Artist description A Car crash of Coctails, vindictiveness and good old dose of true blue alt girlrock (if Courtney Love and Kim Deal had a lovechild)

Music Style Alternative, Rock, Pop,

Musical Influences The Breeders, Hole, Pavement, Sleater-Kinney, The Pixies

Similar Artists Hole, The Breeders, Sleater-Kinney, Verucca Salt,

Artist History :: April 1997:: kismet in the San Francisco music classifieds. lesley and mauri meet. love at first chord progression. presto! an indie rock band is born. 6 months later, we open for third eye blind at the fillmore. :: December 1998:: three drummers, several boyfriends and 1000 cocktails later, we get a rad new drummer, chavaughan, for keeps. :: 1999:: things are looking up. we're invited to lots of music festivals and radio shows on the west coast. a little dazed by the biz but happy. lesley gets an audition for the bass spot in hole. mauri sings backing vocals on 3eb's 'blue'. dreamworks didn't sign us. we record break up at the rock show. :: 2000:: we land an sfx stadium tour opening for the likes of 3eb and duran duran. what the hell. we tour the east coast. enter the manager from l.a., she means business. we spend the fall showcasing in hollywood. whirlwind trips up and down I-5 take us away from work, school and friends. we get commercial radio play and listen, amazed, as the sound of our band pipes out of the portable stereo in our rehearsal space one night. :: 2001::we play the warped tour. mtv picks up 'dreamstalker' forundressed/sausage factory. mauri makes the pages of guitar player magazine. lesley's hair is blue. we get tapped for a pbs documentary by indie filmmaker kuang lee. summer is a recording studio with no available daylight. in the fall we loan mauri out to preston school of industry for their 6 week tour. as winter sets in, we slave towards a full-length album for spring 2002 release. a little surprised we've made it this far. fuck it. who wants some? :: 2002:: Kiss the Liberator hits over 300 college radio stations in May.... Hey, we're charting!! Thank you for the LOVE!!

Group Members Cha Levias - Drums,Drums and more Drums,Lesley Poirier - Bass and Vocals,Mauri Skinfill - Guitars and Vocals

Instruments Dual Lead Vocals, Guitar, Bass and Drums

Albums Bitchin'/Break Up at the Rock Show/Kiss the Liberator/Substitutions

Press Reviews Glitter Mini 9 has been referred to as "San Francisco's own Sleater-Kinney"--high praise indeed. But while there are certainly similarities between the two groups--like Sleater-Kinney, Glitter Mini 9 is also a girlrock trio, and is led by a pair of vocalists, Lesley Poirier and Mauri Skinfill, whose harmonies do often remind one of Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker--there are other forces driving Glitter Mini 9's sound besides Sleater-Kinney and the whole Kill Rock Stars riot grrl cohort. Overall Glitter Mini 9's sound is a bit sweeter and less abrasive, sometimes recalling Kim Deal's Breeders or Kristen Hersh's tougher Throwing Muses songs. Their lyrics are smart and edgy, the songs are all tough-as-nails rockers, and the chick energy is totally heartfelt. With a sound this catchy and confident, Glitter Mini 9 will soon reach countless more ears than those of the small cadre of loyal West Coast fans that has been exposed to the band so far, and perhaps they will even fulfill their ultimate goal of total rock domination. Hell, supposedly even Hole wants to play with them

Location San Francisco, CA - USA

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