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Hazel
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HAZEL was a post-punk band from Portland OR featuring Jody Bleyle (drums, vocals), Peter Krebs (guitar, vocals), Brady Smith (bass), and Fred Nemo (dancer). They released 2 records on Subpop before breaking up. Jody Bleyle was also in Team Dresch. Pete now releases music under Pete Krebs and the Gossamer Wings. The vocal interplay between Krebs and Bleyle set Hazel apart from the other Northwestern bands of the time, adding a slightly more textured feel to their lovely guitar crunch. Not entirely averse to pop melodies, Hazel nevertheless balanced these with some delightful noise-making and melancholic moping. In their heyday Hazel used to tour with other local Portland bands Pond, Crackerbash, Sprinkler and Heatmiser which featured the late Elliot Smith.
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HAZEL was formed in 2003 by a Polish singer and songwriter - Joan Wisniewka /aka Hazel/. She composes, produces, programmes and performes her songs as well as she writes lyrics, plays guitar and piano/keyboards.
Her self-titled “Beauty Loves Aggression” CD is a demo recorded at her home studio in Warsaw, Poland. So far no official album has been released, yet. However Hazel is always open and eager to work with any label willing to promote and release her music.
Many bands and artists such as: Nine Inch Nails, Jeff Buckley, Graeme Revell, Marilyn Manson, Tool, A perfect Circle, Hole, Jane Siberry, Crash Test Dummies have contributed to the sound and form of Hazel’s music and have been a great source of inspiration for many years.
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HAZEL was a post-punk band from Portland OR featuring Jody Bleyle (drums, vocals), Peter Krebs (guitar, vocals), Brady Smith (bass), and Fred Nemo (dancer). They released 2 records on Subpop before breaking up. Jody Bleyle was also in Team Dresch. Pete now releases music under Pete Krebs and the Gossamer Wings. The vocal interplay between Krebs and Bleyle set Hazel apart from the other Northwestern bands of the time, adding a slightly more textured feel to their lovely guitar crunch. Not entirely averse to pop melodies, Hazel nevertheless balanced these with some delightful noise-making and melancholic moping. In their heyday Hazel used to tour with other local Portland bands Pond, Crackerbash, Sprinkler and Heatmiser which featured the late Elliot Smith.
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HAZEL was formed in 2003 by a Polish singer and songwriter - Joan Wisniewka /aka Hazel/. She composes, produces, programmes and performes her songs as well as she writes lyrics, plays guitar and piano/keyboards.
Her self-titled “Beauty Loves Aggression” CD is a demo recorded at her home studio in Warsaw, Poland. So far no official album has been released, yet. However Hazel is always open and eager to work with any label willing to promote and release her music.
Many bands and artists such as: Nine Inch Nails, Jeff Buckley, Graeme Revell, Marilyn Manson, Tool, A perfect Circle, Hole, Jane Siberry, Crash Test Dummies have contributed to the sound and form of Hazel’s music and have been a great source of inspiration for many years.
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Videos
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Hazel - Project 11 (An Angels Love)
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Hazel - Atmosphere (Touching the Sky)
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Hazel - Ringing In My Ears
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Hazel - Comet
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Gemeos wrote:
Yes it does. There should be a seperate Hazel for the portland band so i could be the number 1 listener of portland´s Hazel :D
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c64glen wrote:
Wow, Last.fm really leaves at to be desired as far as duplicate artist names are concerned.
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thiago_c wrote:
bosta pisada
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Gemeos wrote:
And most of the tags are all wrong D:
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Gemeos wrote:
D: a pity there are so many artists under the name hazel. I go for the alt rock ones from Portland : D
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Bittin wrote:
maybe in HVSC?
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JayL1212 wrote:
Where is my Chiptune I love so much???
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Bittin wrote:
We got 3 Hazel ;)
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deathstar461 wrote:
I remember seeing Hazel on Beavis and Butthead... it was cool.... huh huh huh
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All_The_Blues wrote:
I find it very annoying that all the music in the 'Listen Now' player is from the Hazel who is NOT the rock band from Portland.
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hazelkraft wrote:
Toreador of love Hazel were one of my favourite bands actually.
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dancefloorarmy wrote:
Toreador of Love Hazel ftw!
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Bittin wrote:
yea the C64 remixer is the only right Hazel ;)
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nickwafer wrote:
I give a shit about the Hazel that did Toreador of Love.
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Straybow wrote:
the only Hazel anybody gives a shit about is a retro music rearranger.
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Recent Activity
- combat_baby03 updated the wiki page for Hazel. (diff) last month
- K_NELS added Hazel to K_NELS’s library. last month
- Nevermind1991 tagged Hazel with ‘sub pop’. last month
- theCosMind and snipejon added Hazel to their libraries. last month
- deborarozalen tagged Hazel with ‘hazel’. August 2008
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