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Electronic Jazz R&B
Did you just find yourself in a basement rave? A Midwestern Ukrainian community hall? These rustbelt roosters and canola coquettes keep you guessing.
Bluebloods play tunes that feel like Dionysus crashing a Mennonite Social, with groove tunes and smoky ballads that explore Manitoba’s historic strikes, urban back allies, and wheat fields. Influences range from Bob Dylan and Tom Waits lyrically, to Fiona Apple and J Dilla sonically.
Bluebloods’ core is Courtney Fox on vocals, Sam Little on bass, and Conrad Sweatman on electronics and guitar. Their live show has also recently featured Kevin Waters on drums and Tirian Plett on keyboards. The group is sometimes also joined by guest rappers Cristo Jonas Wilson of Cross Lake First Nation and Winnipegger Infinit0 (aka Nereo Zorro).
Bluebloods debut LP, Discount Everything, is coming out this spring and features such guests as Malik Mungo (the Free Label), Felix Fox (BadBadNotGood), Alec Meen (Mac DeMarco), as well as members of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. It follows on Bluebloods’ 2019 EP, Make It Rain, which the Winnipeg Free Press called a “profound statement of intent from an emerging artist whose work will soon be sought after” in their four star review of the album.
Praise for Bluebloods' music video 'Burn Me Down' (2021):
An “outstanding dance hit… beautiful”
–Music Crowns
“Perfect… listen at max volume”
–Indie Criollo
Bluebloods has “captured my heart”
–York Calling
Praise for Bluebloods' music video 'Postcard from a Quarantined Miner in Flin Flon' (2021):
“Exquisite… almost impossible to forget”
–Indie Criollo
“A slow burn that only has one problem. It ends.”
–Secret Eclectic
“Hauntingly beautiful”
–Music Crowns
“Outstanding… It really is like nothing I’ve heard before.”
–York Calling
“Intoxicating… joyous.”
–Central Sauce
Praise for Bluebloods' debut EP 'Make It Rain' (2019):
"★★★★... a profound statement of intent from an emerging artist whose work will soon be sought after"
—Winnipeg Free Press
"...one of the most, if not the most, ambitiously creative pieces of art to ambush the ears of our city"
—Stylus Magazine
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