Brother Howe's Official Site http://www.brotherhowe.com Country. Punk. Rock. Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:27:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Hard To Find with Piano http://www.brotherhowe.com/2010/03/29/hard-to-find-with-piano/ http://www.brotherhowe.com/2010/03/29/hard-to-find-with-piano/#comments Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:13:56 +0000 Jason http://www.brotherhowe.com/?p=198 Check this out.  My friend, Micah Vauteau, took our song Hard To Find and added some piano to it.  It really complements the song and gives a whole new feel, or dimension to it.  Thought you might like to hear it.  Also, check out Micah’s website.  He’s an extremely gifted songwriter and singer.  Also, if you have any comments about the song, feel free to post them here.

Here’s the song:

Hard To Find – with piano

]]> http://www.brotherhowe.com/2010/03/29/hard-to-find-with-piano/feed/ 1 Heaven Is My Retirement Plan EP now released! http://www.brotherhowe.com/2010/03/03/heaven-is-my-retirement-plan-ep-now-released/ http://www.brotherhowe.com/2010/03/03/heaven-is-my-retirement-plan-ep-now-released/#comments Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:24:06 +0000 Jason http://www.brotherhowe.com/?p=190 Hey guys, just wanted to  let you know that the new EP is now officially released on our website and also on iTunes.  It will be available at your favorite music buy site soon (Amazon, eMusic,  etc.) but some  companies take longer than others to  get set up.  Here is an advertisement I wrote up and put  on our website.

Heaven Is My Retirement Plan EP NOW AVAILABLE!
This EP not only includes the title song, you also get Hard To Find, a story about a man’s search for meaning in the face of a dead end job and looming unemployment.  But that’s not all; this song collection also features the country-punk version of the Weezer hit Undone (The Sweater Song) as only Brother Howe knows how to do it.  That in itself would be enough to satisfy the most musical of connoisseurs.  However, as a bonus, you also get Wish List 2009, a slower, moodier take on the upbeat song from Brother Howe’s debut album.
You could pay upwards of $3.96 on iTunes for this masterpiece.  However, if you act today and cut out the middle man, you can have ALL FOUR songs; yes the complete collection, for the ultra-low price of just $2.99!!  Click on the button below to begin your purchase and upon check out make sure you hit the button “Continue To Howe Records” and you will be directed to the single immediately where you can download it instantly!
So don’t delay, buy Heaven Is My Retirement Plan today!

Heaven Is My Retirement Plan EP NOW AVAILABLE!

This EP not only includes the title song, you also get Hard To Find, a story about a man’s search for meaning in the face of a dead end job and looming unemployment.  But that’s not all; this song collection also features the country-punk version of the Weezer hit Undone (The Sweater Song) as only Brother Howe knows how to do it.  That in itself would be enough to satisfy the most musical of connoisseurs.  However, as a bonus, you also get Wish List 2009, a slower, moodier take on the upbeat song from Brother Howe’s debut album.

You could pay upwards of $3.96 on iTunes for this masterpiece.  However, if you act today and cut out the middle man, you can have ALL FOUR songs; yes the complete collection, for the ultra-low price of just $2.99!!  Click on the button below to begin your purchase and upon check out make sure you hit the button “Continue To Howe Records” and you will be directed to the single immediately where you can download it instantly!

So don’t delay, buy Heaven Is My Retirement Plan today!


LISTEN HERE

]]> http://www.brotherhowe.com/2010/03/03/heaven-is-my-retirement-plan-ep-now-released/feed/ 2 Music Publishing Name Contest Winner Announced http://www.brotherhowe.com/2010/02/08/music-publishing-name-contest-winner-announced/ http://www.brotherhowe.com/2010/02/08/music-publishing-name-contest-winner-announced/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:30:52 +0000 Jason http://www.brotherhowe.com/?p=166 I know you’ve all been waiting to find out who the big winner was for our Publishing Company naming contest.  Well, after submitting the top names to BMI, getting approval from them and coming up with a decent prize (I didn’t want to give any junk prizes) I am now ready to congratulate Dan Bennett, who submitted the name Holy Howes of Rock Publishing (among a number of other creative and fun ideas).  Jeri and I liked that one best out of all the name ideas.  Thanks to everyone who submitted ideas, it was a lot of fun and I was thrilled at how many of you responded and the quality of the submissions, it was great.  So anyway, here is the prize that Dan has won:

  1. A limited physical edition of the “Heaven Is My Retirement Plan” maxi-single, which includes these four songs:  1. Heaven Is My Retirement Plan 2. Hard To Find 3. Weezer’s Undone (The Sweater Song) and 4. Wish List 2009.  I’ve only paid for a license to sell the Weezer song digitally, so I cannot sell any cd’s with it on there.  Therefore, I’ve made two thus far.  One for Dan and one that I sent in to CD Baby so they can do their digital distribution magic thing.
  2. One Heaven Is My Retirement Plan T-Shirt (as seen on the cover art for the aforementioned maxi-single).  See the picture below.  I had 25 of these t-shirts made up and if you want one and would like to support the band, they can be had for $10 each.  Right now they are available in M, L and XL. A store page on the site will be set up soon, otherwise, just send me an email and we can work out the details.  Yes, you can reply to this email. 

Prize:

Prize

CD Artwork:

Heaven Cover 4

]]> http://www.brotherhowe.com/2010/02/08/music-publishing-name-contest-winner-announced/feed/ 4 Dinner and a Show with Brother Howe http://www.brotherhowe.com/2010/01/22/dinner-and-a-show-with-brother-howe/ http://www.brotherhowe.com/2010/01/22/dinner-and-a-show-with-brother-howe/#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:30:31 +0000 Jason http://www.brotherhowe.com/?p=162 Like I said in our previous post, we will be having dinner before our show on Saturday night. So if you can, feel free to join us for a culinary adventure at Tres Lobos in Holland at 6:15pm on Saturday, January 23rd.  Let me know if you plan on coming so I can make sure we have enough room (for those of you who have already responded, there is no need to respond again).  I have a rather large table reserved.  If you can’t make it to the dinner, but can come to the show, great!  It’s just down the road.  Below are the maps:

Map to Tres Lobos

Map to The Show

See you Saturday night!

Jason

]]> http://www.brotherhowe.com/2010/01/22/dinner-and-a-show-with-brother-howe/feed/ 0 Come see Brother Howe, half of us with beards http://www.brotherhowe.com/2010/01/22/come-see-brother-howe-half-of-us-with-beards/ http://www.brotherhowe.com/2010/01/22/come-see-brother-howe-half-of-us-with-beards/#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:28:11 +0000 Jason http://www.brotherhowe.com/?p=154 Just wanted to send you a quick note that we are playing a big show next Saturday, Jan 23rd at the Bayshore Yacht Club from 8 – 11pm.  You can come anytime.  We’ll be playing all our hits plus some great covers, including our latest country punk version of Weezer’s Undone (The Sweater Song).

If you are interested, we will be having dinner at a nearby resaurant (to be disclosed soon) before the show if you would like to join us and hang out eating food.  This is a chance for us to spend time with our closest friends and fans, which is hard to do when we’re in the middle of blasting out our rock ‘n roll.  If you’re getting this email, you are invited.  Please let me know if you’re coming so we know how many people to plan on.  We can’t afford to pay for everyone, so plan on paying for your own food and drinks.

We’ll also be announcing the winner of our contest for picking out our new publishing company name and announcing the ultra-cool, sweet prizes they won.

If you haven’t downloaded The Sweater Song yet, please take a minute and do so here.

Thanks a lot everyone and take care,

Jason

]]> http://www.brotherhowe.com/2010/01/22/come-see-brother-howe-half-of-us-with-beards/feed/ 0 Brother Howe Internet Sitings http://www.brotherhowe.com/2009/12/30/brother-howe-internet-sitings/ http://www.brotherhowe.com/2009/12/30/brother-howe-internet-sitings/#comments Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:21:32 +0000 Jason http://www.brotherhowe.com/?p=117 Brother Howe has shown up in a couple of corners of the internet world lately and I thought you’d like to know.

First, our song She Don’t Come ‘Round Here No More from our first album, Rock ‘n Roll Country was featured on a podcast called Outlaw Punk Cowboy Show.  Pretty cool!

Secondly, our video for Heaven Is My Retirement Plan turned up on a fly-by-night retirement plan information site that is no longer there (it was there on 12/18, but oh well).  The video’s been viewed now 511 times.  Not bad!

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And so, today I sit at my control station ready to  unleash upon the world our version of Undone (The Sweater Song) by Weezer.  Here it is ladies and gentlemen, please download, listen, enjoy and let us know what you think by posting comments here on our blog.

Right click on the link below and select “Save as…”

Undone (The Sweater Song)

Want to donate some $ for the song? Thanks! Otherwise, take as many copies as you need.  Listen to it and pay us what you think it’s worth!


]]> http://www.brotherhowe.com/2009/12/15/undone/feed/ 2 Download the New Song “Hard To Find” http://www.brotherhowe.com/2009/12/08/download-the-new-song-hard-to-find/ http://www.brotherhowe.com/2009/12/08/download-the-new-song-hard-to-find/#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:46:58 +0000 admin http://www.brotherhowe.com/?p=71 Just wanted to post this song here and let you all know we have a song for you to check out.  Let us know what you think by leaving a comment below too!  I’ve updated the website to allow this feature.

This song was inspired by a screenplay my brother Jeremy wrote called Beautiful Loser.  It is set in Detroit and is about a soon-to-be out of work auto worker who reexamines his life after a chance encounter with Bob Seger. 

Here ’tis: Hard To Find by Brother Howe

Want to donate some $ for the song? Thanks! Otherwise, take as many copies as you need!  It’s up to you how much you want to pay for it.  Listen to it and pay us what you think it’s worth!


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]]> http://www.brotherhowe.com/2009/12/07/november-6-2009/feed/ 0 October 19, 2009 http://www.brotherhowe.com/2009/11/30/blog-in-progress/ http://www.brotherhowe.com/2009/11/30/blog-in-progress/#comments Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:09:29 +0000 admin http://www.brotherhowe.com/blog/2009/11/30/blog-in-progress/ PUBLISHING COMPANY NAME FINALISTS – First, I just wanna say that we had a great time playing last night with some really fantastic bands at the Big Noise on the Westside concert in Grand Rapids. Special thanks to those who came out to see us. It was fun to play again. Also, I just want to thank you guys for sending us your list of possible publishing company names. We ended up with a list of 34 names and out of those, we will be submitting the following names to BMI: Holy Howes of Rock Publishing Co. I’m Not Your Brother I’m Brother Howe Publishing Co. Some Howe Publishing Co. Howe Do They Do It? Publishing Co. Howe Publishing Co. And here’s my honorable mention for funniest: Howe Do U Like C.R.A.P. (Country, Rock And Punk) Tom, you crack me up! Anyway, I’ll get the form submitted and we’ll let you know who the winner is.

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