Brand New
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Brand New
<tr style="text-align: center;"><td colspan="3"> Left to right: Vinnie Accardi, Jesse Lacey, Brian Lane, Garrett Tierney </td></tr>
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<tr><td>Origin</td><td colspan="2">Merrick, New York, USA</td></tr><tr><td>Genre(s)</td><td colspan="2">Alternative Rock</td></tr><tr><td>Years active</td><td colspan="2">2000 – present</td></tr><tr><td style="padding-right: 1em;">Label(s)</td><td colspan="2">Interscope Records |
Brand New is an alternative rock band from Merrick, New York that formed in the early 2000s. They have released three albums. Their third album, The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me, was released in the US on November 21, 2006.
The band's first song to see significant airplay was "The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows," which fell into heavy rotation on many radio stations during the summer of 2003[citation needed], while they were on the Vans Warped Tour. The band's videos have also previously been on Fuse TV, MTV, and MTV2.
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[edit] History
[edit] Formation
In the late 1990s Jesse Lacey, Garrett Tierney and Brian Lane were all members of The Rookie Lot, a Post-Hardcore band largely influenced by groups like Lifetime, along with guitarists Brandon Reilly, who would go on to play guitar for The Movielife and front Nightmare of You, and Alex Dunne, who now plays guitar for Crime In Stereo
After The Rookie Lot disbanded, Lacey and Lane started playing together again with Tierney joining them soon after. Then Vincent "Vin" Accardi joined, completing the band's line-up. The band took the name "Brand New" from a Beastie Boys song of the same name. After recording, producing, and releasing their first four-track demo, the band began touring around the Long Island scene.
[edit] Your Favorite Weapon
After signing a single album deal on Triple Crown Records, the band set to work on their debut, Your Favorite Weapon. The album was to be a mix of slightly altered rerecorded songs from their demos as well as several new ones. As Lacey, the band's songwriter, was only a teenager when he wrote the album, the lyrics were primarily driven by teen angst[citation needed]. The album was produced by Mike Sapone. The album was a moderate success[citation needed]. This allowed the band to tour nationally and internationally, supporting such bands as Taking Back Sunday, Good Charlotte, New Found Glory, Glassjaw, Incubus, Dashboard Confessional and Finch.
The song title "Seventy Times 7" in Your Favorite Weapon comes from a verse in the Holy Bible - Matthew 18:22 - where Jesus tells Peter he must forgive his brother "seventy times seven" times, and the song is about a disagreement between Jesse Lacey and childhood friend John Nolan formerly from Taking Back Sunday. Taking Back Sunday later released "There Is No I in Team," which is their side of the story. Although the guitarist from Taking Back Sunday said that, "Stealing that lyric [is that what you call tact...you're as subtle as a brick in the small of my back] was a 'bit sneaky'" on their part.[citation needed]
The first and only single released from Your Favorite Weapon was "Jude Law and a Semester Abroad," which received airplay on both MTV2 and Fuse. Since the release of the album, the band has expressed dismay at the fact that the album was not necessarily their best work. They also released a remade version of "Jude Law..." on their website as a free MP3.
Soon after the release of Your Favorite Weapon, the band released two songs on a split EP with Safety In Numbers. "Moshi Moshi" from this EP was also later available as a B-side on the UK "Jude Law and a Semester Abroad" single.
[edit] Deja Entendu
The band's second album, Deja Entendu, was released in June, 2003 to much popular acclaim as well as favorable reviews[citation needed]. The album contains slower, deeper, darker songs with a more polished sound and complex lyrics about a wide range of topics, including lung cancer and sex.[citation needed]
The title is French, translating to "already heard," which is a comment on the band's opinion that all modern music sounds the same. It is worth noting that the band's name, "Brand New," is also a play on this concept. The album's songs have long titles, such as "Good to Know that if I Ever Need Attention, All I Have to Do is Die." It was produced by Steven Haigler, who was the sound engineer on the Pixies' Trompe le Monde
The band has stated that most of the songs were not demoed and were "rushed", and that eleven out of the twelve songs recorded for the album appeared on it - with only "Flying At Tree Level (Version 1.0)" left off. The track later appeared on the Beer: The Movie compilation soundtrack. The track "Sic Transit Gloria...Gloria Fades" was leaked onto the Internet before the initial release of Deja Entendu, in which an organ was present in the verse lines. However on the CD format, the organ seems to be missing.
Three singles were released from this album on Eat Sleep Records and Sorepoint Records. The first single from Deja Entendu was "The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows." Their second single from the album, "Sic Transit Gloria...Glory Fades," is a shortened version of the common latin phrase Sic transit gloria mundi and is a reference to a line from the movie Rushmore. Both of these singles were top 40 hits within the UK, and their videos received relatively heavy rotation on MTV2 and Fuse TV. The band released a third single from this album, "I Will Play My Game Beneath the Spin Light," solely for radio play.
The band also began touring nationally and internationally, both as headlining and support acts. This included a short stint on the Warped Tour in 2003 .
During 2003, their debut album was also remastered and re-released. The album was then released for the first time in Australia and Japan during early 2004.
A limited edition EP, entitled The Holiday EP, was released soon after the album in late 2003, available only to the band's Street Team members. It contained re-releases of several B-sides and demos from Deja Entendu, album art by artist Brian Ewing, as well as a single new song - a cover of "O Holy Night." Available for only the price of postage, this EP sold out quickly, and has never been re-released. Consequently, it is now extremely rare and can sell for up to ninety US dollars.
Between May 2004 (with the release of the UK "The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows" CDS B-sides) and June 2005, no new material was released by Brand New and no new information was publicly released to fans. During that time however, the band was signed by Interscope Records, a major label.
On December 28, 2003, the New York Times music critic, Kelefa Sanneh ranked Deja Entendu as one of the best albums of 2003, ranking the album number 5 on his top ten list.
[edit] The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
At the end of 2004, Brand New appeared on the cover of Alternative Press magazine, who had deemed their upcoming album the "most anticipated of 2005" but little to no information was actually provided about any new material. The band had very little contact with fans about new music or shows until in June 2005 when their Web site was finally updated, announcing that the band had started recording and confirming long-standing rumours that in early 2005 Lacey had been hospitalized for appendicitis, with the Web site specifically mentioning he had been "sick," "had surgery" and that there "were multiple things wrong with [him]," but stated that "most of [his problems] have been fixed."
In late 2005, the band started recording their highly-anticipated third album in Oxford, Mississippi, with producer Dennis Herring, but later dropped him in favor of Mike Sapone with whom they had worked on their first album. Also, this album has aided in giving this band the title of "America's Radiohead" by Alternative Press magazine.
On January 24, 2006 nine demos recorded in preparation of the new album were leaked onto the internet. All songs were untitled and were of unknown origin with only with a comment attached that they were "demos that probably won't be on Fight Off Your Demons", the then rumored title for the new album, based on the band's new website address. In the following months, with Brand New doing their first tour dates in over 18 months, several songs from the demos were performed with a full band, and some by just Jesse - some were fleshed out and had new lyrics. New songs had their debut as well during the tour dates. There was much speculation about the names of songs and the album name but very little solid information.
After much speculation and rumor regarding the final release date, and Alternative Press publishing a preliminary date of October 10, 2006, as the release date, the official website announced that the new album would finally be released on November 21, 2006 in North America, and the day before in Europe. Soon after, a track listing and the unusual cover art were revealed on as well as new information regarding the release of the first actual single - "Sowing Season" - one of the new tracks previewed during the summer tour. A rerecording of "Untitled 08 (Yeah)" from the demos, the single finally got a public airing on radio on October 19, 2006, and appeared on their MySpace page a day later. According to Lacey in a radio interview from the UK (BBC Radio 1 with Zane Lowe), the title "The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me" is taken from a conversation he had with his friend about a friend who is schizophrenic.
[edit] Members
The band consists of:
- Jesse Lacey (Lead vocals, Lyricist, Guitar)
- Vincent "Vin/Vinnie" Accardi (Guitar, Backup vocals, Piano)
- Garrett Tierney (Bass)
- Brian Lane (Drums)
- Derrick Sherman (Live Rhythm Guitar as of 2006 - debate whether he's a full band member as he's not in promo shots, the band themselves however have stated they consider him a new member)
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
| Cover | Release date | Title | Label |
| October 9, 2001 | Your Favorite Weapon | Triple Crown Records |
| June 17, 2003 | Deja Entendu | Triple Crown Records |
| November 21, 2006 | The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | Interscope Records |
[edit] EPs
| Cover | Release date | Title | Label |
| 2002 | Brand New/Safety In Numbers Split EP | Triple Crown Records | |
| December 15, 2003 | The Holiday EP | Triple Crown Records |
[edit] Singles
| Cover | Release date | Title | Label |
| 2002 | "Jude Law and a Semester Abroad" | Eat Sleep Records | |
| 2003 | "The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows" | Eat Sleep Records/Sore Point Records | |
| 2004 | "Sic Transit Gloria... Glory Fades" | Sore Point Records | |
| 2006 | "Sowing Season" | Interscope Records |
[edit] Compilation tracks
- Beer: The Movie (2003) ("Flying at Tree Level (Version 1.0)" - previously unreleased Deja Entendu-era song)
- Beer: The Movie 2, Leaving Long Island (2006) ("Soco Amaretto Lime (Moleman Remix)" - previously released on the "Sic Transit Gloria... Glory Fades" single)
[edit] Demos
- First Four-Track Demo (2000)
- Second Demo (2001)
- New Album Demos (2006)
[edit] Videography
- "Jude Law And A Semester Abroad" (2002)
- "The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows" (2003)
- "Sic Transit Gloria... Glory Fades" (2003)
[edit] References
- ↑ Music Head: Brand New Interview. Music Head. Retrieved on December 15, 2005.
- ↑ News Page. Fight Off Your Demons (Official Brand New Site). Retrieved on December 15, 2005.
- ↑ Seventy Times 7 Songmeaning. Brand New UK. Retrieved on February 18, 2006.
- ↑ Your Favorite Weapon by Brand New. musicmatch guide. Retrieved on December 15, 2005.
- ↑ Brand New: Deja Entendu: Pitchfork Review. Pitchfork Media. Retrieved on November 26, 2006.
- ↑ Brand New Biography. Official Site. Retrieved on February 18, 2006.
- ↑ everyHit.com Search. Everyhit UK Chart Database. Retrieved on December 15, 2005.
- ↑ Brand New Street Team. Street Team News. Retrieved on February 18, 2006.
- ↑ Zane Lowe interview with Jesse Lacey. BBC Radio 1. Retrieved on November 2, 2006.
- ↑ Brian Lane interview. Brand New Uk. Retrieved on November 9, 2006.
[edit] External links
| Brand New |
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| Jesse Lacey | Vincent Accardi | Garrett Tierney | Brian Lane | Derrick Sherman |
| Albums |
| Your Favorite Weapon (2001) | Deja Entendu (2003) | The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me (2006) |
| EPs |
| Brand New/Safety In Numbers Split EP (2002) | The Holiday EP (2003) |
| Demos |
| First Four-Track Demo (2000) | Second Demo (2001) | New Album Demos (2006) |
| Singles |
| "Jude Law and a Semester Abroad" (2002) | "The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows" (2003) | "Sic Transit Gloria... Glory Fades" (2004) "Sowing Season" (2006) |
