In 2009, So Tonight That I Might See album track ” Into Dust ” debuted at No. 71 and stayed one week on the U.K. singles chart when it featured on a commercial for Virgin Media . Two years later, the song appeared on the “Dust to Dust” trailer for…
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David Roback made his debut appearance as an actor in the 2004 film Clean . He also wrote and produced three songs that were performed in the film by actress Maggie Cheung .
Sandoval performed as part of Bert Jansch ‘s 60th birthday celebration at Queen Elizabeth Hall on November 3, 2003. As well as Ó Cíosóig, Jansch and his son Adam, she was also joined on stage by David Roback for renditions of “Suzanne” and “All This Remains”, a song Sandoval had…
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William Cooper, Mazzy Star’s violinist and keyboardist, died of neuroendocrine cancer on March 16, 2001.
In June 2000, the band reunited for a mini-tour of Europe. Performing up to seven new songs at each of these concerts, Sandoval revealed in interviews around this time that these new songs were written and recorded for Mazzy Star’s fourth studio album, which was to be released independently sometime…
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Their final album for Capitol, Among My Swan , was released on October 29, 1996. Entering the Billboard 200 at No. 68 and, as of September 2001, selling 214,000 copies in the United States, the album was less commercially successful than its predecessors, although it produced their highest-peaking single in…
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In the immediate aftermath of Mazzy Star’s dissolution, Sandoval, who had appeared on the Jesus and Mary Chain’s 1994 release Stoned & Dethroned , made another guest appearance on their album Munki , and also collaborated with the Chemical Brothers , while Roback produced and mixed two songs found on…
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She Hangs Brightly was released in May 1990 on Rough Trade and, although it was not an immediate commercial success, the album established the duo as a recurrent fixture on alternative rock radio, with lead single “Blue Flower” – a cover of the Slapp Happy track – peaking at No.…
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The American branch of Rough Trade folded in late 1990, briefly leaving Mazzy Star without a record label. Within weeks, the duo’s contract was picked up by Capitol , who re-released She Hangs Brightly on November 4, 1990, and released their follow-up, So Tonight That I Might See on September…
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Mazzy Star has deep roots within the Californian Paisley Underground movement of the early 1980s. David Roback, along with his brother Steven, was one of the main architects of leading Los Angeles psychedelic revival band the Rain Parade . Leaving that band after their first LP , he founded Clay…
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