Happy Holidays from all of us at Brushfire Records

Thank you for your support this year, and we hope you have a great holiday.  If you’re looking for some great holiday music that will help out a great cause (25% of the profits go to funding musical education for kids) check out This Warm December, Vol 1. It features classic holiday covers and new holiday originals from our whole artist roster.  Looking for a last minute gift for that music fan on your list? Check out Mason Jennings’ Blood of Man, Jack Johnson’s En Concert, or Zee Avi’s self titled debut.  Now to look forward to 2010….

Kokua is Back!

As you may be aware, Jack took 2009 off from his annual Kokua Festival, instead opting to donate proceeds from the sale of his live album and film En Concert to help fund the farm to school, environmental education, and recycling programs that the Kokua Hawaii Foundation run. In 2010, the Kokua festival is back!  Mark your calendars, the festival is taking place in Honolulu, HI on April 23rd and 24th.  Ticket and lineup info will be announced early in 2010. We hope you can join us.  More Info at www.kokuafestival.com.

ALO to release Man of The World on February 9th, Free Mp3

Produced by ALO and Jack Johnson, the brand new album was recorded in Hawaii, at Jack’s Mango Tree studios.  ALO will be hitting the road in February to support the record, with more dates to be announced soon. For current dates check out www.alomusic.com/shows.html

The first single from the album, is the title track, and you can download it for free at alomusic.com and watch a special behind the scenes video about the making of the album. 

If you’re looking for plans for New Years Eve and plan to be in the San Francisco area, ALO will be ringing in the New Year with Brett Dennen. Details here: brettdennen.net/newyearseve/

Rogue Wave returns March 2nd with Permalight

Rogue Wave spent several months in Oxford, MS working with noted producer Dennis Herring (Modest Mouse, Elvis Costello).  We can tell you we’re very excited for the world to hear this album, and we could try and describe how it sounds, but we’ll let Zach Rogue speak for himself: “The record sounds, for lack of a better word, fun.”  Not that the melancholy beauty of their earlier records is absent, but there is a new note being sounded here.  A special video recorded in the studio will premiere online after the New Year. Tour dates have been announced, and are onsale now. They’ll kick it all off with an appearance at Noise Pop.  Check it out http://www.roguewavemusic.com/tour

G. Love to tour in 2010

G. Love and Special Sauce are hitting the road for their annual winter tour: www.philadelphonic.com/tour  The tickets are now onsale.  To mark these new dates, we’ll be giving away autographed Shure microphones.  You can enter to win here: www.brushfirerecords.com/glovemicrophone

In Case you missed it…

Mason Jennings was featured on NPR’s World Cafe 

Zee Avi’s debut was named amongst the top 10 albums of the year 

and Radio Milwaukee posted her recent visit online 

and she’ll be at SF’s Noise Pop Festival February 25th 

Rogue Wave’s “Lake Michigan” is currently being heard in trailers for “Up In The Air” 

and Rhapsody named Jack Johnson’s “Brushfire Fairytales” the #9 Rock album of the Decade, and #90 overall