Heroine Sheiks

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This article is about the American noise rock band. For other uses, see Heroine Sheiks (disambiguation).

Heroine Sheiks
Origin	United States
Genre(s)	Alternative rock, Noise Rock, Indie rock
Years active	1999–present
Label(s)	Reptilian Rubric Amphetamine Reptile
Website	Heroine Sheiks

The Heroine Sheiks is a Minneapolis based Noise Rock band. It began in 1999 as a collaboration of Shannon Selberg (ex-The Cows) and Norman Westberg (ex-Swans, Foetus) and John Fell (ex-China Shop, Kid Congo Powers) along with a changing group of musicians. Selberg emerged as a major song writer in the complete history of the band whose sound was darker and more sinister than his previous work in The Cows. With multiple references to the writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline, the band explored a thematic quality of black comedy. Many of the more successful bands from New York in the last ten years record sales wise got started opening for Heroine Sheiks. Bands like Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Fiery Furnaces, Interpol, and Gogol Bordello,all played opening slots for the Heroine Sheiks, and went on to sell far more records.

In 2008, after being based in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, the group moved to Minneapolis, released a limited edition CD Journey to the End of the Knife, and toured with a new line-up. ^[1]