Stephanie Nilles

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Kool Aid Stand 02:51 Tools
A Great Notion 04:10 Tools
My Favorite Things 04:32 Tools
Ode To Tequila 04:38 Tools
Oh, George and His Funeral Procession 08:38 Tools
Armadillo 01:51 Tools
Overeasy Eggs 03:51 Tools
Beacon of Liberty 03:36 Tools
Jump Monk / a Constellation of Endeavors 05:01 Tools
Flannel and Recording Gear 04:18 Tools
Asinine 06:43 Tools
Douchebags 05:42 Tools
Fuck Off, Grizzly Bear 03:25 Tools
The Ballad of Steve Martin 02:14 Tools
Fuck off Grizzly Bear 03:22 Tools
PhDz 04:23 Tools
St. James Infirmary 04:21 Tools
Caution Tape 04:10 Tools
For A High Life Commercial 02:32 Tools
America, America 05:10 Tools
These Parts 05:05 Tools
Caution Tape live w/ Ryan Cavanaugh and Ryan Allard 03:58 Tools
Beacon of Liberty (new album version) 03:37 Tools
Rat Pack (album version) 03:37 Tools
Fables of Faubus 06:22 Tools
Paraphrase on Travel in the Style of Greg Brown 03:59 Tools
Lies (album version) 03:59 Tools
Tower of Babel 04:07 Tools
Boston (album version) 04:07 Tools
Oh, George 08:13 Tools
This Bar 07:06 Tools
Kool Aid Stand live w/ Ryan Cavanaugh and Ryan Allard 07:06 Tools
Boston Live w/ Ryan Cavanaugh in banjo 07:06 Tools
the rules of shotgun 03:44 Tools
Phds 04:22 Tools
Rat Pack 03:29 Tools
My Favorite Things live w/ Ryan Cavanaugh 06:39 Tools
Rat Pack live w/ Ryan Cavanaugh on banjo 04:19 Tools
Love Me Or I'll Kill Yoou 04:27 Tools
Dark Matter - The Mexican One 04:50 Tools
Jump Monk live w/ Ryan Cavanaugh on banjo 07:36 Tools
Douchebags live w/ Ryan Cavanaugh and Ryan Allard 07:36 Tools
St James Infirmary 04:17 Tools
Love Me Or I'll Kill You 04:27 Tools
Boston 04:54 Tools
Lies 01:21 Tools
Eliezer & Joshua 03:38 Tools
Dark Matter (The Mexican One) 04:49 Tools
eliezer and joshua 03:38 Tools
Break Yer Neck 03:11 Tools
Oh, George live w/ Ryan Cavanaugh 08:15 Tools
be nice 03:11 Tools
Beacon of Liberty live w/ Ryan Cavanaugh and Ryan Allard 03:11 Tools
Lies live w/ Ryan Cavanaugh and Ryan Allard 02:45 Tools
Jump Monk, A Constellation Of Endeavors 05:03 Tools
Dark Matter 04:48 Tools
open season 05:02 Tools
The slaughter haus 05:02 Tools
Elizer & Joshua 04:48 Tools
Elizer Monk / A Constellation Of Endeavors 05:02 Tools
Fuck Off, Grizzly Gear 05:02 Tools
Transistor 05:02 Tools
Canadians Are From Canada 05:02 Tools
The Deportee 05:02 Tools
America America 05:02 Tools
Love Me or Ill Kill You 05:02 Tools
bait + switch 05:02 Tools
here comes cohn 05:02 Tools
F**k Off, Grizzly Bear 05:02 Tools
Oh, George (And His Funeral Procession) 05:02 Tools
Vodka-Based Fishbowl 05:02 Tools
Kate in the Haze of the Rum 05:02 Tools
Like a Stone Cast Out to Sea 05:02 Tools
Dark Matter the Mexican One 05:02 Tools
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Stephanie Nilles is an independent musician constantly on the move. At 17, she was a finalist at the Young Concert Artists' International Competition. At 22, she had graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Music with a BM in classical piano performance. These days, she's performing her own politically-influenced jazz/folk tunes, described by listeners as "Ella Fitzgerald on speed beating the shit out of Regina Spektor" and "Tom Waits on helium," in her adopted home base of New York City and out on the road in a hatchback with a Roland. She has performed at joints like Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, The Bitter End, The Cutting Room, WFMT's "Live from Studio One," and the Dame Myra Hess Series at the Chicago Cultural Center, and she has collaborated with artists such as Bobby McFerrin, Joel Newton, and Christian Howes, in styles ranging from free improv to burlesque accompaniment. Stephanie's songs, sometimes "brutally honest," address issues ranging from drug busts in her Harlem neighborhood and feminism to the recent election and life on the road. "She is a poet without being pretentious about it; she is bluesy, jazzy, soulful (in her way), and lets her music pour out in such an organic way. Her songs can be analyzed word for word, or they can be taken impressionistically, fixating instead on the overall mood. Whenever she plays, the room falls dead silent. Whether everyone will be able to absorb all of the complexity and nuances of her music is unimportant. What is important is that everyone will try." (exterminating angel press) In August 2008, Stephanie released a full-length album, ReDemo, on her own label, Sudden Infant Death Hut Records. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.