a brief smile

poster’s by our buddy miles gilbert

EP# 2 is ready for you……..

http://music.abriefsmile.com/album/restaurant-airport

Hello Everyone!

First, check out this interview with POP TARTS SUCK TOASTED *who is hosting our show on 6.13*

I’m pleased to alert you that RESTAURANT AIRPORT, the 2nd of 3 EPs we’re releasing this summer, will be available for free download tomorrow night at 12AM (6/5/09 - Thursday morning/Friday night) at:

http://music.abriefsmile.com

Restaurant Airport features three brand new never before heard songs:
1. Motorcycle
2. Get It Off
3. Surprise

To celebrate this EP release, we’re throwing a party at The Delancey on SATURDAY JUNE 13TH featuring our friends Pat (poptartssucktoasted.blogs

We recently did a cover of Morrissey’s song Speedway from Vauxhall and I for our good friends over at The Music Slut.

Come see us play a bunch of Smith’s and Morrissey songs at the Studio @ Webster hall on Friday, May 22nd!

Download the song FREE (of course) here
Learn everything about “TMS <3 MOZ” by clicking the picture or here

We contributed a song to our friends at Cooling Pie Records’ compilation LP titled Crust Never Sleeps.  It might be our shortest song ever…  You can download the entire album here and give our track a listen below:

Also features songs by: Pocketknife, KC Quilty, Ava Luna, Casiorossi, and a bunch of other awesome people.

Our “Liner Notes”:

“Two friends, super drunk, having a pointless argument… One of them bends something the other has said and an explosion occurs… So all of this chaos is happening for no real reason. Everyone in the bar want’s to be a part of it so it becomes this crazy event. 

I have a poorly organized train of thought… Originally I was inspired by the Dick Diver bar scene from Tender is the Night. The one where he gets beat up by a mob of Italians.”

Recorded by DL Tashjian and Jared O’Connell at Jared’s house the weekend of March 28-29th. 

Mixed by Jared O’Connell.

i just wanted to post this picture of louie, dl and i with judah friedlander.  i dont know who that other dude is in the picture.  i wish i had the photoshop skills to replace him with mitch hedberg or something.

Louie, Dude?, Jared, Judah, DL

Well that couldn’t have gone better.  Take a look at my shitty iPhone photos of the other bands from last night below.  Thanks to everyone who came out, the other bands, and Sam.

Mean Creek

Bridges & Powerlines

Akudama

KC Quilty

If anybody out there has a photo of us from the show…send it to us pleeeease.

Download BE MINE now.  It’s only free this week:

http://music.abriefsmile.com

This will be the last post in this series until the week of June 13th, when we’ll be celebrating the release of our next EP, Restaurant Airport.  Mean Creak will be playing after us tomorrow night at The Delancey.

How A Brief Smile knows Mean Creak: I don’t think anyone of us have actually met them but we know them through Chris from the band Aberdeen City, who recorded our (by our I mean John Louie and I) roommate’s new album at his studio in Boston where he also recorded Mean Creak’s new album. [Louie and John met some of these guys when up there working on Kosuke's album...my bad] Chris actually also went to the same high school I went to and lived down the street from me. Anyways, we listened to Mean Creak and said “WE NEED TO HAVE THEM PLAY A  SHOW WITH US” and Louie made it happen.  Give them a listen (these are off the new album…):

Mean Creek - The Face of The Earth

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Mean Creek - The Sky (Or The Underground)

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