Artist description Washington, DC's The Meat Joy is minimalist punk rock, with soul to spare. In the Washington Post, Mark Jenkins proclaimed them "fervid neo-punk," while Flipside marks them as "Raw, but mesmerizing with simplicity." A review of a live show from In Pittsburgh Weekly stated "The Meat Joy are visionaries, in the same way that Patti Smith is the poet laureate of rock & roll and Bettie Page was the queen of raunchy beauty. A female-fronted art-punk foursome from D.C., they break through the ever-dissolving boundaries between women and music and women in music to add some extra fuel to the fire."

Music Style Alternative/Punk

Musical Influences X-ray spex, X, PJ Harvey, Fluffy, Lunachicks

Similar Artists PJ Harvey, Patti Smith, Hole, The Gits

Artist History At it's inception, the band knew they wanted to write simple songs about complex themes. "The idea was to reflect that personal tension without being melodramatic," stated bassist Heather Jensen in a recent interview. "We're all coming at this from different forms. Stacey and Rob are visual artists, Todd has a side improvisational art-noiseproject, and I do the third wave feminist writing thing... so when we come together we bring not necessarily those disciplines, but definitely our own vocabularies. Of course, we're not U2 or anything. We have a lot of fun with it, too. Sometimes you just wanna rock."

Group Members Heather Jensen ~ Bass & voice; Stacey Matarrese ~ Bass & voice; Todd Osborn ~ Drums & sometimes other voice; Rob Moore ~ Guitar

Albums The Meat Joy

Press Reviews From Flipside Magazine: "Back when I was 12 or 13 years old and scared to go to punk shows, this is what I would imagine who would be playing at the Masque and not getting any recognition. Raw, but mesmerizing with its simplicity. Basic 4/4 meets 3 chord punk before a lot of bands started to play fast. It brought back memories of bands long gone that I saw at those first punk shows as a prepubescent little kid experiencing something new."

Location Washington, DC - USA

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