Entertainment Weekly
April 9, 1999

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   KISS ME
   WHO THE #@%! ARE...SIXPENCE NONE THE RICHER
   by Rob Brunner

   -- HOMETOWN Nashville

   -- LATEST ALBUM Sixpence None the Richer

   -- REASON YOU'VE NOTICED THEM Their cheerfully Lilithy single "Kiss Me"
   is a top five radio smash.

   -- HOW THEY WOULD DESCRIBE THEIR SOUND IF THEY WERE MUSIC CRITICS "Oh,
   gosh," says 22-year-old singer Leigh Nash. "It's like, uh...okay.
   Pop-alternative with a female vocalist." Jeez, that's not very..."Um,
   let's see. Shoot. Yeah, I don't...hmm. Okay. There's a lot of really
   flowery guitars and strings on the album. Spiritual folk-pop?"

   -- HOW WE DESCRIBE THEIR SOUND Pop-alternative with a female vocalist.

   -- TARGET DEMOGRAPHIC People who think mean people suck.

   -- FASHION SENSE Clean

   -- TRIUMPHANT TALE OF HOW THEY BEAT THE ODDS Formed in New Braunfels,
   Tex., eight years ago by Nash and guitarist Matt Slocum, the band --
   which now also includes guitarist Sean Kelly, bass player Justin Cary,
   and drummer Dale Baker -- spent several years building a following in
   the Christian-rock community. They released their third album in '97
   and have been hawking "Kiss Me" ever since. The song has steadily
   grown, finally hitting big after it appeared in the teen movie She's
   All That.

   -- IF THIS BAND WERE BREAKFAST CEREAL IT WOULD BE Cheerios

   -- STOCK QUOTE ON THE PITFALLS OF FAME "We're [on the road] a lot
   more," says Nash. "We're all very happily married, so it's really
   difficult to be away. We're gonna have to get used to it."

   -- LEAD SINGERS' INSTANT CHARISMA RATING (OUT OF A POSSIBLE 5) 3

   -- FUNKY FACT Their name is taken from a passage in a C.S. Lewis book
   called Mere Christianity. (Hey, it's better than calling yourself the
   Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe...)

   -- ALBUMS THAT NEVER LEAVE THE TAPE PLAYER ON THE TOUR BUS Rufus
   Wainwright's self-titled debut; Sheryl Crow's The Globe Sessions;
   anything by Bjork.

   -- WHAT'S NEXT Two shows opening for the Barenaked Ladies, a larger
   tour that's "not definite yet," and an as-yet-unselected new single.

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