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Born
Cassie Grzymkowski, this New Jersey-born, Brooklyn-based songwriter took the stage name
Cassie Ramone around the time she co-founded Brooklyn noise pop trio
Vivian Girls in 2007. As guitarist/vocalist for the band,
Ramone wrote a good deal of the band's material and was a constant member through their three albums and countless tours that took them all over the world before they broke up in 2014. Things had quieted down considerably for
Vivian Girls in the two years before they announced their breakup.
Ramone had already started a new band called
the Babies with
Woods member
Kevin Morby, and
Vivian Girls bassist Katy Goodman had branched out into several different projects, most notably a solo project called
La Sera. The band played a handful of farewell shows early in 2014 but
Ramone's solo debut,
The Time Has Come, was already in the works. The album was a collection of spare, home-recorded indie folk that featured cameos on several tracks from
Ariel Pink on bass.
The Time Has Come saw release in the fall of 2014 on indie label Loglady. In late 2015, she somewhat unexpectedly followed up with a Christmas LP. Released by
Burger Records, Christmas in Reno offered a reverb-heavy, lo-fi take on ten Christmas classics. ~ Fred Thomas