(SCR) Broken Hearts Are Blue has announced a reunion show at Bell’s in their homebase of origin, Kalamazoo, Michigan. The band performs alongside The Sinatras on Saturday, August 9 and tickets are available here.
Broken Hearts Are Blue recently released a brand new single, “Are You Somewhere Too,” via Sweet Cheetah Records. The new single comes alongside a remix of the previously released, “Moonbeams Over The East Hall.”
From their start in 1995, when they occupied a place in a culture that included then contemporaries Braid, The Promise Ring, Mineral, Christie Front Drive, Jejune, and Jimmy Eat World, Broken Hearts Are Blue’s signature consistency has been its refusal to stay consistent. Their idiosyncratic catalog reflects an enduring preoccupation with exploring the rock and roll form, filling in its near-exhausted but still nimble outline with inspired compositions filled with colorful intertextuality, gallows humor, and personal allusions to place and past. Ever since their debut album, The Truth About Love, their songs have vacillated between styles, tempos, emotional textures, and indie rock influences…