Tina Schlieske

"The woman lives and breathes music..." - Chad Werner, Concert Communicator

Tina Schlieske is Midwestern rock mainstay, commanding a dedicated and passionate following, especially in her hometown of Minneapolis. She’s best known for fronting the band Tina and the B-Sides.

In addition to touring with later incarnations of the band and solo, she has recently launched a furiously feminist punk project called Genital Panic, and also moonlights as an androgynous torch-and-swing crooner in smaller clubs around the country.

 

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Tina Schlieske is Midwestern rock mainstay, commanding a dedicated and passionate following, especially in her hometown of Minneapolis. She’s best known for fronting the band Tina and the B-Sides.

Schlieske grew up inspired by the diverse Minneapolis music scene, and you can hear and see the many influences in her writing and performances. She draws creative energy from a wide spectrum of rock, soul, Americana, and singer-songwriters with her own brand of electrifying live performances.

With the B-Sides, Tina released several albums on her own label, Movement Records. Then a chance meeting in an elevator with Sire Records president Seymour Stein led to a deal with the famed label and two more albums, 1996’s “Salvation” and 1998’s “It’s All Just the Same.” Their music has been featured in major motion pictures and Schlieske was even courted to portray Janis Joplin in a Paramount Studios biopic during that period.

After the B-Sides took a hiatus in 1999, she garnered rave reviews as the touring rhythm guitarist and lead singer for the late Stevie Ray Vaughn’s band, Double Trouble, and released several solo albums; "Slow Burn", "Evil Gal Blues" and "One Of The Boys-Pinned Up".

She has shared stages with Lenny Kravitz, The Wallflowers, the Indigo Girls, Etta James, and more recently Jeff Bridges and Robert Ellis. She has also collaborated with such renowned musicians as Don Heffington (Dylan, Emmy Lou Harris), Benmont Tench (Tom Petty), Marc Ford (The Black Crows) and Rami Jaffe (The Wallflowers), Stewart Copeland (The Police), Me’Shell Ndegeocello and Elvis Presley's longtime guitarist, James Burton.

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“the California-based front woman continues to prove that she’s one of the most potent singers to ever come out of the Twin Cities.”

— Jon Bream, Star Tribune

“Most unforgettable live music cover song (local): Tina Schlieske bringing down the house at the Lady Parts Justice bash at the Cedar Cultural Center with her ferocious re-reading of “It’s A Man’s World” by James Brown.”

— Jim Walsh, Southwest Journal

“Smart, sensitive, earthy singer-songwriter with a superb voice and a musical reach that blurs the lines between country, rock, blues and gospel with giddy sureness.”

— Daily Vault

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