“It's Gone On Too Long” was inspired by the songwriting of Smokey Robinson. It was written around the idea of having call and response vocals between the lead and backups. The video was born out of an idea that Kevin Hanzlik, the director, had about showing the day to day struggles of being in a band - getting your gear to a show, having an unenthusiastic audience, struggles between band members. Kevin's story was similar in some ways to a short story I had written a year or two earlier. I showed Kevin my short story about a group of musicians working a day job as painters. They paint a house for a musician who has had some success but they end up not finishing the painting because of being distracted by the instruments in the house. Eventually, the painters take on the successful musician's instruments. They flourish while the home owner's creativity and abilities whither. In my story, once the painters are successful, another musician comes along and plays the instruments they acquired, stealing their success. Kevin combined both of our ideas into the video for It's Gone On Too Long. Blue Skies engineer, Mark Brachmann, plays the record producer. Chip Mabry, esteemed documentary producer, plays the record exec. And Peter Hughes, guitarist for Sons of Huns, plays the OSPIRG volunteer who steels the musical talent in the end from The Painters. – Pat Kearns
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Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Blue Skies For Black Hearts drops their first single “It’s Gone On Too Long” FOR FREE and releases the video never seen before RIGHT NOW.
“It's Gone On Too Long” was inspired by the songwriting of Smokey Robinson. It was written around the idea of having call and response vocals between the lead and backups. The video was born out of an idea that Kevin Hanzlik, the director, had about showing the day to day struggles of being in a band - getting your gear to a show, having an unenthusiastic audience, struggles between band members. Kevin's story was similar in some ways to a short story I had written a year or two earlier. I showed Kevin my short story about a group of musicians working a day job as painters. They paint a house for a musician who has had some success but they end up not finishing the painting because of being distracted by the instruments in the house. Eventually, the painters take on the successful musician's instruments. They flourish while the home owner's creativity and abilities whither. In my story, once the painters are successful, another musician comes along and plays the instruments they acquired, stealing their success. Kevin combined both of our ideas into the video for It's Gone On Too Long. Blue Skies engineer, Mark Brachmann, plays the record producer. Chip Mabry, esteemed documentary producer, plays the record exec. And Peter Hughes, guitarist for Sons of Huns, plays the OSPIRG volunteer who steels the musical talent in the end from The Painters. – Pat Kearns
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
SHERMAN BAKER releases new video and new album TODAY!!
"I wrote Oregon To Washington while driving to a gig in Tacoma. I stopped in Eugene and spent some time in Hendricks park. The song is about the calming affect nature has. I envy the way animals exist in the moment without the constant neurotic thought that humans are afflicted with. Director Andrew Hooper and I did our best to capture that in the video. The end of the video and song features the cat Norm Lopez purring. He is a local celebrity here in Sacramento due to his friendliness and large girth. It should be noted that he has a much larger fan base than I do!" – Sherman Baker
CD RELEASE SHOW: MARCH 22 @ OLD IRONSIDES in SACRAMENTO, CA
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
NEW VIDEO: RAGS & RIBBONS "Moving on"
Teaming up with Gunderson Inc. in Portland, OR to provide the backdrop for their gorgeous new video, Rags & Ribbons tell a masterful story for their single "Moving On." Set against the manically twisted and rusted world of railroad ties and steel rails, the group dresses the part and roughs it with the regular crew, turning the already powerful and drifting "Moving On" into nothing short of an epic tale. Watch as the group works to save a mysterious plant in this incredibly well crafted video, a feast for both eye and ear.
http://popstache.com/video/rags-ribbons-moving-on/
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Thursday, June 21, 2012
NEW VIDEO The Hague Video "Everyone" w/ free MP3
Download this tune for free.
They are saying about The Hague, well their stellar publicist said:
(THINK: Minus the Bear, Mogwai, The Smiths, Explosions in the Sky, Maps and Atlases, At The Drive-In, The Sea and Cake, The Lemonheads, Look Mexico!, Arcade Fire)
And then there’s their bio:
The Hague creates music that ebbs and flows with its own singular logic, abandoning easy categories in favor of a wide-open approach that moves in all directions at the same time. The sound of Travis Chapman’s lead violin may be the first thing you notice, but you’re soon drawn in by the clash of industrial noise and delicate melodies; guitars that dance between acoustic finger picking and thick power chords; soaring vocal harmonies that shift from melancholy to jubilant and arrangements full of dynamic shifts of volume and tempo. The music is rock, but the band’s epic sound tips its hat to country, pop, jazz, post rock, punk, early R&B, classical and 90′s underground sounds. “Our songs are all over the place,” says Charlie Fisher, the band’s bass player. “We have grungy post rock, up tempo dance songs, pop punk and alt. country songs. We’re likely to include anything that comes to mind when we’re playing.”
http://oregonmusicnews.com/2012/06/21/new-video-of-the-day-the-hague-everyone/
They are saying about The Hague, well their stellar publicist said:
(THINK: Minus the Bear, Mogwai, The Smiths, Explosions in the Sky, Maps and Atlases, At The Drive-In, The Sea and Cake, The Lemonheads, Look Mexico!, Arcade Fire)
And then there’s their bio:The Hague creates music that ebbs and flows with its own singular logic, abandoning easy categories in favor of a wide-open approach that moves in all directions at the same time. The sound of Travis Chapman’s lead violin may be the first thing you notice, but you’re soon drawn in by the clash of industrial noise and delicate melodies; guitars that dance between acoustic finger picking and thick power chords; soaring vocal harmonies that shift from melancholy to jubilant and arrangements full of dynamic shifts of volume and tempo. The music is rock, but the band’s epic sound tips its hat to country, pop, jazz, post rock, punk, early R&B, classical and 90′s underground sounds. “Our songs are all over the place,” says Charlie Fisher, the band’s bass player. “We have grungy post rock, up tempo dance songs, pop punk and alt. country songs. We’re likely to include anything that comes to mind when we’re playing.”
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