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(2000) | CD & 10" vinyl
Stereorrific Recordings (USA) / WIAIWYA (UK)
Musician, Producer, and Engineer
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Ever since the first mp3s singles were released there's been worldwide rumble in the pop underground about Miss Mary.When her solo CD Hey Blue! debuted, pop-kids and critics alike were cryin' "gimme, gimme MORE!"
Often compared to Holly GoLightly, April March, and even Jonathan Richman, Miss Mary (aka Mary Stopas) is cute but tough, naive but knowing. Lo-fi but Oh My!
The indie world got their first taste of her garage-pop candy with her sweet vocal harmonies, as well her leads on pop-punk treats like "Superman" and "Don't Look Back!," in the Portsmouth NH based garage group the Oscillators. But it's when she took center stage as a solo artist that she really took off into the "blue."
"Hey Blue!" has got the pop kids tapping their toes and snapping their fingers all around the world. It was even picked up for a special 10" vinyl release by British label WIAIWYA, leading to UK shows in 2001 and 2004.
Helping out on 'Hey Blue!" are Pete Weiss (Doug Yule, Charlie Chesterman, Willard Grant Conspiracy), Greg Porter (Unbunny), Jake Guralnick (Tuffskins, the Eddies), Jeff Mellin (Jeff Mellin & the Midnight Cowboys, the Eddies), Adam Hall, Todd Jones, and Oscillators Joel Mellin & M@ Saunders. The album was produced by Joel Mellin.
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"Like Miss Mary's look, the sound isn't quite of this time and place. [ Hey Blue!] harks back to the sunnier side of French pop, with plenty of organ, trumpets, and surf guitar.
the disc goes by like a cool breeze.
All of which leads to one question: is this woman for real?"
-Brett Milano, Boston Phoenix, USA
"This garage-pop chanteuse has emerged from New Hampshire garage band The Oscillators to produce clever, simple pop gems that linger in the memory and even, somehow, on the lips, like the afterthoughtof a treasured kiss."
-Jess Ashlock, Epitonic.com
"She stepped out of a re-run of Happy Days, a sassy, gives-as-good-as-she-gets compadre of The Fonz. She stepped straight into your heart. She's got a garage attitude and I'm not talking about the unfathomable arrogance of the spotty t--t who works nights at the petrol station over the road but you like that, and you like the clean-cut sound. She sings about love, but you're in love and you love her all the more for it. She is Miss Mary and you are smitten."
-Robots & Electronic Brains, UK
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