BOX FIVE is the brainchild of Mary Bichner, a 27-year-old Philadelphia-born composer and performer currently residing in the bustling metropolis of Boston, MA. Combining Mozart-inspired chord progressions and bratty Brit-rock hooks into a musical succotash she likes to call classipop, the eccentric yet loveable redhead hopes to breathe new life into the calcified world of "radio-friendly" contemporary music through her memorable melodies and solid songwriting.

Also, she's kind of weird.

In addition to having the worst last name in the history of humankind (it's pronounced BEECHner, but nobody ever gets it right!), Mary also possesses perfect pitch (the ability to recognize notes and chords by name simply by hearing them played), and synesthesia (a bizzare neurological condition which causes Mary to "see" splashes of specific colors when she hears certain pitches sounded). Journalists seem to be rather keen on calling Mary names, attested by the fact that she has been labeled a "perfectly quirky girl", a "musical prodigy", a "band nerd" (!!), a "biological curiosity to be studied by science", a "spunky redhead", and a "keyboard playing, songwriting, mighty-morphin teenage mutant polymodal synesthete" by various members of local and international press. Fair enough -- so long as they don't start to call her "carrot-top"! :p

Box Five is looking forward to releasing its very first full-length album, Leave the Earth Behind on November 11th, 2010. The album will feature lush classical orchestrations as well as rock instruments, and each song will pay homage to a different sub-genre of pop. You can download the disc's debut single, "Today is the Day", for FREE by visiting the Box Five Bandcamp Page, and get the full skinny on the new album by visiting the Leave the Earth Behind Mini-Site.

Upcoming gigs include Cafe 939 for our Boston CD Release Party November 13th, and Caffe Vivaldi for our New York City CD Release Party December 4th; please do check out our tourdates page for details.

That's the end, for now. :o)