Brook Pridemore
Encyclopedia
Brook Pridemore is an American
singer-songwriter
affiliated with the Antifolk scene in New York City
. He has released five albums on the Bronx-based record label
Crafty Records, and co-produced a compilation of antifolk acts for that label called Anticomp Folkilation
. He has contributed to numerous other compilations, and recently shared a split
7-inch with Ghost Mice
for Plan-It-X Records.
He Lived in Kalamazoo, MI for years doing back yard shows and working dead end jobs to pay for his musical endeavors. Brook was known to sing about the things his friends did, or that he saw while hanging out downtown, just for something to do.
He has toured the United States numerous times and mounted his first European tour in the fall of 2009. Due to his experience playing many house shows on tour, Pridemore and his roommates were inspired to turn his own apartment into a performing venue for local antifolk acts and touring bands; they titled it the Brooklyn Tea Party. January 2010 saw the commencement of the Multinational Perspiration Tour, an undertaking which will see Pridemore, with tandem partners including The Hit and Miss Engines, Doug Cote, Liv Carrow, Crazy and the Brains and Father, Son and Holy Smokes, perform across the US, Canada, and various European countries before the tour ended in New York on June 19, 2010.
As of March 2010, Pridemore has finished writing the song cycle that will become Brook Pridemore's Gory Details.
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singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
affiliated with the Antifolk scene in New York City
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. He has released five albums on the Bronx-based record label
Record label
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Crafty Records, and co-produced a compilation of antifolk acts for that label called Anticomp Folkilation
Anticomp Folkilation
Anticomp Folkilation is a 2-CD compilation album featuring a variety of artists from New York's antifolk scene.-CD 1:# Major Matt Mason USA-Tripping Yourself# Brook Pridemore-Sugar Coma # Soft Black-The Earth is Black...
. He has contributed to numerous other compilations, and recently shared a split
Split album
A split album is a music album which includes tracks by two or more separate artists. There have been singles and EPs released in the same nature, which can be referred to as split singles and split EPs respectively...
7-inch with Ghost Mice
Ghost Mice
Ghost Mice is a two-piece folk-punk band from Bloomington, Indiana. Both members, Chris Johnston and Hannah Jones, have been in a handful of pop-punk bands together: namely Disarm, The Devil is Electric and Operation: Cliff Clavin...
for Plan-It-X Records.
He Lived in Kalamazoo, MI for years doing back yard shows and working dead end jobs to pay for his musical endeavors. Brook was known to sing about the things his friends did, or that he saw while hanging out downtown, just for something to do.
He has toured the United States numerous times and mounted his first European tour in the fall of 2009. Due to his experience playing many house shows on tour, Pridemore and his roommates were inspired to turn his own apartment into a performing venue for local antifolk acts and touring bands; they titled it the Brooklyn Tea Party. January 2010 saw the commencement of the Multinational Perspiration Tour, an undertaking which will see Pridemore, with tandem partners including The Hit and Miss Engines, Doug Cote, Liv Carrow, Crazy and the Brains and Father, Son and Holy Smokes, perform across the US, Canada, and various European countries before the tour ended in New York on June 19, 2010.
As of March 2010, Pridemore has finished writing the song cycle that will become Brook Pridemore's Gory Details.
Albums
- Metal and Wood (2002)
- First Name, Last Name (2004)
- The Reflecting Skin (2006)
- Brook Pridemore Sings Greatest Antifolk Hits (2007)
- A Brighter Light (2009)
Compilations
- After Hours: A Tribute To The Music Of Lou ReedLou ReedLewis Allan "Lou" Reed is an American rock musician, songwriter, and photographer. He is best known as guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground, and for his successful solo career, which has spanned several decades...
(2003) - "After Hours" - Hurry Home Early: The Songs of Warren ZevonWarren ZevonWarren William Zevon was an American rock singer-songwriter and musician noted for including his sometimes sardonic opinions of life in his musical lyrics, composing songs that were sometimes humorous and often had political or historical themes.Zevon's work has often been praised by well-known...
(2005) - "Life'll Kill Ya" - Art Star Sounds Compilation (2005) - "Figure 8"
- The Three-Dollar Gallon Compilation (2006) - "Chocolate Cake City," "Hurricane Ivan (Live)," "The Stevie B. Challenge"
- Anticomp FolkilationAnticomp FolkilationAnticomp Folkilation is a 2-CD compilation album featuring a variety of artists from New York's antifolk scene.-CD 1:# Major Matt Mason USA-Tripping Yourself# Brook Pridemore-Sugar Coma # Soft Black-The Earth is Black...
(2007) - "Sugar Coma (Snakes on My Brain)" - Thanks for the Floor (2008) - "The Baptist Crutch"
- Acoustic A.D.-An Acoustic Tribute to the Misfits (2008) - "Last Caress"
- Ghost Mice/Brook Pridemore split 7-inch (2008) - "Fake Brains", "A Palm Tree On The Beach At Coney Island"
- The State I'm In (2009) - "Inauguration Day"
- Chevaliers de la Table Basse : la compile #4 (2010) - "Disappearing Reappearing Ink"
- The Bushwick Book Club Volume I (2010) - "Gave Us Barrabas"
- BTP Vol. 1 Live at the Brooklyn Tea Party - "Celestial Heaven or Leap of Faith"