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Cary Brothers

Cary Brothers is an American indie rock singer-songwriter from Nashville, Tennessee. After becoming a regular performer at the influential Hotel Cafe venue in Los Angeles, Brothers first gained national fame with his song "Blue Eyes" on the Platinum-selling, Grammy-winning "Garden State" soundtrack.[1] As an independent artist, he has toured worldwide and had over 60 songs featured in films and television shows. In the electronic dance music world, Brothers has found success collaborating with DJ Tiesto on a club remix of his song Ride as well as original material for Tiesto's latest collection Kaleidoscope.

History

With songs influenced by everything from 1980s British New Wave music to 1970s folk music, Brothers achieved early critical and commercial success with his independent EPs All the Rage and Waiting for Your Letter, both of which reached the top of the iTunes Singer/Songwriter charts.[2] On the web, Brothers has found success on MySpace, where he has over 8 million plays on his music page.[3]

While many artists focus their efforts mostly on radio exposure, Brothers went a slightly different route and pushed to get songs out to the public through film and television shows, leading a generation of similar-minded indie artists in the United States. Brothers' songs have appeared on the medical dramas Grey's Anatomy and ER, the Fox mystery Bones, WB's Smallville, USA Network comedy Psych, ABC Family's show Kyle XY, One Tree Hill, and the feature film "Easy A.[4] The original version of Brothers' song "Ride" appeared on the soundtrack to the feature film The Last Kiss alongside Coldplay and Ray Lamontagne. Brothers has also performed on The Late Late Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and Direct TV's CD USA. In 2005, he made a guest appearance with London band Aqualung on The Late Show with David Letterman and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

Brothers plays regularly as part of the musical community at the Hotel Café in Los Angeles[5], and he has since toured across America and Canada with such acts as Liz Phair, KT Tunstall, Aqualung, Ben Lee, Matt Nathanson, Imogen Heap, and The Fray. In addition to his career as a musician, he co-created The Hotel Cafe Tour, currently in its fourth year in both the U.S. and Europe.[6] Brothers also co-produced Joshua Radin's first EP and the song "Winter" from Radin's record We Were Here.

In 2007, Cary Brothers signed a record deal with Bluhammock Music for the release of his first full-length album, Who You Are, on May 29, 2007, which made the Billboard Heatseekers Chart.[7] Produced by Chad Fischer (Alexi Murdoch) and mixed by Greg Collins (Grammy Winner - U2), the record features guest musicians Matt Hales from Aqualung and Priscilla Ahn. The video for the single "Ride" starring Brittany Snow was added to the rotation on VH1 in the U.S. In addition, the record won "Best Rock Album of 2007" by the Indie Acoustic Project.[8] Brothers' track 'Ride' has also been mixed by Tiësto and was a success on the dancefloors of Europe in 2008. He helped close Friday night at Bonnaroo in the Summer of 2008 by making a guest appearance with Tiësto and repeated this musical pairing a few months later at the O2 arena in London.[9]

Brothers is currently in the studio working on his second full length record set for release April 6, 2010.[10] He recently revealed that the title of the new record is "Under Control." In addition, he has an original track called "Here on Earth" on the new Tiësto record Kaleidescope alongside Sigur Rós, Tegan and Sara, Kele Okereke, Priscilla Ahn and Emily Haines.[11]

"Under Control" was released on April 6, 2010 and premiered at #1 on the iTunes Singer/Songwriter charts and #10 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart.

Discography

Albums

EPs

Contributions

Song Appearances

Film

  • Garden State Soundtrack (2004) (song: "Blue Eyes")
  • Sky High Soundtrack (2005) (song: "True")
  • SherryBaby Soundtrack (2006) (song: "Loneliest Girl in the World")
  • The Last Kiss Soundtrack (2006) (song: "Ride")
  • Feast of Love Soundtrack (2007) (song: "Honestly")
  • Easy A Soundtrack (2010) (song: "If You Were Here")
  • Smallville Soundtrack (2010) (song: "Can't Take My Eyes off You")

Television

  • Grey's Anatomy
  • ER
  • Cold Case
    • "Witness Protection" (2009) (song: "If You Were Here")
  • Psych
    • "Murder?... Anyone?... Anyone?... Bueller?" (2008) (song: "If You Were Here")
  • One Tree Hill
    • "Hundred" (2008) (song: "Ride")
    • "Don't You Forget About Me" (2010) (song: "If You Were Here")
    • "I Can't See You, But I Know You're There" (2010) (songs: "Belong" and "Can't Take My Eyes Off You")
    • "Nobody Taught Us to Quit" (2010) (song: "Alien")
  • Kyle XY
    • "Pilot" (2006) (songs: "Supposed to be" and "Ride")
    • "Sleepless in Seattle" (2006) (song: "Honestly")
    • "Blame It on the Rain" (2006) (song: "All the Rage")
    • "The First Cut is the Deepest" (2008) (song: "The Glass Parade")
  • Eli Stone
    • "Father Figure" (2008) (song: "All The Rage")
  • Bones
    • "The Man in the Wall" (2005) (song: "Something")
  • Smallville
    • "Aqua" (2005) (song: "Waiting For Your Letter")
    • "Harvest" (2010) (song: "Can't Take My Eyes Off You")
  • Scrubs
    • "My First Kill" (2004) (song: "Blue Eyes")
    • "My Last Chance" (2004) (songs: "Honestly" and "Something")
    • "My Best Laid Plans" (2005) (songs: "Honestly", "Waiting For Your Letter" and "Ride")
  • Greek
    • "The Popular Vote" (2008) (song: "Wasted One")
    • "From Rushing With Love" (2008) (song: "Something")
  • Pretty Little Liars
    • "Can You Hear Me Now" (2010) (song: "Ride")
  • Make It or Break It
    • "If Only..." (2010) (song: "Alien")
  • Cougar Town
    • "All Mixed Up" (2010) (song: "Belong")

TV appearances

References

  1. ^ MTV News
  2. ^ All Music Bio
  3. ^ MySpace Page
  4. ^ Tune Find Film & TV Music
  5. ^ VH1 Artist Page
  6. ^ Billboard Interview
  7. ^ All Music Guide
  8. ^ Indie Acoustic Project
  9. ^ HouseU.com News
  10. ^ Direct Current
  11. ^ Pitchfork News

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