Music Style Rock, Pop

Musical Influences The Who, Led Zeppelin, The Cure

Similar Artists Matchbox 20, Third Eye Blind, Coldplay

Artist History The Dallas, Texas-based rock band Deep Blue Something is back in action after a rejuvenating hiatus spent on creative exploration, intensive songwriting, the occasional sneak show, producing other bands, and the recording of their self-titled new album on the EMI-distributed Aezra Records. In stores May 22, it's their first release since Home (Interscope), which sold more than 1.5 million copies worldwide (approximately 700,000 in the U.S.) and featured the international hit single "Breakfast at Tiffany's."The long and winding road that led to Home and beyond started in the early nineties at the University of North Texas in Denton where brothers Todd and Toby Pipes founded Deep Blue Something with John Kirtland and Clay Bergus. Every weekend, the band would traverse the mid-South, mid-West and Southwest in their van, playing local bars, clubs and college pubs from Houston to Nagodoches to Tulsa to Lawrence to Las Cruces, and everywhere in between. The band remembers that "It all came from the perspective of writing songs we all enjoyed…sing the song, no one throws bottles, it's good." After one too many road trips, the transmission finally blew on their overworked chariot and it spontaneously combusted (for real) en route- with band members diving in to rescue their term papers and course work before they incinerated-but the music played on… Todd says, "We busted our asses, we were selling out everywhere we went, and we knew sooner or later something would happen."Sooner than later that conviction proved true. In 1993, the band recorded and released the lo-fi album Eleventh Song on a small Dallas label. The disc sold briskly at local gigs and throughout their hometown area, but wasn't up to radio airplay standards, so Deep Blue Something booked some time in a tiny Denton studio and recorded Home. It was released on Texas indie Rainmaker Records, and in '95, Dallas FMs KDGE and KTXQ latched onto the first single, "Breakfast At Tiffany's." The song took off regionally, and caught the attention of Interscope Records who signed the band to a major deal and re-released Home worldwide. The album that Deep Blue Something produced for about $2,500 quickly became a bonafide smash debut phenomenon, complete with television appearances with Jay, Dave, Conan and Regis, and heavy video rotation on VH1 and MTV. Anti-grunge at the time that grunge ruled, Home's pop-rock sound prevailed. The hit single "Breakfast At Tiffany's" reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100, became a #1 single in the U.K.-where Deep Blue Something appeared on "Top of the Pops" at least four times-- and charted Top 5 all over the world. The band toured the globe extensively in support of their breakthrough album, even making music at the Great Wall of China.While their success was remarkable, Deep Blue Something's longed to get back to making songs they liked, away from the pressure of manufacturing new 'hits' per a corporate formula, and the band chose to part ways with Interscope before delivering a second album. The experience had taken them too far away from their halcyon college years.Many groups would have disbanded as a result, but the four original members of Deep Blue Something stuck together and continued to expand their repertoire and refine their playing. Their renewed commitment paid off with a recording deal with Phoenix-based Aezra Records, an innovative new label (distributed nationally by EMI) that stresses creative freedom for its artists, which is certainly music to Deep Blue Something's ears.Music for their fans ears comes in the form of the long awaited album Deep Blue Something, featuring the first single "She Is," which is being worked at Alternative, AAA and Pop Radio. Part of the thirteen-track album was self-produced, with a number of cuts produced by Charles Fisher, known for his work with Savage Garden and Hoodoo Gurus, among others. The mixing talents of Tim Palmer-of U2 and Pearl Jam fame-are featured, as is the acclaimed album art of Hugh Syme, who's designed memorable covers for Rush and Aerosmith. The Grammy-nominated video production team Walker/Fitzgibbon is handling production of a new music video.What really shines through, most importantly, is the evolving artistry of Deep Blue Something. The band's potent mix of first-rate guitar rock, infectious power pop and beautifully crafted lyrics and melodies is in fine form on their new studio release. The band is thrilled to have the chance to do it all over again, and hopes to appreciate and enjoy it all the more the second time around. And, you know what they say… "it's always better the second time around!"

Group Members Todd Pipes, Toby Pipes, Clay Bergus, John Kirtland.

Location Dallas, TX - USA

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