Miss Massive Snowflake

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MISS MASSIVE SNOWFLAKE live in a room
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Who Wrecked the Party

Satsuma

Member Since:

January 06, 2006

Members:

Shane de Leon:
with
Jeanne Kennedy-Crosby
Andy Brown

and has featured

Jacopo Andreini
David Chaparro
Bernard Moss
Zacery Stanley
Bill Horist
Gilles
Caroline Chaparro
Kathy Seifert:
Meredith von Werssowetz:
Marley von Werssowetz:
Micah von Werssowetz:
Kiana Monahan
Thomas Irvan
Mini Wagonwheel
Muddmakr

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Buy Miss Massive Snowflake releases at
The North Pole

"An American"
digital 7"

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This looks like a classic 7" record with a folded picture sleeve, but instead of a piece of vinyl, you get a paper replica of a 7" with unique download code. Arty... for sure, but cheap and awesome. Some older cuts and outtakes from "Songs About Music".

"Songs About Music"
CD / LP

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Charismatic weird rockers, Miss Massive Snowflake, craft catchy and deceptively intricate pop songs that are lyrically engaging and musically adept, a politically charged mix of glammy rock and dynamic compositions. Piloted by the irrepressible Shane de Leon, whose strong voice and humorous wit, lead protest songs that come off like party anthems. Horns wail and punch screwed groove guitar riffs, while fat bass and polyrhythmic percussion combine with both female and male vocals to make beautiful, moving, and intellectually satisfying rock music. This is Miss Massive Snowflake’s second full-length album following the 2008 electronic based, “Queen’s Headache” (NPR07). After 2 solo European and Stateside tours, where de Leon charmed audiences with multi-media theatrics armed with a laptop, projector, and acoustic guitar, he assembled a group featuring Bill Horist (Master Musicians of Bukake), Zacery Stanley (Dramady), and Jeanne Kennedy Crosby. “Songs About Music” was recorded by Gilles (Rollerball, The Pink Widower) and the sound is clean, full bodied, and sweet. The band will be touring Europe in April and domestically in summer 2010. Miss Massive Snowflake makes music that is at once playful and overtly political with most tracks clocking in under 3 minutes. de Leon has left behind the sonic obtuseness of the decade he spent working with legendary Portland experimental rockers, Rollerball, for pointed lyrics and quirky rock sing alongs. A tasty Flaming Lips/ Bowie rock concotion mixed with Minutemen/Beck song structure blasts, and Marc Ribot angularity cooked down with Funkadelic’s civil disobedience.

"Phonometak"
split 10"

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This is a split 10" released by Phonometak Laboratories, a collaboration between Milan, Italy's SoundMetak store and The Wallace Record label. This series of 10" records is populated by international avant superstars, and Miss Massive Snowflake is so proud to join the ranks of, OVO, Sinistri, Xabier Iriondo, Zu, Damo Suzuki, Mats Gustafsson, Paolo Angeli, Talibam!, The Jealousy Party, and Iceburn. All of whom have a side of super thick 10" vinyl. This release marks the first songs with the full band MMS line-up of Shane de Leon, Zacery Stanley, David Chaparro, Caroline Chaparro, Bill Horist, Gilles, and Jeanne Kennedy-Crosby. Recorded at Studio Olivia. Limited to 500 copies.

"Queen's Headache"
CD

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Queen's Headache is the first full length cd by Miss Massive Snowflake, who is Shane de Leon (ex-Rollerball vocalist and trumpeter). The music is lush and orchestrated with an abundance of horns, percussion, and electronics. The songs are short, the message is huge, and de Leon has brought in lots of kids to do his lyrical dirty work about stopping the war and loving each other. Two of the vocalists are under ten and the other singer besides de Leon is Portland's love master himself, Larry Yes. Queen's Headache is an extremely fun, funky, and timely album that is filled with quality songs and ideas. The feel is somewhere between an atheistic Danielson Famile, an anarchistic Prince, and a less technical Zappa.

"Miss Massive Snowflake"
3" cdr
Out of Print

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"Bender"
3" cdr w/ comic
Out of Print

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"Ssh, Ssh Snowman"
cdr
Out of Print

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Record Label:

North Pole Records