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She writes like a novelist, travels like a troubadour and plays like a strung-out guitar god. So who is Annie Quick? Currently she?s the incarnation of a rock star named Georgette. Georgette is, for lack of a better comparison, Quick?s Ziggy Stardust, and the main character of her new album, Bigger (set for release March 2004). She?s a rocker: she?s been thrown around, rejected and still keeps going. She?s a badass. All the songs on the new record are about her in one way or another, says Quick of her guitar-drenched sophomore solo disc. The stories of Georgette are central to Bigger, and Quick sites novels as her main influence: "I'm thinking about stories all the time. Stories about people I meet, things that happen to me in my town, life, on the road, stories that other people tell me." So why write music instead of fiction? "I grew up thinking that?s what you do when you turn twelve or thirteen?you form a rock band. My brother and sister, who are much older than me, were always rehearsing in our living room." So that?s what she did; playing hometown Santa Cruz in the post-grunge era, then moving to New York in 1998 with her band Stickman Jones, which released Blinding Bright on True Tunes Records and Luxuria, distributed by Columbia House in 2000. Her first solo album, Orange Juice, debuted in 2002 through Paste Music. Influenced by bands like Portishead, Pedro The Lion, Jets to Brazil and P.J. Harvey, Quick?s brand of rock is heavy and layered. "The Police are the band that spoke to me in the cradle saying, 'Join us in the seat of power.'" she says. With Bigger, Quick claims that seat of power, conscious but not leery of the role of gender in power: "Rock at its core is very macho - and it should be. On one hand I just want to win the boys' game; on the other hand I'm bringing my own experience to the game and the most salient uniqueness of my experience is my femaleness." Mix up the tension and Quick's music and persona delivers a postmodern reinvention of hard-hitting rock and roll.