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New Tour Dates in February with Cracker

February 4th, 2010

I’m so lucky! It has been WAY too long since I’ve seen my midwest friends. The last time we saw each other was Winter 2008, and you were pulling my rock minivan out of a snowy ditch. Obviously I owe you a cup of coffee at LEAST.  So check out the Tour page and come collect!

BRANDI SHEARER ON TOUR WITH CRACKER

On the heels of the first ever instore tour (The Shore to Shore Record Store Tour presented by Record Store Day), Brandi Shearer joins forces with indie rockers Cracker for a string of dates in the midwest. Both acts will be performing intimate acoustic sets, and Shearer looks forward to revisiting some favorite venues:

“I love playing and I love the midwest,” she says, “and I’m taking the midwestern winter as a personal challenge. Last year I tried to make it the 20 feet to the rock-van from my hotel room without a coat and basically had to be resuscitated. I’m gonna live in my parka this time around.”

The tour will begin February 16th in Evanston, Illinois, and conclude at Denver’s Swallow Hill on the 28th of February.

Shearer’s recent release, Love Don’t Make You Juliet, has won widespread critical praise and appeared in many year end lists, including Paste’s Best of 2009. Her music has been lauded by Entertainment Weekly, People Magazine, Blurt, and a host of others. The on stage performance continues to impress, too.

“Shearer has a heaven-sent,heartshuddering vocal style,” describes L.A. Weekly of her live shows.

Cracker/Brandi Shearer Tour Dates:

Tue, Feb 16, 2010 Evanston, IL SPACE
Wed, Feb 17, 2010 Milwaukee, WI Shank Hall
Thu, Feb 18, 2010 Madison, WI High Noon
Fri, Feb 19, 2010 Ames, IA Maintenance Shop
Sat, Feb 20, 2010 Minneapolis, The Fine Line
Sun, Feb 21, 2010 Duluth, MN Grandmas Sports Garden
Tue, Feb 23, 2010 Sioux Falls, SD Lattitudes
Wed, Feb 24, 2010 Omaha, NE Waiting Room
Thu, Feb 25, 2010 Kearney, NE Garage
Fri, Feb 26, 2010 Fort Collins RD 34
Sat, Feb 27, 2010 Steamboat Springs, CO Ghost Ranch Saloon
Sun, Feb 28, 2010 Denver, CO Swallow Hill

Wasting Time Has Never Been Easier

February 2nd, 2010

I. Cannot. Stop. Watching. This.

Free TV : Ustream

I’M ONLY HUMAN FOR CHRISSAKES.

PS The tour is shaping up fabulously! More news to come!

Holy Shit.

January 21st, 2010

Well, all packed and waiting to go . . . just . . . . waiting and thinking. About where I’m going. Something like Haiti Haiti Haiti Haiti Haiti Holy Shit I Am Going to Haiti Haiti Haiti. Chewing this pencil to death and . . . waiting.

Hmmmm . . . . yep, the sitting around part IS AWESOME.

Finally, I Am Posting Some Press. Sheesh.

January 9th, 2010

So, it is at these moments that I get really annoyed that being a musician also means I need to understand web design. Also, Twitter gives me hives. Anyway: the point! I’m doing to some New Year organizing, so now you’ll find a Press page on my website. Where is it then, you ask? Well, I can’t figure out how to put it in the header thing. My poor friend John has to help me. So here, for now: www.brandishearer.com/new/press.

Also, I put up some of them here – I feel so pleased that LDMYJ is going over so well.

Praise for Brandi Shearer and Love Don’t Make You Juliet

PEOPLE MAGAZINE

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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

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“Haunting . . . seductive.”

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NPR SONG OF THE DAY

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“Brandi Shearer is a cool indie singer who expresses her deep, dark feelings in a dusky alto, accompanied by her own demi-folk, part-rock, quasi-classical guitar work.”

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BLURT MAGAZINE

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“Sensual and seductive, haunting and yet ever alluring, Brandi Shearer raised the bar considerably with her last effort . . . “

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SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

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“Brandi Shearer has been gathering the kind of buzz no amount of money can buy.”

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LA WEEKLY

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“The singer you should get to know well is Brandi Shearer. She has a heaven-sent, heart-shuddering vocal style. And she’s a tad crazy, just like we Winehouse fans like our singers. An incredible live performer.”

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RCRDLBL.COM

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“She’s a songwriter tagged by critics as a “chanteuse” possessing a “whispery tenderness”….who increasingly travels to dark places in her songs. She’s an honest, heart-on-sleeve lyricist with a sly, self-deprecating sense of humor in real life.”

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PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

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“Brandi Shearer’s fourth album sounds easygoing and seductive. Pristine acoustic guitars, closely recorded with lots of finger squeaks, ride a gentle pulse behind Shearer’s intimate, bluesy alto.”

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CHICAGO TRIBUNE

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THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION

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“Just the hint of a screw loose . . . “

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THE OREGONIAN

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Criminal Records, TONIGHT 10/7 7PM!

October 7th, 2009

I’m finding that being in Georgia is like . . . being in the shower all the time, except that means you NEED a shower all the time. It’s a total humidity paradox around here.
Which obviously won’t stop me from playing tonight. But it will, I guarantee, stop my guitar from staying in tune. Which also won’t stop me from playing. It’s definitely a morning of circular reasoning.

So – see you tonight!!