Mazzy Star is David Roback on guitar and Hope Sandoval on vocals, playing psychedelic rock. The duo is deeply rooted in the Paisley Underground movement that originated in Los Angeles, California in the 1980s, and combines elements of psychedelic rock, folk rock, and garage rock. Opal is the project that directly preceded Mazzy Star. Opal was David Roback and, then girlfriend, Kendra Smith both of whom had been in bands directly involved, if not forerunners, in the Paisley Underground prior to Opal. When Smith walked away from the project in the middle of a tour, Hope Sandoval took up duties on vocals. Roback and Sandoval fulfilled the contract that Opal had, and immediately after the completion of that album, renegotiated the contract and changed their name to Mazzy Star. Their debut album, She Hangs Brightly, as Mazzy Star was released on Rough Trade in 1990. It incorporated the sounds that were pioneered by The Doors on "The End", and the guitar drone on The Velvet Underground on "What Goes On". Their next release came on a different label, Capitol, after Rough Trade went under. So Tonight That I May See, was released in 1993, but the single "Fade Into You" only became a success in 1994. And then their third album, Among My Swan, released in 1996 confirmed their ability to create this dark psychedelic rock and make it come alive. According to one interview with Sandoval, the group disbanded because the record label was breathing down their necks to get them to produce a commercially successful underground sound.
Keith Mitchell plays drums for all the recordings and live while Mazzy Star tours. Jill Emery played bass for Mazzy Star after 1993. Suki Ewers played keyboards, rhythm guitar (acoustic and electric) and some bass for the group, but was not on the albums, So Tonight That I May See or Among My Swan, but did tour in the Among My Swan tour.
In 2011, the group reunited and decided to work on a new album set to release in mid 2012, but they did release two songs in October of 2011, the first new material since 1996.
New Material:
http://youtu.be/C7ayH09psxc
http://youtu.be/182Rooyv6Hk
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