Bear Lake

KEY POINTS:

- Featured on CW network shows “One Tree Hill” and “Melrose Place”

- Featured in the 2010 Sundance audience award winning film by Josh Radnor, “Happythankyoumoreplease”

- Featured on the Fox show, “Bones” April 8th 2010.

- Bear Lake’s song, “The Best One” has topped 150,000 plays on Pandora.com

- Signed With famed Entertainment Lawyer, Howard Hertz in early 2009

- Signed a publishing deal with Northstar Media in May of 2009

- All Albums recorded at Rustbelt Studios in Royal Oak, MI

PRESS:

"Superbly crafted and expertly mixed, the finished product is just about as close to perfection as it gets."

-toxicpete.co.uk

“This is a band full of confidence - not the show-off confidence of some crowd of wannabes, but the quiet confidence of a band that knows how to write a great tune...There's a wealth of experience on display, and a maturity that adds meat to the melodies. This is a band where no-one is pushing or shoving himself into the limelight, and where everyone contributes perfectly to a rich and lush sound.”

-Three Monkeys Press

“Rochester-based indie rock band Bear Lake is getting some major face time (ear time?) on cable television this fall. The band's song "Where Do We Go" was featured on episode seven of the CW's "Melrose Place," and tonight it will appear on "One Tree Hill," also a CW show. The song is off the band's second album ‘Places on the Side.’”

-By Jessica Nunez | MLive.com

“It's fair to say that Bear Lake is probably the closest Michigan gets to our own Radiohead (if Michigan indeed needs its own Radiohead)…The music business is notoriously unpredictable, especially these days, but, given the right backing, Bear Lake has every chance of swaying heads nationwide and beyond.”

-Brett Callwood, Detroit Metro Times

“It's always harsh to make comparisons to modern successes, and Bear Lake doesn't make it easy, but in a marathon with easy-indie-listening bands that have blown up nicely in the past few years, including Death Cab for Cutie and Snow Patrol, the group's discography thus far puts it in the conversation, if not the race.”

-By Erin Podolsky, Detroit Free Press

“Their music has been compared to such different bands as Radiohead, the Flaming Lips, the Shins and Snow Patrol. They actually sound more like Band of Horses, with their shimmering atmospherics, quiet loud dynamics and understated vocals with an occasional country flavour.”

–Mark Rowland, www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk

Raid Out - Video by Isabel Peppard and Warwick Burton

Where do we go from here? - Video by Josh Raskin and Jerry Levitan

You're Only Waiting - Video by Vanessa Saberanis

BAND MEMBERS (L to R):

ERIK PEDERSON (ORGAN)

STEVE STETSON (DRUMS)

JON RICE (LEAD GUITAR + VOX)

BRIAN KWASNIK (PIANO + VOX)

KEITH MAY (BASS + VOX)

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