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Press
"They come up with something that is essentially unheard of in current music, a new sound."
-Neufutur.com
"Powerful vocals and top-notch instrumentation."
-PastePunk.com
"Imagine if Concrete Blonde grew up listening to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs..."
-The Village Voice
"Pick this [new double EP] up, its only a short matter of time before the mainstream really catches on."
-Smother.net
"Merit’s sophomore cd is edgy with a no holds barred, in your face attitude. Brenna Merritt’s vocals strike a powerful sound that leaves the listener wanting more. This band is on their way!"
-GoGirlsMusic.com

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/8/2004
Band Website: gomeritgo.com
Band Members: Brenna (Vocals)
Hal (Guitar)
Wil (Bass)
Jeff (Drums)
Ben (muscle)
Ulf (brains)

Influences: Releases:

Merit - Sampler 2007
Aux Records

Merit - Merit

Smartpunk
CDbaby
Amazon
Aux Records

Merit - When We Fight

Smartpunk
CDbaby
Amazon
Aux Records

Sounds Like: 5/9/08 Live at Magic CityCheck us out at the Warped Tour
Record Label: Aux Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Hip Hip

Hooray for our show with Wheatus and Eve6 on Friday. Thanks to all of our friends and fans for coming out and supporting. We had a great night and made a bunch of new friends. Jeff and I went to t...
Posted by Merit on Mon, 12 May 2008 07:15:00 PST

We are who we are...

"We are who we are." Chorus lyrics for one of our latest songs (if I'm hearing correctly during practice). Even if I'm wrong on the words, it's ok. I can't get the hook melody out of my head. I guess ...
Posted by Merit on Sun, 25 Nov 2007 02:01:00 PST

On The Rise

So we signed up for MTV2's on the rise yesterday. In about a day we have 3,500 votes. Thanks to everyone voting!! Once we hit 5,001 votes we get to upload a song to the music player on the MTV2 pag...
Posted by Merit on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 01:19:00 PST

Damn the man, save the Empire!

I hope whoever reads this appreciates the reference to the best movie of all time.I'm still trying to recover from our show at Empire Brewery last night. Thanks to everyone who came out. We had a blas...
Posted by Merit on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 07:22:00 PST

The Morning After

Wow. A whirlwind day is finally over. I spent most of this week preparing for the Artists as Artists show by going thru all my college artwork to find appropriate 2D and 3D pieces to show -- and then ...
Posted by Merit on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 07:20:00 PST

Merit at Syracuse.com

The music writer for the Post Standard wrote a little about us and our feature over at ReverbNation on his blog today.  You didn't hear about the feature?  Check it out here:  http://bl...
Posted by Merit on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 03:25:00 PST

Are you on Facebook too?

Well you can add our music to your page there through the ReverbNation application. This banner should take you there if you are signed in to your facebook account.We also have a facebook group so se...
Posted by Merit on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 08:26:00 PST

Free Stuff From Aux Records

Here is a blog that our label just posted. They are giving away some free signed posters of us and our labelmates Anorexic Beauty Queen. From myspace.com/auxrecords:"I'm outgrowing the office space ...
Posted by Merit on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:54:00 PST

Big Old Update

Holy cow, a lot of people have been getting at us, asking where the hell we've been.  Yes, we are still a band.   And yes, we are writing a ton of new material. That's the big update gu...
Posted by Merit on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 12:34:00 PST

Syracuse, Taste It

Ok, so we just got finished playing the taste of syracuse.  a whole bunch of pics are posted on our page here.  if you look really closely, you can see that the shows rocked.  They rock...
Posted by Merit on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 03:07:00 PST