Press Info

"Dead Blonde Girlfriend, reminiscent of Girlfriend in a coma caught our eye. Musically the band is punk rock with acoustic guitars"
New York Post

"Punk as Fuck"
Village Voice

"Overwhelmingly honest. It's not rockstar emotion by numbers. He is a fucking genius. Grand statement? Yes, obviously. But it's so true. This guy is excellent!"
Careless Talk Costs Lives

"Antifolk's punkiest exponent, Joie/DBG delivers attitudinal, acoustic punk vignettes with a gruff voice and aggressive guitar action. His song "Bleecker Street" explains the anti in antifolk."
Time Out London

"Hovering between the comical and the anguished his song intros bordered on stand up, and his Iggy like energy wrenched emotion through enormous eyelined brown eyes. He has the ability to write lyrics that pinch you, Funny and honest, angry and sad, songs explode intense and intent, you have to watch him."
Trakmarx.com

"A Dave Van Ronk type of songster able to get truly meaningful in his songs"
N.J Coast

Bio

Just like Bob Dylan, The Ramones, Johnny Cash, and countless others who have written whole chapters of musical history, acoustic punk performer Joie/Dead Blonde Girlfriend has written his chapter in the clubs, streets, and cafes of New York's infamous East Village and beyond. Now it is time to take it to another level. This time he is bringing friends. Dead Blonde Girlfriend is that new level.

With all of the critical acclaim (Time Out New York, Dazed and Confused, Mojo, New York Magazine, and others) for Joie/DBG (a.k.a. Joie Blaney, the driving force of Dead Blonde Girlfriend) it is easy to see why he has sold out five of his self-released records. He toured solo in the U.K to packed houses and was the opening act for Rough Trade/Sanctuary recording artists the Moldy Peaches in Europe for six weeks. Joie also has one of his songs featured on the Rough Trade/Sanctuary Antifolk compilation.

"It was time for a change. I think I took the solo guitar Antifolk/Acoustic punk thing as far as I could" explains Joie. "That's why I put a band together consisting of J. Brown on bass, Justin Greville on Drums and fresh from the New Orleans scene James Mercer on electric guitar. These guys make it feel like a band." They have been working with the production team of Paul Kostabi (Dee Dee Ramone, Youth Gone Mad) and Jason Carmer (Third Eye Blind, The Donnas, Run DMC) bringing some of Joie's songs together in band form. Joie says "I love working with producers and recording with a ba