{"id":804599,"date":"2020-02-25T16:12:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T23:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=958246"},"modified":"2020-02-25T16:12:08","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T23:12:08","slug":"david-roback-mazzy-star-co-founder-dead-at-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/david-roback-mazzy-star-co-founder-dead-at-61\/","title":{"rendered":"David Roback, Mazzy Star Co-Founder, Dead at 61"},"content":{"rendered":"
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David Roback, co-founder of the widely celebrated alt-rock group Mazzy Star, died Monday, a representative for the band confirmed. A cause of death was not revealed. Roback was 61.<\/p>\n

Roback founded Mazzy Star with Hope Sandoval in the late Eighties and served as the band\u2019s guitarist, keyboardist and producer. Between 1990 and 1996, Mazzy Star released three critically acclaimed albums that blended dream pop, psychedelia and touches of blues and folk with some of the blown-out textures of Nineties alt-rock: She Hangs Brightly<\/i> in 1990, So Tonight That I Might See <\/i>in 1993 and Among My Swan<\/i> in 1996.<\/p>\n

Mazzy Star seemed to go on hiatus in 1997 but returned in 2011 with a new single, then released their fourth album, Seasons of Your Day<\/i>, in 2013<\/a>. In an interview with Rolling Stone<\/i><\/a> around the release of Seasons of Your Day<\/i>, Sandoval and Roback said they\u2019d never actually split, and had spent the years in between albums writing and recording, just not performing or releasing. Roback added that the point of all those sessions was simply to make music for themselves.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I\u2019m working on music with Hope, the person that\u2019s foremost in my thoughts is Hope,\u201d Roback said. \u201cWe tend to get quite caught up in just the making of music for ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2017, Mazzy Star\u2019s long-time drummer, Keith Mitchell, died<\/a>. The following year, the group released a new EP, <\/a>Still<\/a>. <\/i><\/p>\n

Roback\u2019s music career began in the Southern California psych revival scene of the early Eighties, known as the Paisley Underground. He played in several bands, such as Rain Parade and Rainy Day, and most notably partnered with Dream Syndicate\u2019s Kendra Smith to form Opal. After Smith suddenly left Opal in the middle of a tour with the Jesus and Mary Chain, Roback tapped Sandoval to be her replacement, and the pair would eventually transform the group into Mazzy Star.<\/p>\n

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David Roback, co-founder of the widely celebrated alt-rock group Mazzy Star, died Monday, a representative for the band confirmed. A cause of death was not revealed. Roback was 61. Roback founded Mazzy Star with Hope Sandoval in the late Eighties and served as the band\u2019s guitarist, keyboardist and producer. Between 1990 and 1996, Mazzy Star […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-804599","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-21 17:50:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}