Peace (band)

Peace
Origin	Boston, Massachusetts
Genres	EDM
Years active	June, 2011 (June, 2011)–present
Members	Keane Kendall
Past members	Michael Brusco, Liane Ryan, Andrew Proctor, Zane Linehan (currently in Dog Sun), Michael Newton (currently in Dog Sun).

Peace was a rock band from Massachusetts, US that currently changed to Dog Sun and the group Peace is now an EDM DJ solely containing Keane Kendall. The group consisted of Keane Kendall (vocals, bass guitar) Zane Linehan (guitar), Andrew Proctor(former drums), Liane Ryan (former vocals), and Michael Newton (percussion and drums)

The band started getting attention in late 2011 from publications such as Valley Advocate, Daily Hampshire Gazette, Getty Images and Peace Iced Tea. Peace has been compared to Nirvana (band),

History

Peace formed June 2011 in Massachusetts. In an interview with Mario Tama of Getty Images bass player and singer/songwriter Keane Kendall said the group formed from the occupy movement, Mario Tama described in the interview summary the following: NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 01: Demonstrator Keane Kendall from the Boston band 'Peace,' sits in Zuccotti Park along with members of the Occupy Wall Street movement before they marched to the Brooklyn Bridge on October 1, 2011 in New York City. The motorway portion of the bridge is not intended for pedestrians and as some of the marchers attempted to cross that portion, they were stopped midway by police. Hundreds of protesters were arrested. Occupy movement.

Their first press release stated Keane Kendall's views on being a Pacifist".

In September 2012 Peace released a three song tune pack containing songs copyrighted and under rights of BMI "Your Boy In Love" "Im Your Love As Old As A Stone Flowering Tree" and "It's Wonderful To Be Here With You All" for free listening via online, followed shortly thereafter by their performance at Sweatervest Sweaterfest in Ithaca, New York.

Extended History

Peace began nameless originally with a completely different line up of musicians Keane Kendall on guitar and Michael Brusco on drums in 2007. With the groups involvement with heavy drugs the project turned into the band, which added Bass player Brian Birchrum. They parted ways due to the heavy drug use. The only remaining member Keane Kendall went on to work with a new drummer Bruce Figueiredo and Adam Porth on guitar, where Keane switched over to bass in 2008. From here Keane moved from Massachusetts to New Mexico with a girl he met Liane Ryan in 2009. While in new Mexico they conceived two children together. During this time Keane released two acoustic albums about friends, life, love, and children under his own name. Upon moving back from New Mexico to Massachusetts in January of 2011, Keane reformed connections with previous drummer for Dog Sun Bruce, and added guitar player and singer Jack Reynolds, with Keane on bass and vocals as well. Throughout the four months together between february and may of 2011 they battled with disagreements of a band name and musical communication between Jack and Keane which a times resulted in physical fights. Upon an Incident of Jack misplacing some drugs he brought into Keane's home while his daughters were there they got into another physical fight and Keane demanded he leave the group, yet instead the group demanded that Keane leave so he packed his gear up. Two days later their practice space in Springfield, Ma funded by Keane was destroyed by a tornado that ripped directly through their place of playing leaving nothing salvageable. Keane moved on to begin another group when he discovered Liane's hidden ability of being a drum player all along. She saw his despair of looking to simply create a grounded band so she decided to come out of the closet to play. While in Northampton one day Keane met a boy named Zane Linehan and they discussed many things and actually became fond of each others musical creativity, Zane being of a background of rock blues and grunge fit with keane's likeness to belt raspy vocal lines and sometimes monotone verses. Keane added a distortion pedal to his bass setup and together on June 27, 2011, Keane, Zane, and Liane formed the group, "The Unions", after the interest of the IATSE: International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. Together they began a month of recording of songs Keane had already been working on previously with Bruce and Jack. They released via Internet a few songs through a viral market network and played one show in CT at The Room. They began to receive hate emails about keane's sung topics of anti-war, family matters, love, and people's rights through non-violence. Through these emails they found through a slight influence by the band Nirvana to rename themselves simply, "Peace" to not become discourage by people's opinions. They released there now recorded album for sale on August 27, 2011 via iTunes. They named the album: "Union's Third Eye Child's Smoking 27's Band" influenced by "The Beatles" album, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". Peace played a six day event in springfield to promote the album, and toured on into Worcester to the Lucky Dog Hall on the same day and place where The Rolling Stones debut there reuniting tour in 1981. Peace then toured back to CT to The Room for battle of The Bands featuring Face The King, Fear The Masses and others. Being judged by EMI label scouts Peace didn't place any winnings yet received good critique after the show by the judges. During the shows keane has taken a position of wearing an army outfit during performance for reasons of political controversy. Peace travelled to NYC on Oct 1st to the demonstration and received exposure directly through MSNBC on news headlines for them being there, and keane landed his picture with Getty Images with licensing cost of his photo for media use as the band member of Boston based rock group Peace starting at 1,600.00 for US use up to 49,000.00 for Global media news use. Image purchase link: http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/127833655/Getty-Images-News Keane via a press release responded by saying at least his souls being sold for a good message. He also went on to speak with Tony Clement(President of Canada's National Treasury Board, and FEI minister) via twitter about views of USA's federal reserve adding and big bank corporations. The conversation was then forwarded to president Barack Obama. In February their guitar player Zane becoming unmanageable and shifting his topics of interest towards other aspects in life and some brief stints of heavy drug use was given the option to publicly quite instead of being kicked out from the group. The new lineup in turn added back on Michael Brusco on lead and rhythm guitar for a month until heroin led to Mike leaving the group to help himself get clean. The original guitar player Zane joined back on bored and has been a better influence within himself for people. At this same time a new member Andrew Proctor was added as the drummer in place of Liane, and Liane moved to backing vocals. Andy as well has taken a strong backbone on for the band with his talents and strong willed determination to get the music out there even more so than ever before. Andy also has taken a lead role with Keane in writing and singing songs of his own and ones that both Andy and Keane have coordinated on together, as well as playing rhythm acoustic guitar in some with Keane on bass, Liane on drums, and zane on lead guitar. Liane then decided to leave the group. After some time and three song recordings with Zane, Andy, and Keane the group switched drummers yet again to Mike Newton in the winter of 2012. They began the writing process again and have decided to change the group name into the former group Dog Sun and Keane has decided to make Peace into his own music by recording track by track on various instruments and then processing it into deck tracks creating himself into the DJ name Peace. Currently Keane is in the beginning process of writing the music on many different instruments and preparing to write, record, demo, record, master, and begin releasing a mix of Dub Step, Trip Step, Trance, Dance, and Jump Style Music into his first album.