Brave New Girl

RECORD RELEASE PARTY APRIL 6 @ DROM

aram — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 01:59:39 +0000

Brave New Girl is excited to announce we’ll be holding our record release party for “Thanks for Being on the Show” at Drom NYC on Saturday, April 6th, 2013. Doors open at 6:30, show starts at 7pm. See you there!

BNG Record Release Party at Drom 4-6-13

New EP: Thanks for Being on the Show

aram — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 17:45:11 +0000

Brave New Girl has released its first studio album in over a decade, called “Thanks for Being on the Show,” under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike 3.0 license.

You can stream the entire album for free on SoundCloud:

If you want to download the tracks and support the cause, please buy them from CD Baby:

You can also get the album almost anywhere else, including:

Stay tuned, we’ll be doing more recording soon!

Local 269: September 2012

aram — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 03:00:35 +0000

Brave New Girl live at Local 269
September 8 2012

Give It To Me One More Time (3:31)

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Be Proud (5:11)

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All Through The Night (6:27)

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BONUS: Pocket NYC Live

Muttonchop (3:55)

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New BNG Track on SO! Mixtape

aram — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 19:45:15 +0000

Brave New Girl is almost ready to release our new 6-song EP. You can hear one of the tracks now (Thanks for Being on the Show) via the brand new mixtape released by our friends at Sounding Out! It’s called “Can’t Stop Won’t Stop (The Awesomeness),” and the whole thing is dopealicious.

The Shrine: July, 2012

aram — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 03:00:55 +0000

Brave New Girl live at The Shrine
July 2, 2011

Butterfly (3:42)

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Be Proud (4:56)

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8th St. (4:35)

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All Through The Night. (6:55)

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Empire of Two at the Living Room

aram — Mon, 07 May 2012 01:00:16 +0000

Dunia and Aram played as their duo alter ego, “Empire of Two,” at the Living Room’s tribute to Jack Hardy.

Local 269: April 2012

aram — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 04:00:30 +0000

We played 2 sets. First up, we did some soul jazz as Pocket:

Next up, we did the Brave New Girl progressive soul thing.

Dunia singing “True Warrior”

aram — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 09:00:30 +0000

On March 3, 2012, Dunia played a gig with the True Warriors in honor of our departed friend Ari Up, aka Madussa. Here’s a clip of Dunia opening the show with the tune “True Warrior” (for which the band was named):

The Shrine: December 2011

aram — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 04:00:08 +0000

Brave New Girl live at The Shrine
December 3, 2011

Butterfly (3:45)

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Looking Glass (6:02)

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8th St. (4:48)

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New Recording: “Can You Tell”

aram — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:33:47 +0000

(Image by Julia Rubunic)

MP3 (320kbps) (6:57)

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10 years ago, we were just like all other New Yorkers: caught up in our heads, trying to live consciously but a little too comfortable in the knowledge of our own security. We loved our city and hated it, spending our days working and our nights playing music and making the scene.

Then, the seemingly impossible happened. We were under attack. At first, none of us knew why, or by whom. All we knew was that someone had come down on us, hard, and we were in pain. In the weeks after the twin towers fell, while the air still reeked of ashes and asbestos and normal life hung suspended in a kind of woozy hangover, we wrote this song. We performed it a few times as Brave New Girl, then when Aram and Dunia moved to LA and formed Dubistry with Matt, we played it a bunch out there.

We’ve never recorded “Can You Tell” until now. We’re putting it out as a commemoration — not of death and destruction, or even of bravery and stoicism in the face of adversity, but rather as a commemoration of our own fear, confusion and ultimate resilience. We’re making it freely available under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike license, which means we want people to share it, remix it, mash it up, and make it their own. In a few months, we’ll also include it on our new album, which we’re polishing up in the studio.

We’d like to personally thank our friends who shared those days with us, including Jake Myers, Harry Bruinius, Maryam Dilakian, Phil DeJean, Naimah Hakeem, and the greatly-missed Ariane “Ari-Up” Forster. We’d also like to thank the friends who contributed their music to this track, including Gene Lewin, Felice Rosser, Vivien Goldman, and Maxine Walters.