Brook Pridemore

Brook Pridemore (born in 1979 in Detroit, Michigan, USA) is an American singer-songwriter affiliated with the Antifolk scene in New York City. He has released five albums on the Bronx-based record label Crafty Records, and co-produced a compilation of antifolk acts for that label called Anticomp Folkilation. He has contributed to numerous other compilations, and recently shared a split 7-inch with Ghost Mice for Plan-It-X Records.

He Lived in Kalamazoo, MI for years doing back yard shows and working dead end jobs to pay for his musical endeavors. Brook was known to sing about the things his friends did, or that he saw while hanging out downtown, just for something to do.

He has toured the United States numerous times and mounted his first European tour in the fall of 2009. Due to his experience playing many house shows on tour, Pridemore and his roommates were inspired to turn his own apartment into a performing venue for local antifolk acts and touring bands; they titled it the Brooklyn Tea Party. January 2010 saw the commencement of the Multinational Perspiration Tour, an undertaking which will see Pridemore, with tandem partners including The Hit and Miss Engines, Doug Cote, Liv Carrow, Crazy and the Brains and Father, Son and Holy Smokes, perform across the US, Canada, and various European countries before the tour ended in New York on June 19, 2010.

As of March 2010, Pridemore has finished writing the song cycle that will become Brook Pridemore's Gory Details.

Discography

Albums

• Metal and Wood (2002)
• First Name, Last Name (2004)
• The Reflecting Skin (2006)
• Brook Pridemore Sings Greatest Antifolk Hits (2007)
• A Brighter Light (2009)

Compilations

• After Hours: A Tribute To The Music Of Lou Reed (2003) - "After Hours"
• Hurry Home Early: The Songs of Warren Zevon (2005) - "Life'll Kill Ya"
• Art Star Sounds Compilation (2005) - "Figure 8"
• The Three-Dollar Gallon Compilation (2006) - "Chocolate Cake City," "Hurricane Ivan (Live)," "The Stevie B. Challenge"
• Anticomp Folkilation (2007) - "Sugar Coma (Snakes on My Brain)"
• Thanks for the Floor (2008) - "The Baptist Crutch"
• Acoustic A.D.-An Acoustic Tribute to the Misfits (2008) - "Last Caress"
• Ghost Mice/Brook Pridemore split 7-inch (2008) - "Fake Brains", "A Palm Tree On The Beach At Coney Island"
• The State I'm In (2009) - "Inauguration Day"
• Chevaliers de la Table Basse : la compile #4 (2010) - "Disappearing Reappearing Ink"
• The Bushwick Book Club Volume I (2010) - "Gave Us Barrabas"
• BTP Vol. 1 Live at the Brooklyn Tea Party - "Celestial Heaven or Leap of Faith"

External links

• Crafty Records' Brook Pridemore page
• Brook Pridemore's Myspace page
• Interview with Brook Pridemore (german)