Sivan Lioncub and Christopher Daddio fused brains in 2010. Their first project “Lee Malone” started as a cross-country songwriting affair between Sivan (vocals, violin) in Brooklyn and Chris (vocals, guitar) in San Francisco. It quickly became an obsession & Sivan moved back to her childhood home in Oakland, California so that their music creation could continue. They busked on street corners, played in clubs, got noticed by local press and were on the rise. Then, just after they were invited to record at Converse Rubbertracks, Chris was diagnosed with hodgkin’s lymphoma and Lee Malone screeched to a halt. 

     Sivan stayed by his bedside in the hospital every day & every night as Chris went through aggressive rounds of in-patient chemo & radiation at Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley. They made it as fun as they could, singing songs in hospital halls til dawn. Together through the tunnel of darkness they persevered and lo & behold, they earned themselves a new life.

      A superstitious couple, they felt that Lee Malone had brought them bad luck, so they decided to rename their band Everyone Is Dirty, a lyric from a song Sivan wrote. They recruited bassist/pedal steel player Tyler English and drummer Tony Sales (whose dad & uncle are the Sales Brothers) & released their first album appropriately named Dying Is Fun on Tricycle Records. They toured the country in their trusty van Papa Mario, playing BFD, Treefort Music Fest in Boise, SXSW & Noise Pop and lots of little shows in cities along the way.

    By February of 2015 they were on the rise again, kicking ass & playing tons of shows. Then, just after they opened for Cold War Kids, Sivan had an allergy to an antibiotic called Augmentin and her liver failed. She turned yellow and her piss looked like Coca Cola. Shocked & profoundly disappointed, they had to cancel their tour to Treefort Fest & beyond. Instead, in a hospital bed at Alta Bates Chris paid back the devotion, staying with her day and night. Music gave them hope, so they continued to write & record with Tyler, and in 2018 they released My Neon’s Dead, a 10 song memoir of Sivan’s hospitalized “toxic morphine haze”. 

      For the 2nd time,  life was re-granted to the duo. With a clean bill of health they replaced Tony Sales with Tyler’s high-school bandmate, drummer Jake Kopulsky, and their rhythm section grew to be a force of nature. 

   Until today Sivan & Chris are recording music at Donut Time Audio, a full service recording studio that takes over their 2 bedroom house in Oakland. He engineers & produces. She writes lyrics & and shreds a clear blue electric violin that glows when it hits the light. When he’s not working on an Everyone Is Dirty song Chris makes a living recording & mixing music at Donut Time Audio with local artists. Sivan enjoys collaborating with other artists as well, most recently recording violin and singing with The Residents on their albums "Intruders" and "Metal meat & Bone" and touring with Shannon Shaw.

Based in LA, Strictlynickley is a resident DJ of What the Float as well as the host of DJ Strictlynickley's Music School Bus on Gutsy Radio.

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The story of Miss Jupiter begins a very long time ago and very far away, in some senses at least… for in all likelihood this story is not at all unique and is probably happening constantly everywhere at a fairly consistent pace…

Anyway —

It was amid a particularly nasty nebula of wastefulness and cruelty, that a tiny new star painstakingly escaped and made its way out into a clearing in space. After about 3 billion years of shaking off the cosmic debris, sighing over its inability to save the small family of stars it had loved so dearly, and searching for a new home, this teensy spark of light found its way into our galaxy, and pinned itself in the sky just far enough to barely glimpse with the average mammalian eye. As the star peacefully watched over all the other solar systems, it began to witness the descent into darkness of one of the most graceful, balanced & beautiful planets, Earth, which began to remind it of the nebula it had once escaped. Being a dwarf star, in fact not much larger than our sun, this little ball of gas decided it could help this time.

The star's energy embodied a human Earthling, and asserted that the best way to initiate the force of positive change would be through music, for it is vibration that unites all life through shared sensation. It gave its host the gifts of song, word, and magic, and the stage name of Miss Jupiter to express the concept of massive power despite diminutive size or circumstances.

Host person for Miss Jupiter, Michelle Rose is also the proprietor of a Los Angeles boutique, Spacedust, which serves as retail home to artists and creators of all kinds.  Michelle also provides custom pinback buttons to the local music community through her business Naked Merch, and is the chief stage costumer for Miss Jupiter and bands such as Deap Vally & Fever the Ghost.

Music influenced by Add N To X, Chris & Cosey, Renegade Soundwave, Meat Beat Manifesto, Ethyl Meatplow, Fun Boy Three, Portishead, Sean Lennon, Ty Segall, Mummies, Coil, and Syd Barrett.

Miss Jupiter is following