Girls Against Boys

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Girls Against Boys
Cover for 2002 album You Can't Fight What You Can't See
Background information
Origin	Washington DC
Genre(s)	Indie Rock Post-hardcore
Years active	1988–2003
Label(s)	Touch and Go Records Southern Records Jade Tree Records
Members
Eli Janney, Scott McCloud, Johnny Temple, Alexis Fleisig
Former members
Brendan Canty

Music sample:

"Super-fire"

Sample of "Super-fire" by Girls Against Boys, from House of GVSB (1996) [

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"She's Lost Control (Joy Division cover)"

Sample of Girls Against Boys' cover of Joy Division's 1979 song "She's Lost Control", released on the Joy Division tribute album A Means To An End (1995)

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Girls Against Boys are an indie rock/post-hardcore band, originally forming in Washington, D.C. in 1988 and currently based in New York City.

The group began as a side project of Eli Janney and Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty. Canty soon left the project and by 1991 Janney had gone on to recruit three former members of D.C. hardcore punk group Soulside—Scott McCloud, Johnny Temple, and Alexis Fleisig—to complete the line-up. Girls Against Boys are perhaps most notable for employing dual bass guitars, a rarity in rock music, and for their second album, Venus Luxure No.1 Baby, a heavy yet nuanced entry into early 1990s post-hardcore. This album was performed live in its entirety as part of the All Tomorrow's Parties-curated Don't Look Back series.

They provided music for the soundtrack to the film Series 7: The Contenders, and two songs for the soundtrack to the 1994 film Clerks. They also contributed the song "Freaks" to the soundtrack for the cult film Hedwig and the Angry Inch.