the new mazzy star is finally coming out on sept. 24th

[shalloboi]

came home to quite a lot of great stuff when i walked through my door an hour ago- some vinyl treats and then this article popped up on facebook when i logged in-

http://www.spin.com/articles/mazzy-star ... -your-day/

listening to 'california' right now, which is unsurprisingly gorgeous. there's going to be a double vinyl version- definitely looking forward to that!

[nghst]

That is great news! I'd been checking google news and Mazzy Star and Hope Sandoval forums every couple of days the last few months hoping to hear news like this. I'm listening to California as I type this.

[redcloud]

Finally! This is very good news, indeed. I hope they play some dates too and come to Portland.

[suskind]

Very excited to hear this news. Hoping for a long tour dates to follow the album release.

[moop]

while you're waiting...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMa-JuMfLzA

[shalloboi]

while you're waiting...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMa-JuMfLzA

they always do the best covers- perfect!

[The Dr]

Mazzy Star's 17-Year Silence: 'Music Is Its Own Language'
'We never stopped writing or recording. We just stopped performing and releasing things'
By Steve Baltin
August 20, 2013 3:20 PM ET

When Mazzy Star last released an album, 1996's Among My Swan, Bill Clinton was still president. Seventeen years later, the duo of David Roback and Hope Sandoval are set to return with the forthcoming Seasons of Your Day.

Roback tells Rolling Stone the impetus for finally releasing new music was simple: an upcoming tour that will kick off in November. "We just decided to release a collection of songs," he says. "We're going to be doing more concerts in the future, so we thought it would be exciting to perform some of our unreleased newer songs."

Mazzy Star was widely believed to be on hiatus for some time, but Roback and Sandoval say they have continued to make music all these years. "We're always recording music, writing songs," Sandoval says.

"We never stopped writing or recording. We just stopped performing and releasing things," Roback adds.

The prospect of a wealth of hidden Mazzy Star tracks will make the duo's many diehard fans salivate. While Roback isn't sure what will happen with all the material, there is hope people will hear the songs. "Some of them may appear in our live concerts, some of them we may release later," he says.

Listen to Mazzy Star's 'Common Burn'

However, the music they've been making all these years is primarily for themselves. "When I'm working on music with Hope, the person that's foremost in my thoughts is Hope," says Roback. "We tend to get quite caught up in just the making of music for ourselves."

Roback does admit he's curious to see how the band will be greeted after such a long absence. "We've met a lot of interesting people who like our music, and it's always been kind of interesting to us to take our music out of our private world and share it with other people," he says. "It's an interesting thing, if not necessarily always our priority."

He's looking forward to bringing the new music from Seasons of Your Day to the stage. "This new album has a lot of different combinations of instruments, acoustic and electric in different combinations we haven't used so much before. It's kind of a subtle thing we're more aware of, but it's interesting for us to perform this music live now," he says. "There's a lot of subtlety in the music, and to actually put that across live, when it happens, it's really exciting."

For Sandoval, the thought of reintroducing some of their back catalog is just as gratifying. "I personally am excited about playing a lot of the old songs," she says. "I do think they'll fit in with the new music, because it's the same people that are playing the music."

Mazzy Star are known for doing very few interviews, but we found them very entertaining and gracious in their own way. Discussing film, whether it's Antonioni's seminal Blow Up or the more recent An Education, the duo open up. "We have a sort of Chauncey Gardner approach to music," jokes Roback, referring to the famed Peter Sellers character in Being There.

"It's hard to translate musical ideas into words," he says. "I think the music is its own language."

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[The Dr]

someone must have left the taps on because we have a leak...

[suskind]

Seems their new LP is available for online streaming.. I'm waiting for my physical copy though
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2 ... _stre.html

tour dates

11-03 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom
11-04 Seattle, WA - Neptune
11-06 San Francisco, CA - Warfield Theatre
11-07 Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern
11-10 Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre
11-12 Minneapolis, MN - Mill City Nights
11-13 Chicago, IL - Vic Theatre
11-15 Detroit, MI - Majestic Theatre
11-16 Toronto, Ontario - Danforth Music Hall
11-17 Montreal, Quebec - Club Soda
11-19 Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club
11-20 New York, NY - Terminal 5
11-22 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer
11-23 Silver Spring, MD - The Fillmore

[shalloboi]

Seems their new LP is available for online streaming.. I'm waiting for my physical copy though
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2 ... _stre.html

i have no will-power.
i love it- what a shock. i'm not sure how it compares to their other records since i've always had trouble comparing those first three.
i'm still surprised that this song has continued to escape a proper release- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFjeFdKimpU
there's footage of them playing it at the bridge school benefit in 1994. i think it shows up on a bootleg from 1990 as well. amazing song as it is here, but after hearing the finished version of 'does someone have your baby now?' compared to the one from this same bootleg (where it's just called 'blues') i can't help but wish that this song had made it too.
but then there's 'in the kingdom' which is an amazing song- they seem to be one of those bands that always nails the opening track.
it's so late, and yet i'm fighting the urge to listen to the record again...

[pale blue eyes]

listened to the stream yesterday and sounds pretty good on first listen. to be honest i am more excited about her other project Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions.

here is a great track with Hope and the late great Bert Jansch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd1rJuQGbMI

saw the Warm Inventions play a few years ago in San Francisco and it was simply wonderful. Hope rips up the glockenspiel live, and who knew what an amazing guitarist Colm is.

[beaker73]

Just picked it up at my local record store on lovely marbled purple vinyl. Giving it a spin right now. Sounds very much like time stood still. Which is a good thing

[jadiaz]

Just picked it up at my local record store on lovely marbled purple vinyl. Giving it a spin right now. Sounds very much like time stood still. Which is a good thing

where do you live that you were able to get it so early??

[beaker73]

The Netherlands. was pretty surprised myself they already had it!

[shalloboi]

Just picked it up at my local record store on lovely marbled purple vinyl. Giving it a spin right now. Sounds very much like time stood still. Which is a good thing

did it come with a download code?

[beaker73]

Yep, .wav-files no less!

[Aquarian-Time]

The album is absolutely splendid, spent a lovely chilled evening lsitening to this and new Carlton melton album...and a bottle of red !!
These WAV files ? Obvioulsy I understand the quality is better than an MP3 but my ITunes doesnt seem to want to know so I can upload it onto my ipod ! Am I being a bit thick here, I havent come across WAV files before, do i need to convert them to mp3 ?
Apologies in advance if this is deemed a really stupid question

[beaker73]

WAV-files are basically CD-quality audiofiles. You can import them into Itunes and convert them to mp3's or apple lossless (if you want to keep the soundquality)

[shalloboi]

The album is absolutely splendid, spent a lovely chilled evening lsitening to this and new Carlton melton album...and a bottle of red !!
These WAV files ? Obvioulsy I understand the quality is better than an MP3 but my ITunes doesnt seem to want to know so I can upload it onto my ipod ! Am I being a bit thick here, I havent come across WAV files before, do i need to convert them to mp3 ?
Apologies in advance if this is deemed a really stupid question

if you don't want to compress them down to apple lossless or mp3 you could convert them to .aiff files- those can be played on an ipod.

[spzretent]

Very, very impressed with this record. Been listening to it a lot the past week. Lots of different styles w/in the Mazzy Star trademark sounds.
One shop here returned all their vinyl copies because they said it wasn't colored vinyl. They obviously did not hold the vinyl up to the light. Oops!

[redcloud]

I've yet to pick it up but I most certainly will!

I do have my tickets, however, for the first show of their tour! Nov. 3rd is looking like a great day. Browns game in the morning (w/a hopeful win, of course), Mazzy in the evening.

[Shinesalight]

Very, very impressed with this record. Been listening to it a lot the past week. Lots of different styles w/in the Mazzy Star trademark sounds.

Couldn't agree more Alan, it's a lovely record. Mrs Shines and I sat down for dinner the other night with an excellent bottle of red and put this on....sounded gorgeous.

[redcloud]

Just wrote a review of last night's Portland show:

http://forum.spiritualized.me/viewtopic ... 80#p118378

[purespace]

thanks for the review redcloud, looking forward to Detroit next week

[The Dr]

they were here last summer playing sheps bush empire i saw hope outside when i was picking up my ticket and her minders (some ladies) started being aggressive- i was far more interested in getting out of the rain to be honest!

[The Dr]