Blue Skies for Black Hearts

Cleverly fusing components of numerous 1960s and ‘70s pop styles with contemporary indie rock, Blue Skies for Dark Hearts were formed simply by Pat Kearns, a songwriter, recording engineer, and producer from Portland, Oregon. Kearns, whose creation and executive credits include tasks using the Dandy Warhols, the Exploding Hearts, as well as the Clorox Ladies, had been having fun with a small number of garage area rock and roll bands for quite some time and originally produced the BSFBH moniker as a car for tunes he’d created and documented by himself. Kearns performed guitars, bass, keyboards, and percussion, aswell as singing business lead, around the 1st BSFBH launch, 2002’s This Dark Heart Is usually Gonna Break, which also presented guest places from many Portland music artists, including drummer Jean Paul Ramos, who become area of the band’s 1st live line-up. BSFBH developed into a appropriate band by enough time they documented their second LP, Change the Light Out, which presented Kearns on acoustic guitar and vocals, Ramos on drums and bass, Mike Lewis (of the extremely Basis) on guitars, vocals, and keyboards, Kelly Simmons (of Guy of the entire year) on bass and vocals, and Ratch Aronica on keyboards and vocals. Change the Light Out premiered in middle-2006 around the Portland-based Ruler of Hearts label; weeks later, some passionate crises (Kearns and Aronica, who have been lovers, split up) and musical disputes (Kearns experienced a falling out in clumps with Ramos) resulted in shake-ups in the group’s regular membership, and Aronica and Ramos had been out of BSFBH. Kearns, Lewis, and Simmons teamed with multi-instrumentalist Matthew Morgan, bassist Colin Jarrell, drummer Alan Mansfield (from the Good Males), and support vocalist Gabe Lageson (another Good Males member) to record Like Is Not Plenty of, which they monitored over several weekends and released in Oct 2006. By 2008, BSFBH got finally cohered right into a solid four-piece lineup, with Kearns, Lewis, and Simmons became a member of by brand-new drummer and vocalist Paul Noel (of Durango Recreation area), and in the springtime of that season, they released Serenades and Hands Grenades, which Simmons referred to as “the first proper band record despite the fact that it’s the 4th Blue Skies record. It had been full steam forward from right here.” In 2011, BSFBH shaped their very own label, Super Big Ltd., and released their 5th album (and initial using the same lineup simply because their previous work), Embracing the present day Age group. Blue Skies for Dark Hearts also starred in a brief film from the same name, a rock and roll & roll humor compiled by Simmons and directed by Jonathan Griffin.