Song Fight!

is a weekly online songwriting and recording competition in which amateur artists are openly invited to participate.

Traditionally, a title and deadline are posted each week for which participants write, record, and submit a song in MP3 format.

Winning earns you no more or less than "bragging rights, satisfaction, [and] the jealous glances of strangers sitting next to you on the subway.

began when Cunningham declared its first fight title, "Golfpunk Drives a Cadillac" on June 19, 2000.

As the fighters became restless, "side-fights" began to spring up on private sites, the most prominent of them held by participant "Spud" of prolific Song Fight!

Narbotic updated one full month after the announcement of "Postcard" with optimistically-titled "The Return", the entries from which were never actually posted.

's administrator, in conjunction with participant "JB" of the one-man John Benjamin Band, moved the contest to SongFight.org, asking Cunningham to create a redirect to that location from SongFight.com, the original address, a request that was eventually granted.

JB, having previously purchased the rights to the .net and .org addresses to protect them from squatters (and to begin a Song Fight!

in cooperation, though the source of the titles is repeatedly said to be an unknown individual called only "Deep Throat", a tongue-in-cheek reference to the famous informant from the Watergate scandal.

Presents" (official and semi-official) shows have been performed on both coasts of the United States, in Great Britain and Australia.

From 2020 thru 2023, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing difficulties with organizing live shows,[11] the Song Fight!