Brand New Sin EPK Video Documentary!

http://brandnewsin.org

Where's the beat?

Check out my new drum column in Tool & Die Magazine: http://toolanddiezine.com

http://toolanddiezine.com/uniflip/issue9/

Drum Lessons (Syracuse, NY)

My style of teaching is very simple. I try my best to keep drummers drumming. It is tragic to see a musician give up. I like my students to continue to grow without getting bored. I encourage my students to have the most extensive music vocabulary they can. I also make lessons relevant to the student's style and tastes in music.

Details:
*I teach at Subcat Music Studios in Downtown Syracuse (Armory Square) 219 S. West St. Syracuse, NY
*I am the drum instructor for Redhouse Rock Camp also located at 219 S. west St.
*I charge $25 per half hour lesson and $50 per hour lesson.
*I focus on: reading, technique, coordination, timing (click track), music theory
*Styles: concert/orchestral snare, rudimentary snare, drum corps, Pop, Rock, Latin, Blues, Jazz, Reggae, Hard Rock, Metal, Funk, Dance, Industrial and more
*I have an Associates Degree in Music Education and I have been teaching drums for over 10 years. I currently play drums and tour with national recording artists Brand New Sin - http://brandnewsin.org/biosheet.htm

Check out this promotional video featuring Subcat Music Studios: Subcat Promotional Video

If you are serious about drumming please contact me at:

kevinjamesdean@hotmail.com

315-454-2833

If you know someone who may be interested please pass this on. Thanks.

Kevin Dean

DIGITAL DOWNLOADS: AMAZON & NAPSTER

DIGITAL DOWNLOADS

NAPSTER
AMAZON

COMING SOON: ITUNES, RHAPSODY & EMUSIC

Tune Widget

purified, condensed, stronger: "Distilled"

It’s been so long since we had this much news. I can’t help but to reflect on our last couple years as a five piece. We released The Tequila Record in late 2006. We had some of the most exciting shows of our careers in 2007: 3 week UK tour with Soil, Godhead and Lennon; 7 weeks on the Type O Negative tour; 4 shows with The Cult; direct support for Godsmack in our home town; KROCKATHON with Drowning Pool, Chris Cornell, & The Deftones; The New York State Fair Colliseum; BNS headlined Brooklyn Metal Fest with MOD; We headlined NASCAR weekend at Watkins Glenn; and we opened the Jager-Music tour for two shows with Stone Sour, Lacuna Coil & Shadows Fall.

Then we had nothing.

7 months went by with no Brand New Sin.

We got it rolling again with a new singer but that didn’t work. On top of that we had to say goodbye to our long time friend and guitarist for personal reasons.

It didn’t look good.

Luckily, Kris, Chuck and I were still fired up and ready. We had no record label, no manager, no booking agent, no money, no real idea how to do it, and no reason not to try.

WE DID IT!

Brand New Sin is back stronger than ever and we own everything for the first time: copyrights, master recordings, publishing, merchandise …it’s all ours. We have control for the first time in our careers and it feels great. Kris Wiechmann has out done himself with extraordinary writing and musicianship on this album. We couldn’t have asked for a better production thanks to Ron Keck, Derek Yackel at SubCat Music Studios.

This CD had so many chances to fail before it’s inception and we wouldn’t let it. It’s here and it needs to be heard.

Hats off to Brand New Sin! We’re back!

I’ll toast to that!

-Kevin Dean

BRAND NEW SIN SHOWS!

Brand New Sin: New Line up!

MAJOR LINE-UP CHANGE FOR BRAND NEW SIN: WILL THESE GUYS EVER GIVE UP? HELL NO!

Facing a considerably challenging decision to be made about the future of BNS, new singer Joe Sweet has decided to focus on his family and his many personal endeavors. As the co-organizer of The [annual] Utica Music and Arts Fest http://www.uticamusicfest.net and the proud father to be (for the second time in June), Joe has decided that the best move is to back out before recording vocal tracks for Brand New Sin's 4th full length album. The recording is due to hit the streets in June and Sweet will not be available to tour.

Hold on...that's not all...

After 10 plus years of sharing the stage with fellow band mates Chuck Kahl and Kris Wiechmann (in both Godbelow and Brand New Sin) Kenny Dunham has also departed to pursue other interests.

Whew!

That said, Brand New Sin has a new CD on the horizon! Kris Wiechmann, guitarist, principal songwriter and lyricist, has bravely decided to step center stage to become lead vocalist of Brand New Sin. Kris will be honing his vocal skills every Monday at Mac's Bad Art Bar in Mattydale, NY with the "Home Town Zeros" [Brand New Sin 'unplugged']. Brand New Sin also would like to officially welcome Ed Carpenter to the family on guitar and vocals! Ed is well known in Central New York for his guitar work in Titanium Black [who recently performed in Germany and Sweden].

Catch Brand New Sin at Mac's Bad Art Bar in Syracuse, NY Friday, March 13, 2009 for Kris Wiechmann's debut on lead vocals!

Studio

Yes, it has been a while. Although I am very talkative I had nothing to say. It's not that there was nothing going on...rather the opposite is true. I think I have been overwhelmed with plans and events unfolding before me that I needed to step back for a while and see where it would lead.

We are currently recording our 4th full length CD! I can't wait for you to hear it! We actually committed to the studio in November. That gave us 6-8 weeks to polish these songs in pre-production and get them ready for the studio. We started tracking last Wednesday at 8:00pm and I left at 1:30am Thursday morning with all the drum tracks completed. I've never done that before but it just goes to show what can happen when you believe in something and pour your heart and soul into it.

At this time the drum and bass tracks are done and half of the rhythm guitar tracks are done.

Stay tuned...