Another video from the album launch night at No Name. Beautiful is the third track on the album. Check out other videos from that night here & here. 

Today is June 11. Our album launch party was on April 11. Apparently, it took us two months to get this first video from the event ready--that should tell you that Social Gravy is all about perfection, no matter how long it takes! 

In the next few weeks we are to going post more videos of our love show at the Behind Every Yes launch party. Thank you to Nick Maybury on guitar, David Goodstein on drums, Dave Yaden on keyboard, to the amazing back vocals singers Sharlotte Gibson and Carol McArthur for sharing the stage with us that night! 

Thank you to Daniel Lir of DolceFilms who made this video. Thank you to No Name who hosted our opening night (though no photo policy was a bummer ;) Thank you to the Social Gravy's friend Carshenah Jefferson who helped us distribute the download cards. Thank you to all of our fans, and friends, and friends of friends who came out to support us and hear our music live. Thank you to all of you who couldn't be there but kept asking about the videos from the event--here you are now. And thank you to those of you who listened, gave feedback and shared our songs. More to come--stay tuned! ​

No Name live lineup: 

Brad Kohn - lead vocals, keys, guitar
Vee Bordukov - rhythm guitar
Nick Maybury - lead guitar
David Goodstein - drums
Nick Rosen - bass
Dave Yaden - keyboards
Sharlotte Gibson - back vocals
Carol McArthur - back vocals

Brad: “Vee had some of the riffs... The structure went through a few incarnations. My Love took about 6 months from writing to final master. We recorded the solo live with the band—it was one take, no edits. The final result is deliberately snappy. We wanted it to be charming & vibey, with a live feel. On My Love we are referencing the Black Keys. Thank you to  Phil Simmonds on bass, Jake Hayden on drums, Erik Hammer on electric guitar, Steve Maggiora on Hammond, our engineer Jared Scott, and Candace at the EastWest Studios.” 

Vee: “The Black Keys was the inspiration behind My Love… Most of the song was hidden in my back drawer, we then brushed it off and updated for a more cool, current sound which was The Black Keys at that moment. Hats off guys! My Love is riffy and energetic. We wanted it to hold attention from start to finish. I like playing it. I think it came well together.
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The original version was very much blues oriented which we later turned into a more indie-rock-pop sound with broader audience in mind. First version still sounds cool though in it's own right.” 

Images used in the post: by Larm Rmah & Elijah Henderson via Unsplash.com

Riffy & snappy, with a guitar solo recorded in one take (thanks to Erik Hammer) & inspired by The Black Keys​. Thank you to Phil Simmonds on bass, Jake Hayden on drums, Erik Hammer on electric guitar, Steve Maggiora on Hammond, our engineer Jared Scott and Candace at the EastWest Studios. Video credit: Joram Talbot. 

Listen on iTunes, Spotify, SoundCloud. 

This is how you make music: Hours and hours of writing, playing, re-writing, recording, mixing, listening, then recording and re-mixing again. Repeat. Repeat again. Our first album, Behind Every Yes, is almost ready. Have we created something worth of your time? We surely hope so. We'll know soon enough. Here is a taste: our first single Stone Cold, written and recorded by Brad Kohn & Vee Bordukov.  

"In Stone Cold, we wanted a kind of indie, lonely, thoughtful and somewhat troubled sound. We think we got it. The vocal is quite distorted and when the track drops it's quite intense." 
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Stone Cold by Social Gravy. Follow us on facebook if you love our sound. 

Thanks to Daniel Lir of Dream Team Directors, we've got this cool video of our recording session at Studio 1 of East West Studios. That day we were recording our singles "Stone Cold" & "Fools" with Brad, Vee, Phil Simmonds (bass), Jake Hayden (drums), Erik Hammer (electric guitar), Steve Maggiora (hammond) and Jared Scott (engineer). 

Brad Kohn started playing piano at six, wrote his first song at nine and recorded his songs at a professional recording studio when he was ten. By sixteen, he fronted a rock band as lead singer and rhythm guitarist that played regularly on the London circuit. He went on to the academy the Academy of Contemporary Music to become a multi-platinum record producer. As a producer, he worked with such artists and songwriters as Foo Fighters, The Black Keys, Neil Young, Pendulum, The Prodigy, Chase & Status, James Germain, Coldcut, Desmond Child, TMS, Fred Chateau, Gez O'Connell, Viktoria Hansen (check out Brad’s recording portfolio here).
 
In 2014 Brad moved to Los Angeles where he continues to pursue his music career as a producer, musician, songwriter and vocalist. Check out Brad's stunning vocals on Social Gravy's Stone Cold. 

Jimi Hendrix once said: “Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.”
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We truly believe in it. We, Social Gravy, make music because we want to change the world.