NEWS
FEBRUARY 2008All of us here at MA (our intermittently paid "staff" of three and sometimes four) are already mourning the impending departure of No Depression magazine from the print world. We are truly sorry to see it go. Is alt.country dead or will it just be given away for free now? If houses start selling again, will alt.country, or whatever that is, come back?
SEPTEMBER 2007
Our version of "Everything is Beautiful" by REM will be released on Media Creature Publishing's "Undiscovered" album.
NOVEMBER 2006
Purchase both frozenstarpalace and the new Voices and Faces Benefit Project compilation cd from Miles of Music, Amazon.com, Virgin Megastores, and great local record stores around the U.S. like Atomic Records (Milwaukee), Fingerprints (L.A.), and Waterloo Records (Austin). The Voices and Faces Benefit cd includes Michelle's "White Lies" alongside contributions from Michelle Shocked, Bird York, Motion City Soundtrack, Jon Rauhouse, Martha Berner, Strays Don't Sleep, Neko Case, Joseph Arthur, The New Pornographers, Nora O'Connor, Jesse Sykes, Sally Timms, Kelly Hogan, David Garza, Fielding.
Radio: WUWM (89.7 FM) interview and in studio performance on Cafe Tonight in Milwaukee, WI.
KUT Austin spins the album on Eklektikos. KGSR plays "Lead Glass Tiffany Shades" on its new music Sunday program. The album is also getting support from Maryland-based WTMD.
Check out the new reviews of frozenstarpalace in the press section.
**Listen to the in-studio performance and interview on Milwaukee's WUWM.
OCTOBER 2006
Paste Recommends list for October!
Frozenstarpalace release date for U.S. retailers has been pushed from October 3rd to October 31st. Please note the new release date!
Read the review from Entertainment News and Views in Miami. "[I]t’s a mark of her versatility and musical dexterity that she’s able to veer so adeptly between genres, playing the sensitive songstress one moment and the brash, defiant rocker the next... it’s merely the mark of an artist who can claim brilliance as part of her vocabulary."
SEPTEMBER 2006
OnMilwaukee interview about the new album, frozenstarpalace.
MAY 2006
Michelle will perform on Chicago's PBS station, WTTW, on Wednesday 5/17 in support of the Voices and Faces project. Check out the News page for details.
From Chicago Tonight press release: "On Wednesday 5/17 Chicago Tonight will feature a live performance by singer/songwriter Michelle Anthony, as part of its weekly music-in-the-studio segment. Anthony will perform “White Lies” a song she’s contributed to a benefit CD for the Voices and Faces Project, a non-profit national network created to give voice and face to survivors of sexual violence. In addition to Anthony’s performance, the segment will also include an interview with Voices and Faces founder, Anne Ream."
MARCH 2006
Austin Chronicle critics pick for LZR show March 4. Performances during SXSW: Cheapo Records instore on Wednesday, March 15 (see Tour page).
FEBRUARY 2006
Articles/Interviews: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Onmilwaukee.com, Shepherd Express, WUWM, Americana-UK.
JANUARY 2006
1-25-06. Michelle is finished mixing and mastering her sophomore release with producer Barry Goldberg. Barry has worked with Fleetwood Mac, Smashing Pumpkins, Rickie Lee Jones, Michelle Shocked, among many others. The new album, frozenstarpalace, will be released summer 2006.
We hope to bring you sound clips and more insightful information about the record in the near future. In the meantime, check out the amazing new song called "Mirage People" from the Capitol Years.
DECEMBER 2005
UK distribution expected January 2006 via Shellshock.
NOVEMBER 2005
Dallas Observer critics' picks.
A compilation to support the organization Voices and Faces is expected to come out 2006 and will include the song White Lies.
OCTOBER 2005
Songs from Stand Fall Repeat to be included in the MTV shows Pimp My Ride, Making the Band, and Operation 17.
Rock critic and author Ann Powers writes "Music in the Aftermath": a piece on Hurricane Katrina that offers songs "that might do art's magic of helping people ponder the unthinkable in its aftermath."
"Don't Deny" is available free from Download.com, where the song was in the adult alternative top 10 for August and September.
The new album, tentatively titled _____ to be completed very, very soon. Details drying and will be visible in the near future.
JULY 2005
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel review of Summerfest show. OnMilwaukee.com top picks for Summefest.
MAY 2005
Michelle and Scott have moved to Austin, TX. New tour dates added, including Summerfest (Milw) opening for Shelby Lynne and Mindy Smith.
APRIL 2005
SXSW Crowne Plaza (showcase)- Photos by Christian Loew. Hideout party- Photos by Richard Tafoya at Live Daily.
MARCH 2005:
Reviews/Interviews: Vital Source interviews Milwaukee bands pre-SXSW 2005 and Onmilwaukee.com writes a post-SXSW story. The Pitch (Kansas City). SXSW: Two critic's pick from the Austin Chronicle: SXSW showcase and for the Swollen Circus party at Hole in the Wall. Photos: Cheapo Instore and Crowne Plaza.
FEBRUARY 2005:
Reviews/Interviews:
Static Multimedia gives the album 3.5/4 stars.
Dustworks and West of Rome release albums this month that include musical and production contributions from Michelle and Scott.
JANUARY 2005:
Michelle is the artist of the month at the Estrogenzone, a radio station dedicated to promoting women in music.
DECEMBER 2004:
Reviews/Interviews: Reviews of SFR in Roots Highway (Seattle) and Playback (St. Louis). A feature article runs in the Edwardsville Intelligencer (IL). Jim Lundstrom of the Post-Crescent puts SFR in his top 10 list of '04, Scott Greenberg of WHFR (Detroit) lists the CD as a top 10 favorite and No Depression's Jon Gilbertson puts it in his top 20.
NOVEMBER 2004:
Michelle is on the cover of Milwaukee's "M" magazine (northshore edition). This issue is titled: "Best of Milwaukee."
Reviews/Articles/Picks: CdReviews.com; Slightly Confusing to a Stranger; OnMilwaukee.com; Shepherd Express; RootsTown Music (Belgium).
Recording news: Jay Bennett's second solo album, The Beloved Enemy, includes a vocal duet with Michelle and Jay on the song "If I Forgot How to Land." The album is in stores now.
OCTOBER 2004:
Shows: Michelle and Scott recently opened for k.d. lang and Bruce Cockburn at "Mountain Stage" at the Keith Albee Theater in Hungtington, WV. Other guests on the show were Kaki King and Mariza. This program is now being broadcast on fine public radio stations throughout the country.
Recording news: Ryan Hedgecock recorded Michelle's version of "Forbidden Flowers" for the Tom T. Hall project in LA this month. A couple of new songs were recorded at Media Creature Music.
Radio Updates: SFR is now getting played on Music Choice Cable Radio (Adult Alternative), WMSE (Milwaukee), WRAX (Birmingham), and WYRS (New Jersey). Also getting spins from: WXPN (Philadelphia), WUWM (Milwaukee), WEFT (Champaign, IL), WHFR (Detroit), WLFM (Appleton, WI), MSPR (Morehead State U Kentucky), KRVM (Eugene, OR), KRCL (Salt Lake City), KUT (Austin), WTMD (Maryland), KKFI (KC,MO), WFDU (New Jersey), and WBSD (Burlington WI).
SEPTEMBER 2004:
Check out the current issue of No Depression to read the article by Jon Gilbertson in the Town and Country section.
Reviews/Interviews/Picks: Pop Matters; Milwaukee's Jason Keil interviews Michelle for a feature article in the Shepherd Express; The Onion; Santa Monica Mirror; The Kansas City Star;The Pitch; the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; Alt Country NL (Netherlands); and, All Music Guide gives Stand Fall Repeat four stars.
AUGUST 2004:
The Canadian television show The Wonderfalls is using the song "Today" in its full DVD release. The DVDs are expected to be available December 7, 2004.
Reviews/Interviews/Picks: OnMilwaukee; The Post-Crescent; NYC's Blogcritics; Milwaukee's Vital Source; Austin Chronicle, and The Onion (Chicago).
Radio spins/news: Milwaukee's WUWM continues to play Radio Waves on "Saturday at the Cafe," and Bruce Winter interviews Michelle on Saturday at the Cafe (89.7 FM). Richard Milne plays Mourning Song on WXRT's (Chicago) "Local Anesthetic" the week of August 15th. KUT (U. of Texas) broadcasts a live studio performance on Aug. 14th. Other spins: WRIR (Richmond, Virginia) and WXPN 88.5 (Philadelphia).
JULY 2004:
Reviews: F5 (Wichita).
Radio news for July: SFR has been added to the playlists at KCRL in Utah and the album is currently getting spins at MSPR (KY), WLFM (WI), WSBD (WI), and KRVM (OR).
JUNE 2004:
Check out Miles of Music's MOMZINE for the top 5 albums rotating around the M-Anthony CD player.
Reviews/Picks: The Kansas City Star lists the June 11 gig as a critic's pick and kindly welcomes Michelle and the band back "home" to the KC area where she grew up. The Columbia Daily Tribune (Columbia, MO) features the June 10 show as a critic's pick.
MAY 2004:
If you live in the Greater Milwaukee area, tune into WUWM (89.7 FM) for Bruce Winter's Cafe Tonight and Saturday at the Cafe to hear songs from the new album. WUWM is Milwaukee's NPR affiliate.
The song White Lies will be used in the television series Roswell, available on DVD.
The upcoming album Stand Fall Repeat will be released nationally on August 10. A limited number of copies can be purchased online through Miles of Music.
MARCH 2004:
The upcoming album Stand Fall Repeat makes the Freeform American Roots list for March. FAR is a monthly radio chart reported to by 125 freeform DJs, primarily in the US, but also Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Scotland, France, Holland, Germany, Italy and Uruguay. Thanks to Scott Greenberg at WHFR for naming SFR his album of the month for March.
FEBRUARY 2004:
The Chicago Reader gives the new music props in its Spot Check section.
Detroit's WHFR 89.3 FM is regularly playing songs from the upcoming album Stand Fall Repeat on the weekly show "Debts No Honest Man Can Pay."
JANUARY 2004:
Onmilwaukee.com interviews Michelle about her new band and the upcoming album Stand Fall Repeat. The Shepherd Express chooses the band's first show in Milwaukee (1/16/04) as a critic's pick.
A three song sampler is now available at shows. Songs include: "Closer" and "Don't Deny," recorded in Chicago at Pieholden, and a newly recorded track entitled "White Lies."
DECEMBER 2003:
A Christmas collaboration between Michelle and Afrodisiac Soundsystem can be found on "Christmas Eclectic" which is available at Tower Records and other cool retail stores.
NOVEMBER 2003:
The independent film "Black Cloud" directed by Rick Schroder will use the tune "Closer" in the movie.