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Bern & the Brights

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Bern & the Brights is a music collective creating soundscapes for ears to feel and souls to move with. This is raw, soulful genre-bending at its finest. See what others have to say:

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/12/2004
Band Website: www.bgroove.com
Band Members: Bernadette Malavarca, Catherine McGowan, Shawn Fafara, Nicole Scorsone, Jose Ulloa

Influences: Jeff Buckley, P.J. Harvey, Broken Social Scene, The National, The Veils, R.E.M, U2, Coldplay, Travis, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The White Stripes, The Strokes, New Order, Squeeze, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Led Zeppelin, The Clash, Radiohead, Tears For Fears, The The, The Smiths, James, The Verve, Bjork, Tori Amos, Rufus Wainright, The Stills, Tegan and Sara, Communique, Keane, Postal Service, Doves, Eurythmics, Sinead O'Connor, Talk Talk, Louscious Jackson, Moby, Lamb, Hooverphonic, Chemical Brothers,The Police, Everything But the Girl, Depeche Mode, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Patsy Cline, Billie Holiday, Rockabilly, Old jazz, Soul, Blues, Late 70s -80s Punk/New Wave, Literature, Films, Life in general, blue eyes
Sounds Like: danceable romantic nerd rock
Record Label: none at the moment
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

The Stone Pony & our Jersey Beat.com Feature!

Hey everyone!There's a new rush of information to share.  First, we'll be performing a full band, 40-minute set this Friday at the Stone Pony!  It's Friday, May 22nd.  Doors are at 7PM and we're on at...
Posted by on Wed, 20 May 2009 15:58:00 GMT

Bern & the Brights BOOTLEG

We're compiling Bootleg B&TB media. If you have any videos, pics, or audio of us we want them! Contact us and we'll tell you how to get them to us. Then, we'll post it up on the blog for eveyone else ...
Posted by on Wed, 06 May 2009 08:55:00 GMT

Webster Hall, Butch Walker, The Films and other wonders

This weekend we had the amazing pleasure to perform as the opening act for Butch Walker at Webster Hall.  There are so many moments that we can talk about that it might take a 2 part blog to really fi...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:17:00 GMT

Knocks from the Underground: Southpaw Review

Hey everyone.Liz Levine from www. knocksfromtheun..derground. comwrote a wonderful review on our performance at Southpaw last week. Itis now up for the world to read, co...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:22:00 GMT

March 14th Bern & the Brights open for Butch Walker @ Webster Hall

Hey!Great news! Bern and the Brights will be performing at Webster Hall on Saturday, March 14th at 7PM as the opening act for Butch Walker.  Recently, we performed in Caldwell, NJ in the Local Licks s...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:22:00 GMT

Thank you tonytradio.com!

We had a blast this weekend at tonytradio.com!Don't forget to visit www.tonytradio.com to see the live video recording of Bern & the Brights and other local acts.  The guys behind the scenes of Tony T...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:54:00 GMT

Tonytradio.com LIVE online performance!

Hey there!On Saturday, February 21st at 7PM we are performing live and online at www.tonytradio.com.  This is a live streaming video performance that simply requires you to visit the website and watch...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:15:00 GMT

The Tale of the Speakeasy Revival!!!

'Twas an unseasonably warm evening in the dead of January in Montclair, NJ---as if the heavens had shown pardon for us all this night---gifting us with warmth after cruel weeks of terrible cold and bl...
Posted by on Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:18:00 GMT

Bern & the Brights on 101.9WRXP

Hey everyone!Around 9:45ish this morning "May In New York" was introduced to the airwaves by none other: Matt Pinfield!  We were included in the Local Licks show that airs regularly.  We're still hunt...
Posted by on Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:27:00 GMT

In response to the deli mag competition

Hey Guys, We understand that some of you might be upset with the results of the deli magazine competition but you need to understand that in addition to the open poll there was a selected jury that we...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:07:00 GMT