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,
Leland Sklar,
Ken Andrews, 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. However, songs from the 1999 release
August Everywhere, particularly "Below the Sliding Doors", enjoyed considerable airplay on Canadian radio stations such as
102.1 The Edge; the album was number 89 on The Edge's top 102 albums of 1999.
After being dropped from
DreamWorks Records, the band re-emerged in 2003 with
Still in Rome.
Discography
