Electro dream pop duo Bern & the Brights is Bernadette Malavarca and Catherine McGowan. Mixing rhythmic loops, synths, ambient guitars, emotional vocals, and introspective lyrics, their music is a fusion of light and dark wave.

Both vocalists and multi-instrumentalists, Malavarca and McGowan write, produce, record, and perform their music. The group’s newest work, a double AA side 45rpm 7″ single, featuring songs “Sorry for My Sins” and “I Believe in Anything You Say to Me,” produced by Paisley Longthrob, was released November 2019 on Souvenir Records.

NOTEWORTHY PERFORMANCES

Bern & the Brights have performed with Butch Walker, Rhett Miller, Mike Doughty, Nicole Atkins, Living Colour, Melissa Ferrick, Allo Darlin’, Ian Hunter, The Baseball Project, The Wombats, Fishbone, Chiddy Bang, Val Emmich, Hank & Cupcakes, The Dirty Urchins, and My Pet Dragon.