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Released: Nov 16, 2011
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  • Genre: Electro / Pop / Rock

    Location Troy, Un

    Profile Views: 254047

    Last Login: 1/3/2013

    Member Since 11/19/2007

    Website www.bearlakemusic.com

    Record Label Bear Lake Music LLC. and Rustbelt Productions

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    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 BIOGRAPHY: .. .. Relationships, love, death, addictions, complications and hate all encompass the basic structures of life. All of these factors mesh together somewhat chaotically at times, yet Bear Lake encompasses them all in their music. Within the past year, Bear Lake's music has been featured on shows like "One Tree Hill", "Bones" and "The Gates". Bear Lake consists of Jon Rice (electric guitar, vocals), Keith May (bass and vocals), Brian Kwasnik (keyboards, vocals), Erik Pederson (percussion, keyboards) and Stephen Stetson (drums), who have been playing live shows together since middle school. These six men each bring their own unique style to the table and through that have found magic in the fusion of ideas and harmony in their masterful, melancholy voices. They create a gutsy, new wave sound that mirrors the magic of Band of Horses and the pop sensibility of Guster and Snow Patrol. Their energy draws listeners in quickly to their songs, the warmth of the stories told and their collaborative musical journey. The release of their upcoming album, If You Were Me, debuted at number 16 on the CMJ Adds chart and within just a few weeks landed at number 127 on the CMJ Top 200. "Most of the songs on our first album were written up at a cabin on Bear Lake in Grayling, Mich.," explains Pederson. The cabin is an escape for the band and they attempt to go there and write whenever possible. "We didn't think our band would become something permanent and we didn't know what else to call it. But, we like that there is meaning behind the name for us." The band has come to understand that there is no foolproof way in the music industry. So they surround themselves with people they trust and write and record the music they love. And that's what's important. .. .. .. .. .. T-shirts are here!!! Send your orders to bearlakemusic@gmail.com .. .. ...... .. .. .. .. .. 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 .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
  • Members

    BAND MEMBERS: .. ERIK PEDERSON (ORGAN) .. .. STEVE STETSON (DRUMS) .. .. JON RICE (LEAD GUITAR + VOX) .. .. BRIAN KWASNIK (PIANO + VOX) .. .. KEITH MAY (BASS + VOX)
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  • Alex Hirsch

    Come Check out the most honest, real, easy to love, original, unsigned artist  on the web. www.facebook.com/RealMusicZeroLies

    1 year ago
  • Undie Music

    Great music :)

    1 year ago
  • Alisha DOrsey



    Wutz been going on?

    2 years ago
  • Shawn Andrew

    Very Great Music!

    Greetings from Portugal!

    2 years ago
  • 100m Records



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    AND: The first of 3 mind-blowing videos by Neil Chamberlain to support the album.



    2 years ago
  • meadower

    Hey, see you guys Friday @ the Pike Room, we're opening :)

    2 years ago
  • Hurry! Lets Go

    hey what's going on?

    just want to let you know that we have a brand new EP out and also a free download in our new blog!

    hope you're doing fine.

    2 years ago
  • Will Burton

    Tight Stuff =)

    you should hit up Capacity Productions!









    they help people trying to get famous and so much more for real! They got my friends band 1000's of INCOMING friends and sponsors and more =)

    2 years ago
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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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