Money Mark

“Pick Up the Pieces”
from the album Brand New By Tomorrow
2007
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On February 27, musician/producer/part-time Beastie Boy Money Mark will release his latest recorded effort entitled Brand New By Tomorrow.

“This isn’t your typical jump up and down and have fun record like I usually make,” says Mark of the 11-song project. “I was really vulnerable at the time I was making the album,” Mark continues. “I was writing for therapy, just to get through my day. These songs didn’t come easy. Maybe I wrote a couple in one sitting, but that sitting was a long dark night.”

Tracks on the album contain titles such as “Color Of Your Blue,” “Eyes That Ring,” “Pick Up the Pieces” (the album’s first single), “Black Butterfly,” “My Loss,” and “Summer Blue” just to name a few.

Money Mark was instrumental, literally and figuratively, on Beastie Boys albums like Check Your Head, Ill Communication, Hello Nasty, and the oh, so groovy The In Sound From Way Out. He also played on a couple Beck records, Blackalicious and the first Handsome Boy Modeling School.

This album will mark Money Mark’s first album to be released via Jack Johnson’s Brushfire Records label. Mark and Jack met during a late ’90s recording session helmed by Mario Caldato, Jr. (who also produced Brand New By Tomorrow). Following said meeting Mark subsequently played upright piano in Jack’s band during a tour of Japan. “I gave Jack a set of demos,” Mark explains, “and he wanted to issue them as they were. I told him my idea was to redo them, and after Jack heard that he said ‘Cool, that’s what I really want to put out!'”