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Miss Massive Snowflake
- An American
2010 | NPR 23
digital 7"
3 tracks
Release date: March 02, 10
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An American
Hey Honey
Celebration
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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".
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PRE-ORDER and get name entered in drawing for signed test pressing. Ships March 16, 2010
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Miss Massive Snowflake
- Songs About Music
2009 | NPR 19
CD / LP w/ cd insert
10 tracks
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Good Morning
Be Brave
I Do
An American
Two Guys
Happy Birthday
Shock and Awe
Knife Blade
Good Night
Encore
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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.
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Miss Massive Snowflake
- Phonometak Split 10" Series Number 06 w/ Gianni Gebbia
10" 2009 | Wal115
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Track Listing:
Miss Massive Snowflake:
Shock and Awe
Can't Be Wrong
Bender
Gianni Gebbia:
Daruma's Call
Sussokan
Duck Call
Cinabro
Transmission
Moon Faced Buddha
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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.
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Miss Massive Snowflake
- Queen's Headache
CD 2008 | NPR07
3 color letterpress folio and sleeve
15 tracks | 32 minutes | 5 videos |
Track Listing:
Satsuma
Bombs Away
Swing of Hair
Hillarianos
The Hunt
Meredith
Who Wrecked The Party
Draggish Friends
I don't know
One I've been waiting for
Fossil Fissure
Sunday, Monday
Cake
The Mexican
26 names
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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.
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Miss Massive Snowflake
- Miss Massive Snowflake
3" CDr 2006 | NPR 02
3 tracks, 12 minutes
OUT OF PRINT
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Track Listing:
Thick of it
Raccoon Eyes
Dead of Night
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Guitar and vocal songs with horns and electronic orchestration about family and friends.
Performed by Shane de Leon and Kathryn Seifert.
full color cover and lyric sheet
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Miss Massive Snowflake
- Bender
2005 | NPR 01
16 page full color comic | and 3 color letterpress folio 3" CDr
10 tracks, 20 minutes
OUT OF PRINT
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Track Listing:
Bombay Zombie
Mic to Work
Uncle John
Tourette
Yucky Paradel
Furious Headache
Chunk of Funk
Civilized
Bender
Mini Dragoneel
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Gender bending bunnies, paper bag bears, a musical. A Mess of electronics, kids singing about balloons,
and a whole lot of weird in under 20 minutes.
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Miss Massive Snowflake
- Shh Shh Snowman
2004 | NPR 00
4 tracks, 10 minutes
OUT OF PRINT
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Snowflake House
Bara
Another Lonely Christmas
Shh Shh Snowman
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Christmas and Winter themed songs.
MMS does one original song, a Prince song, a Rollerball song, some George Michael samples with an outstanding rap by Miss Massive Snowflake.
Hand printed covers by the ever lovable, Starbage Hands.
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