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Brand New

Formation

The Rookie Lot http://brand-nizzle.com/trl.php (unreliable)

Band name

yeah.. none of us really know the real answer to that. it's actually a name that Brian and Brandon came up with a while ago. I suppose it's somewhat in jest because nothing about the band is really that new. i mean the line-up (me, garrett, brian) isn't new. And we weren't trying to break ground with a new kind of sound or anything. And even some of the songs we play are songs that we wrote literally years ago, and are just now getting the chance to play. so yeah, i don't know. i like the name i guess. Plans for the future? Tours .. etc. well we've been touring pretty consistantly for the last few months or so. I don't think we plan on deviating from that schedule very much. Our record comes out the second week of October and i know that's something we've all been waiting for rather anxiously. I'm also pretty sure that we have a split, 4 song cd coming out with Reggie and the Full Effect later this year. We all plan to keep growing our hair, accept me, i'm kinda torn. And there's other stuff but it's secret.

Influences

Off the bet i'd probably say Lifetime, Foo Fighters, The Cars, The Smiths, there are a few more obscure ones that i'm probably forgetting. If you had a playlist from the stuff we listen to in the van it would probably go something like: Squeeze. Saves the Day. Modest Mouse. Handsome Boy Modeling School. Soulwax. HotRod Circuit. Esthero. Green Day...blah blah blah. I'll shutup now.

Writing

you could take any line from any song and i could probably tell you in detail what i was thinking about when i wrote it and then date and time it took place. It's more of a curse than anything. ^[1]

And I was in a couple high school bands with my friend John from Taking Back Sunday.

Influences

Musically, its probably The Smiths, Morrissey, Sting, Elvis Costello, The Police, Bruce Springsteen, but I mean there’s a lot of non musical stuff too, Douglas Copeland, like a lot of authors. I watch a lot of movies, and like I take stuff from all those places.

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Deja

Quiet Things video ^[3]

Writing, name, meaning, video ^[4]

Became known for long song titles. And basing titles on (---"Tautou" is a paean to French actress Audrey Tautou ("Amelie"), "Guernica" takes its name from Pablo Picasso's 1937 mural, and "Me Vs. Maradona Vs. Elvis" is a depiction of Lacey's worst nightmare.---) ^[5]

Newsday

Said to be leading the charge along with Glassjaw and Taking Back Sunday. Co-headlined Warped Tour with them.

making inroads into mainstream rock radio, MTV2 and the new video channel Fuse with its single "The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows,"

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Devil & God

Recording, writing ^[7]

Title meaning. "came from a conversation I was having with a friend about a musician who got an illness which has a certain level of paranoia and schizophrenia, and it leans towards a spiritual thing, a battle between good and evil which is intriguing."

Lyrically. Friends with Kevin Devine.

Change from Deja Entendu again. ^[8]

Influence on this record. Demos leaked. Lacey excluded the leaked songs from the record ("Now, in retrospect, I want those songs to be on the album and many of them aren't, and I'm probably more to blame for that than anyone. This record already feels incomplete to me without those tracks and probably will forever."). Writing and recording. ^[9]

Daisy

General info already in the article, reinforcing source?^[10]

Other

Style and genre

"Emo"

"It's good to a point, because it gets your name out there, and being labeled definitely helps," Brand New drummer Brian Lane tells Billboard.com. "But when you start grouping yourself with other bands and people it kind of loses its sense of individuality and we don't want to lose that.

"I'm not saying we don't like people or anything," he hastily adds. "But we're definitely trying to pull away from other bands and do our own thing and hopefully it will work out and we hope that people will accept it for what it is and grow with us as far as us as individuals in a band as opposed to us in a band in a group of other bands." ^[11]

"Brand New could be in danger of getting tagged as punk rockâ€™s most prog rock-ish group" ^[7]

Pop/Rock ^[12]

Emo torch ^[4]

Interviews

Use Internet Archive on these articles: http://brandnew.falling-star.org/multimedia.html

Articles

Devil

"I don’t think that in our short recording career we have followed a path. It’s whatever come's out at that point. A song is never pushed into a direction. In ways, I think this is a record apart from the last record, but there are still certain aspects that they have in common. It’s always surprising to us, as we don’t know how it’s going to sound until we’ve written a few songs."

Jesse Lacey, Brand New lyricist and vocalist, talking about the band's stylistic progression on their third record^[8]

Following their signing to Interscope, Brand New stopped touring to work on their third album and major label debut. In this time, little to no interviews or updates came from the band.^[13] In 2004, Jesse Lacey told Chart magazine that he had written a "few songs" for the next album, commenting that "the other guys love it already". He made mention of the pressure he felt with the "loads of anticipation building up on my shoulders," saying that he even felt depressed because of this; "I'm getting depressed with all of the anxiety about the album and they say I write my best stuff when I'm in that state. Great, I'll spend the next six months all depressed and the rest of band will be excited, so that some good (material) might come out. And then I have to contend with how it's received." Lacey also said that the album would "move into new territory for Brand New".^[7]

"In one way it was kind of refreshing and motivating to know that people were still so interested and curious as to what we were up to in that period where we sort of disappeared. But I was also worried that it would derail the process because the four of us had created a pretty safe place where the only critics were ourselves. As much as we tried to shield ourselves from letting the leak affect us, it definitely did. There was a feeling of being robbed, after keeping everything so close to ourselves and then having it heard before it was completed."

Brand New guitarist Vincent Accardi speaking about the leak of the demos^[14]

In January 2006, nine untitled demos recorded for the album were leaked to the Internet. In response to the leak, Garrett Tierney stated "I would say it did it in a good way 'cause so many people were curious to hear what we have been doing--and for the most part, the record tracks don't sound anything like the leaked demos." However, Lacey was not so upbeat when asked, saying, "For me it was different. It had me pretty down for a while. No one likes to show their creation in mid-process, and those songs weren't done. They were like blueprints. Just the plan, right? It put me in a state where I was under the impression that those songs had been wasted or something--that we had to go and write new things because those had been heard. Now, in retrospect, I want those songs to be on the album and many of them aren't, and I'm probably more to blame for that than anyone. This record already feels incomplete to me without those tracks and probably will forever."^[14]

The band eventually announced their first nationwide tour in three years, headling dates throughout the US in summer 2006.^[13]

The "hotly anticipated" album was titled The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me and released in November 2006.^[15] The album title came from a conversation Lacey had with a friend. The conversation was "about a musician who got an illness which has a certain level of paranoia and schizophrenia, and it leans towards a spiritual thing, a battle between good and evil."^[8]

The album was defined as "significantly darker and less immediate than past efforts," being "praised for its depth and maturity".^[13]

"I get ideas from books, and also one of my best friend’s Kevin Devine. I asked him what he wanted to hear about, as I like to find out what he is writing about too. Some of the lyrics are simply direct responses to some of the questions he asked me. Others are from events. One song on the new album is written about a young girl who died in a horrific car accident, so there’s important stuff too."

Change from Deja Entendu again.

"best friends" with Kevin Devine. ^[8]

the band supported it on a soldout spring 2007 tour. ^[13]

Brand New's follow-up was hotly anticipated for the three years it took the band to release it. 4.5/5 ^[15]

"So far I've been trying to write with different instruments like a toy piano, a penny-whistle, stuff like that. I respect bands like U2 or Radiohead, they're doing something unique, not just, I play guitar, you play guitar and you play a 4/4 beat on the drums. That's not the way we're working it with this album."

"People thought we changed so much from the first to second album. It seems like the more people say something â€” even if itâ€™s a mistruth â€” the more it becomes truth. I donâ€™t think we did half of [the "evolving"] they were saying or what we expected [on Deja Entendu]. ^[7]

The group started its own record label, Procrastinate! Music Traitors, in 2008, and began work on material for a new album. The first act signed to the new label was New York singer/songwriter Kevin Devine, a longtime Brand New associate. ^[16]

Although [...] Lacey still reinforced, "We're not trying to break new ground in music. We're just trying to make good music."^[4]