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Friday, August 7, 11pm
The Living Room, NYC
154 Ludlow Street
New York, NY
w/The Davenports
Thursday, August 20, 8pm
Monkey Town
58 North 3rd Street
(Between Wythe & Kent)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
w/ Adam Arcuragi
Friday, September 25, 11pm
Lakeside Lounge
162 Avenue B
(Between 10th & 11th Streets)
New York, NY
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The Brilliant Mistakes to perform as part of Musicians Stretching Boundaries Series at Sullivan Hall
It finally appears that spring has sprung, and we're anxious to get out and make some noise. Beautiful noise, that is. We will do just that this month as part of a special series on May 26 called Musicians Stretching Boundaries being held at Sullivan Hall (great venue, great sound!) deep in the heart of Greenwich Village. A portion of proceeds from the door will benefit the following charitable organizations: FreedomShout.org, MusiciansOnCall.org and SCTNow.org — all good causes. We're bringing horns! Come on out, and don't forget to stop and smell the flowers.
Distant Drumming makes WFUV's Best of 2008: New Releases list
We are thrilled and honored that WFUV, one of the best damn radio stations on the planet, has included our new album, Distant Drumming, on its Best of 2008: New Releases list. Thanks to WFUV for your continued support of The Brilliant Mistakes!
10/23/08
— The Brilliant Mistakes join Bruce Springsteen, My Morning Jacket,
Joss Stone, Robert Randolph and the Family Band and others in helping
to fight hunger and poverty
Ok, so The Brilliant Mistakes aren't yet filling arenas around the world, but we do have something in common with The Boss. We have both donated songs to Serve3: The Hard Rock Benefit Album, as part of Hard Rock International's "Imagine There's No Hunger" Campaign to raise awareness and funding for World Hunger Year in its fight against hunger and poverty.
The Brilliant Mistakes have donated a previously unreleased remix of our song, "Becoming," which will be included in the digital version of the album available on iTunes. Yoko Ono has graciously donated her late husband John Lennon's song, "Give Peace A Chance." The album will also include rare, new or previously unreleased tracks from some great artists, including My Morning Jacket, Joss Stone, Avril Lavigne, Starsailor, Robert Randolph and the Family Band, The Charlatans, Ryan Shaw, Marc Broussard, The Chapin Sisters and more.
"I am glad that WHY is using John's lyrics to communicate the seriousness of this issue to the world," said Yoko Ono in a press release. "Let's all work together to make a world without hunger as soon as humanly possible. We owe this battle to our children. WAR IS OVER if you want it. In brotherhood and sisterhood."
Serve3: The Hard Rock Benefit Album will be available at Hard Rock locations around the world as well as at www.hardrock.com with digital downloads available at iTunes beginning November 4, 2008.
9/22/08 — To celebrate the release of Distant Drumming, the band will perform a special show at The Canal Room in New York City at 8:00pm on Tuesday, October 21!
9/22/08
— The Brilliant Mistakes to Release New Album "Distant Drumming"
on October 7
The Brilliant Mistakes, the New York City based band lauded
for "restlessy catchy hooks, a clever turn of phrase and frothy, piano-driven
pop with heart, soul and smarts" (The Boston Globe) are ready
to unveil Distant Drumming, their new album set for release on
October 7, on the band's own label, Aunt Mimi's Records. The album was
produced by bassist Lincoln Schleifer (Levon Helm, Buddy Miller) and recorded
at Lincoln's Log Cabin in The Bronx, features guest musicians Mike Viola
(The Candy Butchers, Walk Hard), Larry Campbell (Bob Dylan, Paul
Simon) and Marc Shulman (Suzanne Vega) and was mastered by Fred Kevorkian
(Ryan Adams, The White Stripes) in Hell's Kitchen in Manhattan.
Songwriter-bassist Erik Philbrook describes Distant Drumming
as an album that ventures into new musical and lyrical territory. To that
end the band sought to create a more organic album and delved deeper in
the studio, experimenting with dynamics, arrangements, atmosphere, instrumentation
and grooves to create music not only rich in meaning and emotion, but
one that mixes blasts of majestic rock with meditative and moody acoustic
pop and folk. The result is a ruthlessly thrilling album by a band that
has long flown beneath the radar of the mainstream but are kindred spirits
with such contemporary Americana envelope-pushers as Wilco, My Morning
Jacket and Spoon.
Distant Drumming benefits from the evolution of the band's two
songwriters Alan Walker and Erik Philbrook into separate but equally provocative
lyricists. Buoyed by the vintage sounds of 60's and 70's inspired musical
flairs jubilant Byrds-style country rock guitar, rollicking upright piano,
bursts of sizzling Hammond B3 organ, layers of lush, three-part harmony
are sly and subversive themes that reveal themselves gradually with repeated
listening.
After receiving acclaim for 2003's Dumb Luck, the band took some
time off to adjust to inevitable changes in their lives: new homes, marriages
and children. Says Walker, "We've always marched to the beat of our
own drum, recording and performing our own brand of music on our own schedule
and on our own terms. We really do make music for ourselves. It just so
happens a lot of other people like our music too. And we've been blessed
by those who have discovered us in clubs, on the radio or online and have
been excited with what they've found."
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