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Brand New is a rock band from Merrick, New York on Long Island that formed in the early 2000s. Brand New have released three albums. Brand New's third album, The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me, was released in the US on November 21, 2006. Much of Brand New's success is owed to its devout group of followers who take pride in sharing its music.

Brand New's first song to see significant airplay was "The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows", which fell into heavy rotation on many radio stations during the summer of 2003, while Brand New were on the Vans Warped Tour. The band's videos have aired on Fuse TV, MTV, and MTV2.


 The name Brand New is said to be after a Beastie Boys song. Brand New started looking for a second guitarist to join the band and eventually found the then 17 year-old Vincent Accardi. Jesse, Garrett and Brian played The Shower Scene for Vinnie and he decided he wanted to join Brand New.

Between formation in 2000 and Your Favorite Weapon being released in 2001, Brand New released two sets of demos. Both sets contained songs that ended up on Your Favorite Weapon.


After signing a single album deal on Triple Crown Records, Brand New set to work on their debut, Your Favorite Weapon. The album was to be a mix of rerecorded songs from their demos as well as several new ones. The album was produced by Mike Sapone and was a moderate success. This allowed Brand New to tour nationally and internationally, supporting such bands as Taking Back Sunday, Good Charlotte, Less Than Jake, New Found Glory, Glassjaw, Incubus, Dashboard Confessional and Finch.

The first and only single Brand New released from Your Favorite Weapon was "Jude Law and a Semester Abroad," which received airplay on both MTV2 and Fuse. Brand New released a re-recorded version of "Jude Law and a Semester Abroad" on mp3.com in 2002.

In August 2002, Iodine Recordings released Your Favorite Weapon on vinyl along with an extra track, "...My Nine Rides Shotgun", a demo from Brand New's early days.

Soon after the release of Your Favorite Weapon, Brand New released two songs on a split EP with Safety In Numbers, which contained the tracks "Moshi Moshi" and a cover of Love Spit Love's "Am I Wrong". "Moshi Moshi" from this EP was also later available as a B-side on the UK "Jude Law and a Semester Abroad" single.

Brand New's second album, Deja Entendu, was released in June 2003 to much popular acclaim as well as favorable reviews. The album contains slower, deeper, darker songs with a more polished sound.

The title is French, roughly translating to "already heard," which is said to be a comment on Brand New's opinion of modern music sounding similar. The album was produced by Steven Haigler, who was the sound engineer on the Pixies' Trompe le Monde.

Brand New has stated that most of the songs were not demoed and were "rushed", and that eleven out of the twelve songs recorded for the album appeared on it - with only "Flying At Tree Level (Version 1.0)" left off, with the track later appeared on the Beer: The Movie compilation soundtrack, and "Play Crack The Sky" being a late addition.

Three singles were released from this album on Eat Sleep Records and Sorepoint Records. The first single was "The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows." Brand New's second single from the album, "Sic Transit Gloria...Glory Fades," is a shortened version of the common Latin phrase Sic transit gloria mundi ("Thus passes the glory of the world") and is a reference to a line from the movie Rushmore. Both of these singles were top 40 hits within the UK, and their videos received relatively heavy rotation on MTV2 and Fuse TV. Brand New released a third single from this album, "I Will Play My Game Beneath the Spin Light," solely for radio play.

During 2003, Brand New's debut album was also remastered and re-released. The album was then released for the first time in Australia and Japan during early 2004.

A limited edition EP, entitled The Holiday EP, was released soon after the album in late 2003, available only to Brand New's Street Team members. It contained demos from Deja Entendu, album art by artist Brian Ewing, as well as a single new song - a cover of "O Holy Night." Available for only the price of postage, this EP sold out quickly, and has never been re-released. Consequently, it is now extremely rare and has sold for up to ninety US dollars on eBay.

Between May 2004 (with the release of the UK "The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows" CDS B-sides) and June 2005, no new material was released by Brand New and no new information was publicly released to fans. During that time however, Brand New was signed by Interscope Records, a major label.

On December 28, 2003, the New York Times music critic, Kelefa Sanneh ranked Deja Entendu as one of the best albums of 2003, ranking the album number 5 on his top ten list, and Brand New were the artist of the year according to the 2003 Alternative Press Readers Poll.

At the end of 2004, Brand New appeared on the cover of Alternative Press magazine, who had deemed their upcoming album the "most anticipated of 2005" but little to no information was actually provided about any new material. Brand New had very little contact with fans about new music or shows until in June 2005 when their Web site was finally updated, announcing that Brand New had started recording and confirming long-standing rumours that in early 2005 Lacey had been hospitalized for appendicitis, with the Web site specifically mentioning he had been "sick," "had surgery" and that there "were multiple things wrong with [him]," but stated that "most of [his problems] have been fixed."

In late 2005, Brand New started recording their highly-anticipated third album in Oxford, Mississippi with producer Dennis Herring, but later dropped him in favor of Mike Sapone with whom Brand New had worked on their first album.

On January 24, 2006 nine demos recorded in preparation of the new album were leaked onto the internet. All songs were untitled and were of unknown origin with only with a comment attached that they were "demos that probably won't be on Fight Off Your Demons", the then rumored title for the new album, based on Brand New's new website address. In the following months, with Brand New doing their first tour dates in over 18 months, a few songs from the demos were performed with a full band, some were fleshed out and had new lyrics. New songs had their debut as well during the summer tour dates. There was much speculation about the names of songs and the album name but very little solid information. Brand New began their first tour in years on June 20, 2006 at New Jersey's famous Starland Ballroom, where Jesse stated that the album had been finished the previous day.

After much speculation and rumor regarding the final release date, and Alternative Press publishing a preliminary date of October 10, 2006, as the release date, the official website announced that the new album would finally be released on November 21, 2006 in North America, and the day before in Europe. Soon after, a track listing and the unusual cover art were revealed on as well as new information regarding the release of the first actual single - "Sowing Season" - one of the new tracks previewed during the summer tour. A alternate to "Untitled 08" from the demos, the single finally got a public airing on radio on October 19, 2006, and appeared on their MySpace page a day later. "Untitled 06", was mastered and released as a bonus track in the UK and tagged as "Luca (Reprise)". According to Lacey in a radio interview from the UK (BBC Radio 1 with Zane Lowe), the title The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me is taken from a conversation he had with his friend about the musician Daniel Johnston, who is schizophrenic.

On February 12, 2007, an interview was conducted in which Jesse stated that Brand New were going to make another album.

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