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Biography

Cary Brothers is an United States|American indie rock singer-songwriter originally from Nashville, Tennessee . After moving to Los Angeles and becoming a regular performer at the influential Hotel Cafe venue, Brothers first gained national attention with his song "Blue Eyes" on the Platinum-selling, Grammy -winning " Garden State (film)|Garden State " soundtrack. As an independent artist, he has since toured worldwide, released two full length records, and become one of the most-licensed artists in film and television. In the electronic dance music world, Brothers has found success collaborating with DJ Tiesto on a club remix of his song "Ride" as well as original material for Tiesto's latest collection "Kaleidoscope."

History

With songs influenced by everything from 1980s British New Wave music to 1970s folk music , Brothers achieved early critical and commercial success with his independent EPs "All the Rage" (2004) and "Waiting for Your Letter" (2005), both of which reached the top of the iTunes Singer/Songwriter charts. During this early stage of his career, Brothers found much success on MySpace , where he amassed over 8 million plays and 100,000 fans on his music page.

While many artists focus their efforts on radio exposure, Brothers went a slightly different route and pushed to get songs out to the public through film and television shows, leading a generation of similar-minded indie artists in the United States. Brothers' songs have appeared on the medical dramas '' Grey's Anatomy and ER (TV series)|ER , Scrubs (TV series)|Scrubs the Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox mystery Bones (TV series)|Bones '', The WB Television Network|WB 's Smallville (TV series)|Smallville , USA Network comedy Psych , ABC Family 's show Kyle XY , One Tree Hill (TV series)|One Tree Hill , and the hit Emma Stone comedy Easy A . The original version of Brothers' song "Ride" appeared on the soundtrack to the feature film The Last Kiss alongside Coldplay and Ray Lamontagne . Brothers has also performed on The Late Late Show (CBS TV series)|The Late Late Show , Jimmy Kimmel Live! and Direct TV's CD USA .
In 2005, he made a guest appearance with London band Aqualung (musician)|Aqualung on The Late Show with David Letterman and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992 TV series)|The Tonight Show with Jay Leno .

Brothers plays regularly as part of the musical community at the Hotel Café in Los Angeles , and he has since toured across United States|America and Canada with such acts as Liz Phair , KT Tunstall , Aqualung (musician)|Aqualung , Ben Lee , Matt Nathanson , Imogen Heap , and The Fray (band)|The Fray . In addition to his career as a musician, he co-created The Hotel Cafe Tour, currently in its fourth year in both the U.S. and Europe. Brothers also co-produced Joshua Radin 's first EP and the song "Winter" from Radin's record We Were Here .

In 2007, Cary Brothers signed a record deal with indie label Bluhammock Music for the release of his first full-length album, Who You Are Cary Brothers|Who You Are , on May 29, 2007, which made the Billboard Heatseekers Chart. Produced by Chad Fischer (Alexi Murdoch) and mixed by Greg Collins (Grammy Winner - U2), the record features guest musicians Matt Hales from Aqualung (musician)|Aqualung and Priscilla Ahn . The video for the single "Ride" starring Brittany Snow was added to the rotation on VH1 in the U.S. In addition, the record won "Best Rock Album of 2007" by the Indie Acoustic Project. Brothers' track 'Ride' has also been mixed by Tiësto and was a success on the dancefloors of Europe in 2008. He helped close Friday night at Bonnaroo in the Summer of 2008 by making a guest appearance with Tiësto and repeated this musical pairing a few months later at the O2 arena in London.

In 2009, Brothers went into the studio to work on his second full length record. In addition, that year he had an original track called "Here on Earth" on the Tiësto record Kaleidescope alongside Sigur Rós , Tegan and Sara , Kele Okereke , Priscilla Ahn and Emily Haines .

" Under Control (Cary Brothers album)|Under Control " was released on April 6, 2010 through Brothers' own Procrastination Music label and premiered at #1 on the iTunes Singer/Songwriter charts and #10 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart. Cary toured extensively in the United States in support of the record in 2010 and 2011 as both headliner and as an opening act for the Sara Bareilles tour. Staying active in social media, Brothers was named #14 on Paste Magazine 's "50 Musicians Worth Following on Twitter" on August 2011.

Discography

Albums

Who You Are (Cary Brothers album)|Who You Are (May 29, 2007)

Under Control (Cary Brothers album)|Under Control (April 6, 2010)

EPs

All the Rage EP|All the Rage (December 14, 2004)

Waiting for Your Letter (September 20, 2005)

Ride (Cary Brothers song)|Ride (March 25, 2008)

Father Christmas (November 17, 2009)

Covers Volume One EP (May, 2012)

Contributions

Joshua Radin - Co-producer of the EP First Between 3rd and 4th

Joshua Radin - Producer of "Winter" from We Were Here

Tiësto - Vocals on "Here on Earth" from the album Kaleidoscope (Tiësto album)|Kaleidoscope

Jim Bianco - Background vocals on "Sing" and "If Your Mama Knew" from the album Sing (Jim Bianco album)|Sing

Jim Bianco - Member of the choir on "Sinners" from the album Loudmouth (Jim Bianco album)|Loudmouth

Jessie Baylin - Background vocals on "Leave Your Mark" from the album Firesight

Ben Lee - Background vocals on "What's So Bad (About Feeling Good)? " from the album The Rebirth of Venus

Greg Laswell - Background vocals on multiple tracks from the album Take A Bow

Kele Okereke (of Bloc Party )/ Tiesto - Harmonies on "It's Not The Things You Say" from the album Kaleidoscope (Tiësto album)|Kaleidoscope

The Scene Aesthetic - Background vocals on "Lonely Girl" from the album Brother (The Scene Aesthetic album)|Brother

Cosmic Gate - Vocals in "Wake Your Mind" from the album Wake Your Mind (2011)

Song Appearances

Film

Garden State (film)|Garden State Soundtrack (2004) (song: "Blue Eyes")

Sky High Soundtrack (2005) (song: "True")

SherryBaby Soundtrack (2006) (song: "Loneliest Girl in the World")

The Last Kiss Soundtrack (2006) (song: "Ride")

Feast of Love Soundtrack (2007) (song: "Honestly")

Easy A Soundtrack (2010) (song: "If You Were Here")

Smallville Soundtrack (2010) (song: "Can't Take My Eyes off You")

Television

'' Grey's Anatomy

*" Begin the Begin (Grey's Anatomy)|Begin the Begin " (2006) (song: "Ride")

*"Forever Young" (2007) (song: "The Last One")

*" Superfreak (Grey's Anatomy)|Superfreak " (2010) (song: "Belong")

Scrubs (TV series)|Scrubs

*"My First Kill" (2004) (song: "Blue Eyes")

*"My Last Chance" (2004) (songs: "Honestly" and "Something")

*"My Best Laid Plans" (2005) (songs: "Honestly", "Waiting For Your Letter")

*"Her Story II" (2006) (song: "Ride")

ER (TV series)|ER

*" Strange Bedfellows (ER)|Strange Bedfellows " (2006) (song: "Ride")

Cold Case (TV series)|Cold Case

*"Witness Protection" (2009) (song: "If You Were Here")

Psych

*"Murder? ... Anyone? ... Anyone? ... Bueller? " (2008) (song: "If You Were Here")

One Tree Hill (TV series)|One Tree Hill

*"Hundred" (2008) (song: "Ride")

*"Don't You Forget About Me" (2010) (song: "If You Were Here")

*"I Can't See You, But I Know You're There" (2010) (songs: "Belong" and "Can't Take My Eyes Off You")

*"Nobody Taught Us to Quit" (2010) (song: "Alien")

*"Anyone Who Had A Heart" (2012) (song: "Free Like You Make Me")

Kyle XY

*"Pilot" (2006) (songs: "Supposed to be" and "Ride")

*"Sleepless in Seattle" (2006) (song: "Honestly")

*"Blame It on the Rain" (2006) (song: "All the Rage")

*"The First Cut is the Deepest" (2008) (song: "The Glass Parade")

Eli Stone

*"Father Figure" (2008) (song: "All The Rage")

Bones (TV series)|Bones

*"The Man in the Wall" (2005) (song: "Something")

Smallville

*"Aqua" (2005) (song: "Waiting For Your Letter")

*"Harvest" (2010) (song: "Can't Take My Eyes Off You")

Greek (TV series)|Greek

*"The Popular Vote" (2008) (song: "Wasted One")

*"From Rushing With Love" (2008) (song: "Something")

Pretty Little Liars (TV series)|Pretty Little Liars

*"Can You Hear Me Now" (2010) (song: "Ride")

*"Save The Date" (2011) (song: "Alien")

Make It or Break It

*"If Only..." (2010) (song: "Alien")

Cougar Town

*"All Mixed Up" (2010) (song: "Belong")

90210 (TV series)|90210

*"Holiday Madness" (2010) (song: "Belong")

The Lying Game

*"Bad Boys Break Hearts" (2011) (song: "Ride")

The Vampire Diaries

*"Smells Like Teen Spirit" (2011) (song: "Take Your Time")

Switched at Birth

*"Game On." (2012) (song: "Belong")

TV appearances

Jimmy Kimmel Live! - February 29, 2008

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson - September 27, 2007

Scrubs (TV series)|Scrubs - My First Kill (2004)

The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn - September 20, 2004

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