Jennifer the Leopard is one of the most popular all-female bands to emerge from the punk/new wave explosion of the late '00s, becoming one of the first commercially successful female groups that isn't controlled by male producers or managers. While their hit singles -- "Celebrity Sightings," "Lola," "Internet," "Doanlowding" -- are bright, energetic new wave pop, the group has been integral part of the Californian punk scene. And they do play punk rock, even if many of their rougher edges were ironed out by the time they recorded their first ep, 2007's J Leop. As they have become America's darlings, Jennifer the Leopard lives the wild life of rockers, swallowing as many pills and taking as much cocaine as possible, trashing hotel rooms, and just generally being bad.
What the critics say:
Performance-art inspired punk collective of Lauren Fisher, Stephanie Hutin, Lana Kim and Marissa Mayer are artmaker-songwriters whose band Jennifer The Leopard aims to fuse feminism and cock-rock into a new genre of post-punk under the guise of an “all-girl band.” The band, popularly known as J–Lep, stages a multimedia set featuring songs about celebrity sightings and knife fights while it pits a performative audience against the real one in a show that is part bitchin’ rock concert and part post-studio pep rally.
