The news of The Media Club's closing hit us pretty hard. We've released albums there, made fans there, connected with other awesome bands there and feel as comfortable on that stage as we do in our own jam room.
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Jan 19 2017
Immortal Spacetime - Lyrical Inception
Our album Warm In The Dark has a narrative theme that explores the idea of the brier patch as it is represented in various literary works. Primarily the lyrics in Warm In The Dark tap the more subversive roots that…
Dec 16 2016
A Year in Snake Charmer
When we first started recording our shows, it was as lessons to ourselves. Like every high school sports team made to rewatch the mistakes and glories of a given Saturday night, these videos were reminders of every flub, twitch and…
Nov 24 2016
Fuzz Vs. Distortion - sBass Camp with Shawn
Distortion is distortion right?
Nope.
There are many different ways to clip your signal. In Hazel Blackburn, I use a couple of FX to get a variety of distortion sounds. First off, I’m almost always clipping the pre-amp on both…
Nov 7 2016
Victor on Giggles and Paradiddles
Music and comedy are two of my favourite things in the world, so it’s not a surprise that they both go hand in hand. When you think about it, music and comedy aren’t all that different. Yes there are many…
Aug 1 2016
Welcome to The Brier Patch
A black night falls upon a secret garden. Witchery glides amongst the beds of thorns. The breath of a jabberwocky beats against the back of your neck.
Though the huge blocks that make up the granite walls crumble - choked…
Jun 10 2016
You taught your son that ANYTHING he wanted was his for the taking
An Open Letter To Dan Turner
Dear Mr. Turner,
I am going to go ahead and make an assumption here: you and your wife are good parents. You both probably made sacrifices to give your son a bright future. You…
May 9 2016
KILL THE SINGLE
Once. Once we hotly anticipated a new album, lined up to purchase it and spent the next weekend pouring over the art, reading all the lyrics and dissecting the liner notes. An album used to be a journey with a…
Apr 12 2016
sBass Camp: Ground Control - The Pedal Board
While three piece bands are not uncommon, it’s rarer for bass to be the lead instrument in one. But what is VERY common is for Shawn to be asked after a show, “Dude… HOW are you getting those sounds?!” So…
Nov 19 2015
Aural Expectations
Every time I am asked, I struggle with the choice of how to describe my role in Hazel Blackburn. I usually go with “I sing” and leave out “and play the ukulele.”
Partly I leave the uke out because it…
Partly I leave the uke out because it…
Sep 1 2015
Sound Capture
There is a strange place between writing and recording songs. Before you record a song, it's a living document: things change, iterations rise and fall. You can't even really make mistakes when playing because we haven't said "This is the…
Jul 17 2015
Sound Gestation - Brewmastery for Audiophiles
Having spent the last year in a dank room cooking up a new band, we put a lot into creating our new sound.
By which I mean, we didn't talk at all about what we were trying to sound like…
By which I mean, we didn't talk at all about what we were trying to sound like…