Biography
Raised in Burlington, Vermont, Blake Hazard works as a singer, songwriter, and guitarist. In the late '90s she spent a short time performing with the indie rock group Starhustler alongside Jason Hatfield, brother of Juliana. She next pursued solo shows that placed her alongside Helium’s Mike Leahy, Shawn King Devlin, and Brian Dunton. After completing a Harvard degree she formed a friendship with John Dragonetti and joined tours supporting his Jack Drag project. At the same time she began steering her own music away from familiar indie-pop brightness toward a more unvarnished tone. Dragonetti helped capture those new songs for her first album, Little Airplane, issued by Kimchee in July 2002.
During those sessions Hazard and Dragonetti became a couple and left the East Coast for Los Angeles, yet they parted ways in 2005. The separation inspired fresh writing from each of them; because Hazard continued to use Dragonetti’s studio, the pair started exchanging the breakup songs they had composed. The exchange restored their connection, leading them to record the material together and later marry. Operating as the Submarines, they issued the collected tracks as Declare a New State! on Nettwerk in 2006. The follow-up, Honeysuckle Weeks, arrived in May 2008 and spotlighted brighter material along with a stronger focus on Hazard’s lead vocals. Tracks from both albums were placed in advertisements, movies, and series such as Nip/Tuck, Gossip Girl, Grey’s Anatomy, and the film Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist. Remaining on Nettwerk, the band delivered Love Notes/Letter Bombs and The Shoelaces in 2011, with additional songs appearing in visual media.
Hazard returned to solo work with the 2013 album The Eleanor Islands, a record shaped by the abrupt close of her marriage and band. She tracked the project with Sam Cohen at his Brooklyn studio and chose not to tour behind it. Subsequent vocal contributions appeared on releases by the M Machine and Eligh & Amp Live. She then spent more than a year in Istanbul before settling back in Los Angeles, where she prepared her next album, Possibilities at Sea. Self-released in 2017 and produced by Thom Monahan of the Pernice Brothers—whose credits include Vetiver, Fruit Bats, and Peter Bjorn and John—the record completed her third full-length statement.
During those sessions Hazard and Dragonetti became a couple and left the East Coast for Los Angeles, yet they parted ways in 2005. The separation inspired fresh writing from each of them; because Hazard continued to use Dragonetti’s studio, the pair started exchanging the breakup songs they had composed. The exchange restored their connection, leading them to record the material together and later marry. Operating as the Submarines, they issued the collected tracks as Declare a New State! on Nettwerk in 2006. The follow-up, Honeysuckle Weeks, arrived in May 2008 and spotlighted brighter material along with a stronger focus on Hazard’s lead vocals. Tracks from both albums were placed in advertisements, movies, and series such as Nip/Tuck, Gossip Girl, Grey’s Anatomy, and the film Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist. Remaining on Nettwerk, the band delivered Love Notes/Letter Bombs and The Shoelaces in 2011, with additional songs appearing in visual media.
Hazard returned to solo work with the 2013 album The Eleanor Islands, a record shaped by the abrupt close of her marriage and band. She tracked the project with Sam Cohen at his Brooklyn studio and chose not to tour behind it. Subsequent vocal contributions appeared on releases by the M Machine and Eligh & Amp Live. She then spent more than a year in Istanbul before settling back in Los Angeles, where she prepared her next album, Possibilities at Sea. Self-released in 2017 and produced by Thom Monahan of the Pernice Brothers—whose credits include Vetiver, Fruit Bats, and Peter Bjorn and John—the record completed her third full-length statement.
Albums
Singles
