BIOGRAPHY

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Artist Bio

Michelle Anthony is a Kansas City native, Milwaukee transplant and current resident of Austin, Texas. Michelle's music has been featured in the independent film Black Cloud (Rick Schroder, Eddie Spears, Tim McGraw) as well in releases of the television series "The Wonderfalls" and "Roswell." Her songs have been heard in the MTV shows "Pimp My Ride", "Making the Band", and "Operation 17." She has performed on bills with Junior Brown, Bob Schneider, Shelby Lynne, Ben Folds, Mindy Smith, Amy Rigby, Robbie Fulks, The Silos and Sophie B. Hawkins.

In 2004, Michelle's band of local veteran punk-country and rock musicians went into the studio to record "Stand Fall Repeat." This slightly raw, roots-rock album was recorded at Jay Bennett's (ex-Wilco) studio in Chicago and was released in August 2004 on the Chicago label Burn and Shiver. F5 (Wichita) summarized the album's feel and writes, "Had Liz Phair gone to Los Angeles circa 1972 to make a record with Gram Parsons and the members of Sheryl Crow's Tuesday Night Music Club, this might have been the result." "Stand Fall Repeat" received acclaim from critics in the US and UK, including four stars from All Music Guide, and praise from the alt.country magazine, No Depression, in a "Town and Country" feature.

Some of Michelle's recent career highlights include an appearance on the famed Mountain Stage (West Virginia) in October 2004 with k.d. Lang and Bruce Cockburn. She and her band also promoted "Stand Fall Repeat" with a live performance on Chicago's WGN-TV Superstation's Morning Show. In 2005, Michelle borrowed part of Robbie Fulk's Chicago-based band for an invitation to showcase at the South By Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas. This lineup of musicians clicked, and led to several regional tours, a second album, and a continued music relationship.

She quickly followed "Stand Fall Repeat" with her second solo album, "Frozenstarpalace," produced by Barry Goldberg (Smashing Pumpkins, Fleetwood Mac) in 2006. This album voiced a mature, polished singer chronicling the departure of foreboding northern winters for the sunniness of Austin, Texas. The album was well-received by critics and fans: "An artist who can claim brilliance as part of her vocabulary," - Entertainment News and Views (Miami) and, "She has the unaffected delivery of her Midwestern heritage and the ability, reminiscent of Sarah McLachlan, to quietly insinuate herself into the spaces between conscious thoughts." -No Depression Magazine.

Michelle has continued to write, record and tour. Her live performances have been noteworthy critic's pick for dozens of publications, including the Austin Chronicle, Shepherd Express, Dallas Observer, The Pitch, Chicago Reader, the Onion, and the Chicago Sun-Times. She is currently working on a solo piano effort for Media Creature Publishing, writing songs for her third album and celebrating motherhood.


VOICES AND FACES PROJECT

Over the past two years, Michelle has also become involved in Voices and Faces, a non-profit national network created to give voice and face to survivors of sexual violence. Ann Ream, Voices and Faces founder, specifically picked Michelle's song "White Lies" to be the feature download song for the Voices and Faces website as the song's theme of telling the truth resonates with the goals of the organization. "White Lies" is on the Voices and Faces Benefit CD released October 2006, along with contributions from Strays Don't Sleep, Neko Case, Motion City Soundtrack, Michelle Shocked, Bird York, Martha Berner, Sally Timms, Kelly Hogan, Jesse Sykes, David Garza, Fielding, Joseph Arthur, Jon Rauhouse, Neilson Hubbard and The New Pornographers.

RANDOM FACTS

Favorite Food: tacos; Favorite BBQ sauce: Gates, Haywards; Weakness: potato chips, chocolate, cool chords and good solos; Hobby: anything on a mountain or near an ocean; Sign: Gemini; College Degrees: a B.A. and master's degree that are totally unrelated; Hardest Job: production assistant and booking person, aka, catering person, runner, driver...; First serious band: Capital 8 (Milwaukee); TV Show: Seinfeld reruns and 30 Rock. Ellen. Oprah. Man vs Wild. Best physical feature: my great personality

Album Credits
frozenstarpalace © 2006 The album Engineers on frozenstarpalace include Jay O'Rourke (Chicago), Ric Probst (Milwaukee), and Mark Hallman (Austin). Credits on the album: Michelle (vocals, bass, organ, Rhodes, piano), Scott Anthony (guitar, bass, banjo), Gerald Dowd(drums), Grant Tye (lead guitar), Brian Wooldridge (bass), Ryan Stang (bass, organ), Chris Lovejoy (drums), melaniejane (cello).

Stand Fall Repeat © 2004
Stand Fall Repeat was recorded with Jay Bennett and Alex Moore in Chicago, mixed by Chris Fudurich (Nada Surf) in Los Angeles, and mastered by Trevor Sadler in Milwaukee. The record includes contributions from members of West of Rome and Dustworks. Players on the record include: Michelle (piano, guitar, bass, wurlitzer, moog, synths), Scott Anthony (lead and rhythm guitars, bass), Jay Bennett (piano), Chris DeMay (rhythm guitars and harmonica), Alex Moore (percussion), Nick Verban (drums), Anjl Rodee (vox), and Ryan Stang (moog, organ, bass).