Lisa Marr is a musician, songwriter, filmmaker, photographer, and educator from Vernon,

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, Canada, currently based in

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, and

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, British Columbia, Canada. She has performed as a solo artist and as a member of

the Evaporators The Evaporators are a Canadian garage rock band formed in 1986 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Vocalist/keyboardist Nardwuar, its founding member, is also known for interviewing musicians and celebrities. History As well as recording and perfor ...

, the Indecisives, the Bombshells, Cub, Buck, The Beards, The Lisa Marr Experiment, The Here + Now, and Soda & His Million Piece Band. She is sometimes known as Miss Marr in her solo work. She has been credited as the originator of a subgenre of music known as

cuddlecore Twee pop is a subgenre of indie pop that originates from the 1986 ''NME'' compilation '' C86''. Twee pop gets its name from the aesthetic of twee, which is known for its simplicity and childlike innocence. Some of its defining features are boy-g ...

Music

Lisa Marr's music performing career began when she was invited to play bass for

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five days before a show. She taught herself to play bass in that time by listening to

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records. Nardwuar and Marr, as well as the founders of Mint Records, were associated through their work at

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, the University of British Columbia's student radio station. Lisa began working at the station with her own show focused on

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. As she met friends at the station, she began to be more focused on music.

cub

Marr is a founding member, primary songwriter, lead singer, and bass player for indie-pop band cub. The term

was coined to describe their music.

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guitarist Nicholas Bragg invented the term as a joke, and also produced the band's ''hot dog day'' EP. Band members have expressed mixed feelings about the label , though it was included in the artwork of their second album, '' Come Out Come Out''. Neko Case first toured playing music with cub as the drummer, after founding drummer Valeria quit the band. It was also Case's first time singing on stage. cub toured with

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, who covered their song "New York City".

Buck

Buck (sometimes stylized as BuCk or Bu¢K) was Lisa Marr and drummer/vocalist Lisa G's band following the break-up of cub. Marr continued to sing lead vocals and play bass. The two were joined by guitarist Pepper Berry, playing in his first band.

Other notable musical projects

*The Beards was a rock supergroup in which Lisa Marr played bass and shared singing and songwriting duties with

Kim Shattuck Kimberly Dianne Shattuck (July 17, 1963 – October 2, 2019) was an American singer, musician, and songwriter. She was the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter of the American punk rock band the Muffs, which formed in 1991. From ...

The Muffs The Muffs were an American pop punk band based in Southern California, formed in 1991. Led by singer and guitarist Kim Shattuck, the band released four full-length studio albums in the 1990s, as well as numerous singles including "Lucky Guy" and ...

had headlined a show with cub opening. Soon, Marr married the bassist from the Muffs, and later, Marr and Shattuck collaborated on The Beards. *The Lisa Marr Experiment was a country rock band. Neko Case covered "In California", a song from their first album, ''4 am''. *In 2019, Marr released a four-track single with Vancouver band The Tranzmitors (featuring members of

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and New Town Animals) that include two cub songs – Magic 8 Ball and Pretty Pictures – along with a cover of the

Fastbacks Fastbacks are a Seattle, Washington, punk rock band. Formed in 1979 by songwriter/guitarist Kurt Bloch (born August 28, 1960), and friends Lulu Gargiulo (guitar and vocals, born October 12, 1960) and Kim Warnick (bass and vocals, born April 7, ...

song, In the Summer.

Visual arts

Marr was a 2014 Visual Art Fellow for the California Community Foundation. Marr has made films on her own, and is currently the operations director and youth film coordinator, as well as director, at the Echo Park Film Center. Her first major film project was a documentary entitled Learning How to Fail, which was screened at the Darklight Film Festival. She is also one of the few modern filmmakers to shoot on 3mm film.

Solo exhibitions

* 2013 Natural History, A Free School, Los Angeles, CA Echo Park Film Center Road Show, The Hanoi Bicycle Collective, Hanoi, Vietnam * 2012 The Sound We See: City Symphonies in the 21st Century, Directors Lounge, Berlin, Germany Imagined Cinemas, Blaak 10 Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Group exhibitions and community-based art

* 2014 Films from Echo Park Film Center, Distrital, Mexico City, Mexico Burning Bungalows: Experimental Film and Animation from LA, National Tour, USA * 2011–2014 Out The Window, Freewaves/Public Matters/UCLA REMAP, Los Angeles, CA * 2014 The Sound We See: A Guwahati City Symphony, Desire Machine Collective, Guwahati, India * 2013 Likuvarnya, Museum of Tripolian Culture, Legedzine, Ukraine * 2013 The Sound We See: A Hanoi City Symphony, Doclab/Goethe Institute, Hanoi, Vietnam * 2012 The Sound We See: A Rotterdam City Symphony , WORM/Creating 010/RAIR/Piet Zwarte Institute/Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, Netherlands * 2010 The Candahar, Cultural Olympiad, Vancouver, Canada

Other fellowships, grants, and awards

* 2014 Cultural Exchange International Fellowship, Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles and British Council, UK * 2014 Open Electives Fellowship, National Institute of Design, Guwahati, India * 2013 Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Artistic Innovation and Collaboration Grant * 2012 Research Fellowship, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, Netherlands

References

External links

Echo Park Film Center
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Lisa Marr's Personal Art-focused website

The Sound We See, A Global Collaborative Film Project
{{DEFAULTSORT:Marr, Lisa Living people Canadian indie pop musicians Canadian women songwriters Canadian women film producers Year of birth missing (living people) Film producers from British Columbia People from Vernon, British Columbia