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Refimprove|date=September 2010Infobox musical artist | name = Girls Against Boys| image = Girls AgainstBoys at the Touch and Go 25th Anniversary Block Party.jpg| caption =| image_size = 200| background = group_or_band| alias =| origin = Washington, D.C. | genre = Indie rock Post-hardcore | years_active = 1988& ndash;present| label = Touch and Go Records Southern Records
Koch Records Your Choice Records | associated_acts = Soulside , New Wet Kojak , Paramount Styles , Bellini (band)|Bellini , Obits , Fugazi | website =| current_members = Eli Janney (musician)|Eli Janney Scott McCloud Johnny Temple Alexis Fleisig| past_members = Brendan Canty | notable_instruments = 2 bassesGirls AgainstBoys are an indie rock / post-hardcore band, originally forming in Washington, D.C. in 1988 and currently based in New York City .
Career
The group began as a side project of Eli Janney (musician)|Eli Janney and Fugazi (band)|Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty . Canty left the project by 1990 due to his commitments with Fugazi . Janney went on to recruit three former members of D.C. hardcore punk group Soulside & mdash;Scott McCloud, Johnny Temple, and Alexis Fleisig& mdash;to complete the line-up. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/girls-against-boys-p39051Girls AgainstBoys are perhaps most notable for employing dual bass guitars, a rarity in rock music. Their second album, Venus Luxure No.1 Baby , was a heavy yet nuanced entry into early 1990s post-hardcore , and was performed live in its entirety as part of the All Tomorrow's Parties (music festival)|All Tomorrow's Parties -curated Don't Look Back (concert series)|Don't Look Back series, http://www.dontlookbackconcerts.com/dlbarchive/dlb2007archive/gvsbny/ and at the 25th anniversary concert for Touch and Go Records held in Chicago in September 2006. http://www.touchandgorecords.com/links/tg25/photo/friday/index.html
They provided music for the soundtrack to the film Series 7: The Contenders , and one song for the Clerks (soundtrack)|soundtrack to the 1994 film Clerks . They also contributed the song "Freaks" to the soundtrack for the cult film Hedwig and the Angry Inch (film)| Hedwig and the Angry Inch and covered the song " Boogie Wonderland " for the 1999 movie 200 Cigarettes . The band also appears in the film. They contributed to soundtracks of the films Permanent Midnight , WhiteOleander (film)|White Oleander , SubUrbia (film)|SubUrbia , Terror Firmer , Mallrats (soundtrack)|Mallrats , Psycho (1998 soundtrack)|Psycho and Songs of the Witchblade.
The band has toured extensively throughout Europe, Japan, Australia and the United States and Canada. The last tour took place in 2009 in Poland and Russia. They have performed in numerous festivals including Lollapalooza 1993, 1995 and 1996, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Lollapalooza_lineups_by_year All Tomorrow's Parties , Reading Festival , http://www.readingfestival.com/2011/history/1998 1994 Phoenix Festival , Dour Festival , Primavera Festival , 1997 Fuji Rock Festival , Pukkelpop , Lowlands Festival , Transmusicales|Les Transmusicales . They have appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien , the Jon Stewart Show , Canal+ and MTv. Touring included stints with bands such as Jawbox , the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion , Helmet , the Jesus Lizard , Garbage (band)|Garbage , Rage Against the Machine , Interpol (band)|Interpol , Fugazi , Brainiac (band)|Brainiac , Pitchshifter , Atari Teenage Riot , Foo Fighters , Luscious Jackson , Tar (band)|Tar , No Means No , Les Savy Fav , Magic Dirt , Big Chief, Edsel (band)|Edsel and others. Bands who supported them before going on to have mainstream success include the Yeah Yeah Yeahs , dEUS and Placebo .
Side Projects/Current Projects
Scott McCloud and Johnny Temple also played together in a side-project called New Wet Kojak , releasing 2 records on Chicago's Touch and Go Records - New Wet Kojak - 1995 and Nasty International - 1997. They followed with 3 more on Beggar's Banquet - Do Things (2000), No. 4 EP (2001), and This Is the Glamorous (2003). The group featured Geoff Turner (ex- Gray Matter (band)|Gray Matter ), Nick Pellicciotto ( Edsel (band)|Edsel ), and Charles Bennington. http://www.beggarsgroupusa.com/newwetkojak/
Alexis Fleisig performed with Moby on his album Animal Rights (album)|Animal Rights . http://www.moby.com/discography/animal_rights.html
Scott McCloud, Johnny Temple and Alexis Fleisig toured with Gina Gershon in 2002 in support of her film Prey for Rock and Roll , a film focusing on the struggles of an all female band based roughly on the life of Cheri Lovedog. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0307351/ The tour consisted of Gershon and 3 members of Girls AgainstBoys performing songs penned by Stephen Trask and Linda Perry . The tour resulted in the reality series/documentary Rocked with Gina Gershon . http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407444/
Scott McCloud currently plays in Paramount Styles with Alexis Fleisig and have released 2 records on Dutch Label Cycle/Konkurrent Records - Failure American Style (2008) and ''Heaven's Alright'' (2010). The group has toured extensively in Europe and less extensively in the United States and Canada. The group features revolving guests including Richard Fortus ( Guns N' Roses , The Psychedelic Furs ), producer/bass player Geoff Sanoff ( Edsel (band)|Edsel ), Julia Kent , Michael Hampton (punk musician)|Michael Hampton ( The Faith (American band)|The Faith S.O.A. , One Last Wish , Manifesto), John Schmersal ( Brainiac (band)|Brainiac , Enon , Caribou (musician)|Caribou ), Simon Lenski ( DAAU ), Chris Smets and Libor Palucha.
After Girls AgainstBoys became inactive in 2003, Eli Janney (musician)|Eli Janney became a full time producer for many bands including Obits and James Blunt . http://elijanney.com/Eli_Janney/Discography.html Johnny Temple founded Akashic Books , an independent publisher http://akashicbooks.com/ widely known for many books including Go the Fuck to Sleep|Go the F* to Sleep , http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/22/weekinreview/22curse.html Hairstyles of the Damned and an extensive Noir Series.
Band members
Eli Janney (musician)|Eli Janney & ndash; bass, back-up vocals, keyboards
Scott McCloud & ndash; vocals, guitar
Johnny Temple & ndash; bass
Alexis Fleisig & ndash; drums
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Discography
Studio albums
Tropic of Scorpio (Adult Swim, 1992)
Venus Luxure No.1 Baby ( Touch and Go Records|Touch and Go , 1993)
Series 7: The Contenders|Series 7: the Contenders ( Daniel Minahan , 2001)
Rocked with Gina Gershon (Seth Jarrett, 2004)
External links
http://www.gvsb.com/ Official band website
http://www.tgrec.com/bands/band.php? id=47 Touch and Go Records, band mini-site
http://www.southern.com/southern/band/GIRLS/ Southern Records, band mini-site
http://prague.tv/articles/art-and-culture/gvsb Kill the Sexplayers! by Travis Jeppesen
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