What's up people! This is Eric, the man behind the bass. Bravesoul is ON for Saturday, February 18th, at the Saint Rocke in Hermosa Beach!!!!! Get your tickets at http://saintrocke.com/show.cfm?id=71873, and please, please, please, be polite and RSVP at http://www.facebook.com/events/233947736687656/. You know what Emily Post says about RSVP-ing ;). Don't be late to the dinner party, ol' chap ;). If you don't know who Emily Post is...I didn't know either till about a year ago. I still don't know which side of the plate to put my fork on! Can someone tell me? http://www.facebook.com/bravesoulofficial post it if you know it!

Real excited for this show. Hotel Cafe was a BLAST....real great energy from the crowd, great sound...we all found love that night ( ;) can't go wrong with a Rihanna cover). We're going to keep that energy going and bring it on down to the Southbay! We're sharing that night with one of the most popular and fun-nest (I know that's not a word, but stay with me!) cover bands in the whole damn country, The Spazmatics!!! You can never have too much fun, so if you're in LA-extended area, and you need a party, come down and check us out on the 18th. We love you.

In other news: our recently released music video, KEYHOLE, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKg-CADH8ls, just got over 15,000 views...steadily climbing that ladder. I'd like to take a moment to thank you everyone who has helped us getting the word out: we deeply appreciate it. Yall are all part of this crazy experience that began when I met a certain Mr. Collin Cates at a party up in No-Ho...little did I know was meeting the greatest film artist since Orson Welles (he'd humbly say I was exaggerating). The dude really is a beast, a wizard, and a wonder to work with. And all the crew who worked that day; magicians, movie ninjas!

Just a reminder, our EP, THE SIDEWAYS GUIDE TO LOVE, is still available for purchase on ITUNES, CD Baby (physical)...we will also selling CDs on the 18th as well. The responses I've been getting from folks on the CD have been real rewarding. We're VERY proud of how it came out. Those songs went through mass changes over the months, in some cases years, we were working on them; like watching a living being go through mutations and evolve...the wonder of life (sorry for the cheese ;) 

Keep in touch with us! Send us facebook messages, twitter messages, email, call us, poke us, keep us informed! And if you can, come through for Saturday, February 18th...should be some surprising levels of fun that night!

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What's up folks, hope everyone's week is up to a good start...I just wanted to thank everybody who came out to our CD Release at the Hotel Cafe last Friday...we made it a party! The energy in the room was incredible...definitely an amazing experience for us in the band on stage (we've got some great footage from the night as well, stay tuned on youtube!). Thank you, thank you, thank you!

In other news: We just released our new music video for Keyhole on Saturday!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKg-CADH8ls&feature=youtu.be  is the link....when you're working creatively with talent like director Collin Cates, DP Mario Contini,  Facet Pictures, Actress Ashley Ann, Editor Dane Naimy, our amazing, top-of-the-line crew...you're just hanging out on the sidelines trying to get a taste, a feel for greatness! Unbelievable experience and opportunity to have have worked with these people!!!!!  If ya dig, tell a friend, share it, show your mom, show your dad, your dog...and if you haven't already, drop by our facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/bravesoulofficial), leave us a note, like us, poke us...we want to hear from you!

Thank you, and stay tuned, we've got a show coming out in February, more videos, more music...stay in contact!!!!

Oh, and if you haven't heard the Sideways Guide to Love yet:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/bravesoul/id433578008

Happy New Year!! This is Eric from Bravesoul...I hope everyone had an amazing New Year. 2011 was...interesting. I'm getting a good vibe from 2012 though.
Everybody's making moves in 2012. We're looking to start it off right with our CD Release Party at the Hotel Cafe on Friday, January 13th!! And by party, we mean PARTY. Ely Rise, keyboardist for The Last Goodnight, is hosting his "Creepshow" party that night as well...here's what happened a couple of years ago: http://www.mjsbigblog.com/adam-lambert-attends-creep-show-at-the-hotel-cafe-in-los-angeles.htm. (And if 2010 was off the hook....) Tickets are 10 bucks, and you can pre-order here: https://www.hotelcafe.com/tickets/?s=events_view&id=1351.) This venue is one of if not THE premiere spots in H-Wood...great sound, great vibe, great people. Hope to see yall there!
We've had many great responses to THE SIDEWAYS GUIDE TO LOVE (http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-sideways-guide-to-love-ep/id489786344). Thank you to everyone who has given this EP a listen!!! This music has been a journey for us. The writing process, the recording, the development...we're happy to have the opportunity to share it with everybody. This music really takes on a life of its own after you put it out there...the songs, which have come to have a certain meaning for us (and continue to evolve each time we perform them), take off on their own wings and come to mean something else for you, fit into the intricate chemistry of each individual's experience...we are grateful for the opportunity to share this experience with everybody. For real. 
Thank you and Happy New Year!!!! Let's make it BIG!

What's good! Hope all is well with everybody out there, this is Eric, bassist for Bravesoul. Announcing: THE SIDEWAYS GUIDE TO LOVE, EP, release date, this upcoming Tuesday. Extremely excited for this one. There's nothing quite like your first official release: it's your first shot into the great big world. Something we're very proud of; myself, Marty, and Jason have been working on this, going into the basement on this, going deep into our souls and our creative wells to put something new into the world. The way we work is just real: writing without any limitations, bringing in all types of influences, writing about the song above all else. A band's first album can be many things: an attempt to emulate the greats and what's worked for everybody else, a statement of bold originality, a love letter, a battle call, what have you. Honestly there's something of everything in this release: giving respect to all the great artists before us, every single musician out there who has dared to put their heart and soul on a record, showing their vulnerability, making themselves open to criticism, misunderstanding, but also connection, love, acceptance. Sometimes it can seem like the top artists today can churn out hit records almost without feeling, like it's just another day at the office. I dare say that, despite whatever they say, even the most confident and seemingly shameless artist out there suffers a little when people don't accept their music, or even when people love it. It's all part of becoming one with the universe; coming out of the ego's safe space and becoming one with a universe that threatens to engulf you, snuff you out.

This album comes out of many months, years, of creative experimentation, failed attempts, jamming, re-working...some of the songs we've been playing for a while, whole songs were created out of fragments abandoned months ago. An artist has to isolate himself in a room with his muses and his creative forces, and always make new out of what seems barren, deplete.

Coming out of LA, you end up listening to everything. It's just an extremely diverse city with alot of different types of cultural styles, each one in full profile mode trying to express what they are about, influencing others, flowing. It's becoming like that everywhere, which is a great thing to watch, but in LA you got a certain type of freedom of experimentation, of racial and cultural exchange. You'll hear that in this EP: inspiration from everybody, from Sam Cooke to Train to Franz Ferdinand. And we're still growing as artists and as people.

Give us a holler at you listen to the EP: we like to think of music as a two-way conversation! We're working on expanding our web presence; but you can find us on twitter, facebook, name a social media platform and we're either on it or planning to be! Shout out to Mikal Blue and Peter Distefano and Co. for all your guidance on this record, you guys really helped us put our ideas together into a complete package on this one! And to our families and friends for all your loving support, we love you and none of this would be possible without you.


DECEMBER 20th: THE SIDEWAYS GUIDE TO LOVE