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The Bravery: Sam Endicott (vocals, guitar, programming); Michael Zakarin (guitar, background vocals); John Conway (synthesizer, programming, background vocals); Mike Hindert (bass instrument, background vocals); Anthony Burulcich (drums, background vocals).
The Bravery's self-titled debut is a slick twist on '80s new wave and post-millennium modern rock. Those who've followed the Killers, stellastarr*, and the like will surely pounce on the Bravery's luscious synth-driven pop. The 11-song set, produced by the band's frontman, Sam Endicott, is playful and confident, unlike the stressful production of the Killers' Hot Fuss. Sure, obvious influences (Duran Duran, the Smiths, the Cure) carry the weight of this album, but it's without haste. An overcast backdrop dresses the trashy hints of love and desire, and cocksure moments such as "Public Service Announcement" and "No Brakes" showcase the Bravery's swagger with style. Endicott goes from sounding like a Robert Smith copycat ("Tyrant") to a dirtier Julian Casablancas ("Out of Line") and maintains a focused, fashionable dance sound. "Unconditional" soars with a sly guitar/keyboard two-step while "An Honest Mistake" saunters like classic New Order with its dark-hued mechanical energy. The Bravery isn't sonically mind-blowing, but the new millennium new wave revival remains intriguing. This New York five-piece makes an interesting effort without it coming off contrived and dishonest. Get ready to shake your hips! ~ MacKenzie Wilson
There's a long history of American bands hitting it big in the UK before they become known at home, so the Brooklyn-bred, NME-feted Bravery is part of a hallowed tradition. While the Bravery is solidly in the mold of mid-2000s groups worshipping at the altar of the 1980s, they manage a canny syncretism on their self-titled debut album. While the Rapture, Out Hud, Interpol, and other NYC brethren may have picked up on specific aspects of the Cure, New Order, et al, the Bravery manages to craft an all-inclusive sound that incorporates the most infectious aspects of the aforementioned influences and more. Bleeping Depeche Mode synths, twanging New Order basslines, Robert Smith-inflected vocals, Duran Duran-tinged dance-rock beats, and effects-laden Echo & the Bunnymen-via-Smiths guitar riffs all vie for space here. The Bravery boys are clearly frothing with enthusiasm for the glorious era they're too young to really remember, and their passion for the sound of those halcyon days of eyeliner and synthesizers is bursting from the seams of this disc.Rolling Stone (p.70) - 3 stars out of 5 - "The Bravery do a jockier version of the New Wave competition, pumping the drums in straight-ahead tunes..."
Uncut (p.115) - 5 stars out of 5 - "[T]hey make a gritty New Wave noise that is a suspiciously precise fusion of Duran Duran and The Strokes....This album really is just too good to be true."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.94) - 4 stars out of 5 - "[T]his is a swaggering, unashamedly fun pop record that should fast-track The Bravery to radio ubiquity." Bravery Music | List Price | $13.95 (You save $3.16) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, Rock CDs, Alternative, Enhanced CD | | Label | Island | | Orig Year | 2005 | | All Time Sales Rank |  7326  | | CD Universe Part number | 6835165 | | Catalog number | 000416302 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Mar 29, 2005 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Sam Endicott | | Engineer | The Bravery; Nic Hard | | Personnel | Anthony Burulcich - drums, background vocals
John Conway - synthesizer, programming, background vocals
Michael Zakarin - guitar, background vocals
Sam Endicott - vocals, guitar, programming
Mike Hindert - bass instrument, background vocals
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Submitted by elwood822 (Fairfax, VA) 
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The revenge of Eighties
Funny and playful work, very eighties sound, and a lot of nice ideas: watch this band, I think they will reserve good surprises in the future
Submitted by mseksich (Turin)
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The Bravery have managed to record an album in 2005 that sounds like it was a "college radio" (alternative rock) masterpiece in 1981. Think classic New Order and Cult. A driving, thrumming beat not to be missed.
Submitted by BP (Upper Arlington, OH, USA)
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 It's okay...
I know it mixes a bunch of good old stuff (see previous reviews on this album), but so do a whole lot of other bands...*cough*The Killers*cough*. All I'm saying is that this style is overused and The Bravery aren't really all that special in the first place. It's okay, but it's missing something that could make it great.
Submitted by Tim Jewell (Fontana, CA)
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Brave debut
The Braverys album is great. Clearly many eighties influences, and the lead singer is obviously into Morrissey. Great sound, great synths, but perhaps a bit to dancey. But overall a great effort that is very enjoyable and quite cool in a retro new wave punk kinda way.....
Submitted by Ken (Vermont)
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Purchase Bravery CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | VH1 Presents The Corrs Live In Dublin CD (2002)
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The Corrs: Jim Corr (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Sharon Corr (vocals, violin); Andrea Corr (vocals, tin whistle); Caroline Corr (vocals, drums, bodhran, percussion).
Recorded at Ardmore Studios in Dublin, Ireland in January 2002.
You knew the Corrs had made it when they played the final JFK Awards ceremony of the Clinton administration. Playing it would have been achievement enough, but their status as a happening thing was cemented at the end of the ceremony, during the encores, when everybody was taking their final bows. Bill moseyed up over to Andrea, put his arm around her, and when she was looking away, sized her up -- at precisely the same moment Chuck Berry was checking her out. If that doesn't mean that you've broken America, entering its pop culture, I don't know what does, expect for maybe a VH1-endorsed piece of product like Live in Dublin. Lo and behold, that's exactly what the Corrs received in the spring of 2002, a year and a half after "In Blue" and its accompanying single "Breathless" broke down the doors in America for the U.S. Only two songs on this set list are shared with In Blue, but that doesn't mean that the group returns to their slightly more traditional Celtic roots on the remainder of the songs. Sure, there are hints of that, but there are also four pop covers, two of them ("Little Wing" and "Ruby Tuesday") featuring Ron Wood, with another song, the Lee Hazelwood/Nancy Sinatra duet "Summer Wine," featuring Bono. Some of this is not unfamiliar ...
| | Arcade Fire Funeral CD (2004)
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Arcade Fire: William Butler (synthesizer, xylophone, bass instrument, percussion); Richard Reed Parry (double bass); Win Butler (bass guitar); Régine Chassagne, Howard Bilerman.
Personnel: Win Butler (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric 12-string guitar, piano, synthesizer); Régine Chassagne (vocals, accordion, recorder, piano, synthesizer, xylophone, drums, percussion); Howard Bilerman (guitar, drums); Timothy Kingsbury (acoustic guitar); Anita Fust (harp); Jessica Moss, Sophie Trudeau, Owen Pallett, Sarah Neufeld (violin); Genevieve Heistek (viola); Michael Olsen, Mike Olsen (cello); Richard Reed Parry (accordion, piano, organ, synthesizer, xylophone, upright bass, percussion); Pietro Amato (horns); Will Butler (synthesizer, xylophone, percussion); Arlen Thompson (drums).
Recording information: Hotel 2 Tango (08/2003-??/2004); Win & Regine's Apartment, Montreal, Canada (08/2003-??/2004).
Photographer: Hilary Treadwell.
Fronted by the husband-and-wife team of Win Butler and Régine Chassagne, the Arcade Fire's emotional debut -- rendered even more poignant by the dedications to recently ...
| | Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning CD (2005)
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Bright Eyes: Conor Oberst (acoustic guitar); Mike Mogis (pedal steel guitar); Tim Luntzel (bass guitar); Jesse Harris .
Personnel: Conor Oberst (vocals, guitar); Jake Bellows (vocals, harmonica); Emmylou Harris, Jim James, Andy LeMaster, Maria Taylor (vocals); Jesse Harris , Alex McManus (guitar); Mike Mogis (12-string guitar, mandolin); Nate Walcott (trumpet); Nick White (piano, Fender Rhodes piano, organ); Jason Boesel, Clark Baechle (drums).
Additional personnel: Nick Walcott (trumpet); Nick White (organ); Emmylou Harris, Jim James, Andy LeMaster.
Audio Mixer: Mike Mogis.
When writing about Conor Oberst, the singer/songwriter who records with an ever-changing group of musicians under the name Bright Eyes, it's customary to state his age within the first few sentences of the piece. It is also not uncommon to read comparisons between this Nebraskan singer/songwriter and Bob Dylan, the best-known singer/songwriter to hail from the Midwest. This serves a specific purpose -- to establish a context for Oberst's songwriting, to imply that he's some kind of "genius," not in the least for writing and recording albums at such a young age, particularly since he's been recording since the age of 13. And so many albums, too! Taking a page from the ...
| | Mars Volta Frances The Mute CD (2005)
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Composer: David Campbell .
The Mars Volta: Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Cedric Bixler-Zavala.
Personnel: John Frusciante (guitar); Ernesto Molina, Fernando Moreno, Diego Casillas, Joel Derouin, Roberto Cani, Peter Kent, Josephina Vergara, Mario Diaz de Leon (violin); Suzie Katayama, Larry Corbett (cello); Adrian Terrazas (flute, tenor saxophone); Salvador Hernandez, Flea , Wayne Bergeron (trumpet); Nick Lane (trombone); William Reichenbach (bass trombone); Randy Jones (tuba); Larry Harlow (piano, Clavinet); Roger Joseph Manning Jr. (piano); Lenny Castro (percussion).
Audio Mixer: Rich Costey.
Recording information: 291 South Lake Street, Burbank, CA; 3222 Los Feliz Blvd, Los Angeles, CA; 3400 Eagle Rock Blvd, Los Angeles, CA; 373 Ewingsdale, Byron Bay, Australia; 441 W. 53rd Street, New York, NY; 453 Mario Julia Industrial Park, San Juan, Puerto Rico; 5161 North Cartwright Ave, N Hollywood, CA; 6540 Matilija, Van Nuys, CA.
Photographers: Rupert Truman; Storm Thorgerson; Peter Curzon.
The Mars Volta's 2003 debut was a dense, experimental run-on sentence of science fiction and musical exploration. But though it ultimately rewarded patience with stretches of unbuckled rock & roll genius, De-Loused in the Comatorium ...
| | Bloc Party Silent Alarm CD (2005)
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Bloc Party: Kele Okereke (vocals, guitar); Russel Lissack (guitar); Gordon Moakes (bass guitar); Matt Tong (drums).
Personnel: Paul Epworth (programming).
Audio Mixer: Rich Costey.
Audio Remixer: Four Tet.
Recording information: Detalab Studios, Copenhagen, Denmark (06/2004-07/2004); Miloco, Hoxton (06/2004-07/2004); The Exchange, London, England (06/2004-07/2004).
Photographers: Paul Epworth; Matt Tong.
Much more polished, serious, and straight-ahead than their initial EPs suggested, Bloc Party's debut album, Silent Alarm, reveals them as a band equally informed by taut art-punk and the grand gestures and earnestness of groups like Coldplay and U2. Though they're not quite as stadium-sized expansive as either of those two bands (yet), Bloc Party sound a lot more comfortable making proclamations like "Positive Tension"'s "Something glorious is about to happen/A reckoning!" than contemporaries like Franz Ferdinand or the Futureheads would be. Silent Alarm is also more varied than Bloc Party's early work indicated it might be, spanning edgy pop, atmospheric ballads, and angular, percussive tracks that are all served well by the album's big, layered production. The great single "Banquet" and even better opening track, "Like Eating Glass," put Bloc Party's heart-on-sleeve ...
| | Kaiser Chiefs Employment CD (2005)
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Kaiser Chiefs: Ricky Wilson (vocals); Andrew White (guitar); Peanut (keyboards); Simon Rix, Nick Hodgson.
Personnel: Nick Hodgson (vocals, drums); Adey Wilson (vocals); Andrew White (guitar); Simon Rix (bass guitar).
Audio Mixers: Stephen Harris; Stephen Street; Cenzo Townshend.
Recording information: Olympic Studios, Barnes, London, England; Town House Studios, London, England.
Editor: Tom Stanley.
Photographers: Jason Kelvin; Andy Melchior.
Inspired by that moment sometime in the late '70s when punk gave birth to new wave (and looked back to the heyday of '60s mod for inspiration), the Kaiser Chiefs' debut, Employment, expands on the sharp, sussed sound of their singles in surprising ways. A look at London life and its discontents, Employment is a remarkably ambitious debut album that aspires, right down to its cheeky liner notes and graphics, to be the Parklife or All Mod Cons of the 2000s. While it doesn't quite reach those heights, it does have its fair share of memorable songs. Chief among them ...
| | Mermen Food For Other Fish CD (1994)
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| | Essential Al Green CD (2002)
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| | Shinhwa Precious: Essential Collection CD (Import) Japan
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| | Heroes Del Silencio El Ruido Y La Furia CD (2005) With DVD
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| | Dave Bass Welcome Table CD (1997)
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DAVE BASSDave Bass grew up in the rural and suburban New Jersey towns of Lakewood and Red Bank respectively. At an early age, Dave was affected by the music he heard while attending his uncle's Pentecostal church. Uncle Jim (Deacon Marshall) played the drums and provided the steady beat for the bluesy sounds coming from the red guitar of Elder Reed, the pastor. But if that was the spark, combustion happened when the visiting gospel groups from Philadelphia and New York City came to the church for programs. Dave developed a love for gospel music which eventually led to his membership in two groups: First, "The Mighty Royal Trumpets" of Montclair, N.J. (1979-82) and, secondly, "The Spiritual Volunteers" of Washington, D.C. (1982-95) Dave Bass, former lead singer for "The Spiritual Volunteers", is a gospel songwriter and vocalist in the Sam Cooke tradition of gospel music. As lead singer with "The Spiritual Volunteers" for thirteen years, Dave worked with other noted groups such as "The Soul Stirrers", "The Sensational Nightingales", "Willie Neal Johnson and The Gospel Keynotes", and "The Harmonizing Four". In addition, Dave has written over 70 songs and contributed the title song, along with one other ("A Strange World"), to the 1984 Spiritual Volunteers release entitled "Over On The Other Shore".Because of this exceptional background, Daniel Wolff, author of "You Send Me (The Life and Times of Sam Cooke)" asked Dave to bring Sam Cooke's music ...
| | Alley Kat Christopher Smart-The Life & Times Of CD (2006)
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| | Rocky Votolato Brag & Cuss CD (2007) (Import) Bonus Track; Japan
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| | Introduction Of D-Cee CD (2008)
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Delatha "Del" Wayne Collins born September 19, 1973, Boston, Massachusetts. I am one of five children born to Mr & Mrs. Spencer M. Collins III. I have one older brother Spencer IV and three younger sisters, Rovenia, Cherayna and Kyriele. My love for music came at a very young age; maybe about 5 or 6 years old. My mother would play lots of music as far as the Motown sound and etc. My father is a drummer in a band so I think that is where my love of music comes from as I was in my early teens, myself and three other guys wanted to start this group "True Definition" but for personal reasons that didn't work out. I began recording my own music over instrumental beats in my house.In 1998, I put my music to the test by performing for my local church group. That was the first time that I have allowed my music to be heard by anyone other than myself. Even though they liked my performance I still didn't feel that I ...
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