**The Marianne Pillsburys - lead guitar, bass, drums, backing vox**
Influences
Artists who have influenced my music in the past : The Pixies, Luscious Jackson, Liz Phair, Blondie, Prince, Weezer, Veruca Salt, The Go-Go's, Michael Jackson, Frida Kahlo, Alfred Hitchcock
Artistis I'd like to be influenced by in the future: Outkast, Tegan & Sara, Peaches, Bjork, Beck
Sounds Like
Liz Phair singing lead vox for the The Rolling Stones?
Juliana Hatfield fronting The Pixies?
Blondie, Elastica, The Blake Babies, The Pretenders...
"Punk rock wrapped in sugar!" --SIRIUS RADIO
According to THE NEW YORK TIMES...
"On her debut album, The Wrong Marianne, Marianne Pillsbury is as frank as Liz Phair and as tuneful and upbeat as the Go-Go's, dissecting romantic disasters and then bouncing back with lighthearted choruses. She's as tough as she is irrepressible.
According to ROCKRGRL MAGAZINE...
"Marianne Pillsbury's pop hooks stick to you like chewing gum and her '60s girl-group harmonies throw back to the malt shop...Her band, The Marianne Pillsburys, brings her songs to life with sweet but cheeky flair. 'Boo Hoo' is an 'It's My Party' style romp through AM radio's glory days, newly buffed and iPod-ready."
According to THE VILLAGE VOICE...
"The Marianne Pillsburys latest EP has gal pals hanging out and making out and throwing up, Cars and Breeders riffs, Liz Phair melodies, and a double-gender-bent Prince cover."
According to PERFORMING SONGWRITER MAGAZINE...
"A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down, and so it is with Marianne Pillsbury's debut CD. Catchy, sing-out-loud choruses and bright alterna-pop production deftly wrap around barbed and potent lyrics of the single gal's life in the big city, with all its one-night stands, jerk boyfriends and friends who don't know how well they've got it.
Pillsbury calls to mind the best work of Liz Phair and Juliana Hatfield. Guitars chime and roar, vocals soar and choruses call out to be sung along with. Fans of Jill Sobule will rejoice that there's now another independent female out there with a sense of humor."
"Marianne is like the white Tina Turner!" --Ben Lazar, Director of A&R, Island Def Jam
Maine native Marianne Pillsbury attended Brown University where she showed her first signs of rock & roll rebellion by writing her senior honors English thesis, "Pop Icon Prince's Dual Obsession with Sexual Ecstasy & Religious Salvation: A Textual & Cultural Analysis." In 2004, after escaping a harrowing career as an advertising copywriter, she released her debut album, The Wrong Marianne, on her own indie label, Average White Girl Records. Produced by award-winning songwriter Bonnie Hayes (Bonnie Raitt's "Have A Heart"), the album received enthusiastic reviews from The New York Times, Time Out New York, The Boston Herald and The San Francisco Chronicle and elicited comparisons to the best work of Liz Phair, Juliana Hatfield and Jill Sobule. The Wrong Marianne was named a Top 12 D.I.Y. Pick in Performing Songwriter Magazine. The song "Boo Hoo" from the album won Best Alt/Rock Song in The Great American Song Contest and was selected for inclusion on ROCKRGRL Magazine 's Discoveries compilation CD.
Listen to tracks from The Wrong Marianne and buy the CD at CD Baby, baby...
In 2005, Marianne’s Brooklyn-based band, The Marianne Pillsburys, released The Hot EP, produced by Roger Greenawalt, which captures even more of the raw-yet-sweet brattiness that seems to be Marianne’s formula for success. It also pays tribute to her all-time-favorite artist with a cover of the Prince classic "When U Were Mine". The band has played NYC venues like Mercury Lounge, Luna Lounge, Pianos, Arlene's Grocery, Sin-e and Southpaw, other cities including Boston, DC, LA, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, OR, and London, and festivals such as M.E.A.N.Y. Fest (Musicians & Emerging Artists in New York), International Pop Overthrow, the Millenium Music Conference and ROCKRGRL Music Conference.
In 2007, Marianne started teaching songwriting workshops at the Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls, a non-profit music and mentoring program that empowers girls and women by encouraging them to explore self-expression through music. Her work with Willie Mae inspired her to start writing an autobiographical pop-rock musical, "Depression: The Musical," which was selected as a sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2008. She is currently working on putting together a band called The Sicks which will serve as the on-stage "orchestra" for the musical.
Marianne recently appeared as the guest speaker at the first ever Girls Write Now songwriting workshop and worked behind-the-scenes at the Jazz Foundation of America's Great Night In Harlem benefit concert at the Apollo. In her spare time, Marianne likes to eat, sleep and breathe.
Hey Marianne! thanx for the add! wow, i am one of the mentees of girls write now, and i really really loved how you sang saturday at the workshop. I loved your voice so much! i wanted to tell you, but i was kinda nervous jeje.. so yeah.. :p
Hey Marianne I LOVED seeing your show tonight at MUD! The songs and the musical are going to be HUGE it was so great to see you in the raw you were FABULOUS!! Can't wait to do it again!xoxoxoxo
Hello, mutual band having one time mutual band member......check out www. myspace. com/taraelliottblues. It contains Deb and another 2/4 of the old Dark Marbles.....
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