The Black Ribbon Award, by Stephen Brodsky

The Black Ribbon Award

by Stephen Brodsky

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1.	Blue Seclusion 01:02	buy track
2.	Dead of Winter 01:57	buy track
3.	Mayfly 02:38	buy track
4.	Dead Battery 04:14	buy track
5.	Blood Red Blues 01:47	buy track
6.	Spacegirl Saturn 04:03	buy track
7.	Failure 03:02	buy track
8.	Fall Days 01:55	buy track
9.	Rainbow No More 03:00	buy track
10.	Trout 02:06	buy track
11.	Orange Sunshine Medicine 02:54	buy track
12.	Splatterbrain 03:19	buy track
13.	The Coattail Rider 03:45	buy track
14.	Chine 03:11	buy track
15.	Return to Rain 05:22	buy track
16.	Untitled 01:41	buy track
17.	Prospect Hill 04:28	buy track
18.	A Swelling Hope 05:25	buy track

about

We’re not exactly sure how he does it, but he’s done it again. Our man Stove Bredsky (a.k.a. Stovetop Bredsky, a.k.a. Steev Brawdski, a.k.a. Steve Brodsky) cranks out the sweet tunes like one of those Play-Doh confetti makers cranks out multicolored string-turds. Luckily, Bredsky’s shit won’t get stuck under your fingernails—it’ll just ping-pong around in your skull for a coupla years, during which time our man will have sawed off another 15 albums’ worth of infectious pop-rock delights.

This time, Brodsky has awarded himself The Black Ribbon Award for various questionable behaviors, the nature of which should remain unspoken—at least here, and by us. Fast on the shit-hot heels of last year’s catchy-as-fuck Pet Genius long-player, Brodsky has returned to his signature one-man band format, recording 18 tracks of melancholy melodiousness at Club Awesome in Somerville, MA.

The songs within were all originally written back in the ’90s, when Brodsky was piloting the almighty, ever-morphing Cave In through the thankless stream of commerce. Seriously, the vocal harmonies on this one are enough to make a grown man (read: us) weep.

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released May 20, 2008

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Stephen Brodsky Massachusetts

photo: Yvonne Jukes

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Apr 19

Once at Barewolf Brewing

Amesbury, MA
Apr 19

Widowmaker Brewing

Braintree, MA
Apr 20

Twin Elephant Brewing

Chatham, NJ

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