Artists:Paul Melancon

Paul Melancon can be seen currently with his band The Arts and Sciences and playing guitar in the band Pizzaland. He's also working on a side project with Jimmy Ether of The Ether Family Presents called (all the) Sceneless Hipsters and can be found occasionally singing a song or two for the Susi French Connection.

In his sad need for attention he has also provided vocals, live and/or on tape, for the Indigo Girls, weaklazyliar, the Lindsey Rakers Band, Chain Poets, the Swear, Ken Will Morton, the Indicators, the Accusations, and Sue Witty.

Paul Melançon plays music. Literate, moody, indie-pop music. Whatever the hell that is. He writes depressing songs that sound upbeat, and upbeat songs that sound depressing. He has been graced with an unusually gifted voice and a knack for writing well-crafted pop songs hiding disturbed and defective characters inside. His tools are the bittersweet melody, lyrical depth, and sardonic wit found in fellow artists such as Michael Penn, Neil Finn and Elvis Costello. When whipped into a frenzy, he can shake and pop like a drunk Nick Lowe.

He's released three critically acclaimed CDs: Two solo (Slumberland on M Records and Camera Obscura on Daemon Records) and one with the Arts and Sciences (Hopeful Monsters, also on Daemon). He's toured with the Indigo Girls, played International Pop Overthrow four times (LA, Boston and Atlanta) and SXSW. He feels really strange writing about himself in the third person..