Kevin Devine

Kevin Devine ( born December 19, 1979 - not conclusive - in New York, NY) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. To accompany his singing, he plays acoustic or electric guitar, but also sometimes bass and glockenspiel. If Devine is not traveling solo throughout, accompanied him The Goddamn band that consists partly of former members of his ex-band Miracle of '86.

Style

It varies in style between Indie Rock, Folk-Rock and American Acoustic -Folk; a sympathy he harbors also for the genres of alternative rock, grunge and lo-fi belonging to 90s bands like Concrete Blonde, Pavement, Nirvana, and Pedro the Lion, of which he repeatedly coverte songs at concerts, as well as EPs and a B - pages grossed. Further to such verzeichnende influences from the more acoustic field include Phil Ochs, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Neutral Milk Hotel and Elliott Smith. After joint tours with Brand New and Manchester Orchestra, he is musically gone up in the vicinity thereof; further supported Jesse Lacey (Brand New ) him vocally at pieces of his third album.

Career

In his early youth, a native of Brooklyn Devine played at a locally well-known in the hardcore scene of Staten Iceland band called Delusion. Later, he was lead singer and guitarist of the band Miracle of '86; both bands were in the broadest sense to settle in the genres of indie rock, alternative rock, post-hardcore and post-punk. After graduating from New York's Fordham University in 2001 with a major in journalism, he devoted himself intensively to his musical career, but turned up to the emergence period of his third solo album still not completely Miracle of '86 from. He looked at the band as a "kind of screamy rock thing", a characterization which thereby greatly from the " folkie songs" differed, which hovered him in the future. With his fourth album he released in 2006 the first on a major label. A few months after the publication he lost as a result of the merger of Capitol Records Virgin Records with his major - contract but again and had to return to the well-known indie label for now.

For the 2009 album by Scott Matthew Devine has been involved with singing and guitar playing.

Discography

Albums

  • 2001: Circle Gets the Square ( Immigrant Sun Records, Defiance Records)
  • 2003: Make the Clocks Move ( Triple Crown Records, Defiance Records)
  • 2005: Split the Country, Split the Street ( Triple Crown Records, Defiance Records)
  • 2006: Put Your Ghost to Rest ( Capitol Records )
  • 2009: Brother 's Blood (Favorite Gentlemen, Big Scary Monsters )
  • 2011: Between the Concrete and Clouds (Favorite Gentlemen, Big Scary Monsters )
  • 2013: Bubblegum
  • 2013: Bulldozer

EPs and singles

  • 2003: Travelling the EU ( Defiance Records)
  • 2006: Buried by the Buzzzz ( These Are Not Records)
  • 2008: Another Bag of Bones ( Academy Fight Song )
  • 2008: I Could Be with Anyone w / The Goddamn band (Favorite Gentlemen )
  • 2009: Splitting Up Christmas (Big Scary Monsters )
  • 2010: I Could Be the Only One w / Manchester Orchestra (Favorite Gentlemen )
  • 2010: She Stayed As Steam (Favorite Gentlemen, These Are Not Records, Big Scary Monsters Recording Company )

Links / sources

  • Kevin Devine Myspace
  • Kevin Devine site (About )
  • Spinner Interview 2007
  • Shock Hound Interview 2009
  • Singer- songwriter
  • American musician
  • Born in 1979
  • Man
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