The songwriting duo includes singer-songwriter and guitarist Brent Orndorff and drummer Dustin Richardson who joined the band in 2008.
The Blue News' music has grown in popularity due to several factors: consistent social marketing, 20 years of touring in the US, charting on radio for college, AAA, and blues radio markets, and several song placements in television series, interactive art installations, web videos, popular video games, film trailers and feature films.
The Blue News has also gained 'high-profile' celebrity fans including Sublime with Rome, Sheryl Crow, Isaac Hayes, acclaimed producer Sylvia Massy and Stephen Wrench, former RCA Records executive and original music manager.
The band's signature sound began with a few songs recorded that combined live instruments and vocals with samples and drum loops programmed with the ReBirth RB-338 software.
The album was self-released as The Blue News Project to reflect that the songs were the result of a collaboration with multiple musicians.
Songs from The Signs EP were used in the band's first college campus radio campaign with Vigilant Promotions of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
By 2008, The Blue News was touring consistently while further developing their original style and recorded their third album Strange Light.
This resulted in two new HD music videos featuring stripped-down acoustic versions of the songs "Be Yourself (And You'll Go Far)" and "Wasted Days".
Retrophonics is the private studio of producer Jim Devito who has recorded several famous bands including Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Don Henley, Creed and JJ Grey & Mofro.
[6] Another song from the album, Two Lovers, was selected by Sublime with Rome to be included on Guitar Center's Fresh Cuts Volume 7 and 50,000 CD copies were given away in stores nationwide.