Says Joan Jett: "Antigone Rising is carrying on the feral spirit of The Runaways." This all-female New York City quartet cultivates an amazing mixture of three-part harmony singing, orginal country-flavored songwriting, and rock intensity. They've toured the Middle East as ambassadors of the U.S. State Department, and their videos have appeared on both VH1 and CMT. The band has appeared on has also appeared The Today Show, The Tonight Show, Emeril Live, and A&E's Breakfast with the Arts. Each of their albums since they came on the scene in 2005 has outdone the previous one, Guitarist, songwriter, and group co-founder Kristen Ellis-Henderson and wife Sarah Kate Ellis were featured on the cover of Time magazine's April 8, 2013, issue marking the advance of gay marriage. A recent NYC performance, noted Curve, "stoked the predominately lesbian crowd already burning with music-lust and the desire for more, more, more of Antigone Rising."