Brian Bergeron

Last night The River 92.5 played “Cavity” off of The Glory EP as part of their Homegrown Music segment every night at 10 pm. It was our first spin on commercial radio (we’ve received play on a number of non-commercial college radio stations) and it was pretty sweet. I was at my girlfriend’s at the [...]

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Last night my band opened for Syd at The Paradise Lounge. The Lounge is my second favorite venue to play at in Boston, behind only the Paradise Rock Club (duh!). The only thing that separates them is a 400-person difference in capacity, a [...]

So a couple things before we get into the article. I’ve been chugging along with the second round of First Tracks and so far I’m in the Top 25. If I’m there at the end of March 31st. I move on. Hurrah. You can vote for me by clicking here.

Secondly, we’re playing at THE PARADISE [...]

I’ve made it to the second round of the FirstTracks Competition sponsored by Gather.com. Voting goes from today until March 31st. You can vote 1x/day and the top 25 (the Top 100 are locked in) move on to the next round!

You can vote by clicking here and scrolling down to the ‘vote’ banner. It [...]

Last night I went to see my brother perform in the Lowell High School idol competition at my old high school. This is the first year of the competition and he was one of 8 finalists, out of more than 30 entries. After playing original songs in the first two rounds, he decided to cover [...]

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I recently received an email from someone claiming to be a concert programmer from Nigeria. He said that he was working on the third year of a music festival and was interested in having my band submit for consideration for the event. In the past they had large acts perform: Beyonce, Jay-Z, Shakira [...]

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Once again, this article is not a criticism of Gather.com, The Decca Label Group, or the First Tracks Competition. At this time, I am ranked 38th out of roughly 400. If I am in the Top 100 at the end of March 17th, then I am moving on to the next round, which I [...]

I have been in Philadelphia and Alexandria, VA (well, I’m still in VA until Friday) so my resolve to post a blog a day during the course of the First Tracks competition has fallen off its tracks. In fact, I was without Internet from Saturday until Monday, which is quite a weird feeling and the [...]

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Upon graduating Northeastern in August of 2007 with a degree in Music Industry, I jumped right in. I had quit my job at Starbucks back in April, and through a combination of street performing and touring colleges in the Northeast, I [...]

I’m competing in Gather.com’s First Tracks Competition for a record deal with Decca Label Group. As part of immersing myself in the site and so people can get to know me better (and hopefully grow to support me), I have decided to post an article a day on the site during the length of [...]