

"New York anti-folk heroes wear cynical paeans on their sleeve like black hearts cooked for the audience" "A Dave Van Ronk type of songster able to get truly meaningful in his songs" He has the ability to write lyrics that pinch you, Funny and honest, angry and sad, songs explode intense and intent, you have to watch him." "Hovering between the comical and the anguished his song intros bordered on stand up, and his Iggy like energy wrenched emotion through enormous eyelined brown eyes. His song "Bleecker Street" explains the anti in antifolk." "Antifolk's punkiest exponent, Joie/DBG delivers attitudinal, acoustic punk vignettes with a gruff voice and aggressive guitar action. Like all true artistic anomalies, Joie Blaney, under the guise of Joie Dead Blonde Girlfriend, is a genius. Never once sounds like Livejournal poetry. He writes honestly and never once complains. "He sings his songs with the soul of a poet and with the voice of a cement mixer.

"Dead Blonde Girlfriend, an energetic and smart band fronted by the antifolk survivor Joie Blaney " Blaney also had a stage presence that is rare." With something of Paul Westerbergs heart-on-sleeve rock swagger, Mr. "Joie Blaney, of the band Dead Blonde Girlfriend, had a sensitive lyric touch that belied his punk-rock look and attack.
