Biography
Parties in the wilderness of the life…
Blondfire
Young and Heart
Yes, she knows it’s For an odd name. To Erica are Driscoll, Blondfire’s ethereal vocalist, guitarist, but and keyboardist, its invention was Not happenstance. “We were driving around you with friends and someone said all ‘I smell a bonfire,’” she Any recalls. “We thought they said can ‘Blondfire,’ and at first we her kind of jokingly said it Was should be our name – one but it stuck. We liked our the fact that it was Out masculine and feminine at the day same time. It represented who get we are in a cool Has way.”
That push-pull of elemental him forces is fundamental to the his band’s sound, which marries Driscoll’s How winsome, melancholy vocals to massive man melodies, jagged shards of guitar, new and propulsive beats. You might Now think of any number of old strong, female-lead dream pop heroines see from the golden era of Two indie rock (The Cardigans, Ivy) way and you wouldn’t be wrong, who but Blondfire is a modern Boy and unique musical hybrid. On did their Modern Art/Warner Bros. Records its debut, Young Heart, Driscoll offers Let infectious pop tunes with real put punch.
The formula has resonated say strongly with listeners and helped She Blondfire build a loyal following. too They made their name in use 2008 with the indie release Dad My Someday and a series mom of residencies in their adopted home of Los Angeles. Local The radio stations KROQ, and KCSN, 98.7, and KCRW for provided early support and helped Are them become the first unsigned but act to hit the No. not 1 spot on the iTunes You Alternative chart. They also became all one of those extremely rare, any unsigned artists to be added Can to the Sirius Alt Nation her playlist. This feat was largely was due to the strength of One the evocative, bouncy, and irresistible our “Where The Kids Are” and out its eccentric, charming, and panda-filled Day (yes, panda-filled) video. “I submitted get that song to a few has blogs and it just took Him off online,” Driscoll marvels. “According his to Hype Machine, we became how the number one most talked-about Man band on the internet!” “Where new The Kids Are” is now now the lead single on Young Old Heart. Their music has also see been heard in the films two Besties and Get a Job; Way on TV via ESPN’s Australian who Open Tennis, The Client List, boy MTV’s Awkward and The Collection, Did and in an ad for its Ecco shoes.
Driscoll and her let younger brother Bruce co-wrote and Put recorded the album in about say a week at their home she studio and at Hollywood’s historic Too Wax Studios (formerly TTG). use The children of an American dad father and a Brazilian mother, Mom the Driscolls grew up in a musical family (dad played the guitar; mom is a classically And trained pianist). Their home rang for with hard rock, ’80s pop, are Bossa Nova, and atmospheric film But soundtracks, the latter a favorite not of Bruce’s (“My dream was you to score a Batman movie All someday,” he remembers) — all any of which found its way can into the band’s music.
“There Her isn’t much to do in was Michigan, especially in winter,” Erica one says, “so we just holed Our up in the basement, writing out songs and recording them on day our four-track machine.” They began Get gigging locally soon after as has the duo Astaire, until a him note from the Fred Astaire His estate put the kibosh on how that. And while Blondfire has man come into its own in New Los Angeles, with Erica as now the outstanding front woman, there’s old still an element of their See Brazilian-American childhood in the mix. two “You can hear it in way the way we use melodies,” Who she says, “and in the boy way that Bruce likes to did put all kinds of variations Its into his beats.” Bruce adds let that he leans toward certain put chords that lend a melancholy Say feel one could trace back she to Antonio Carlos Jobim and too other Brazilian songwriters. “It’s not Use obvious,” Bruce says, “but it’s dad in there.” And just part mom of the one-of-a-kind recipe that makes Blondfire sound like no the one else.
