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After another day of apartment hunting in NYC, I was stoked to return to Nate’s place to find a message from Brian Hazard in my inbox. For those of you who don’t know, Brian is the creative force behind the electronic indie piano-pop band, Color Theory [Official, MySpace, Facebook]. I write that because he does everything, and I mean everything: Songwriting, recording, programming – the whole nine yards. In a recent phone conversation, I asked Brian what he didn’t do. I’m pretty sure he said he had a little help with graphic art

While I was first officially introduced to Brian by Kevin English from eleetmusic, I realized that I’d bumped into his work on several occasions before we first met. Color Theory was a fellow Microsoft sponsored songs artist and Brian’s music was featured on Playlist 7 as well [See: How You've Helped us Share Our Music]. Color Theory was also recently named the grand prize winner in the annual John Lennon Songwriting Contest. I think, once you listen to his tunes, you’ll immediately see why.

Speaking of Color Theory’s tunes, Brain is doing something seriously cool with his blog. About once a week or so, he posts a new song for feedback. Sometimes he even uploads certain parts by themselves so you can see how everything fits together. How cool is that? Recently Brian shared a tune called “It Must be Halloween” which completely blew my mind. Here’s a Google Voice message he left me about story behind the song. I’ve included a streaming version of it below for your streaming pleasure as well. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

P.S. Was that piano breakdown @#($* sexy or what!?