Brooklyn's Bryan Scary has been around since his first release in 2006. I caught on to him and his band, the Shredding Tears, in 2008 when they released the second album, Flight of the Knife. I was immediately taken by the upbeat, hooky style that was like ELO meets Alice Cooper meets Beatles meets Ween. Uh, yeah, that's some good company! Have a listen to "Imitation of the Sky" from Flight of the Knife... Bryan Scary's new [...]
Download the stellar tune at bottom. Mad Valentine will see daylight shortly. Visit Bryan Scary & The Shredding Tears on MySpace. MP3: Bryan Scary & The Shredding Tears - The Red Umbrella
Brace yourselves for Mad Valentine. It'll see daylight on 10/27 via Old Flame Records. Visit Bryan Scary on MySpace. MP3: Bryan Scary - Andromeda's Eyes
Bryan Scary & The Shredding Tears , Draft Riots , Deer Meet @ Uncle Pleasant's 2126 S. Preston St. Saturday, Feb. 28, 2009 8 p.m.; $8
Every year around this time, I get a charge of energy from the exposure to new bands/material from our locals due to Louisville is for Lovers. I know you may be sick of reading my constant blogs about Li4L but you can always click off... (hah, get it... internet humor) Anyway, I saw a few bands I had been meaning to see and one of which was Deer Meet . First I saw Jimmy (singer/guitar) play solo at Ear X-tacy and he held his own; just him, a strat and a crowded room. The next evening I [...]
Love More (<3) Sigur Rós - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust I have to say I was not expecting this album to sound the way it did at all . The first track jumps up and beats on your brain in ways so completely foreign to any Sigur Rós fan that it's bound to have made a few people simple turn the record off. Sigur Rós is known for their spacey, ethereal Post-Rock tendencies, so to see this new, energetic, and all around joyous album is a fairly [...]
Love (<) Sons and Daughters - This Gift I find myself constantly forgetting what this band even sounds like, and that's not because their music isn't good. I can't really figure it out. But that's certainly one reason the album isn't higher on my list. Sometimes I go with my gut. Well, I always do. Anyway, the music is catchy and dancy and the lyrics are totally "sing-a-long-in-your-car-on-yo ur-way-to-someplace" worthy. I think if they focused themselves they could come up with an [...]
Enjoy the full playback here. Visit Bryan Scary & The Shredding Tears on MySpace. MP3: Bryan Scary - Imitation Of The Sky
Chairlift, Bryan Scary, Pattern Is Movement, Au, Rumspringa & A Brief Smile. MP3: Chairlift - Make Your Mind Up (Live On WOXY)
With the month of October less than a day away I couldn't think of a better album to be listening to to get into a suitably goth mood. the Berlin California trio might as well be from Germany circa 1982 for all of their industrial goth glory. They sound like Todd Fink of The Faint, Ian Curtis of Joy Division, and Danny Elfman of Oingo Boingo joined together to create a goth supergroup produced by Skinny Puppy. Seriously, I can't stress the authentic goth feel enough. [...]
Photography by Jason Levesque Okay, this is one of those artists that, for some reason, everyone I know who listens really likes, yet no one has ever seemed to hear of him! And no no no, this is not some "I got more indie-cred than you" things, read any post here and you know my indie-cred is in the bottom of a motel toilet (assuming I ever had it in the first place). So, if you know Bryan Scary, pretty sweet, eh? If not, well I'm very excited to bring [...]
Catch the following ATJ alumni on 8/20 (Wednesday) @ Le Royale: Bryan Scary Jukebox The Ghost Pattern Is Movement For further info, head here. Visit Pattern Is Movement on MySpace. MP3: Pattern Is Movement - Right Away
I've been a little busy, so I am combining the past 2 weeks of releases into one post. My picks over this time include Los Campesinos!'s first full length Hold On Now Youngster and The Raconteurs' Consolers of the Lonely . I have never been much of a Jack White fan, so the later disc especially surprised me. Regardless of your preferences, there are plenty of quality discs to choose from. Enjoy! Los Campesinos! Hold On Now, Youngster ( Buy ) - " Death [...]
Another week, another set of new releases - with this week headlined by none other than R.E.M.'s Accelerate , which is currently sitting on my desk, ready to be listened to at some point this week while i'm at work. A few other releases that i'm anxious to check out include Sun Kil Moon's April , EPs from both The Electric Pop Group and Annuals , Mono in VCF's self-titled debut, and Yelle's Pop-Up . There's some other stuff that piques my interest, but [...]
Aunque ahora esté de moda criticar las listas con lo mejor del año, en Planeta Pop es una tradición que se va a conservar. Así que llegó el momento de hacer balance y recordar la música favorita de los últimos doce meses. Lo mejor de 2007 en dos ediciones especiales y a través de una lista de 60 discos que únicamente refleja la opinión del programa. Esta semana escucharemos del 60 al 31. La semana que viene sonarán los 30 primeros. Y situados en esta segunda mitad de la lista los discos de The Octopus Project, Triángulo de [...]
In the present days of self-production, the fact that Bryan Scary recorded his debut The Shredding Tears alone in his Brooklyn apartment is nothing to write home about (with the help of Jeremy Black from Apollo Sunshine on drums). What IS impressive about the album is its sound: its grandiose pomposity, an inherit "louder than thou" sound that's a result of the composition, and not shear volume or over the top instrumentation. It's got a piano driven dramatic presence that reminds you of Queen 's theatrical rock and [...]
I have learned many interesting things about people through lively music discussion. One would be the form of desperation individuals often find themselves in, looking up random artists on Wikipedia and presenting baseless knowledge in order to impress a colleague or a romantic interest. Another would be the form of music elitism people present in order to gain some sort of fictional rank or form of self-admiration. "Have you heard the new Strokes album?" an average music fan asks. "Anyone who listens to music like that without comprehension of the genre's history and origins is useless," the elitist replies. "My [...]
I have never before found five different bios on an artist page. That is until I came across the homepage for Bryan Scary and the Shredding Tears . I like this one the best: The suburbs of Chicago moved from Bryan Scary when the 'massive' ( Playgirl, December 2007 ) rock star came to New York City, following in the great tradition of other such legends as Bob Dylan and John Lennon. His first words after getting off the plane were, "Is that all?" He attended the prestigious New York University, where he [...]
Got an email from the keyboardist of the Shredding Tears, Bryan Scary's band , with a request to check out their sound. I did. I like. Bryan Scary - The Blood Club Nice sound...reflections of the past are strong here...and the overall production is nice and clean. Bryan Scary - The Ceiling on the Wall Remnants of so many sounds, and, dare I say it, there are moments when they remind me of Of Montreal. But that's a reflection of [...]
Hello Fabulists. Today I bring you highly recommended songs by Bryan Scary from their upcoming debut album "The Shredding Tears." How can you not completely love something so catchy that sounds like Queen (especially "The Blood Club"), XTC, and The Beatles? I've been listening to these songs continuously since they sent them to me. Please enjoy. The Blood Club The Ceiling On The Wall Just a reminder, there's still time to enter to win one of my favorite [...]
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