Five years ago, Miranda Zipse performed a show on the sidewalk in front of a small town record store, Vinyl Revolution, in the picturesque town of Pacific Grove on California's central coast.
Zipse was the bassist/singer for The Pip Squeeks, a garage rock trio who delivered authentic ’60s psych-rock nuggets a la The Electric Prunes and Sir Douglas Quintet. The band had recorded 10 songs at a professional studio, and the impromptu sidewalk show raised the cash needed to produce 100 copies of their debut album.
Like many great bands, The Pip Squeeks disbanded, and the musicians went their separate ways.
Zipse went on to form Miranda and the Beat, a duo with drummer/singer Kim Sollecito. The group melded personal influences—Zipse brought elements of soul, jazz and grunge, while Sollecito intertwined doses of surf and punk rock.
Since Miranda and the Beat formed, Zipse relocated to Brooklyn, New York, and the band became a quintet.
The outfit made some big waves throughout NYC before the pandemic. Fueled by Zipse's dynamic voice, the group is quickly gaining traction. It helps that Jack White's label, Third Man Records, released their 7" debut vinyl, featuring "Such A Fool."
Third Man hyped the band, dedicating a full-page link to Miranda and the Beat's "Such a Fool" video. The label declared Zipse as a "force of nature."
"Such a Fool" is a topical and relatable personal journal entry—Zipse's vocals shine brightly with a sultry Ruth Brown-meets-Amy Winehouse glow alongside a conglomeration of '60s garage rock and blue-eyed soul.
“The world has been through a lot in the past six months, and the music and art that will emerge will certainly reflect the times,” Zipse told vanyaland.com. “I am excited to see the creative ways that artists adapt and reinvent their mediums and processes due to limited resources. ‘Such a Fool’ was written before COVID, but I made the music video in quarantine at home in New York City. Being very limited in what I could do with the resources I had forced me to create something I would have never normally created.”
I can't wait to see what Zipse does next!
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