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Dan Bryk

this is the coronation of the king of thieves...

About Me


While Bryk puts the final touches on his new long-player Pop Psychology, here's Discount Store -- a 6-track EP with five non-album tracks including a Furniture cover and the Triangle demi-hit Cherry Berry by Bryk's alter ego band Tha Commissioners .
"Discount Store" was mixed by Greg Wells , ace producer of Mika, Rufus Wainwright and Sarah Bettens (not coincidentally placing Bryk only 2º of Kevin Bacon from Paris Hilton...) On Sale Now!
Recent Neat Stuff:
WPTF 680 Interview on the Bob Langford Show (1 hr, audio)
Independent Weekly Article by Grayson Currin (text w/interview)
Glorious Noise Interview with Kristy Eldridge (text, w/excl. MP3)
WFMU Interview with Pseu Brau (3 hr, audio)
WXYC Interview with Will Hackney (1 hr, audio)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/1/2005
Band Website: bryk.com
Band Members: Dan Bryk sings and plays well with others... recently including Tim Carless , Tad Dreis , Kevin Darbro , Jim Brantley , Kurt Swinghammer, Maury Lafoy, Josh Hicks, Nova Social, Greta Gertler, Kathryn Rose, Django Haskins, SNMNMNM, Pete "Boy Gone Wrong" Galub, Lee Feldman, The Monkey Bunch...
Influences: Caffeinated Beverages, Jim Webb, Burt Bacharach & Hal David, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Art Bergmann, Don Covay, Edvard Grieg, R. D. Burman, Michael Brown Lookofsky, Randy Newman, Randy Goodrum, Randy Bachman, Randy Edelman, Randy Mantooth, Randi Rhodes, Ron Sexsmith, Jill Sobule, Lene Lovich, Eggstone, Mick Head, the Associates, 10cc, E, Elliott Smith, Don Black, Freewheel, Lisa Germano, Felt, Chris Warren, Mark Eitzel, Fiona Apple, Forster/McLennan, Sayer/Courtney, Nichols/Williams, Jim Ruiz, Gaudio/Crewe, Gilbert O' Sullivan, John Southworth, Josh Fenderman, Linda Thompson, Richard Thompson, David Forman, the Furniture, Momus, Aimee Mann, Jon Brion, John Farrar, Mann/Weil, Brecht/Weill (/Mannheim), les Rita Mitsouko, Jacques Brel (/Shuman), Judy Collins, the Cardigans, the Smiths, Chris Gaines, Tom T. Hall, Terry Taylor, Lee Feldman, Mark Eitzel, Edwyn Collins, Amy Rigby, Pavement, Ray Wonder, Wreckless Eric, Judy Henske, Liz Phair, Claude Debussy, MBV, GBV, ABC, AMC, FOW, KLF, JAMC, pretty much all those damned Wainwrights and McGarrigles, Serge Gainsbourg, Helen Shapiro, Bill Pritchard, Hideki Kaji, Leslie "Sam" Phillips, the Poppy Family, the Zombies, the Bicycles, and, um, Elvis Costello. And central AC, gotta love that.
Sounds Like::
Record Label: Urban Myth/Firefly
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New Song!!

Just finished mixing half an hour ago and was so durn proud I done gone posted the baby picture.Gotta like this internet thing sometimes.dB
Posted by Dan Bryk on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 02:36:00 PST

New Merch!!

Just in time for 90ยบ weather! And a detourned logo even! How 1998!Custom order to your style and size (we generally pick one size larger than what we'd normally wear).http://www.cafepress.com/bryk200...
Posted by Dan Bryk on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:08:00 PST

A Really Cheesy Blog Post

I was doing some personal research on St. Maximillian Kolbe, a Polish priest who was martyred by the nazis in Auschwitz. (I grew up attending a polish Catholic Church named after St. Kolbe.) But someh...
Posted by Dan Bryk on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:46:00 PST

Great Adventure

When I was a kid, one of the first records I had was a beaten up 45 of "The Peppermint Twist" by Joey Dee and the Starliters. I don't remember exactly how I got it, whether it was in my mom's pile of ...
Posted by Dan Bryk on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 06:13:00 PST

Troika Festival, last minute WKNC set tomorrow!

Hey Folks,I'm finally playing the Troika Festival this year, at Durham's Broad Street Cafe tomorrow night (Friday Nov 2nd) The whole evening's lineup at the Broad Street will be great, starting with t...
Posted by Dan Bryk on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:16:00 PST

Chapel Hill/Charlotte/Asheville, DNTO, DISTRO and more...

Hey Folks... Corey and I had a great time in Toronto labour day weekend! Thanks for coming out to the show, and thanks for the compliments from a couple of people who heard us on CFNY. And thanks to F...
Posted by Dan Bryk on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:59:00 PST

Wow... the cover of the N&O!

http://www.newsobserver.com/114/story/629647.htmlWho'd a thunk it? Endorsements from famous rock stars, Japanese tours, getting beaten up by emo kids, unpaid parking tickets... but it's a little ditty...
Posted by Dan Bryk on Sat, 07 Jul 2007 07:13:00 PST

That's just wrong.

In case you missed it... this was on P4K today:
Posted by Dan Bryk on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:40:00 PST

Can't Believe It

Awright, I just put the masters in the mail to the CD people and the download people. Discount Store will be my first legit record release in 6 @#$%^&* years. You can listen to the whole thing at http...
Posted by Dan Bryk on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:20:00 PST

Terence Trent of Roast Beef Sandwich

Hearing "Wishing Well" and "Sign Your Name" in the background of Knocked Up this past weekend triggered some synapse regarding this long-forgotten post. I had this pinned on my cork board for years. J...
Posted by Dan Bryk on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 08:06:00 PST