Blinker The Star

The "Below the Sliding Doors" Music Video

[From the Wikipedia Entry] Blinker the Star is a Canadian indie rock band, originally from Pembroke, Ontario. After their first release, they moved to Montreal. Band leader Jordon Zadorozny is known for having cowritten songs with Courtney Love. Other notable musicians that have appeared on Blinker the Star albums include one of Jordon's childhood heroes Lindsey Buckingham, Lee Sklar, Ken Andrews (of Failure, ON, and Year of the Rabbit), and many others.



On the strength of favourable reviews for their self-titled independent debut in 1993, which featured complex, hard guitar pounding riffs mixed with softer, melancholy based tracks, the band released two albums on major labels in the United States, and was widely promoted as a potential "next big thing" in alternative rock. However, the genre's commercial appeal was already beginning to fade when the band's major label debut, A Bourgeois Kitten, was released in 1996. Consequently, commercial success never materialized for the band, and after being dropped from DreamWorks Records, the band re-emerged in 2003 with Still in Rome.



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A few years ago I was going through a Journalist phase and tried to interview all of my favorite musicians. On my journey I interviewed Jordan of Blinker the Star. He even sent me a couple stickers and a CDR of the song Still in Rome. I was pretty jazzed. The album wasn't even out yet.



Jordan eventually invited me up to Canada to a show they were playing, but it was amidst the SARS outbreak and my mother wouldn't let me go. Not going to Canada to see Blinker is one of my biggest regrets. To this day I mention Blinker when I'm listing my top five favorite bands.



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