The Jealous Girlfriends

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The Jealous Girlfriends
Origin	Brooklyn, New York, United states
Genre(s)	Rock Alternative Rock
Years active	2003 - present
Website	Official MySpace page
Members
Holly Miranda Josh Abbott Alex Lipsen Mike Fadem

The Jealous Girlfriends is a Rock band based in Brooklyn, New York. Their music video for "How Now" won first place for the iPod Music Video Contest. The band has been known to be compared to Billie Holiday, Blur, and Edith Piaf, but their sound is more distinctive.^{[original research?]}

1 Biography
2 Discography
3 References
- 3.1 Further reading
4 External links

[edit] Biography

The band was formed in 2003 by Holly Miranda (Vocals/guitar) and Alex Lipsen (Keys/Synth/Bass Module). Josh Abbott (Guitar/Vocals) joined the band as their drummer. Soon after joining Abbott began singing back up and before long writing and sharing lead vocal duties with Miranda. In early 2005 they invited Mike Fadem (Drums) to replace Abbott on drums so that the latter could move up front to focus on singing and add another guitar to their live sound. They first released an 8-track album titled Comfortably Uncomfortable. The song "Lay Around" played on the Showtime Original Television series the L Word. In 2007 they released a self-titled second album. Roboxulla, and "Something In The Water" was used on the ABC series Grey's Anatomy,^[1], while "Carry Me" was featured on CSI: Miami.

The Jealous Girlfriends have spent most of 2008 touring with Kevin Devine. In April they will be opening for Nada Surf