Marcie Bolen is an American

United States

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 guitarist

Guitarist

A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...

 from Detroit, Michigan

Michigan

Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....

. She grew up in Southgate, Michigan

Southgate, Michigan

Southgate is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 30,047 at the 2010 census.Southgate was the last city to incorporate from the former Ecorse Township, gaining city status in October 1958...

 and went to school for art and cosmetology.

Musical career

Bolen is best known as a founding member of the garage rock

Garage rock

Garage rock is a raw form of rock and roll that was first popular in the United States and Canada from about 1963 to 1967. During the 1960s, it was not recognized as a separate music genre and had no specific name...

 band The Von Bondies

The Von Bondies

The Von Bondies were an American alternative rock band. The group disbanded in July 2011. Its most recent members were Jason Stollsteimer on vocals and lead guitar, Christy Hunt on rhythm guitar and Leann Banks on bass guitar...

. She was their guitarist/vocalist until 2006. Bolen formed The Baby Killers with Jason Stollsteimer

Jason Stollsteimer

Jason Stollsteimer is the vocalist and guitarist for the American indie rock band The Von Bondies. Stollsteimer also is the main songwriter and producer of the Von Bondies...

 in 1997. The band went through various line-up changes, and they eventually changed their name to Von Bondies in 2000. As a member of Von Bondies, she made the NME

NME

The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...

 cool list in 2002 and 2003. Bolen had also played bass in Slumber Party

Slumber Party

Slumber Party is an indie rock band from Detroit, Michigan. In 2000, 2 years after the band's formation, they signed to Kill Rock Stars.-Albums:*Slumber Party - Kill Rock Stars *Psychedelicate -Kill Rock Stars...

 and appeared on their 2001 Psychedelicate recording.

In 2007, Marcie has played live with Patti Smith

Patti Smith

Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith is an American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist, who became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses....

 in Ann Arbor and New York . She is currently playing in the bands Silverghost and F'ke Blood. She also has a country-inspired band with Taylor Hollingsworth. Marcie records demos for her bands at her home in Ferndale, Michigan

Ferndale, Michigan

Ferndale is adjacent to the cities of Detroit to the south, Oak Park to the west, Hazel Park to the east, Pleasant Ridge to the north, Royal Oak Township to the southwest, and Royal Oak to the north....

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Artistic career

As an artist, she goes by the nickname "Twirlyred." She had worked on the cover booklet for White Stripes' 2001 White Blood Cells

White Blood Cells (album)

White Blood Cells is the third studio album by American alternative rock duo The White Stripes, released on July 3, 2001. Recorded in less than one week at Easley-McCain Recording in Memphis, Tennessee, and produced by frontman and guitarist Jack White, it was the band's final record released...

LP.