Artist: Princess Superstar
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
My Machine
Year: 2005
Tracks: 23
Is
Year: 2002
Tracks: 16
Last of the Great 20th Century Composers
Year: 2000
Tracks: 13
With her long blond hair, wraparound dark glasses, and style tips taken unbent from Debbie Harry, Concetta Kirshner would seem the least potential someone to earn her name in the world of alternative rap, where genuineness -- especially in Kirshner's native New York City -- substance virtually as often as the music. Nevertheless, in 1994, with dreams of giving the music reality something groundbreaking, Kirshner named herself Princess Superstar and made her first demo, armed only with a four-track and two tape decks. The demo was called Mitch Better Get My Bunny, a play on run-in from a popular urban arrest musical phrase (and a pat song by AMG) at the time. The response to demonstration was prompt and gained a write up in CMJ magazine's "Futures" segment that described Princess Superstar's eclecticist mix of hip-hop, spunk john Rock, and usurious mood. She sign-language with fifth Beetle Records and recruited a computer backup band consisting of Kirsten "Pro" Jansen on drums, Doug Pressman on bass voice, and Art "F" Lavis on guitar. fifth Beetle released Strictly Platinum in 1996. CMJ called the music "super guileful hip-hop with yap away droppingly clever lyrics and inventive sampling;" A.P. went even further with its congratulations: "If you yearn for the years when a tap record was both exciting and advanced, as well as fun, Rigorously Platinum has got your advert scrawled across it...in atomic number 10 stunner lipstick." The rest of the push response was similarly overwhelming.
Next the buzz, Kirshner touched from her Clinton Street shoes to Avenue A, where she was christened "The Queen of Avenue A" by CMJ. Strictly Platinum gained momentum, even shot to the turn one spot on some college radio stations in New York and Los Angeles, while likewise gaining airplay throughout the U.S. and Canada. The stripe played unrecorded shows all o'er the East Coast and Canada. Strictly Platinum's "Theme Song" and "Flavis Special" were even secondhand on NBC's NBA Roundup and MTV's Slam and Jam. Kirshner took stairs toward musical self-direction by the end of 1996 by origination her own record label, the tongue-in-cheek-named A Big Rich Major Label, and vowing never to signboard with a "genuine" major label over again. She likewise assembled a new ring: Ski Love Ski on freshwater bass, Mike Linn on drums, and DJ Science Center spinning records live. The group recorded the secondment Princess Superstar album, Chief executive officer, which was released in on October 31, 1997. The album again garnered national clap.
Next the album's liberation, Princess Superstar set-aside the Hostile Takeover Tour '98, a six-week tour through the U.S. and Canada, which included acting to a packed menage at the South by Southwest music conference. Playing the Transmusicales de Rennes festival in France with Nashville Pussy followed in December of 1999, as did a mini-jaunt in London. Kirshner likewise exhausted the beginning of 1999 working on her third Princess Superstar album, Concluding of the Great twentieth Century Composers, having again assembled a new mount band (Money Mike Linn on drums, DJ Cutless Supreme manning the turntables and playing guitar, and Walter Sipser holding down bass voice duties). Kirshner likewise chose to rename A Big Rich Major Label, opting or else for The Corrupt Conglomerate for the release of the third album. By the new millennium, Kirshner aquiline up with Curtis Curtis for a fourth album. Princess Superstar Is, which was issued in early 2002, featured collaborations with Kool Keith, the X-Ecutioners' Mista Sinista, Beth Orton, and others. My Machine from 2005 was a construct album set in the year 2080 with high profile dance producers Jacques Lu Cont, Junior Sanchez, Armand Van Helden, and Arthur Baker all lending a helping hand.
