She's baaaaaackkkk!
And Ms Mixi ain't whistlin' Dixie
Ok, so she never really left but it makes for an appropriate headline emblazoned on the tombstone of Hollywood as STITCHED UP HEART are cranking up the butane once again.
Re-hemmed, Re-fueled, Re-formulated, Re-calibrated.
Stitched Up Heart's revolvers are Locked, Stocked, and ready to be Unloaded with both guns blazing!
So, don your Saturday night flak-jacket best and get ready to board this exhilarating scary-go-round, but lest it be known, that it's a high velocity whirling dervish.
It's very GRAVE and only for the BRAVE!
The band knocked 'em dead at hallowed haunts like Bar Sinister, The Viper Room and The Roxy, mopped up the masses at SXSW and select Warped tour dates before penetrating the pulse of the pragmatic while on tour with Warner Bros recording artist Gemini Syndrome.
People took notice and so did the industry as Mixi was anointed one of the Hottest Chicks In Hard Rock by the editors (and readers) of Revolver Magazine.
Label offers started rolling in. But, one must ruminate...
Is this a passageway to Heaven?
Or
IS this the WAY to get to HELL?
It was an incendiary first twelve months for the band but around the time Revolver was hitting newsstands and mailboxes, then guitarist Nikki Misery was hitting the exit as he side-stepped a few zip codes south to join up with Orange County Haunted Mansioncore incinerator, New Years Day, led by the ghoulishly affable Ashley Costello (Misery is far left in the photo below).
Soon thereafter, Mixi and several of the other band members bid adieu.
It was a time of transition and TRUE BLOOD.
While seeking replacements to stitch up her juggernaut, Mixi (real name Alecia Demner) found herself with a cameo role in the "Somebody I Used To Know" episode of True Blood (season 5, Ep 8).
With her trademark red heart necklace glowing brightly, Ms Demner is seen crossing the camera frame in vamp bar Fangtasia. Bartender, I'll have another and can you please put the "unofficial" official Bon Temps theme song on the nukebox:
Wonder if I checked your pulse
would there be a beat at all?
You're like the Dead Walkin'
The Walking Dead
would there be a beat at all?
You're like the Dead Walkin'
The Walking Dead
Chapter 2.
Bearing a visceral moniker lends itself to many interpretations and, in this case, to the very band itself.
Stitching up the heart of the band with David DiSarro on bass, Grant Webb on guitar and James Decker on drums, Mixi's magic carpet ride is, once again, flying high in full stride.
Re-confirgured to indoctrinate the uninitiated with their next-level fastidious Frankenstein fury, Stitched Up Heart have thrust to Mach 2, which equates to twice the speed of sound...and that's with the pedal at only half mast.
Faster than a speeding bullet and able to leap expectations in a single bound, the band is on a mission to zoom past all preconceived notions of hard music.
Lap one unfolds with the blistering video for their new single "Grave". Juxtaposing between just and justified, it's cotton candy for the inside.
REVOLVER joined Team Mixi, hosting the world-premiere as a precursor for the unveiling of the 2012 edition of The Hottest Chicks In Hard Rock, which glazes eyeballs and papers bedroom walls this week.
Phase one is done.
Phase two is underway, as Stitched Up Heart is providing some much needed resuscitation to the beleaguered arteries of Hollywood. Over the last few months, SUH has put together/headlined several packed-to-the-gills multi-band bills with a fashion show component.
The most recent one took place on August 25 at a fabled House under the lights of a glorious Sunset.
At one of the most iconic venues along the Sunset Strip, Mixi popped her House of Blues Cherry with a dominant performance worthy of a Purple Heart.
Flanked by bands Assuming We Survive, Downtown Attraction, A.M. or Above, Hey You! and an Amanda Jean fashion show, Mixi and her new band of brothers were more ferocious than ever!
Gone are the once-upon-a-time show gimmicks of glitter and fake blood. Back is Mixi's bold, beautiful blue locks while her trademark black & white stripes are less pronounced as her full-length striped arm bands have been chopped down to wrist-band size.
And even though her favorite black pants seem to split and shred more and more as the months roll tide, there's no fear and nothing to hide! Mixi has complete command of, and has a good chemistry with, 2.0, as the band is truly armed and dangerous.
These combustible components lend themselves emblematically to the new songs. The perverse circus swirl that permeates "I'm A Fucking Genius (But I Don't Know Shit)" detonates the mind as an instant showstopper while "Frankenstein," "It Comes Back Around," "Dead Walkin'" and "Grave" continue the anthemic tradition instituted by "We're Alive" and "Is This The Way To Get To Hell".
Round after round after round of heavy artillery showcased a ready-made monster systematically marching towards nirvana but then, in an instant, my breath ceased and the passage of time hung in the balance. An intimate song entitled, "Is This The End?" swooped down and encircled my soul.
The rapture commenced.
The rapture commenced.
A generational anthem has been born but equally intriguing is the peek behind the Mixi mirror, a glimpse of the courageous heart of a Lioness. Vulnerable and raw, powerful and poignant, her entire-being embodiment left a lasting impression.
Stitching oneself up allows for progression and transformative emergence, but so does unstitching thyself.
Frankenstein has risen from the grave
Dead Walkin' like Christopher Walken
No time for sulkin' like Macauley Culkin
Only time for Rockin' like Dokken
STITCHED UP HEART
TOUR DATES
10/17 - San Francisco, CA @ TBA
10/18 - Portland, OR @ TBA
10/19 - Tacoma, WA @ TBA
10/20 - Coeur D'Lane, ID @ TBA
10/21 - Spokane, WA @ TBA
10/23 - Seattle, WA @ TBA
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