Party: Miss Massive Snowflake w/ Polly Panic + The Wilhelm Brothers - [rock]

Party: Miss Massive Snowflake w/ Polly Panic + The Wilhelm Brothers - [rock]

Genre: rock/folk-cello rock
Cover: $5
Ages: 21+
Event Listing: http://ashevillemusichall.com/music-schedule/6693/

Miss Massive Snowflake:

Miss Massive Snowflake is a Portland, Oregon based band performing the songs of Shane de Leon. Encompassing recordings and performances from solo electric, to 3 piece rock band, on to orchestrated theatrics. The band has released 3 albums, 4 EPs, and 3 singles with a new LP to come in late Spring 2014. Miss Massive Snowflake enjoys playing live and has performed over 300 shows in 8 countries. De Leon was a member of Rollerball for a decade and has played or recorded music internationally with 31 Knots, Black Heart Procession, Solex, Steve McKay, Bill Horist, Art of Flying, OVO, Squarcicatrici, and Ronin.

Like A Book adds to Miss Massive Snowflake’s expanding library of curious and clever progressive pop songs. The charismatic and playful band experiment with orchestral jazz, candy pop, and free-spirited psychedelic rock to create a unique musical vernacular. Miss Massive Snowflake marry traditional familiarities and edgy concepts with catchy energetic rock, and craft deceptively intricate songs. Like a Book blends angled radio hits, a jazz sensibililty, and boy band punk.

With an emotive voice, compelling lyrics, and sounding at times like a west coast David Byrne, Bowie, or Hendrix, Shane de Leon sings short story song blasts over an adventurous mix, a sort of Flaming Lips / Minutemen mash up. There is an inspiring fire that burns through 2012's Like a Book’s 10 tracks and 33 minutes. The drums and bass drive while horns punch into screwed groove guitar riffs producing beautiful, moving, and intellectually satisfying rock music.

The songwriter, guitarist, and creative director, Shane de Leon, started the band in 2004 as a family recording project while still in Portland art rock collective, Rollerball. MMS’s three early eps and first full length, Queen’s Headache, were a mix of electronica, hip hop, and acoustic folk. In 2007 Jeanne Kennedy Crosby entered the band on bass and began moving the band towards a more rock based sound. After the sophomore album Songs about Music was released in 2010, Andy Brown (Jessamine, Fontanelle, Paint and Copter) began drumming for the band. Jacopo Andreini (L’enfance Rouge, Squarcicatrici, Tsigoti) provides horns, percussion, and tour support.

Miss Massive Snowflake has played around the US regularly and toured Europe four times and has performed over 300 concerts.

"Seriously, this is like a great book that you can't put down. Putting this on makes you HAVE to listen to the next song, and the next...until you're out of songs, completely jazzed... an intoxicating rock, jazzy, psyche sound. IT'S AWESOME!!! Listen!"
-- KFJC

"With MMS, it's best to expect the unexpected... I don't know what to call it, but I like it a lot."
-- The Stranger

"A psychedelic anachronism projected through a contemporary pop prism"
-- Simon Godley

Website: http://missmassivesnowflake.com

Check out a video: http://youtu.be/LdWiP7KqwqQ


Polly Panic Music:

Polly Panic is chamber rock's dismissal of "radio" rock. “ A nucleus of cello, drums and vocals drive these tunes. The listener is immediately struck by an assaulting tenderness entangled with dark, odd metered theater. Think PJ Harvey meets Captain Beefheart.”(Robert Church, Radio FM Syndication”). The music alternates between the impact of a train to a syncopated sputter and crunch with a southern edge,offsetting the sweet, inviting vocals. There are anthems of mourning and consolation, long lined melodies instead of chants, an extensive layering of instruments, and lyrics that open themselves from reflection and sorrow to joy in the attack.

Within the songs' austere outlines, Polly Panic finds limitless gradations between exaltation and despair, all-consuming and irrevocable, as strong as religious faith and as terrifying as a revelation.

Polly Panic is not new to the stage. She released her first record, “Painkiller”, and toured extensively. “Fragment” is her 2nd album, soon to be released. Polly Panic's development as a musician is obvious. This new album has more on its mind then the elemental impact.

Website: www.pollypanicmusic.com

Check out a video: http://youtu.be/uoW4jeN9xaI

The Wilhelm Brothers:

There was chemistry and musical sparks flying when The Wilhelm Brothers Chris Wilhelm (guitar/lead vocals) and Cristof Ensslin (cello/vocal harmonies/tamburin) hit off their first note together at a recording session for Trail Of The Lonesome Pine in early 2012. Since then, they have been sharing the same dream: to play for crowds of 10,000 and more. All their energy is focused on this vision, playing over 200 shows per year. Highlights on their journey so far are recording their debut EP Lay Your Burden Down with Lenny Kravitz-producer Henry Hirsch, opening for nationally and internationally known artists such as David LaMotte, Takenobu and Westbound Rangers, and receiving radio airplay at various terrestrial stations as well as online including their own Pandora Radio channel.

Website: www.thewilhelmbrothers.com

Check out a video: http://youtu.be/ZqIMrkF87tY

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