Here’s a cool video of me playing a solo acoustic number on The Steve Katsos Show:
The show was a blast to do. I’ll let you know when/where the full episode airs so you can see me do another song and have some fun messing with Steve. If you like the acoustic thang, I’ll be playing solo at Precinct on Thursday October 13 as part of the Self-Proclaimed Rockstars residency.
Hey friends,
I’m going to be on the Steve Katsos Show next week playing a few tunes and looking all telegenic and whatnot. It’s actually an international show, so prepare for some sort of international incident. Check out www.stevekatsos.com for details on when you can watch the show!
Those of us who are planning on surviving this wee little tropical storm will be at Bloc 11 in Union Square Somerville this Tuesday night. I’ll be playing a rare acoustic set. Come with your requests because my set list blew away in the gale force winds. 6:30pm start – absolutely freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
Only 2 more weeks to download my ENTIRE music catalog for absolutely free! Just click on the “MUSIC” button, pick an album and download away.
To celebrate the finest month of the year, I have decided to end this 6 EPs project with a bang: for the entire month of August, all 6 of the EPs from this year are now available for ABSOLUTELY FREE. Here at Crazy Brendan’s EP Warehouse, they’re going to lock me up! My prices are insaaaaaaaane!!!!
Just because, I’ve decided to throw in my first two records – “Disposable Pop” and “The Sweet & The Brutal” for your free enjoyment. If you never got around to grabbing these two discs, here’s your chance. Just click on the “MUSIC” button, pick an album, and download away!
This is my way of saying thanks to all the great people who have allowed me to live my dream of making music for most of my adult life. You guys are the best! Enjoy free stuff!
Okay, that’s not exactly true. But things are slowed down just a hair.
The “6 EPs in 6 Months” project is officially over. The fruit of the labors of many amazingly talented people is right there under the MUSIC button for you to click and enjoy. In fact, you can still download “Songs From The Armory Volume 3″ for FREE for another week or so until the end of July.
As far as live shows, I’m giving the Best Intentions a much-deserved breather so they can soothe their burns from all the fiery rock we laid down over the first half of 2011. But rest assured – we’ll reload and be back for the fall. I’m already working on some must-see bills for you to feast your ears on. Be patient, pets. There will be no Boogie wine before it is Boogie time.
In the meantime, I’ve got some cool stuff going forward with my other two projects. Low Static Romance is recording a CD live at the Lily Pad on Sunday August 7. It will be intimate, early, and free so please come join Magen and I and get your clapping immortalized on tape.
As always, check in with Parlour Bells. We played a very fun show at the Lizard Lounge last night and are working on new material, recording, and shows to keep your love for us on the front burner of your little noggins.
Happy summer!
Just hit the MUSIC button right up there and download away for FREE! You heard me! Do it before I change my mind.
Just a quick update – Brian has a little touching up to do on some of the mixes, so the full EP should be ready for consumption after you’re done eating your hot dogs and watching your stupid fireworks. The good news is that the first single has been released! “Attraction Fades” written and performed by Brian King and myself is right there to the right of this text in the “NOW PLAYING” box. Play it, download it, love it. Happy New Year, everybody!
Well, it’s time for this little “6 EPs in 6 months” bonanza to come to its inevitable conclusion. It’s been an amazing experience making all this music I’m proud of with all these amazing talented people. Since collaboration seems to be the theme running through this project, it seems fitting that we end the project where we started it – at the Armory.
“Songs From The Armory Volume 3″ is a bit of a misnomer as only one of the songs (my duet with the amazing Leesa Coyne of Naked On Rollerskates) was written for a show we did together at the Somerville Armory. But I have decided to continue the Songs from the Armory idea with any future songwriting collaborations/duets I do. Because I’m lazy like that.
This time around, Brian King from Oranjuly is taking the reins as producer. Brian and I have been a mutual admiration society for years now and we finally decided that we needed to write a song together. Lo and behold, we ended up with not one but two very different little ditties for your listening pleasure. Brian is an obscenely talented songwriter, musician, and producer as well as a hell of a nice guy, so it has been a pure labor of love.
Speaking of love, “Love Is For Losers” was co-written with Abbie Barrett. We first performed it at an anti-Valentine’s comedy and music variety show at ImprovBoston in Cambridge. Spending any significant amount of time with Abbie is usually nothing short of downright torture, but giving birth to this shiny pop gem was worth every awful second being in her presence (I kid).
It’s hard to believe that this is the last EP of the series. When I first came up with this nutso idea, I wasn’t sure I’d actually see it through, as I am at nature a weakbabyquitterpants. At the very least, I thought I would be so creatively drained that I would never want to record another note again. The complete opposite has happened. I feel so charged up. I can’t wait to make more music. I’m going to take a break for the sake of my sanity and my pocketbook, but rest assured – there is more to come. Songs From The Armory Vol 4, anyone? Vol 5? Eh?
Come celebrate my final EP with me on July 9 at the Rosebud in Davis Square, Somerville. The Rosebud has been my home for half the year and all the shows have not failed to deliver great lineups. Saturday the 9th is no exception – Naked On Rollerskates, Abbie Barrett & The Last Date, and Rock Primary alum/coffee pitchman Leo Blais.
And here is the cover:
That’s right, I’m going back to the Armory well one more time and finishing this series of EPs the way it started – with a group of co-written songs with some of Boston’s finest artists. More details to come in the upcoming days…
