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Poor Bailey searches for MySpace riches

By Luke Powell
powel18@mscd.edu

A lot of new artists produce and record their own music when they are first developing and promoting their music, posting it up on MySpace for the masses to listen to for free. One such example, a rising band in the MySpace ranks (and the entire music scene in general), is Poor Bailey, an indie band that originally started out as a solo project, but ended up as a foursome instead.

In 2003 they self-produced their first album, Two Points Off the Weather Bow, which led them to win “Best Emerging Artist” at the California Music Awards. Within the following years, Bailey played alongside big-named bands such as The Killers, Modest Mouse, Interpol, Franz Ferdinand, Muse and Taking Back Sunday.

In addition to its first record, Bailey has released one other EP, The House is a Headstone, as well as a couple of other singles. All their efforts, though, seem to have been leading up to the most recent full-length album, Pyrite & Gold, which hit the shelves in 2006.

Listening for the first time to one of the songs off the new album, “Mental Telepathy Is Dead,” the band’s catchy vocals and familiar melodies offer a fond sound as comforting as Mom’s apple pie. And who doesn’t love pie?

You can check out Poor Bailey at the http://www.myspace. com/poorbailey and give the music a listen and view upcoming shows as well.