Dan Bejar is a musical treasure. So why we wait for a new Destroyer album and enjoy the songs he contributed to this years' New Pornographers album he has something new in the works. Hello, Blue Roses are Bejar and his partner Sydney Vermont. Their first creation together, a self titled disc containing 14 tracks, will be released on January 22, 2008 on Locust Music . I am hoping this duo can pull off some sort of Boeckner/Perry magic a la "Plague Park". Knowing, and loving, the music of Bejar I am sure [...]
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Dan Bejar (Destoyer, Swan Lake, New Pornographers) and mutual love interest Sydney Vermont (visual artist, Bonaparte vocalist, former Toronto Children's Choir kid singer) are performing under the moniker Hello, Blue Roses and have announced the release of their self titled 13-track debut, which will be released by Chicago-based label Locust Music . The self-titled disc draws on everything from an unabashed love of 80's AOR ala Prefab Sprout and Kate Bush to prime Aquarian-age femme folk of the 60's and 70's to create an instant classic. shadowfalls.mp3 [...]
Si hace unos días posteaba sobre el nuevo disco de Todd Fancey , el guitarrista de The New Pornographers, hoy le toca el turno al nuevo proyecto de Daniel Bejar, uno de los componentes más activos del grupo canadiense. Además de su trabajo en la banda, sus discos como Destroyer y su colaboración en Swan Lake , Bejar se embarca ahora en una nueva aventura musical junto a su novia, la artista y cantante Sydney Vermont, vocalista del grupo Bonaparte. Hello, Blue Roses , palabras tomadas de una obra de Tennessee Williams, es el nombre [...]
The romantically entwined duo of Dan Bejar ( Destoyer, Swan Lake, New Pornographers ) and Sydney Vermont (visual artist, Bonaparte vocalist, former Toronto Children's Choir kid singer) performing under the moniker Hello, Blue Roses have announced the release of their first album. The 13-track debut will be released by Chicago-based label Locust Music. The self-titled disc draws on everything from an unabashed love of 80's AOR ala Prefab Sprout and Kate Bush to prime Aquarian-age femme folk of the 60's and 70's to create an infectious, readymade classic. [...]
This was certainly an exciting email to read last night, as it easily stood out while sifting through the almost never-ending piles of that I receive everyday. It may seem like another duo to add to the list, but Hello, Blue Roses is an intriguing one as it includes Dan Bejar , who we all know is no stranger to different music projects, and his partner Sydney Vermont . A "sweetheart duo" as it's referred to in the press release. The 13-track [...]
Dan Bejar makes a move, we're gonna write about it. Hence the love for his project with Heartbreak Scene covering obscure Canadian songwriter Mark Szabo, or cam-phone grade YouTube of solid new tunes . Hello, Blue Roses is something more substantial for Destroyer lovers, though; a 13-track album of material from Dan's musical collaboration with his romantic partner Sydney Vermont , a collection with Dan says is a "product of not really caring what people think." Guess they won't care that a lot of people are gonna like it, then. The advance listen spinning its way [...]
Is Dan Bejar so jonesed on musak that he can't settle on just a handful of projects? Apparently not, as he and Lady Sydney Vermont join hands to conjure up Hello, Blue Roses. As it so happens we have the press release announcing the new album and if you're good girls and boys, we'll share an mp3 from Hello, Blue Roses' debut album! The romantically entwined duo of Dan Bejar (Destoyer, Swan Lake, New Pornographers) and Sydney Vermont (visual artist, Bonaparte vocalist, former Toronto Children's Choir kid singer) performing under the moniker Hello, Blue Roses have [...]
The romantically entwined duo of Dan Bejar ( Destoyer, Swan Lake, New Pornographers ) and Sydney Vermont (visual artist, Bonaparte vocalist, former Toronto Children's Choir kid singer) performing under the moniker Hello, Blue Roses have announced the release of their first album. The 13-track debut will be released by Chicago-based label Locust Music. The self-titled disc draws on everything from an unabashed love of 80's AOR ala Prefab Sprout and Kate Bush to prime Aquarian-age femme folk of the 60's and 70's to create an infectious, readymade classic. [...]
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DOWNLOAD: Hello, Blue Roses - Shadow Falls (MP3) The romantically entwined duo of Dan Bejar (Destoyer, Swan Lake, New Pornographers) and Sydney Vermont (visual artist, Bonaparte vocalist, former Toronto Children's Choir kid singer) performing under the moniker Hello, Blue Roses have announced the release of their first album. The 13-track debut will be released by Chicago-based label Locust Music. The self-titled disc draws on everything from an unabashed love of 80's AOR ala Prefab Sprout and Kate Bush to prime Aquarian-age femme folk of [...]
Hello, Blue Roses is a new duo, one half of which is the rather talented Dan Bejar and the other a young lady called Sydney Vermont. They've recorded their debut record, to be called Hello Blue Roses (without the comma), and it'll be released on Jan 22nd via Chicago's Locust imprint. The 14-track album apparently finds the duo subverting the normal indie rock schtick. Bejar, via their press release, "The Hello, Blue Roses songs are completely untethered to any of the bullshit streams coursing through the scene right now...a product of not really caring what people [...]
Download: Shadow Falls (mp3) The romantically entwined duo of Dan Bejar (Destoyer, Swan Lake, New Pornographers) and Sydney Vermont (visual artist, Bonaparte vocalist, former Toronto Children's Choir kid singer) performing under the moniker Hello, Blue Roses have announced the release of their first album. The 13-track debut will be released by Chicago-based label Locust Music. The [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
There are about half a dozen other things I should be writing about in order to preserve one of the key elements of journalism: timeliness - however, I've become mildly obsessed with Dan Bejar since last year , so I can't keep myself from jumping all over this. Hello, Blue Roses is the pairing of Dan Bejar (Destroyer, New Pornographers, Swan Lake) and Sydney Vermont who are "romantically entwined," according to the press release - which also mentions '80s AOR, femme folk from the '60s and '70s and Kate Bush, some of which is accurate, some of [...]
Just sorting through a mountain of e-mails and one certainly stands out. Dan Bejar (Destoyer, Swan Lake, New Pornographers) joins forces with Sydney Vermont to form Hello, Blue Roses . The 13-track debut will be released by Chicago-based label Locust Music on January 22, 2008 . Dan summarized his thoughts on the album, critics, and the current state of music in the press release by saying, "When I listen to the sound of it, I hear European pastoral music butting up against a harsh 80's reality," Bejar says. [...]
Now that his other music projects, Destroyer and The New Pornographers , have their new albums out, Dan Bejar has announced that his latest music project " Hello, Blue Roses " will be releasing its debut album this January on the 22nd. In the company of Dan Bejar is Sydney Vermont . Despite them being in a relationship, the two have worked together before in "Bonaparte", along with Steve Wood (The Battles), Josh Lindstrom (The Precious Feathers, the Awkward Stage), and Krista Marshall. In an emial to PitchFork , Vermont [...]
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The heck? Everyone's all-of-a-sudden covering stuff from Your Blues ? Fig. 1: Final Fantasy - An Actor's Revenge , Fig. 2: Spoon - It's Gonna Take An Airplane . I realize of course that showing Destroyer love isn't anything new or particularly notable, it's just that coming across those two in the same week seemed a little weird to me. Dan B. himself is here in NYC for the next few days, for the New Pornos shows at Webster Hall . Tickets are a bit rich for my [...]
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