{"artistName":"Brittany Shane","artistId":117524,"artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/a57/a57e7c81d4b69e1641d12490d12d87d1_xl.jpg","srcset":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/a57/a57e7c81d4b69e1641d12490d12d87d1_sm.jpg 50w,https://artist99.cdn107.com/a57/a57e7c81d4b69e1641d12490d12d87d1_md.jpg 80w,https://artist99.cdn107.com/a57/a57e7c81d4b69e1641d12490d12d87d1_lg.jpg 200w,https://artist99.cdn107.com/a57/a57e7c81d4b69e1641d12490d12d87d1_xl.jpg 340w","artistBio":"\u003cp\u003eBrittany Shane (born January 4, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter and musician based in Austin, Texas. The Wisconsin-born and raised songstress blends rock and pop with poetry. She got her start performing at The Fillmore in San Francisco, California in 2000, playing acoustic in the Poster Room before acts such as Aimee Mann, Travis and Liz Phair graced the mainstage. Since the release of her recent songs, she has opened for Heart, Foreigner and Peter Frampton as well as headlining her own local shows in the Bay Area. \nHer first San Francisco released CD \"Decked Out\", was selected by Aidin Vaziri (San Francisco Chronicle) as one of his top local CDs of 2005.  \nHer first two recordings, \"Out of the Everywhere\" (1999) and \"Moravian Star\" (2000) were released under her maiden name Brittany Safranek (Shane is her middle name) while attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison. \nShane released her new CD  \"Have Heart Live Young\" on her own Painted Lady Records2 in September 2009.  \nShane has worked with top-notch music makers, including Grammy-nominated mix engineer, Joe Chiccarelli and producer Zack Smith (who founded the '80s band Scandal).  Her music suggests Brit cult group The Sundays, The Bangles, Beth Orton or Mazzy Star. \nSix of the songs on the \"Have Heart Live Young\" CD provide much of the score to the multi-award winning indie film, \"The Village Barbershop\"3, starring John Ratzenberger, (Cliff Clavin from Cheers) and Shelly Cole. The film, called \"warm, humorous and ingratiating\" by Variety, was released nationally in cinemas in March 2009 by Monterey Media4. Shane's music is featured prominently throughout the film. \nShane's songs TV placements include:  A national Hyundai commercial (2008), Bad Girls Club (Oxygen Channel) (2008), Living Lohan (Oxygen Channel) (2008) and Parking Wars (A\u0026amp;E) (2009) and the documentary \"After Happily Ever After\" which is schedule to air on PBS in early 2012. \nShe was a KFOG Spotlight Artist in the fall of 2008 and the San Francisco Chronicle's Fresh Artist in May 2008. \nShane promoted her new album \"Have Heart Live Young\" on on her first US Tour from November 2009-August 2010 with 80 dates across the U.S. Aidin Vaziri featured her tour as a main music article in the Pink Pages of the San Francisco Chronicle. \nShe recently released her fifth album, \"Loud Nights On A Short String\" (2012) which was produced by Austin music greats Scrappy Jud Newcomb and George Reiff, who also played guitar and bass on the CD, along with Dony Wynn playing drums and Johnny Goudie on keyboards. \n External links\nBrittany Shane\u003c/p\u003e","musicPath":"/music/Brittany+Shane","playStationPath":"/stations/283168555/play","stationId":283168555,"bioPath":"/music/Brittany+Shane/_full_bio","similars":[{"musicPath":"/music/Leslie+Pearl","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/d3e/d3e7817e072cf928a37eda770670ad38_md.jpg","artistName":"Leslie Pearl","artistId":122635,"station_id":283861297},{"musicPath":"/music/Greta+Gaines","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/4c8/4c88da1a33bb1172164e9b934243ad4f_md.jpg","artistName":"Greta Gaines","artistId":119368,"station_id":283329006},{"musicPath":"/music/Shannon+Brown","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/b82/b82629886d4d3607e8838a6ed73a7228_md.jpg","artistName":"Shannon Brown","artistId":113043,"station_id":282360907},{"musicPath":"/music/Janie+Chu","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/12d/12de75470ff558616a7f350de6cf1b91_md.jpg","artistName":"Janie Chu","artistId":131531,"station_id":285483487},{"musicPath":"/music/Annette+Funicello","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/a05/a057ed0b614c7c48de74b4e7ca25a0da_md.jpg","artistName":"Annette Funicello","artistId":1349,"station_id":113331108}]}