BIO
Kirsten DeHaan has stormed onto the music scene by releasing her debut album Conform under her own label SirLady Records in 2004. Being compared to U2 & Nirvana with a touch of Belly , Kirsten personally pushed her music to MTV , and over 150 radio stations in the first few months of its release. In addition to releasing her work, DeHaan hosts a weekly webcast in honor of the troops, and has created a series of music launches, entitled the New York Indie Rock Launch into New York City. The event is in honor of celebrating the city's influential urban rock scene while featuring herself alongside some of New York's top independent rock artists and promoters.
Its clear that fans have also took notice of DeHaan's work and message, when she received more than 1 million downloads since 2006 alone. In turn, SirLady Records recently signed with Grooveshark, the up and coming p2p file sharing community that is taking the industry by storm. In addition, Platinum Blue- a product of My Music Science , a contemporary, digital analysis research company, tested Russian Roulette from her latest EP under the Richter Scale , and found its hit potential and rating quality in the same category of James Blunt's Beautiful , and Hey 'Ya , of Outkast.
MTV - Kirsten's singles Commotion and Saved from 'Conform' recently aired on several of MTV's hit reality shows including, Made and My Super Sweet Sixteen .
Garageband: #16 Best Female Vocals in Pop/Rock, all-time
FreshFarmMusic.com: 'Conform' was listed as one of the most popular
records next to The Killers, and Ashlee Simpson.
The Grooveshark Interview
Last June we championed Kirsten DeHaan as “the next big thing”. If this sounds like a blind exageration levied solely to promote a Grooveshark artist, then you obviously haven’t heard DeHaan’s music. Compared in the press to such heavyweights as u2, Nirvana, and Belly, DeHaan has delivered music that serves as welcome reprieve from the soulless, calculated pop music released by her contemporaries.
Like a young Deborah Harry, DeHaan conveys a sense of relentless passion in every one of her songs. It is this same kind of passion that inspired DeHaan to self-promote her music to MTV and begin a series of indie rock shows in New York City. Her fanbase grows steadily with each passing day, so much so that she recently reached the milestone of having her songs downloaded over a million times on various websites.
Fundamentally, what seperates Kirsten DeHaan from similar artists is that her songs are believable. Her new EP Under The Richter Scale is a revelation, a proverbial shot in the arm for a stagnant genre. The poignancy of her lyrics, her gritty delivery, and an incredible backing band ranks Under The Richter Scale in the upper echelon of 2007 releases. DeHaan is steadfast in her belief that an artist has a responsibility when creating music and it is evident throughout her music. When other artists sing about current events they often sound contrived and uninspired. When Kirsten DeHaan does it, you believe her.
Blog Critics - Jon Sobel
DeHaan, is a nineties-style punk-pop dynamo. Her new 3-song EP is drawing comparisons to Belly and U2, which is fair enough, but her live set is rawer and more punked out. This dualism may simply be in the nature of the pretty, driven, biker-haired Indianan-turned-New Yorker, or it may be smartly planned - or both. In any case, it makes her recorded music potentially radio-friendly in more than one circuit - grown up Gen-Xers, college rock, maybe even the Avril LaTween set. A combination of talent, personal intensity and looks might soon turn Kirsten DeHaan into a major indie player...
