-oh-oh on May 9, 2025
this is the song that started all the BS. Directly after last year’s menty b, i was sitting on my porch smoking a mmhmm and texting someone who quite frankly, couldnt piss and wouldnt get off the pot. It was hilaroius to me becuase they had spent all this time building themselves up, talking a big game about coming over and then when i went in to close the deal…no nerve.
I was rediscovering my love for Jo De Messina, and that coupled with my obessesion with Sabrina Carpenter led to the strongest single release I have ever had!
The Nashville Scene called “nerve”- infectiously poppy, while many fans on social media had fantastic reactions…
“”im confused why this isn't viral yet”,
”what in the shania twain is happening here?”
“This reminds me of a song that would be in an early 2000's romcom, in the best way”
”ATE”
”slay”
”fuckin great”
Nerve has over 20,000 streams across all platforms, hundreds of playlist adds, and was played on 2 radio stations in its first week of release. I am so proud of her. and im not done with her. more on that later…
will release with project
the comparative narrative will ruin your life. get off instagram. post and ghost. but also, listen to what i say not what i do hehe.
there is someone, in the gay country community, that i follow on instagram and it makes me feel awful about myself. It brings out the absolute worst in me. i find myself hating him with such virtriol that it actually alarms me sometimes. his life seems perfect, he has famous friends, he gets opportunities that seem to come out of thin air and it drives me insane and has actually caused a lot of mental anguish for me.
in my quest to understand myself better, i started writing this song as a joke and to just be funny and catty. Then i realized, this song is not about him…its about me. im the hater and the fact that i am saying sorry while simultaneously saying hate you says alot about who i am as a person.
i am not proud of this behavior. i am not glorifying it either. this is reality. i think alot of us have a hate follow and that says more about us than it does about that person. they may be ridiculous, have too much filler, and have an awful singing voice, but me pointing out all those things and hating in my head, is a much larger problem than him not having a bucket or the tune to carry in it. Im a work in progress but very self aware…
so to my mystery muse for this song, im sorry i h8 u but i do.
will release on 10/24, as 3rd single from project.
this has been, BY FAR, the most diffuclt song on the project to complete.
I started writing this song in August 2024 and did not finish it until May 2025. And some days, i still don’t feel like it’s done. I think that is because the story isnt over.
This song is extremely personal to me. Probably the most raw and vulnerable place I ever went to.
If you take a look at just one of my photos, you know what I am. Now go re-read my bio. Imagine allllllll of this, coming from where i come from. being born to a family that doesnt quite get me.
My relationship with my family, identity, and religion is an on-going journey and constantly changes. michigan represents the darkest part of that journey. the cold trek back and forth to a familiar yet dreaded place in the northern most part of your soul. a trek that has you constantly second guessing where you stand with people and what is reality.
The production of this track feels like a warm hug, while you listen to the cold reality of my struggle to find peace in a blury existence.
will release with project
THIS SONG IS PURE FUN.
At the end of the day, I’m a melody girlie. I am supplied daily with divine melodies that can only be supernatural in nature. not kidding. i don’t know where they come from and i don’t care.
addicted is the result of one of these phantom melodies surfing it’s way through my synapses. tbh, i was standing over the toilet peeing and just started singing “blame it on me, its a quarter after 3”…
a “friend” (hehe) had just texted me saying i had kept them up all night. oopsy. this “friend” had never been with someone like me and was easily becoming addicted to…what i have to offer.
it didn’t take long to write this one. its fun, poppy, and an experiment to see how much i can get away with. :)
will release with project
the freshest track to be added to the project, this one is still in progress. Essentially, since i was a kid, I always envisioned closing every project with a gospel/inspirational song. My life has changed drastically since those days of dreaming but I want to reclaim that thought.
I have written my version of gospel and i am painstakingly crafting it to be an opus to end the project with a bang. more to come…
Performing is my absolute favorite thing. That is what this is all about. I believe a show should be an experience. The star should look like a star, sound like a star, and act like a star. The audience should leave feeling surprised, fulfilled, provoked, and a little horny. sorry mom. i have spent the last year honing a buncha BS live! it is still #gettingthere but i am so proud of what the band and i have accomplished this year. take a look at my peformance sizzle reel below.
STARMS
with every costume i make for stage, i make matching and accesorizing STARMS. These are small wooden star pins that I decorate all of my looks with. Fans can buy these for $5 each to commemorate their experience at my show or with my music. each one is specific to that moment in time and there are only a very limited amount made.
these keepsakes are a fun and engaging way for me and my fans to share merch that feels personal and intimate. :)
Learn more and see the entire collection here.
xBS
for years, ive been making my own stage clothes. in the last year, i have become obsessed with making cropped, fringed, yassified and yeehawed jackets/outerwear for myself. i love going to goodwill, finding an interesting jacket, bringing it home and making it Brent-worthy. its almost like im collaborating with the originial designer.
after much prayer and supplication i am proud to announce, xBS.
each seasonal collection will contain an extremely limited number of varying sized outerwear personally curated and hand crafted by me.
every piece is sustainable and upcycled from local thrift and vintage retailers and then hand tailored and embellished by yours truly. each piece comes with a surprise matching accessory, your own personal set of matching starms, a signed fashion sketch of your piece, and my dna all over it.
season 1 drops september 29th and contains 25 one of a kind pieces ranging from $50-$100.
the pieces below are examples only and will not be included in sesaon 1.
BSTV
lord have mercy. i have been creating little videos and sketches since i was a child. much like i was saying before about music, comedy is an escape for me. it’s a way to forget about my problems and live in a different world for a bit. i love making pepole laugh and creating worlds and characters that are interesting and complicated.
for a long time i have wanted to curate my own network of content. Not just a show, but an entire universe of my characters and stories. i have been waiting for the right time (i.e. money) to give it a go and im tired of waiting.
im very excited to announce, a buncha BS, after dark, will be the first show on the BSTV Network. The show is a sketch variety show with a guest interview. Think Hee-Haw meets Late Night meets Pee-Wee’s Playhouse.
Season 1 debuts October 16th and new episodes will drop every Thursday at 10pm EST.
Until Netflix buys us out, you can find us on youtube at youtube.com/brentsnydermusic
i recently had to film an audition and used it as an opportunity to pilot some of my ideas for BSTV and was VERY pleased with out it turned out. you can laugh your booty off by watching the video below.
After the BS…
There is no shortage of ideas right now. I am in a creative high as an artist. After a buncha BS, I plan to make, a buncha MORE BS. A follow up EP with 6 more songs diving even deeper into me and my artistry. As of right now, I believe these songs will lean a bit more bluegrass as well a little r&b flare for your nerves.
Once the EP duo is done, then we get to the album…a buncha BS: the whole steaming pile. But I am waiting on the record deal to make that. So if youre A&R and your reading this…Ive got the album and the next album concept ready to go. email me. :)
thanks for taking a trip through the BS with me and I hope to hear from you. Fill out the form below to give your thoughts, feedback, encouragement, or to book me. see you soon!
xo- Brent