Girls Against Boys

9:20pm, the Keep stage
Double bass attack, D.C. hardcore roots, demimonde dance-floor aspirations, and decadent ambience: These Girls aren’t like other boys. Classic Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby and House of GVSB defined the Nineties alt-rock underground. Reactivated in 2013 after a decade-long absence, the NYC quartet hasn’t released new music since that year’s The Ghost List EP, but its sleazy noir rock remains timelessly potent.

This article appears in November 4 • 2016.

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Michael Toland started writing about music in 1988 on the Gulf Coast, moved to Austin in early 1991, and has inflicted bylines upon the corporeal and digital pages of Pop Culture Press, The Big Takeover, Blurt, Amplifier, Austin.citysearch, the Austin American Statesman, Goldmine, Sleazegrinder, Rock & Roll Globe, High Bias, FHT Music Notes, and, since 2011, The Austin Chronicle.