Stir The Blood

Product Description Off the heels of a North American tour with punk rock mainstays Green Day, New York City's The Bravery announced an ambitious headlining tour kicking off Friday, September 18th at the Hard Rock in Las Vegas, NV in support of their new release out December 1st. Lead single "Slow Poison" impacts Modern Rock Radio September 15th. The band will play shows in more than 30 cities across the country throughout the fall. The tour is in support of their much-anticipated third studio album, slated for November 10th release. The band's new album is produced by John Hill, whose credits include Santigold and M.I.A. This album follows 2007's The Sun And The Moon, which featured the wildly successful smash hits "Time Won't Let Me Go" and "Believe." "Time Won't Let Me Go," soared into the top 10 on the alternative charts, while "Believe" reached #4 and ended 2008 as the #1 most played song for stations in Los Angeles, Boston, Seattle and San Francisco. It was the #8 Most Played Song of 2008 overall at Alternative Radio. Prior to that, The Bravery saw impressive success with their self-titled debut on Island Records. The album featured standout singles "An Honest Mistake," "Unconditional," and "Fearless." The album debuted #5 on the UK album charts and was certified Gold in the UK within the first week. The band has appeared on major late night television shows The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O'Brien and Jimmy Kimmel Live!, as well as Later with Jools Holland in the UK. The Bravery have toured with such renowned musical powerhouses as U2, Depeche Mode, and Smashing Pumpkins. About the Artist The Beginning By Sam Endicott I grew up in DC and my life began with punk rock. I was all about the "harDCore" scene, Dischord records, DIY, and all that. Fugazi was my favorite band; I've seen them over 100 times. John is from Santa Barbara. He surfs. He grew up on SoCal punk rock and 60's reggae. He has an unsettlingly encyclopedic knowledge of early Jamaican reggae--Desmond Decker, The Wailers, The Skatalites, Baba Brooks, all of it. John and I met at art school in upstate NY. We spent years just fucking around on whatever instruments we could find. We played everything from jazz to country to metal to rockabilly. We just loved being around music. In early 00's we moved to Chinatown, NYC. We started going out to the underground dance clubs, and it changed our lives. Eighties night at Don Hill's in the West Village- it revolved around that. There was this new sound coming out of NY- very synthetic music made in a very organic way. It was computer sounds, but made at home in the basement. It reminded me of the DIY ethos I grew up on, but with these tremendous new sounds. The Electroclash stuff, Peaches, The Rapture, the DFA, The Faint, !!!, Out Hud, etc. We thought, what if we took these new sounds and combined it with a real live rock n roll band? Something where the sounds are taken from the electronic world, but you still feel like you're listening to humans with instruments playing it. That was the idea. I started writing songs in my apartment above a bar called Magnetic Fields. I was either in the bar, or upstairs playing my guitar. I had never sung a note or really written a song before, but there was something about this sound that moved me. They would start as more straight-forward guitar songs, and then John and I would "remix" them; cut them up, fuck up the sounds, rearrange, program, destroy. And then that "remix" would be the final song. I didn't know what to write songs about, so I just wrote about the thoughts in my head. It turns out I seem to be looking for something. There is a lot of regret. It became very spiritual for me, a way of expressing my desire to transcend, to find something more. Face my fears, my demons, stand up to the negativity in my life, and find something greater. So we named the band The Bravery; we thought it was fitting. And it had a nice ring to it. Michael and Mike were old friends, also from the DC area, who moved to NYC around the same time as John and I. Michael is half anglophile, half jazz cat. Gypsy Jazz, exclusively. He listens to The Kinks and Oasis, and learns Django Reinhardt solos note for note. Mike is all about rockabilly. He listens to Hank Williams III and Stray Cats all day. We were all looking for a band, and eventually we ran into each other. They liked the sound John and I were working on; strangely it seemed a very natural fit. Anthony moved to NYC right around then too. Looking back, it seems like fate. He had lived in Boston, studying percussion at Berklee College of Music. In late 2003 his sister suddenly passed away, and he moved to New York to be with his family. He had the sense that he was giving up his dream of being a musician when he left Boston. But on the very day he arrived in NY he got a call from me; I had heard about him through a friend of mine who used to bartend with him. And o
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Author/Artist:The Bravery
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