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Full length CD: Fantasy Adventure Violence
Release date: September 5, 2006 |
Full length CD: The Unnatural World
Released: October 2004 |
Karmic Brick's website:
www.karmicbrick.com
(click to hear audio samples)
Awards for "The Unnatural
World":
*Karmic Brick 2005
International Online Music Award nominee for "Artist
of the Year"
*2005 IOMA nominee for "Best Cover Art"
*2005 IOMA winner for "Best Drummer"- Jim LaPrad
Other awards:
*2006 IOMA nominee for "Best Drummer"- Jim LaPrad for
the tracks "Weak" and "Good
Little Children" from the upcoming album
"Fantasy Adventure Violence"
*2006 IOMA
nominee for "Best Female Vocal"- Erin Ahearn for "Weak"
About Karmic Brick:
"Karmic Brick is a Boston, MA based
Alternative Rock band that doesn't copy anyone. Their unique, upbeat
style is a refreshing change from the norm."- Xena Xeon,
www.musicplaces.com
The unique sound of Karmic
Brick sparked attention almost immediately upon introducing themselves
to the internet indie music community in early 2004. The band built a
broad and devoted international fan base by unleashing only a taste of
what was to come from their debut album, The Unnatural World. The four
tracks released, “Pain,” “High,” “Amber Jesus,” and “Experience Jones,”
yielded over 10,000 plays on www.soundclick.com in only six months,
which also propelled “Pain” to an impressive two-week stay at #1 on the
Soundclick.com Grunge Chart.
When The Unnatural World was
finally released in October 2004, critics validated what fans already
knew and Karmic Brick's originality began attracting industry attention.
Said Colin
Lynch of International Online Music Magazine, "the album is immersed in
grunge... clever grunge that is, and vocals that go up the walls, around
the radiators, across the ceiling and straight down the back of your
neck when you least expect them to. This is where Karmic Brick's
innovation becomes the icing on the cake along with accomplished
songwriting and expert arrangements... it's all totally unpredictable
folks...an astonishingly clever album from astonishingly innovative
boundary bending writers and musicians."
Australia's The Buzz
Magazine concurred citing "Walking In My Mind" and "Amber Jesus," in
particular, as "a wildfire of artistic expression."
Such strong
reviews have helped to propel Karmic Brick’s music further and the band
can now be heard on a number of internet radio stations, such as
www.artistlaunch.com, www.scrubradio.com, www.freeworldradio.com, and
www.soundclick.com. They have also been played on a number of college
and commercial stations.
Additionally,
The Unnatural World has been in the running for a number of awards. The
band received an International Online Music Award nomination for their
cover design and, most recently, was one of five bands nominated for the
International Online Music Magazine's "Artist of the Year" award.
In addition to
these nominations, The Unnatural World drummer Jim LaPrad took top
honors in one catagory when he won the IOMA for "Best Drummer."
In April of 2005, Karmic
Brick went into the New York studios of Superego Productions and
recorded a new track with producer Chris Young. That track, "You Love
Me," has received glowing reviews and has been selected for airplay on
the Artistlaunch Hour, a syndicated broadcast radio show that is heard
on FM stations in five countries. It has also attracted the attention
of Matchbox Recordings, a UK label who will be promoting and
distributing the song in Europe.
In 2005 Karmic
Brick was selected for inclusion in the Worldwide Online Music
Distribution Association (WOMDA), a collective alliance representing the
interests of the world's most innovative independent artists, record
labels, and digital music providers and distributors, in recognition of
their success.
In late 2005 the band released “Weak” and “Good
Little Children”, two tracks from their up-coming album, Fantasy
Adventure Violence. Following the release, Jim LaPrad promptly
scored his second-straight nomination for Best Drummer and Erin Ahearn
received a nomination for Best Female Vocal in the 2006 International
Online Music Awards.
In January 2006 “Gahd”, a third track from the
upcoming album, was released and shot to #1 on the Soundclick.com Grunge
chart in only two days.
In addition to these three songs,
Fantasy Adventure
Violence will include a smooth cover of
the Beatles’ “Tomorrow Never Knows” featuring Ed Drury on didgeridoo and
tablas (http://www.eddrury.com/).
Fantasy Adventure Violence
will be available worldwide in September 2006.
Karmic Brick is:
Jim
LaPrad (vocals, guitar, drums)
Erin Ahearn (vocals, guitar)
Mike Keel (bass)
Discography
Experience Jones/Amber Jesus (Single), April 2004
Kid Antrim Music Alternative
Compilation, August 2004
The Unnatural World (Full
Length Album), October 2004
CMJ New Music
Monthly Sampler, December 2004
Oasis
Alternative Sampler Volume 30, January 2005
Tomorrow Never
Knows (single), February 2005
Nvision
Streetwise Sampler, March 2005
You Love Me
(single w/ Greta Marz), May 2005
Close
Encounters of the Indie Kind (Matchbox Recordings compilation), August
2005
Gahd / Weak (single from upcoming full-length
album), January 2006
Fantasy Adventure Violence (Full Length Album), September 2006
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