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- The Brakes are a genuine rock and roll band at first glance. However given a closer look, elements of folk, jazz and even post-rock reveal themselves, making their sound a distinct intertwining of American music, held together by insightful lyrics and memorable songs. Their musicality shines through as the members switch instruments, trading guitars, basses and keyboards for trumpets and saxophones. The band's success is evident in the range of acts that this band has shared the bill with: Dave... (read more)
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- WXPN Welcomes The Brakes @ Joh...
Johnny Brenda's
Friday, November 27 at 8:00pm
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- The Brakes are a genuine rock and roll band at first glance. However given a closer look, elements of folk, jazz and even post-rock reveal themselves, making their sound a distinct intertwining of American music, held together by insightful lyrics and memorable songs. Their musicality shines through as the members switch instruments, trading guitars, basses and keyboards for trumpets and saxophones. The band's success is evident in the range of acts that this band has shared the bill with: Dave... (read more)
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Hey everyone, we wanted to give you guys an update on what’s been going on with The Brakes for the past couple months. We haven’t announced any shows until recently, and people have been asking questions…
New Shows:
October 3rd - Private Party
Philadelphia, PA
October 9th - Cresson St. Vibration
@ The Blinkin Lincoln
Roxborough, PA
November 5th @ Night Cat
(formerly Coffee East) in Easton, MD
November 27th @ Johnny Brenda's
Philadelphia, PA - XPN Welcomes this Thanksgiving Show!
We will have more announced soon…
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Tale of Two Cities won an Independent Music Award!
Thank you all to those who voted our album Best Live Record at the Indie Music Awards. We won the “Vox Populi” or Peoples Choice Award in the category of Best Live Album of 2008, and it’s all because you guys came out voted for us! It’s very cool for us to know that you all showed your support and we sincerely thank you.
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We are on Twitter now!
So, we swore that we would never, ever sign up for Twitter…but we went back on it. We are now posting updates on the most habit forming of all social networking sites.
So umm…follow us, if you care or want to know what we are doing or thinking at any given moment.
http://www.twitter.com/thebrakes
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Cresson St. Vibration = New Project w/ Freddie Berman of Amos Lee Band
For the past few months, we have been working at Kawari Studio's on a project called Cresson Street Vibration. It's a compilation of some of Philadelphia's most talented songwriters, interpreting their works into Reggae music.
With songs from Amos Lee, Ben Arnold, The Lowlands, Chris Kasper, Adrien Reju, Scott Sillipigni & 4 Way Street; this project is a testament to the wealth of musical talent in Philly. It also features Philly's own Freddie Berman on Drums, as well as all 4 members of The Brakes.
We will be donating sales from this recording to The Leukemia Lymphoma Society and with the help of all of the people involved, will spread some positive and healing vibrations to those in need.
Cresson St. Vibration will be playing live:
June 30th – Eagleview Concert Series – Exton, PA
July 23rd – Blinkin’ Lincoln – Philadelphia, PA
We currently don’t have a Myspace set up yet, but when the recordings are vibrating at the headiest of frequencies then you will know…
That is all for now
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