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. 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. REVIEWS NO DEPRESSION (Town & Country) "In the course of eleven songs, Anthony's voice moves with a melodic and emotional sureness that recalls early Sarah McLachlan, though Anthony adeptly mingles country and blues influences into her refined phrasing." THE PITCH (Kansas City) If you were walking into a club, Milwaukee-based singer-songwriter Michelle Anthony's Louisville Slugger of a voice would hit you right in the ears, and so would her Chrissie Hyndesque way of trailing off at the end of phrases. After a few tunes, though, it would be clear that she has much in common with the cheerfully depressed Los Angeles songwriting scene that cradled a pre-Magnolia Aimee Mann and her hubby, Michael Penn. After all, one of Anthony's best tunes, "Mourning Song," is a description of an anniversary. Her latest album, the existential Stand Fall Repeat, produced by multi-instrumental svengali Jay Bennett, emphasizes Anthony's pop sensibilities. F5 (Wichita, KS) "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." DALLAS OBSERVER Blessed with a commanding voice reminiscent of Chrissie Hynde, Kansas City native Michelle Anthony offers a bluesy take on alt-country, full of cynical wit and post-relationship regret. Now residing in Austin and finishing up her sophomore effort, Anthony's mix of urban soul and rural twang should appeal to fans of Tift Merritt and Bonnie Raitt alike. POP MATTERS "Her sound is an easy-going and world-weary mix of folk and Americana...This record is definitely on par with Crow's The Globe Sessions, which is quite an achievement for a debut!" THE ONION "For years, Michelle Anthony led the Milwaukee alt-pop band Capital 8, finding a solid balance between bar-band fun and radio-ready sheen. Last year, Anthony stepped away from the group to record a solo album that showcases songs with a bit more depth. The result, a monstrously self-assured set called Stand Fall Repeat, features production by Jay Bennett and songs that nod at Aimee Mann and Sheryl Crow." CHICAGO READER "This Milwaukee singer-songwriter put a band together last summer as a side project from her main outifit, Capital 8, but it seems to be edging toward front and center. They've already recorded a debut alum with Jay Bennett; judging from a four-song preview, it's polished yet rousing indie country rock, carried up into glory by Anthony's singing, which reminds me a lot of Linda Ronstadt." CHICAGO FREE PRESS "On her debut "Stand Fall Repeat" (Burn & Shiver), co-recorded by Jay Bennett (of Wilco fame) in Chicago, Michelle Anthony sounds a bit like Chrissie Hynde on an insurgent country bender, particularly on "Don't Deny," "Radio Waves" and "Analog Feeling." The product of a break Anthony took from Milwaukee-based Capital 8, "Stand Fall Repeat" also features the Wilco-esque "Family Tree," the bluesy rocker "Bubble Clock," the fittingly tragic "Mourning Song" and the gorgeous closing track "Today."' ALL MUSIC GUIDE "Stand Fall Repeat...offers more of the dark and somewhat dingy country ballads that brings to mind Kathleen Edwards, Allison Moorer or Gillian Welch if she was raised on a heap of alt.country albums...It's hard not to like!" SLIGHTLY CONFUSING TO A STRANGER "...Michelle Anthony (& her band Stick Pony) is a cross between Laura Nyro circa Eli/Gonna Take A Miracle, post-Jeremy Spencer, pre-Tusk Fleetwood Mac, the Jayhawks and the Band..."Radio Waves,"...is a country-soul GEM that'd be perfect for Lulu or the late Dusty Springfield..."Analog Feeling" is droll, existential, rousing & soulful, like The Band playing The Replacements' most power-poppingest song, sizing up Life like it should be sized-up, with no headache...." CDREVIEWS.COM This is a top-notch first effort...Michelle deserves to have any accolades bestowed on her that other outstanding female vocalists in her genre are currently enjoying...My grade for Michelle: A-." SHEPHERD EXPRESS (Milwaukee) Interview. THE POST CRESCENT (Appleton, WI) "The musicianship and songwriting are top-notch, but what really stands out is Anthony’s beautiful, strong voice, which has been compared to Chrissie Hynde, Liz Phair and Sheryl Crow. Those comparisons don’t really do her justice." EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER SANTA MONICA MIRROR (Santa Monica, CA) "Raised outside Kansas City, Anthony's luminous voice recalls the early work of Chrissie Hynde and Lucinda Williams. Call it rock and roll with an alt-country heart or vice versa...Play "Don't Deny" once and you won't deny twice being a huge Anthony fan." ROOTS HIGHWAY (Seattle) "One listen and you can’t deny that Anthony is one of the Midwest’s best kept secrets. Grade: A" ONMILWAUKEE.com "...there is a lot to get excited about in Anthony's roots pop rock and roll, from her melancholy melodies to her warm, all-American voice and from her ability to master material both uptempo and mellow." BLOGCRITICS (New York) (Review of SFR and live show at NYC's The Living Room) "Anthony...has a powerful, rich voice reminiscent of Mama Cass or Ellen McIlwaine...[T]he CD doesn't quite do justice to Anthony's voice, and I would never have known that if I hadn't seen her live. That's not to say it doesn't show she's a good singer: in fact, when I first listened to the disc I thought, Thank goodness, a female singer-songwriter who isn't afraid to actually sing! But she's stronger live..." VITAL SOURCE (Milwaukee) "Michelle Anthony’s solo album Stand Fall Repeat showcases some of the strongest girl-and-piano ballads since the appearance of Susan Tedeschi’s Just Won’t Burn." THE COLUMBIA DAILY TRIBUNE (Columbia, MO) "The singer, now based in Milwaukee, has a commanding approach that suggests the influence of Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders. Her sound is part honky-tonk, pop and rock. The acoustic riffs on her first full-length album, "Stand Fall Repeat," coupled with her romantic overtures, also are reminiscent of Sheryl Crow." THE SHEPHERD EXPRESS (Milwaukee) "With influences ranging from The Pixies to The Pretenders, melody collides with pop sensibility with hooks and catchy refrains."