Allison Weiss
Allison Amling Weiss (born April 13, 1987) is a Los Angeles-based indie pop songwriter and performer. She has released two full-length albums and several EPs. Her third LP was released on October 2, 2015 through SideOneDummy Records.
Biography
Allison Weiss began playing music as a teenager in her hometown of Flowery Branch, Georgia. Inspired by the emotional tumult of young relationships, she began writing songs, adopting a D.I.Y. ethic that would stay with her throughout her career. Weiss released her first EP, An Eight-Song Tribute to Feeling Bad and Feeling Better, in 2007 while attending the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. She followed it up with a full-length concert album, Live at Sidewalk NYC, a year later.
In late 2009, Weiss turned to the newly launched Kickstarter crowd-funding platform to try raising the money for her first studio LP, ...Was Right All Along. Her campaign allowed her to reach her funding goal within the first day and triple it just days later. The Kickstarter success led to some high-exposure press, with The New York Times and Wired magazine essentially labeling her as a sort of poster child for the new era of Internet promotion. Weiss capitalized on the attention with countless tours, interviews, and a panelist slot at the industry's SXSW conference in Austin alongside Kickstarter founder Yancey Strickler. She busied herself over the next two years by focusing on her songwriting and touring.
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ALBUMS
- Say What You Mean (Sidewalk Sessions) released: 2013
- Say What You Mean released: 2013
- ...Was Right All Along released: 2009
- & The Way She Likes It released: 2008
- Live at Sidewalk Cafe NYC released: 2008
Say What You Mean (Sidewalk Sessions)
Released 2013- Making It Up (Sideways Sessions Version)
- One Way Love (Sideways Sessions Version)
- Nothing Left (Sideways Sessions Version)
- I Was an Island (Sideways Sessions Version)
- How to Be Alone (Sideways Sessions Version)
- Wait for Me (Sideways Sessions Version)
- Don't Go (Sideways Sessions Version)
- Hole in Your Heart (Sideways Sessions Version)
- Say What You Mean (Sideways Sessions Version)
- I'll Be Okay (Sideways Sessions Version)
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The End Ii
by: Allison WeissI don't care where you're coming from.
I'm never going back.
You could beg
And you could plead
But I wouldn't recommend that.
The day has come
To say my piece
But calm and quiet, I will keep
Your secret's mine
And I won't be the one
To try and raise the dead
So rest your worried head
Remember what I said
You chose to do
The things you did
Back then
And this is just the end
My stranger, not my friend
No, you are not my friend.
I know, I know about the girls before
I know, I know what happened on my floor
So stay in Boston, babe. Don't hold your breath.