BARB WIRE DOLLS

Barb Wire Dolls (based in Los Angeles / originally from Greece) Debut album "Slit" rec'd by Steve Albini out now on CD/LP/Digital. Vinyl Split Single w/ OFF! out soon. BOOKING/PRESS: barbwiredolls@yahoo.com Biography "Barb Wire Dolls are the most explosive and exciting new punk band I've seen in decades!" - Mickey Leigh/brother of the late Joey Ramone and ex-tour manager for the Ramones. Being heralded as "the most important punk invasion to the U.S. since the Sex Pistols" (PMP) and receiving the "Best Live Punk Act" award in 2012 (Indy PRN), Barb Wire Dolls have become the critics and fans new choice as leaders of today's new generation of punk bands. "Like a shot heard around the world, Barb Wire Dolls are a true-to-the-genre punk band" - Guitar World. After getting non stop airplay on Los Angeles' KROQ, Barb Wire Dolls were invited by the radio station to the U.S. for a series of concerts where they stormed L.A.'s music scene by selling out the Roxy Theatre, packing monthly residencies at the Viper Room, and attracting to their shows members of the Sex Pistols, Black Flag, L7, Flogging Molly, D Generation, and Frances Bean Cobain. Based in Los Angeles (originally from Greece), Barb Wire Dolls is a politically charged blast of high energy rock and roll that combines first wave punk, grunge, and metal riffs. With comparisons ranging from "a more punk rock Hole" to "Blondie meets the Plasmatics", the band is fronted by the wild and out spoken blond bombshell Isis Queen along with guitarist Pyn and drummer Krash. In November of 2012 Barb Wire Dolls released their much anticipated debut album Slit recorded by Steve Albini (Nirvana, Stooges, Pixies) with three record release shows in New York City. Barb Wire Dolls since forming in 2010 have completed two coast to coast tours of America sharing the bill with TSOL, Cro Mags, Sublime lbc, Angry Samoans, Mushroomhead, Static X, and Status Quo, headlined major festivals on both sides of the Atlantic, played direct support to Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedy's) and Bouncing Souls, worked with A&R mogul Tom Zutaut (Guns N' Roses, Metallica, Motley Crue), headlined two SXSW showcases, garnered a Top Ten radio hit in South America, "Punk Rock Revolution" a photo book on the band was published by Spin magazine photographer Stets, Bill Foley Fine Instruments endorsed guitarist Pyn for his own guitar model, Coffin Cases endorsed the band, and Barb Wire Dolls graced the cover of three magazines (Punk Globe, Hollywood Weekly, and BPS). 2013 is exploding already with a bang with the world-wide release of a split vinyl single with OFF! (featuring Keith Morris/ex-frontman of Black Flag and Circle Jerks), another U.S. coast to coast headlining tour, a U.K. tour with punk legends GBH, 999, & The Lurkers, and more European summer festival appearances. Press: “Every few years or so a band comes along that changes the music landscape. They are different from the other bands that are out there. They bring something new and exciting to an otherwise generic music scene that the public has grown tired of. The Beatles did this, The Sex Pistols did this, Guns N’ Roses did this, Nirvana did this. But for the past 20 years no band has been able to stand out from their predecessors. No band has been able to re-ignite the music scene, to bring back the energy it once had….that is until now. With their sound, their look and their attitude, Barb Wire Dolls are going to do what no band has been able to do within the last two decades…take the music industry by storm.” – Sugarbuzz magazine "Barb Wire Dolls 'Slit' is the best punk rock record since Nirvana's "Bleach" - Music + Riots magazine "There is a punk band from Greece called Barb Wire Dolls. They moved to LA a couple of years ago and they are talking a lot about the occupy movement and the corporate greed on Wall Street and the destruction of our freedoms and liberties. Greece is in a really bad situation so they are speaking from the heart and the singer, Isis Queen has a lot to say on the subject. A kind of a new, young, punk rock band that I kind of like because they’re really outspoken and they’re really trying to be true to punk rock. True to punk rock attitude. You know, being like real rebels. Greece is in really bad shape, so they know what they’re talking about and they’re not just doing it to get attention. They really mean it. There’s a lot of really really really great music out in the world." - Stephen DePace/Flipper "Barb Wire Dolls throw down the gauntlet to today's pre-fab rebellion, pointing a middle finger where it so clearly belongs." - Blank TV "Punk’s not dead and it never went away. It has been pushed underground for decades by the media because it speaks of the truth and exposes hypocrisy, but with the political climate of the world rapidly changing, a new female oriented punk resurgence has created a movement across the globe. One band in particular is shaking things up with their debut album. Hailing from the birthplace of Democracy, Barb Wire Dolls is a politically charged female-fronted Punk trio from Greece that combines the furious raw elements of first wave punk and grunge rock into a modern melodic sound that decimates hearts and minds." - Fixe magazine "Some of the best punk rock since the Ramones!" - Christopher Stets/Spin magazine photographer "As the world is experiencing a new punk rock renaissance, one punk band in particular has taken the city of Los Angeles by storm. There is a raw energy to their performances that make you want to sit up and pay attention to what they are saying, because for them, it’s not just about music. It’s about all aspects of existence. Their music carries a message, much like the anarchy of the Sex Pistols, but without the “no future for you” aspect of it. They preach free love and freedom to do what they want without being harnessed by society and ancient moral limitations." - Mudkiss fanzine "Barb Wire Dolls prove that Punk is not dead. Combining the raw elements of Punk into a fast, furious, melodic sound." - Verge magazine "Following in the footsteps of such rock vixens as Blondie's Debbie Harry, Nena Hagen, and Joan Jett is Isis Queen, trendsetter for a new generation." - Jerk Of All Trades magazine "This is just what the world needs now, a good girl-fronted punk band." - Charlotte Cooper/The Subways "They just may ignite another punk revolution." - Chicago Examiner "Barb Wire Dolls could become huge, they are kinda like a girl-fronted Green Day." - Michael McDermott/Bouncing Souls Description