CARY BROTHERS

CARY BROTHERS
http://www.myspace.com/carybrothers

Indie-rocker, Cary Brothers returns to Vancouver on the first leg of his North American Under Control Summer Tour.

Since becoming an almost overnight sensation in 2004 when his hit song “Blue Eyes” was featured on the Grammy winning Garden State soundtrack, Brothers has been on a steady climb to super-stardom. The young, songwriter has had songs appear in some of the hottest movies and television shows of the last 5 years including Grey’s Anatomy, ER, One Tree Hill, Bones, Scrubs and the list goes on. On his sophomore album, Under Control, released in April, Brothers blends beautiful musical arrangements with powerful vocals and continues to produce the soaring choruses, acoustic guitar and driving lyrics established on his first album, “Who You Are”.

Born in Nashville and always disliking the country music that surrounded him, Brothers escaped by listening to English bands.

“I have a love/hate relationship with the south,” Brothers says. “I was born in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement. Knowing what happened in the town I lived in disgusted me. There’s so much beauty in the South, but a lot of secrets too, and I wanted to talk about them. Nobody else I knew wanted to. I needed an escape. That’s why I liked English bands like New Order and The Smiths when I was growing up. The British bands had a mystery and darkness I related to. I was listening to Morrissey while everybody else was into stuff like Toby Keith.”

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HARPER BLYNN
http://www.myspace.com/harperblynn

Loneliest Generation was produced by David Kahne, who also helmed the Strokes’ First Impressions of Earth. Harper Blynn is just as catchy as that notorious garage quintet, but with a kinder view of the world, answering The Strokes’ cynical Is This It with the can-do “This Is It.”'
-Paste Magazine

'It may seem like Brooklyn bands pop up at the rate in which babies are born in the US (one every seven seconds, according to the Census Bureau), but every once in a while one of them is worth getting excited about. Harper Blynn, who have played at our office, is one such band. Harper Blynn's solid, giddy power pop is paired with glorious harmonies and a timeless sound, which is augmented by their incredible live show'
-Gothamist

'on their debut record Loneliest Generation, Harper Blynn takes a giant step beyond their contemporaries, and moves into a category all their own... In a crowded Brooklyn indie scene hell-bent on placing vanity above content and substance, Harper Blynn offer up simple, no-frills songcraft with an unassuming modesty and a self-confidence that is refreshing, invigorating and downright hypnotic.' 

-Absolutepunk

'If you can get this song out of your head after listening to it once, well, you’re doing better than us. Such is the hooky brilliance of “This Is It”.'
-Timeout

'Their sophisticated power pop made me think of Jellyfish on first hearing, and who might have a new lost generation hit on their hands with '25 Years''
-Dan Deluca, Philadelphia Inquirer

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Harper Blynn is comprised of a half-Jewish state champion baseball player from Chicago named Pete Harper, a curly-haired choir boy from Philadelphia called J.Blynn, a first-generation Indian man from Long Island named Sarab Singh and a tall Dutchman by the name of Whynot - yes, that is his name.

J.Blynn and Sarab started making music in middle school. Pete joined up when he met J.Blynn on his first day in college. J.Blynn, Pete and Sarab moved to New York City in 2006. At first, the three lived in a loft on Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn, made up of four cubicle-like bedrooms with walls that only went halfway up to the ceiling. After a year of not liking this at all, Pete and J.Blynn moved to a tiny box in the East Village and began touring the US regularly in a Toyota Corolla (soon dubbed "the Jackal"), and Sarab moved home to Philadelphia to live with his parents.

While Pete and J.Blynn were on tour in the UK, taking trains and hitchiking across the countryside with two acoustic guitars, they received word from their friends that their tiny apartment had become infested with rats. Upon returning and moving back out to Brooklyn, the band started playing every week on the lower east side of Manhattan and quickly generated a loyal fanbase on the strength of their live show. Sarab made his triumphant return to New York, the three met Whynot, and thus, Harper Blynn was born. Out of the buzz generated in New York City, the band hit the road independently and began touring all over the US.

All of Harper Blynn's four band members sing, bringing a unified and powerful emotional energy to the music. Lead vocals are shared between the two songwriters, Pete Harper and J.Blynn.

Loneliest Generation is Harper Blynn's debut album. Recorded over 10 days in New York City, the album was produced by David Kahne (The Strokes, Regina Spektor, Paul McCartney) and Malcolm Burn (Emmylou Harris, Chris Whitley, Kaki King).

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