The Bravery is an American rock band formed in New York City in 2003 consisting of lead vocalist Sam Endicott, guitarist Michael Zakarin, keyboardist John Conway, bassist Mike Hindert and drummer Anthony Burulcich. It released three studio albums: The Bravery (2005), The Sun and the Moon (2007) and Stir the Blood (2009). It also released remixed editions of their second album called The Sun and the Moon Complete in 2008 and an Internet live album called Live at Wiltern Theater in 2010. Their music can best described as a post-punk dance influenced by rock and roll.
In April 2014, Endicott revealed via The Bravery website and Facebook page that all of its members took part in a way apart from creative interests and that, for the moment, there are no plans for The Bravery in the future.
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Histori
Formasi dan meningkatnya ketenaran (2003)
Directed and songwriter Sam Endicott and keyboardist John Conway were classmates at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. As new students, their musical partnership begins when playing local bars on many recording projects, sometimes including the future star of CSI: Miami Jonathan Togo. After graduation, Endicott and Conway moved to New York City, where Endicott switched from bass guitar to vocals and began writing music that would later become "The Bravery".
Guitarist Michael Zakarin joined after answering an ad in a local newspaper, and brought him along with bassist Mike Hindert, his classmate from Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Drummer Anthony Burulcich lives in Boston, Massachusetts, where he studied percussion at Berklee College of Music. After the death of his sister, Burulcich moved back to his childhood home on Long Island New York to be with his family. On the day Burulcich moves, while driving with his things on a U-Haul truck, Endicott calls him. Endicott and Burulcich were introduced by friends from the New York band, Bishop Allen. Although Burulcich was the official drummer for the band, many drums on the debut album were recorded before Burulcich joined the band, by Steven Lourie of the Boston band Lincoln Conspiracy.
The band played their first show at Stinger Club in Brooklyn in November 2003. To promote their local show, they produced 1,000 posters and 3 cd song covers containing "An Honest Mistake", "No Brakes" and "Public Service Announcement". Both items feature an iconic "Phoenix" image by New York artist C. Finley. The same artwork later became the cover of The Bravery's debut album. The band itself promotes themselves by distributing CDs and posters on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and Brooklyn. The band also promotes themselves on the internet and is one of the first bands on MySpace to have a profile. Their MySpace profile points to thebravery.com, where the same 3 songs are available as downloadable MP3s.
Unconditional EP (2004)
After months of being headlining and selling small clubs, The Bravery booked a residency at Lower East side club, Arlene's Grocery. The Bravery was played every Thursday at 10 pm in May 2004. Every show sold out and garnered the attention of many record labels. Around the same time, the band received their first radio broadcast on the 'Alter Ego' event hosted by Paul Driscoll at Boston's WFNX. Aaron Axeleson at Live 105 in San Francisco and Zane Lowe on BBC Radio 1 in the UK, also downloaded MP3 "An Honest Mistake" from thebravery.com. With three major radio stations around the world playing MP3s of "An Honest Mistake" and sold out shows in New York, The Bravery was signed in August 2004 to Island Def Jam in the United States and Loog Records in the UK.
For November 2004, The Bravery moved to Stoke Newington part of London. The band imported their residency idea to London to play every Thursday at The Metro Club in Soho. The band toured throughout England, France and the Netherlands between Thursday. The band also opened the show for Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Razorlight.
Loog Records released Unconditional EP , a limited edition 3P EP on CD and 12 "vinyl containing" Unconditional "," No Rem "and" Out of Line "tracks. NME wrote," Unconditional has a classic indie feel that is outdated. "The cover was taken from C. Finley's oil on a canvas called" Colab. "" Unconditional "received heavy airing on Radio 1 and XFM London.
The Bravery plays New Year's Eve 2005 at the Motherfucker Party in New York City. Bassist Mike Hindert was nearly caught for bare-naked and showed off his cock, featuring smiling painted faces and the words "Happy New Year".
The Village Voice proclaimed Bravery to be "New York Official Next Big Thing", while MTV and Rolling Stone praised them as artists to watch. The band also culminated in the Sound of 2005 poll of the BBC News website as the most promising act in 2005.
The Bravery (2005-06)
The Bravery's first single "An Honest Mistake", was released in the UK on February 28, 2005 and debuted at No. 1. 7 on the UK Singles Chart. The single reached # 12 on the US Modern Rock Chart. The single CD contains a b-side "Hey Sunshiney Day." The 7 "Vinyl contains b-side" Hot Pursuit (Duet Version), "duet with vocalist Sam Endicott and Gillian Conway (brother of keyboard player John Conway) The Bravery's second single," Fearless "was released in the UK on May 23, 2005. The single's slimline CD features the cover of "An Cat Dubh" by U2 as b-side.The side-b for 7 "vinyl is the cover of The Cars" "It's All I Can Do." Single DVD contains Fearless Video and live recording of "No Brakes" was recorded at Koko club in London on March 1, 2005. The artwork of C. Finley titled "Lady With A Blunt" was used as cover art.The single "Unconditional" was released in the UK on August 29, 2005. The single slimline CD contains a mix of Michael Brauer radio as the A-side and remix of Benny Benassi's dance as b-side.Remix reaches the top 10 on the UK dance charts Maxi single contains b-side "Oh, Glory" and "An Honest Mistake" remix by Superdiscount CD is enhanced with video for "Unconditional". "Phoenix Girl", acrylic and graphite drawings on paper by C. Finley used for cover art.
The Bravery , was released on March 14, 2005 in England (March 29, 2005 in the US). It debuts No. 5 in UK Album Chart and No. 15 at the Irish Staircase. C. Finley painting "Phoenix" is used as cover art. The first 10,000 copies in the UK were made with a silver foil cover and the Phoenix embossed black. The band performed on the cover of 12 March edition NME . The album was released in Europe on April 4, 2005. The band featured on the cover of the French music magazine Magic . Australia released an album on May 4th. "An Honest Mistake" became the top ten hit on Triple J radio in Australia.
On May 28, 2005, The Bravery played three shows in a single day by taking helicopters from the Homelands festival in Winchester, to Birmingham for the Duran Duran concert on the Birmingham City football field, and then to London. The Bravery's last performance of the day was the first of three sold-out shows at the Astoria. On June 14, 2005, The Bravery supported the opening night of the U2 European tour in Manchester, England. During the opening song of The Bravery "Rites of Spring", power fails on stage. The band left the stage again 10 minutes later, just to turn off the power again. Bono wrote a letter to the band who thanked them, stating "P.S. If you need anything, contact Edge, Adam or Larry". The Bravery went on to support other European dates for U2 including a 90,000-capacity concert sale of Croke Park in Dublin on 27 June. The Bravery played at the Glastonbury Festival on June 26, 2005. Their set will be aired live on BBC Three at noon, but it must be shown well after watershed, as bassist Mike Hindert's naked guitarist is on stage due to the hot weather and throws himself into drumkits to end their sets. Hindert's ass photo on stage with 40,000 people in the distance is featured in the following edition of NME and Blender Magazine , where Mike is quoted as saying "One bottle of Jager will usually do it for you. the best show of my life I have to get a girl to slap me before. "Her nakedness is now immortalized in the film at Julien Temple's Glastonbury The Film. Throughout 2005, The Bravery sold headlining around the world and played some of the biggest festivals including SXSW, Coachella Music Festival, Glastonbury, and Lollapalooza. In November and December 2005 and January to March 2006, the band became supporters for Depeche Mode on their Touring the Angel world tour. This tour travels throughout the US, UK and Europe.
Sun and Moon (2007 -08 )
The modern US rock station received a CD for the first single The Bravery "Time Will not Let Me Go" the same week as the bands playing in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and the SXSW festival. The single reached the Alternative Top Ten Hit in America.
On May 22, 2007, The Bravery's second album The Sun and the Moon was released, debuting at No. 1. 24 on the US album charts. Endicott described the new album as a departure from the synth-heavy sound of their debut. The covers and artwork are candid photographs taken by Jo McCaughey and Drew King. Endicott and art designer Andy West took a newspaper/collage approach to the album layout. The Bravery's second single "Believe" reached No. 4 on the US Alternate Chart in April 2008, 11 months after the album's original release. "Believe" stay at No. 4 for six weeks, becoming the band's biggest radio hit to date.
Two weeks prior to the release, The Bravery played a number of special events in New York City, including two secret events on May 8th at Arlene's Grocery, a popular club as the club where they were found. The Bravery toured extensively in the US, headlining dates through June. The band headed to Europe with their own headlining tour, stopping to play at the Oxegen and T in the Park festivals. Between July and September, The Bravery supports Incubus in their summer outdoor amphitheater tour. The band then supports The Smashing Pumpkins in their US theater tour. In October, The Bravery headed to Mexico where they played the Motorkr Festival in Mexico City. They finished 2007 more headlining dates in the US.
iTunes announced The Bravery as the first artist to release a different song every week before the album's release. On February 19, 2008, the first single, re-recording of "Believe" debuted on iTunes. A song a week followed: "This Is Not the End" was released on February 26th, "Bad Sun" on March 4th and "The Ocean" on March 11th.
While on the road, The Bravery continues to work on the recording of The Moon behind their tour bus, at the hotel and the locker room. In December 2007, The Bravery returned to their New York City home studio to complete more raw and electronic versions of their songs. In January 2008, the band announced the new release of The Sun and the Moon Complete, a two-disc set featuring The Sun (Brendan O'Brien-produced original 12 songs -lagu) and The Moon (12 exactly the same songs, in the same order, but re-imagined and reworked by the band). The album was released on March 18, 2008. A new album cover and packaging accompany two sets of discs. The Bravery's single "Believe" reached number four on the Modern Rock Charts during the week of April 13, 2008. This is the highest chart position for bands in the United States. "Believe" remains at number 4 for six weeks. "Believe" later became a certified gold single in the United States.
After the dispute with the UK band's label, The Sun and The Moon was never released in the UK. Endicott addressed this issue for the first time in public during a feature in the November 4, 2009 edition of NME . "The important thing is the BBC counts us as the best new band of the year and at that time our labels are losing their minds We got off the plane in London and there is our billboard on the highway We suddenly do not like this indie band, we are Spice Girls! "The band has been in a legal battle with their British label for The Sun and The Moon rights and future band releases.
Stir Blood (2009)
Keyboardist John Conway posted on the band's blog that The Bravery was in the studio with producer John Hill, who previously worked with Santigold and M.I.A., and new songs "have begun to take shape". Throughout the summer of 2009, The Bravery performed songs from their upcoming third albums at various events, including while supporting Green Day on the 21st Century Breakdown North American Tour. These include "Hatefuck" and "Red Hands and White Knuckles".
In the Billboard feature, Enidcott describes the new album as "more like the first recording (in 2005) because there's a lot of electronics in it, but it still sounds very human." It's also like the first Record that it's an album This is uptempo, the music is fun, even though it has a lot of things.There are slower, dreary songs, and our bass player (Mike Hindert) writing songs ('She Is So So Bendable') that sounds like a '50s ballad. "
The first single "Slow Poison" debuted on September 8, 2009. Sam was called to the show this morning to debut The Bravery's new single: KROQ - Los Angeles, WRXP - New York, WFNX - Boston, The End - Seattle, 91X - San Diego , The Edge - Phoenix. The video for "Slow Poison" premiered on AOL Spinner Friday 6 November 2009. Another video directed by bassist Mike Hindert for the song "Sugar Pill" was released on November 19, 2009.
On October 1, 2009, The Bravery leaked the video for their new song "Hatefuck" through the band's MySpace page. The disturbing video was directed by bassist Mike Hindert and described the sadomasochistic scene in which a female character wearing a gas mask cuts a vagina into a male character using a knife. The mermaid doll then goes into the hole.
The Bravery entitled the entire North American tour before Stir the Blood , releases December 1, 2009. Fans can meet the band after ordering the previous album. The iTunes pre-order for the album starts on Tuesday, November 10th. The new song "I Am Your Skin" is available for download when ordering previous albums.
Like Sun and Moon , Stirring Blood is not released in the UK due to legal battles with British labels.
Live at Wiltern Theater (2010 - 11)
Live At The Wiltern Theater is Bravery's first live album and concert album. Exclusive iTunes was released on June 8, 2010 and recounted the sold-out Bravery performance at Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles starting on November 5, 2009. The digital release featured all 18 tracks from the show including the hit band, "An Honest Mistake", "Believe" "Time Will Never Let Me Go", "Unconditional", and "Slow Poisons". The official iTunes review states "it's clear that quintet NYC has a symbiotic relationship with their audience - the more audiences give, the more bands deliver."
On June 2nd, 2010, a new Bravery song titled "Ours" was released on The Twilight Saga: Eclipse: Soundtrack via Atlantic Records. This is the first Bravery song to be released in the UK since their gold album debut in 2005.
On December 9, 2010 the band announced a UK tour and London residency for February 2011. The band's social media website stated "The group, whose last album release UK is their Gold Sale, Top 5 debut in 2005, has resolved a legal dispute with former label recording them and will continue to release new singles and albums after residency at London's Hoxton Bar and Kitchen and further UK performances. "On SXSW 2011 The Bravery featured" Gin and Juice "with Dennis Quaid singing vocals.
Hiatus (2012-present)
Burulcich goes on a drumming tour with Morrissey from 2012-2013. In July 2013, Burulcich started playing drums for Weezer. Burulcich continues to play drums for them while Weezer drummer Patrick Wilson is on private leave and is a tour drummer for the White Sea band in 2014. Burulcich is currently finishing an EP for his new band X My Heart and drums in Weezer Brian Bell's band Relations band. Mike Hindert has started the record label Merrifield Records and is currently directing his first feature film. John Conway is busy in a vineyard that destroys wine and makes wine with his business, Conway Family Wines. Michael Zacharin pursues other creative interests outside music. Sam Endicott became the lead vocalist in the band The Mercy Beat and Burulcich played drums for the band.
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Collaboration
While recording the album Bravery's
Endicott, Hill and Santigold artists co-wrote "Monday Morning", a song for the album Christina Aguilera Bionic (2010). And Martin from NME wrote in his album review Bionic , "Perhaps the best of all is' Monday Morning. '' Written with Santigold and The Bravery's Sam Endicott, a small disco that sounds like Gwen Stefani doing 'Borderline'. "
Discography
- Studio album
- The Bravery (2005)
- Sun and Moon (2007)
- Stir Blood (2009)
band members
- Sam Endicott - main vocal, rhythm guitar (2003-2011)
- Michael Zakarin - main guitar, backing vocals (2003-2011)
- John Conway - keyboard, backing vocals (2003-2011)
- Mike Hindert - bass, backing vocals (2003-2011)
- Anthony Burulcich - drum, backing vocals (2003-2011)
References
External links
- Official website
- "Artist". Universal Music . Archived from the original in 2012-10-23. < range>
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