As the vision of creator, composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and vocalist Mike DiBiase, Yellow Snow encompasses recorded music, larger-than-life live performances, animation, content, multimedia, and more. For years, Rhode Island-born DiBiase —a lifelong musician and EMMY® Award-nominated audio post production talent by trade—had “gifted” family and friends hard rock Christmas songs. He decided to bring them to the stage at a Rhode Island club in 2007 for the live debut of Yellow Snow, packing the house and donating a portion of the proceeds to various charities. He sporadically headlined shows throughout the ensuing years, attracting 500 people per gig and stirring up a level of cult fandom among the initiated. The music also quietly took on a life of its own as DiBiase’s original song “Giddy Yup, Santa Claus” landed a high-profile sync on The CW’s Riverdale. In 2023, DiBiase decamped to Nashville in order to record what would become Yellow Snow’s independent full-length debut LP, Volume 1. For the sessions, he assembled a murderers’ row of musicians, including Matchbox Twenty guitarist Kyle Cook, award-winning guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter Derek Wells [HARDY, Lainey Wilson], horn players Curt Ramm and Bill Holloman [E-Street Band, Nile Rogers, Danny Gatton], vocalists Matt Baird, Nathan Barlowe, Al Diaz, Jay Berndt, Denise Gouvin, and many more. Not to mention, he tapped Jack Joseph Puig [The Black Crowes, Stone Temple Pilots, Weezer] to mix these ten tracks and Gavin Lurssen for the mastering. Nodding to personal influences a la Queens of the Stone Age, Alice In Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, and Queen, he brought an abundance of attitude, energy, and edge to the holidays with a handful of originals and covers like the lead single “Father Christmas,” “What’s this?” from The Nightmare Before Christmas, “Let It Snow,” “Drummer Boy,” “The Grinch,” and more.