| Breathe Carolina | |
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Denver, Colorado |
| Genres | Electronic rock, electropop, electronica, crunkcore |
| Years active | 2007–present |
| Labels | Rise, Fearless |
| Associated acts | Rivendale, The Autobiography |
| Website | www.breathcarolina.net |
| Members | |
| Kyle Even David Schmitt | |
Breathe Carolina is an American electronic rock musical duo from Denver, Colorado, composed of David Schmitt and Kyle Even. Breathe Carolina have released two albums, one EP, and four music videos to date.
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History
Beginnings (2007)
Kyle Even was born on September 21, 1985 in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. David Schmitt was born on March 26, 1988 also in Colorado. Even was a part of a band in high school named Rivendale with Adam Gallagos, Chris Heaton, Justin Price, and Nate Millie. Schmitt played in a band called As the Flood Water Rose (later named The Autobiography). Both bands played together often. As the Flood Water Rose opened up for Rivendale at Rivendale's album release at Grandpa's Music Box in Thornton. As both bands broke-up for the members' departure for college, Even and Schmitt started Breathe Carolina.
Gossip (2007)
Breathe Carolina started in 2007 with Denver, Colorado natives Kyle Even and David Schmitt recording songs on the music-creating software, GarageBand for fun. They created a MySpace profile, gaining over 10,000 song plays in 2008 and accumulating over 30 million plays during 2009.[1] The name Breathe Carolina came from a dream that Schmitt had in 9th grade,[2] about calming down a woman named Carolina.[3] Soon afterwards, Even quit his job as a photographer[1] to tour with the group full time. Their first EP, Gossip, was released as an iTunes exclusive on November 26, 2007. It was self-released and has since been removed from the store.[4]
It's Classy, Not Classic (2008)
Breathe Carolina recorded their first album using GarageBand, and signed with Rise Records before its release. The album introduced a few new songs that were not featured on Gossip, including "The Introduction", "No Vacancy", "Show Me Yours", "Classified", "That's Classy", and "You Wish". "Don't Forget: Lock The Door" was the only track from the Gossip EP that is not featured on the LP. The album was released on September 16, 2008, and was followed by a tour to promote the album. Breathe Carolina headlined their tour with Every Avenue, Brokencyde, and The Morning Of. While on "The Delicious Tour," they announced that they would be making a music video for "Diamonds". The video has appearances made by Millionaires, as well as Josh White from Umbrella Clothing and This City Is Burning Records. The duo has stated that they would not do any more videos for any song from this album.[citation needed]
Hello Fascination (2009–present)
A few months after the release of Punk Goes Pop 2, shortly after they finished the 2009 "Take Action Tour", Breathe Carolina announced that they had left Rise Records and have signed with Fearless Records and would be in the studio recording their upcoming album Hello Fascination with Mike Green. On June 29, 2009, the first song from Hello Fascination was released: "Welcome To Savannah", which was a featured song on the Fearless Records Summer Sampler 2009. New songs were also played during Vans Warped Tour 2009. These songs include "I.D.G.A.F." and "Hello Fascination". On July 27, 2009, the second song from Hello Fascination was released, the title track of the album. Hello Fascination was released on August 18, 2009.
In September 2009, the band announced they will be headlining the EZ Bronz Tour.[5] Also in 2009, Breathe Carolina was featured on the cover of Substream Music Press, which also features an interview with Even and Schmitt.[6] Toward the end of October 2009, Hello Fascination was released in Japan. The Japanese edition of the album includes a bonus song entitled "Have You Ever Danced?". This song features David Strauchman (Every Avenue), Jeffree Star, and Austin Carlile (of Of Mice & Men).
Breathe Carolina's "Hello Fascination" is the featured track playing in the background of the current promos for NBC's The Jay Leno Show, airing from September 14, 2009. The track was also featured in MTV's The City. Their song "I'm The Type Of Person To Take It Personal" was also featured in The City’s Season Finale in December 2009. Breathe Carolina released a music video for "Hello Fascination" on February 3, 2010. The music video is directed by Spence Nicholsen.
The deluxe edition of Hello Fascination was released on July 6. On June 23, they launched a clothing line called "Blush". "I.D.G.A.F." was announced as the band's next single, with the music video being released on July 30, 2010. The duo played on the Altec Lansing stage during Vans Warped Tour 2010 and covered the song "Down" by Jay Sean for the compilation album "Punk Goes Pop 3" that was released on November 2, 2010.[7]
On November 21, 2010 Breathe Carolina released their second Christmas song on the 'Tis the Season to Be Fearless compilation album from Fearless Records on iTunes. The first Christmas song they released was "Snowed In", which was the first song recorded by the duo as a demo. "Snowed In" was recorded when the band first recorded their EP. The song of "Tis The Season To Be Fearless", however, was entitled "Mile-High Christmas".
Musical style and arrangement
Breathe Carolina is essentially an electronica or electropop duet with strong dance influence.[8][9] Post-hardcore influence also exists, evident by the use of screamed vocals and breakdowns. These elements, however, are usually kept to a minimum while electronic elements take precedence. This fusion of post-hardcore characteristics and dance-oriented electronica has lead the group to be labeled crunkcore as well.[10][11]
Their entire first EP, Gossip, and debut full-length album, It's Classy, Not Classic, were recorded using only the computer program GarageBand. The group did not produce music via studio until the recording of Hello Fascination, which can be considered the group's first true studio album.[12][13]
Although much instrumentation is added through programming, typical instruments are also present in the duo's music; Schmitt provides lead singing vocals for the duo along with playing the guitar and drums while Even provides unclean vocals and plays the guitar and bass guitar. Live performances by Breathe Carolina usually consist of an arrangement of three to five extra members providing keyboards, keytars, drums, guitars and bass. During most live sets, Joshua Andrew plays guitar (when nessesary) and performs backing vocals while Eric Armenta provides drums on a standard drum kit all while Schmitt and Even perform the clean and unclean vocal positions respectively.
Members
- Members
- Kyle Even – unclean vocals, synthesizers, keyboards, programming, keytar, guitars, bass guitar
- David Schmitt – clean vocals, synthesizers, keyboards, programming, guitars, drums
- Live members
- Clay Cornelius – guitars
- Eric Armenta – drums
- Joshua Andrew – guitars, synthesizers, keyboards, programming, backing vocals
- Luis Bonet – bass guitar, keyboards
Discography
- Studio albums
| Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | |||||||
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| US [14] | US Rock [15] | US Indie [16] | US Heat [17] | US Dan [18] | |||||
| 2008 | It's Classy, Not Classic
| 186 | — | 24 | 6 | 5 | |||
| 2009 | Hello Fascination
| 43 | 11 | 5 | — | 2 | |||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||||||||
- EPs
| Year | Album details |
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| 2007 | Gossip
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- Singles
| Year | Single | Album |
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| 2008 | "Diamonds" | It's Classy, Not Classic |
| 2010 | "Hello Fascination" | Hello Fascination |
| "I.D.G.A.F." | ||
| "The Dressing Room" |
Videography
- "Diamonds"
- "Hello Fascination"
- "I.D.G.A.F"
- "Down"
References
- ^ a b Behe, Rege (February 10, 2009). "Breathe Carolina's fan response left band breathless". Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/ae/music/s_611079.html. Retrieved 2009-07-18.
- ^ Bridges, Sally (June 14, 2009). "Broomfield band to get Warped". Broomfield Enterprise. http://www.broomfieldenterprise.com/ci_12797517. Retrieved 2009-07-18.
- ^ Ramirez, Miriam (August 14, 2008). "BAND PROFILE: Breathe Carolina". The Monitor. http://www.themonitor.com/entertainment/carolina-15941-breathe-happened.html. Retrieved 2009-07-18.
- ^ Billboard.com . Retrieved on 2008-12-08.
- ^ "Win an XBOX 360 and More... - Breathe Carolina (Hello Fascination Out NOW)'s MySpace Blog". Breathe Carolina and MySpace. http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=165791981&blogId=515546392. Retrieved 1 November 2009.
- ^ McDonald, Kelly. "Breathe Carolina". Substream Music Press (Delaware, OH) (16): 22–23.
- ^ http://www.myspace.com/punkgoes
- ^ Electronica duo Breathe Carolina 'breathes' Entertainment into Bakersfield venue - Features
- ^ Albums by Breathe Carolina Rate Your Music
- ^ Breathe Carolina - Hello Fascination AbsolutePunk
- ^ "Revolver Magazine". Revolver. http://www.revolvermag-digital.com/revolver/200905/?pm=2&z=fw&pvieww=992&zin=172&u1=texterity&pg=62&fm=1. Retrieved 29 August 2010.
- ^ Breathe Carolina Interview
- ^ Breathe Carolina Fearless
- ^ "Breathe Carolina Album & Song Chart History – Billboard 200". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/#/artist/breathe-carolina/chart-history/1019317. Retrieved September 2, 2010.
- ^ "Breathe Carolina Album & Song Chart – Rock Albums". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/#/artist/breathe-carolina/chart-history/1019317?f=408&g=Albums. Retrieved September 2, 2010.
- ^ "Breathe Carolina Album & Song Chart History – Independent Albums". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/#/artist/breathe-carolina/chart-history/1019317?f=326&g=Albums. Retrieved September 2, 2010.
- ^ "Breathe Carolina Album & Song Chart History – Heatseekers Albums". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/#/artist/breathe-carolina/chart-history/1019317?f=324&g=Albums. Retrieved September 2, 2010.
- ^ "Breathe Carolina Album & Song Chart – Dance/Electronic Albums". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/#/artist/breathe-carolina/chart-history/1019317?f=322&g=Albums. Retrieved September 2, 2010.
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