"We signed to Columbia last week," he reports. The label has not yet made a formal announcement. Brown says the group, which includes his wife Ashlee Hardee Brown, will take the next five months to work on its major label debut. He predicts a late Spring/early summer release.
Matrimony's 2010 EP "The Storm & The Eye" received critical praise and the band has become a local favorite. While based in folk and Americana, it goes for a anthemic big band sound reminiscent of another ensemble led by marrieds - Arcade Fire with Brown's Irish roots shining through. Brown was in the band Airspace, who blew me away opening for another band (and I can't remember who) at Visulite a few years ago.
Matrimony has toured the US and Brown's native Ireland. You can check out its latest single here.
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ReplyDeleteGreat news. Best of luck to them.
ReplyDeleteIs it just me or do they look unusually tall and thin?
ReplyDeleteSo happy to see the success of one of my past students, Ashlee...Congrats! Mrs. E @ UFCA
ReplyDeleteROCK IT!!
ReplyDeletei like that they all wear sunglasses.
ReplyDeleteWow! I remember seeing these two at open mic night at The Gin Mill. Really great people, and I thoroughly enjoy their music. I knew that they would have a bright future ever since I saw them and bought their first EP.
ReplyDeleteCheck out the music video for the single they mentioned above, filmed in Charlotte (much of it a couple blocks from my house!):
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DTxJRjkRuafg&v=TxJRjkRuafg&gl=US
If I submitted "Charlotte bands signs with major label" as the headine for an article in my school paper the editor would tell me to learn some English. But I guess the standards for the Observer are not that high.....nice proofreading you amateur hacks.
ReplyDeleteIn reply to Anonymous 1:07 AM - Fixed.
ReplyDeleteThese dorks like as ghey as the Avett Brothers. 'Nuther safe, pretentious coffee house act for John Hancock to swoon over on WBT.
ReplyDeleteSlayer! \m/ \m/
Nobody makes money with major label contracts anymore. This isn't the 1970s or 1980s. Everyone distributes their stuff themselves via iTunes.
ReplyDeleteAh yeah....you'd turn down Columbia and stick with iTunes and youtube, no doubt.
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