Mazzy Star : C or D

The hunter record she recently brought out is solid too

Everything she's ever done is good imo but nothing will top STTIMS for me.

yeah i may have been slightly exaggerating back in 2009, but whenever bavarian fruit bread comes on (it's a fave of my wife's) i'm struck by how good it is.

TBH i kinda feel that way about the second warm inventions record - through the devil softly - which gets more plays than any MS record around mine

caveat of course that i like mazzy star just fine but TTDS just hits the spot for me more consistently and deeply, it always feels a bit heretical when i tell friends tho'!

i saw the warm inventions tour that record and it was a really beautiful show (although i heard that some of the other dates on that tour were a bit troubled)

New single is lovely: https://youtu.be/WBbEVzgoEhA

oooh, new EP in June! so happy they're in the studio these days

You made my day

Mazzy Star are coming to Los Angeles:

February 26 & 27
The Cathedral Sanctuary at
Immanuel Presbyterian Church
Presale:
Thu, 1/17 at 10am – Thu, 1/17 at 10pm
Password: CELEBRATE
Public On Sale: Fri, 1/18 at 10am

i think i need to go!

they're really good live!

I think I might need to go too!

BTW, Hope Sandoval is on a Bobby Gentry tribute album, singing "Big Boss Man" - In Praise Of: Bobbie Gentry, "The Delta Sweete"

So I went to the Oakland show and one of the LA shows, and they were pretty magical. Especially the LA show in a gorgeous old church. Listening to the after-show banter at a nearby bar, was amused to hear how many fans were aggrieved that the stage was unlit so they couldn't get any good pictures or even see Hope Sandoval. They had a big screen with these animated overlays that changed for each song that was great though. Some fans don't know they're born.

i forgot all about these shows, glad you had fun Hazel.

Hoping for the best

😢Yesterday I got bad news, diagnosed with breast cancer. Still processing the whole thing. Please send healing thoughts and pics of puppies, kittens, snakes, tardigrade, and space things. Thanks.

— Suki Ewers 🎶💫✨🚀🛰🦠🧬🧪 (@sukianemone) February 20, 2020

RIP David Roback.

https://pitchfork.com/news/mazzy-stars-david-roback-dead-at-61

Damn

oh no, that is terrible news! one of my absolute favorites

RIP. Damn shame.

Shit.

I just listened through the Mazzy-catalogue just the other day. Love them.

RIP
such a great sound, and enduring I still run across new bands of people in their 20s that are clearly influenced by Mazzy Star

so much "dreampop" owes them a huge debt

Mazzy Star were EVERYTHING to me in the early 90s, and led me to the wonders of Opal too. I'm really shocked.

RIP

RIP. She Hangs Brightly is all-time.

some of the druggiest music ever made, it hangs in its own special hazy sweet spot and practically makes the walls drip when it's playing

(meant as high praise)

The guitar tone of "Ghost Highway".

This is horrible news. He meant a lot to the LA scene. RIP

https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2020-02-25/david-roback-mazzy-star-dead

No way... This really sucks. Amazing sounds and moods.

Being quietly destroyed here by Still and Seasons of Your Day - inevitably I spent less time with them than the early records but there's no loss of magic.

Cause of death is cancer. :-((

god these records sound SO GOOD, so much space, great sound, everything

yeah Among My Swan was sounding fantastic last night — I kind of slotted that one as the weakest of their original three records, but I think I was wrong. Just a totally enveloping soundworld/mood.

“I wanted to make music that I felt and if people liked it, fine, otherwise the music would be enough reward.”

Only just heard this news, fucking hell

Extremely good article here, many reflections from friends and collaborators:

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2020-03-06/david-roback-mazzy-star-susanna-hoffs-opal-cancer

:(
https://reverb.com/item/44135848-1968-fender-telecaster-guitar-blonde-w-bigsby-owned-by-david-roback-44566