Call It Off [Tegan & Sara Cover]

Beautiful Morning

Heart Wide Open, EP
Bern & the Brights
Street Date: 11/6/2015

02 Beautiful Morning - Bern & The Brights

01 Good Friday - Bern & The Brights

04 Get Along - Bern & The Brights

05 Heart Wide Open - Bern & The Brights

03 Keep Yourself Together - Bern & The Brights

Beautiful Morning - Stefan Moessle Remix

Wartime Lullaby

Combat

Sangria Peaches

Sleepless Aristotle

It Goes Like That

“Keep Yourself Together-House Groove" by Likewise House Groove
(Remix of "Keep Yourself Together" by Bern & the Brights)

Remixed by Likewise (and mastered) at Silk City Grooves in Paterson, New Jersey.

Mastered by Walt Dicristina. Likewise is Paisley Longthrob and Walt Dicristina.

Remix: "Keep Yourself Together-House Groove" by Likewise

Brights House

Fade to Gray [demo]

Work, EP
Street Date: 10/2/12
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Release Show: 10/13/12 | Tierney's | Montclair, NJ

01 Slave Driver

02 War & Games

03 I See Red

04 Sick of Seeing You

05 Irish Boys

06 As Long As I'm Alive

07 Thieves, Creeps, and Automatons

Manic Memoirs

Lily

Fuse

Recorded in 2005, limited release, shared as a handful of CDs only at select appearances. Provided on SoundCloud digitally in 2020. The EP is features demos of four songs, main tracks recorded live, with some overdubs of guitars. Drums, Mark Stevens. Bass, Joe Purdie. Guitars and vox, Bernadette Malavarca. Songs by Bernadette Malavarca. Recorded by Joe Purdie, Vernon, NJ.

Moving in Place EP

When It's Real

Under My Skirt

Moving in Place

Maker

This is an unreleased demo from 2010.

Catherine McGowan - Acoustic Guitar / Vox
Bernadette Malavarca - Electric Guitar
Shawn Fafara - Bass
Jose Ulloa - Drums

Get Your Heart Out [Demo, 2010]

Recorded at Shea Auditorium with JoeKelly, circa 2006.

My Favourite Things

Electro dream pop duo Bern & the Brights is Bernadette Malavarca and Catherine McGowan. Mixing rhythmic loops, synths, ambient guitars, emotional vocals, and introspective lyrics, their music is a fusion of light and dark wave. 

Both vocalists and multi-instrumentalists, Malavarca and McGowan write, produce, record, and perform their music. The group’s newest work, the EP Heart Wide Open, is due out in fall of 2015. The EP’s single, “Beautiful Morning,” available August 2015, is a melodic trip-hop anthem about resilience and gratitude.

RELEASES:
Wartime Lullaby (EP) (2008)
Swing Shift Maisies (EP) (2010)
Starchild/Lost in the Sea (vinyl single) (2011)
Work (EP) 2012
"Call It Off" (Tegan and Sara cover) 2013
Heart Wide Open (EP) 2015

NOTEWORTHY PERFORMANCES:
Bern & the Brights have performed with Butch Walker, Rhett Miller, Mike Doughty, Nicole Atkins, Living Colour, Melissa Ferrick, Allo Darlin’, Ian Hunter, The Baseball Project, The Wombats, Fishbone, Chiddy Bang, Val Emmich, Hank & Cupcakes, The Dirty Urchins, Cheers Elephant, Girl in a Coma, and My Pet Dragon.

FESTIVALS & EVENTS:
- CMJ
- Union County Music Fest with Spoon, OK GO, and Soul Asylum
- Dewey Beach Music Conference, 2012
- Yelp! Brooklyn Summer Fest
- MOVE Music Fest
- Utica Music Fest
- Sweet Tea Pumpkin Pie Fest
- Hoboken Arts Fest

STAGES:
- Webster Hall (ballroom)
- Webster Hall (studio)
- City Winery
- Rockwood Music Hall
- The Stone Pony
- Maxwell’s
- House of Blues (Atlantic City)
- Mexicali Live

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
-Outstanding EP/Hoboken Music Awards 2012 - For EP Work
- “As Long As I’m Alive” on College Radio Day compilation with We Are Scientists
- SuperCuts Rock the Cut Artist (“Starchild” added to 2,000+ stores’ playlist)
- Reverbnation Homepage Featured Artist, April 2012
- 2nd Place (out of 1,400 national bands) in the Virgin Mobile Contest
- “Sleepless Aristotle” in weekly rotation on Music Choice: Adult Alternative
- Disc of the Week, 08/02/10 | The Aquarian Weekly
- Won two 2010 Hoboken Music Awards: Oustanding Band and Oustanding EP
- Band to Watch | ThereGoesTheFear.com and TheBlueWalrus.com
- 101.9RXP Bands of 2010 (Nominated by DJ Rich Russo)
- Aquarian Weekly’s 2012, 2011, and 2010 On the Verge Band
- “May in New York” | 2009 songwriting contest winner, 101.9 RXP
- Radio Airplay on 101.9 RXP The Rock Show with Matt Pinfield and Leslie Framm
- “Dismantled” 2009 MEISA Best Song, selected by “DMC” Darryl McDaniels
- Named in the top 50 Emerging Artists of NYC for 2008 by The Deli Magazine

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