| (San
Antonio, TX) hailing from the Lone Star State, formed when
best friends Jenn Alva and Phanie Diaz met in Jr-high school
art class over a mutual love of the Smiths, Nirvana, and skipping
school. All they needed was a singer. Enter Nina Diaz, Phanie’s
then 12-year old little sister. Nina blew them away with her
mesmerizing vocals, a powerful voice some critics have compared
to Bjork, Patsy Cline, and the band’s hero, Morrissey
himself. The trio practiced for three years, gigged at local
punk rock clubs, played a High School talent show, one kid’s
birthday party, and then hit the road, building up a solid
and loyal fan base across the country. In 2006, the Girls
played for Joan Jett and long-time songwriting partner and
producer, Kenny Laguna, at New York’s Knitting Factory
as part of a cable TV show featuring unknown bands. Jett and
Laguna were so impressed with the band that they signed GIAC
to their label, Blackheart Records, on the spot. The band’s
2007 debut album, Both Before I’m Gone, was a critical
hit with raves from Alternative Press Magazine, the LA Weekly,
Bust magazine, among many others, with the album reaching
No. 23 on Billboard’s Heatseekers chart and No. 21 on
iTunes. “Clumsy Sky,” the band’s first single,
won a 2007 Independent Music Award in the Best Song-Punk category.
The last of the four singles released, “Their Cell,”
was recently voted by TV viewers into the Top 10 on Logo’s
The Click List show. Since the CD’s release GIAC has
been headlining shows in venues coast-to-coast, playing on
Cyndi Lauper’s “True Colors” tour, as well
as opening for the Pogues, Social Distortion, Tegan and Sara
in a cross-country national tour, and with Morrissey in both
Europe and the U.S. Their latest release, Trio B.C. includes
tracks produced by Grammy-award winning producer Greg Collins
(U2 and Gwen Stefani) and Gabriel Gonzalez (formerly of Sparta
and one of the producers of the band’s debut Both Before
I’m Gone). Joan Jett and Kenny Laguna produced two special
tracks on the CD. |
