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Biography
Refimprove|date=May 2008Infobox musical artist | name = Blinker the Star| image =| caption =| image_size = | background = group_or_band| alias =| origin = Pembroke, Ontario|Pembroke , Ontario , Canada | genre = Indie rock | years_active = Start date|1993-? ? ? ? | label = Treat & Release (1993) A& M Records|A& M (1996) DreamWorks Records|DreamWorks (1999) | associated_acts =| website =| current_members = Jordon Zadorozny | past_members = Colin Wylie Blinker the Star is a Canada|Canadian indie rock band, originally from Pembroke, Ontario|Pembroke , Ontario , Canada . 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.
History
After their first release, they moved to Montreal, Quebec|Montreal . 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.cite web |author=Edge.ca |title=Top 102 Albums of 1999 |url= http://www.edge.ca/Music/Countdowns/1999Top102Albums.aspx |publisher=CFNY |accessdate=Dec 16 2008 After being dropped from DreamWorks Records , the band re-emerged in 2003 with Still in Rome . Following this release, the band went on hiatus for nearly a decade, then returned with the album We Draw Lines in the spring of 2012.
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