Genres: Alternative / Indie, Experimental / Avante Garde, Pop, Singer / Songwriter
Sound description: Short, quirky songs
RIYL: Regina Spektor, Nellie McKay, The Decemberists, Steven Merritt, Stephen Sondheim
Formed: 2005
City: Dallas, TX
Web site: http://www.KlickitatMusic.net
Michaela Kuenster's father, a pianist and songwriter, cautioned her with sleepless eyes, overflowing ash-trays, empty bottles/pockets, and impending carpal tunnel syndrome to "be a lawyer; be a doctor; learn from my mistakes."
So, of course, she decided to start a band.
Michaela has been falling asleep with the TV on for many years. The result is a catalog of songs - some based on historical fact, most based on historical fiction, and some are simply an outlet for her blinding rage and violent urges.
She likes to write around the key of C, stay within a two-minute time frame, and she loves alliteration.
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The Sherman Brothers, Roger Miller, Harry Nilsson, Paul Williams, The Magnetic Fields, Glen Campbell, Sammy Fain, Cole Porter, Rogers & Hart, Johnny Mercer, Irving Berlin, Beverly Cleary, Natalie Babbitt, S.E. Hinton, J.D. Salinger, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, HBO, PBS, NBC, The Reconstruction Era and the Gilded Age
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