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Adam Miner

Dangerous Eyes

About Me

Adam Miner makes music for neurotics, for thoughtful daydreamers and people for whom living in the modern world has left as immobile as Kafka’s bug. He is the archetypical “reclusive multi-instrumentalist”: more comfortable in the shell of his recording studio than exposed on stage. Much like fellow studio hermits Brian Wilson and Elliott Smith, he has a love for the intricate arrangement and makes frequent use of his soft multi-octave voice in the many layers of harmony found on his third record “Dangerous Eyes.” The songs, which are simultaneously ambitious in scope and introspective in character, were produced by Adam and four-time Juno winner Jeff Wolpert.His latest offering is a record saturated with moody longing and acerbic wit. He will half-jokingly drop references to Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Faust or Nietzsche in his songs because he wants you to know that he’s looking to come off smart. He celebrates the un-cool and evades anything hip, making music that avoids the overtly macho, and side-steps the pitfalls made by heavily postured modern rock artists. His approach is anathema to the breezy, relaxed vibe of the Ben Harper’s and Jack Johnson’s of the world. Adam Miner is not about to chill out.Dangerous Eyes is the kind of record Coldplay may have wanted to make, and could have made, were they capable of penning a decent lyric, the kind that fulfills the promise that so many saccharin and vapid singer/songwriters like James Blunt have fallen short of.

My Interests

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Member Since: 10/31/2005
Band Website: myspace.com/adamminer
Band Members: Adam Miner: Guitar, Vocals; Paul Macleod: Guitar, Vocals; Ben Rollo: Drums; Vocals Mark McIntyre: Bass; Adam Coe: Guitar, Vocals
Influences: The Beatles, Elvis Costello, Crowded House, Jeff Buckley, The Smiths, Leonard Cohen
Sounds Like: Polished-Art-Pop... A remix of the classic singer/songwriter vibe done at 24 Bit/44.1k.
Record Label: none
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Playing House: to be released free on the internet this month

In 2002 I wrote the song Honie Please, the first of what was to be a collection of Beatle-inspired songs that has now become Playing House. In the years since 2002 I had archived an average of twenty ...
Posted by Adam Miner on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:00:00 PST

Playing House is almost done

I'll be posting songs from playing house this week. It's very close to finished... 95% there. I'll be talking with a friend about getting the record online for free download very shortly. The record ...
Posted by Adam Miner on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:37:00 PST

Myspace hacked... boring comments left

Someone hacked my myspace. woo-hoo! So I might be pushing whatever and posting stupid comments and the like for a day or two. I could go on and on about computer problems this week. Please don't email...
Posted by Adam Miner on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:32:00 PST

Not Lame Records Review... other thoughts

Not Lame Records is now Stocking Dangerous Eyes and had some kind words.... www.notlame.com MAJOR FIND Not Lamers. Adam Miner writes all kind of massively melodic, slow burning pop gems and writes gre...
Posted by Adam Miner on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:07:00 PST

Powerpopaholic review

Adam Miner is an Ontario native who's been playing the Canadian pop circuit for a long time. His latest album "Dangerous Eyes" has intricate arrangements and melodic layers over each song. Vocally he ...
Posted by Adam Miner on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:29:00 PST

Month 48 of being the luckiest artist in the world is in full effect

I've been secretly working on my 4th record. It's a great way to distract myself from the fact that I have no idea or funds to promote no. 1, 2 and 3. The studio is pretty much where I want it to be,...
Posted by Adam Miner on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:35:00 PST

Music is a virus

So this is an appeal to my friends digital or otherwise. What I would ask of you is if you have a copy of my new record, that you perhaps begin giving away songs periodically to your other friends. "M...
Posted by Adam Miner on Tue, 08 May 2007 08:25:00 PST

God Bless You Mr. Rosewater

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s "Breakfast of Champions" was the first thing that I had ever read that really seemed to stir something inside me. I was in Grade 7 or 8, around the same time I started playing guit...
Posted by Adam Miner on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:09:00 PST

Saturday at the Trinity

With legs that ache from all the speaker-lugging up to the Trinity, I'm hiding out in my control room today in total procrastination from the errand of gear returns I need make. What helped make Satur...
Posted by Adam Miner on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 02:15:00 PST

DNA Music and the current 'haps'

Geresi's pizza has been putting secret ingredients into their pie's that foster musical creativity.   So in two weeks I'm doing the local party in celebration of completing the production of Dan...
Posted by Adam Miner on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:09:00 PST