# Lisa Marr > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Lisa_Marr > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Lisa_Marr.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Marr > Source revision: 1339583592 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Use Canadian English|date=February 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Infobox musical artist | alias = Miss Marr | birth_place = [Vernon, British Columbia](/source/Vernon%2C_British_Columbia), Canada | instrument = vocals, bass, ukulele | years_active = 1990-present | past_member_of = [The Evaporators](/source/The_Evaporators), The Bombshells, [cub](/source/cub_(band)), Buck, The Indecisives, The Beards, The Lisa Marr Experiment, The Here + Now, Soda & His Million Piece Band | spouse = [Ronnie Barnett](/source/Ronnie_Barnett) }} '''Lisa Marr''' is a musician, songwriter, filmmaker, photographer, and educator from [Vernon](/source/Vernon%2C_British_Columbia), [British Columbia](/source/British_Columbia), Canada, currently based in [Los Angeles, California](/source/Los_Angeles%2C_California), and [Vancouver](/source/Vancouver), British Columbia, Canada. She has performed as a solo artist and as a member of [the Evaporators](/source/the_Evaporators), the Indecisives, the Bombshells, [Cub](/source/Cub_(band)), Buck, The Beards, The Lisa Marr Experiment, The Here + Now, and Soda & His Million Piece Band. She is sometimes known as Miss Marr in her solo work. She has been credited as the originator of a subgenre of music known as [cuddlecore](/source/cuddlecore). ==Music== Lisa Marr's music performing career began when she was invited to play bass for [the Evaporators](/source/the_Evaporators) by [Nardwuar](/source/Nardwuar) five days before a show. She taught herself to play bass in that time by listening to [Ramones](/source/Ramones) records. Nardwuar and Marr, as well as the founders of Mint Records, were associated through their work at [CITR-FM](/source/CITR-FM), the University of British Columbia's student radio station. Lisa began working at the station with her own show focused on [Amnesty International](/source/Amnesty_International). As she met friends at the station, she began to be more focused on music.{{cite book |last=Fontana |first=Kaitlin |date=2011 |title=Fresh at twenty: the oral history of Mint Records |publisher=ECW Press}} ===cub=== Marr is a founding member, primary songwriter, lead singer, and bass player for indie-pop band [cub](/source/cub_(band)). The term [cuddlecore](/source/cuddlecore) was coined to describe their music. [Destroyer](/source/Destroyer_(band)) guitarist Nicholas Bragg invented the term as a joke, and also produced the band's ''hot dog day'' EP. Band members have expressed mixed feelings about the label ,{{cite magazine |last= Bozza |first=Anthony |date= November 14, 1996 |title=On The Edge:Cub |magazine=Rolling Stone |location=San Francisco, CA |publisher=Rolling Stone LLC |issn=0035-791X}} though it was included in the artwork of their second album, ''[Come Out Come Out](/source/Come_Out_Come_Out)''. Neko Case first toured playing music with cub as the drummer, after founding drummer Valeria quit the band. It was also Case's first time singing on stage. cub toured with [They Might Be Giants](/source/They_Might_Be_Giants),{{cite magazine |author= |title=No more cute stuff |url=https://archive.macleans.ca/article/19970113071/print |magazine= Maclean's (Toronto) |publisher=Rogers Media |date=January 13, 1997 |access-date= October 6, 2020}} who covered their song "New York City". ===Buck=== Buck (sometimes stylized as BuCk or Bu¢K) was Lisa Marr and drummer/vocalist Lisa G's band following the break-up of cub. Marr continued to sing lead vocals and play bass. The two were joined by guitarist Pepper Berry, playing in his first band.{{Cite web|url=https://www.laweekly.com/buck-stops-here/|title=Buck Stops Here|date=October 14, 1998|website=LA Weekly}} ===Other notable musical projects=== *The Beards was a rock supergroup in which Lisa Marr played bass and shared singing and songwriting duties with [Kim Shattuck](/source/Kim_Shattuck). [The Muffs](/source/The_Muffs) had headlined a show with cub opening. Soon, Marr married the bassist from the Muffs, and later, Marr and Shattuck collaborated on The Beards.fkhttps://www.kcet.org/history-society/lisa-marr-how-the-cuddle-core-icon-came-to-la *The Lisa Marr Experiment was a country rock band. Neko Case covered "In California", a song from their first album, ''4 am''.{{cite web | title=Lisa Marr Experiment – Beyond the Vancouver Underground & Neko | website=No Depression | date=2004-01-01 | url=https://www.nodepression.com/lisa-marr-experiment-beyond-the-vancouver-underground-neko/ | access-date=2020-11-28}} *In 2019, Marr released a four-track single with Vancouver band The Tranzmitors (featuring members of [The Smugglers](/source/The_Smugglers_(band)) and [New Town Animals](/source/New_Town_Animals)) that include two cub songs – "Magic 8 Ball" and "Pretty Pictures" – along with a cover of the [Fastbacks](/source/Fastbacks) song, "In the Summer".{{cite web |url=https://www.punknews.org/review/16286/lisa-marr-with-the-tranzmitors-7-inch-in-the-summer |title=Lisa Marr with The Tranzmitors [7-inch] |last=Cocksedge |first=Rich |date=January 9, 2019 |website=PunkNews.org |access-date=January 24, 2023}} ==Visual arts== Marr was a 2014 Visual Art Fellow for the California Community Foundation.{{Cite web|url=https://www.calfund.org/nonprofits/featured-funds/fva/2014-gallery/lisa-marr/|title=Lisa Marr | 2014 Fellowship for Visual Artists|website=California Community Foundation}} Marr has made films on her own, and is currently the operations director and youth film coordinator, as well as director, at the Echo Park Film Center.{{Cite web|url=http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/about/board/|title=EPFC}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/articles/echo-park-film-center-0|title=Echo Park Film Center|website=www.goldenglobes.com}} Her first major film project was a documentary entitled ''Learning How to Fail'', which was screened at the Darklight Film Festival.{{Cite web|url=http://www.darklight.ie/archive/pages/s_thur_doc1.htm|title=Darklight Festival, Film Animation, Art, Dublin, Ireland|website=www.darklight.ie}} She is also one of the few modern filmmakers to shoot on 3mm film.{{cite journal |last1=Gordon |first1=Marsha |last2=Everett |first2=Dino |date=Fall 2016 |title=3mm: The Smallest Gauge |journal=The Moving Image: The Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists |volume=16 |issue=2 |pages=1–20 |doi=10.5749/movingimage.16.2.0001|s2cid=194724717 }} ===Solo exhibitions=== * 2013 Natural History, A Free School, Los Angeles, California Echo Park Film Center Road Show, The Hanoi Bicycle Collective, Hanoi, Vietnam * 2012 The Sound We See: City Symphonies in the 21st Century, Directors Lounge, Berlin, Germany Imagined Cinemas, Blaak 10 Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands ===Group exhibitions and community-based art=== * 2014 Films from Echo Park Film Center, Distrital, Mexico City, Mexico Burning Bungalows: Experimental Film and Animation from LA, National Tour, USA * 2011–2014 Out The Window, Freewaves/Public Matters/UCLA REMAP, Los Angeles, CA * 2014 The Sound We See: A Guwahati City Symphony, Desire Machine Collective, Guwahati, India * 2013 Likuvarnya, Museum of Tripolian Culture, Legedzine, Ukraine * 2013 The Sound We See: A Hanoi City Symphony, Doclab/Goethe Institute, Hanoi, Vietnam * 2012 The Sound We See: A Rotterdam City Symphony, WORM/Creating 010/RAIR/Piet Zwarte Institute/Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, Netherlands * 2010 The Candahar, Cultural Olympiad, Vancouver, Canada ===Other fellowships, grants, and awards=== * 2014 Cultural Exchange International Fellowship, Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles and British Council, UK * 2014 Open Electives Fellowship, National Institute of Design, Guwahati, India * 2013 Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Artistic Innovation and Collaboration Grant * 2012 Research Fellowship, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, Netherlands ==See also== *[Music of Canada](/source/Music_of_Canada) *[Music of Vancouver](/source/Music_of_Vancouver) *[Canadian rock](/source/Canadian_rock) *[List of Canadian musicians](/source/List_of_Canadian_musicians) *[List of bands from Canada](/source/List_of_bands_from_Canada) *[List of bands from British Columbia](/source/List_of_bands_from_British_Columbia) == References == {{Reflist}} == External links == * [http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/ Echo Park Film Center] * {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20130112235254/http://lisamarr.org/ Archived version of Lisa Marr's personal website]}} * [https://missmarr.org/ Lisa Marr's Personal Art-focused website] * [https://vimeo.com/showcase/2839480 The Sound We See, A Global Collaborative Film Project] {{Portal bar|Music|Canada}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Marr, Lisa}} Category:Living people Category:Canadian indie pop musicians Category:Canadian women songwriters Category:Canadian women film producers Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Film producers from British Columbia Category:People from Vernon, British Columbia --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Lisa Marr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Marr) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Marr?action=history)). 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