Artist description Smart, cynical alterna-pop. Matthew Sweet going down on Liz Phair in a late night laundromat. The bastard stepdaughter from a drunken orgy with The Rolling Stones and The Go-Go's.

Music Style Pop-Rock, Power Pop, Alterna-Pop, Indie Pop

Musical Influences Liz Phair, Prince, Blondie, Luscious Jackson, the Pixies, the Breeders, Veruca Salt, Talking Heads

Artist History Marianne was formed in the 1970s in Portland, Maine. Since birth, she has sung and danced her way into the hearts of at least a dozen people. After amusing English professors at Brown University with her senior honors thesis "Pop Icon Prince's Dual Obsess ion with Sexual Ecstasy & Religious Salvation: A Textual & Cultural Analysis", she moved to New York City to pursue her childhood dream of selling toilet paper and sore throat spray. Marianne worked as an advertising copywriter for several years. Then one day, Marianne decided her life would be 33% new & improved if she moved to San Francisco. That's where she met her Fairy Godproducer, Bonnie Hayes, who rescued her from the evil clutches of Corporate America and convinced her to record a demo of her songs. The result was The Wrong Marianne, a 5-song EP of smart, cynical alterna-pop. The song "Supersize" from the EP received Honorable Mention in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest. These days, Marianne can be found rocking the mic in NYC with her band, The Marianne Pillsburys. Her full-length album is due out in January 2004.

Group Members The Marianne Pillsburys are: Marianne Pillsbury (vocals & guitar); Deb Schuster (bass & backing vox); Heather Wagner (drums & backing vox)

Albums The Wrong Marianne EP

Press Reviews "Marianne Pillsbury is a local singer-songwriter with a smooth voice that recalls vintage (i.e., the good side of) Liz Phair." (Time Out New York, April 2003) ******* "I would like to tell the world that I am officially smitten with Marianne Pillsbury. She is equal parts adorable and intelligent, pragmatic and clever. This EP is fucking great, and I am in love with Pillsbury...good singing and amazing sardonic lyrics...more people need to express themselves the way Marianne does lyrically." (Agouti Music, September 2002) ******* "...maybe that brash, humorous style that brought [Liz] Phair to the limelight will propel Marianne Pillsbury as well. The Wrong Marianne is just an EP, but the promise that is flashed all over it by Maine-bred Pillsbury is tough to ignore. The 5 songs are pop ditties, with crunchy guitars and synthesizers, and hooks that will set you to shouting along before you have time to stop and realize what you're saying. It's like the Bangles if Susanna Hoffs was singing the words you were thinking while you watched her coyly preen on the TV screen." (Northeast Performer Magazine, June 2002) ******* "A tough and triumphant rock sound comes from Marianne Pillsbury on The Wrong Marianne. Full of vigor and energy, the songs are pure fun even when Marianne defiantly proclaims, 'I'm not your layaway girlfriend.'" (Womanrock.com, March 2002) ******* "...little-girl-voiced powerpop of the sarcastic exile-in-guyville sort...Marianne and her eponymously doughy NYC outfit [The Marianne Pillsburys] submitted a sweet and catchy tune called "Tsunami" to the Voice WTC benefit CD competition, and her EP The Wrong Marianne is full of more of the same..." (Village Voice, January 2002)

Location Brooklyn, NY - USA

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