Artist: We Were Pirates
Hometown: Washington, DC
Venue: Bella Cafe & Bar
Date & Time: Saturday, June 4th, 2011 @ 3 PM
Links:
wewerepiratesmusic.com
facebook.com/wewerepirates
twitter.com/wwpmusic
myspace.com/wewerepirates
wewerepirates.bandcamp.com/
last.fm/music/We+Were+Pirates
Sample Music:
Play “Settle Down” by We Were Pirates (mp3 link)
Play “Long Year” by We Were Pirates (mp3 link)
Bio:
2010 was a good year for We Were Pirates. In January, the debut full-length, “Cutting Ties” reached #41 on the CMJ top 200 charts for college music airplay. Then, more recently, MTV featured the song, “Settle Down” on episode 11 of “The Real World: DC.” And E! played several We Were Pirates songs on “Keeping Up With The Kardashians” and “Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami”.
We Were Pirates is DC-area native and multi-instrumentalist, Mike Boggs. Boggs writes and records his indie rock songs in his home-studio. On “Cutting Ties”, as with the debut EP, “The Wolf”, every instrument was performed and recorded entirely by Boggs in his home studio. The new songs are something of a departure from the quieter, more subdued style of the EP. “Cutting Ties” is louder, poppier, and catchier than the catchiest dog-catcher.
“Cutting Ties” features a version of “The Three of Us,” a cover song that Boggs recorded which was featured on the Chicago Public Radio show, This American Life. As a result, Chicago Tribune rock critic and co-host of Sound Opinions, Greg Kot, heard We Were Pirates’ version of the song and described it thusly: “Pure pop. This should be the next Fountains of Wayne single…genius.”
At the moment, We Were Pirates is playing shows with a band comprised of Gabe Fry (The NRIs, Lejeune, The Alphabetical Order), Kate Rears Burgman, and Ben Skinner as well as working on tracking for a follow-up record in 2011.
