Profile of Lauren O’Brien (originally published in Boog City 104)

The darling of all badasses, Lauren O’Brien is renegade punk cabaret for the new millennium!

Enticing concertgoers throughout the United States and Canada with a refreshingly energetic on-stage multi-persona and daring, inspiring lyrics about being “The Devil’s Girlfriend,” the numerous advantages of having sex with aliens, calling friends while high, vowing to kill the CEO of the MTA (and fuck his wife), and a slew of other wild, endlessly twisting and thickening plots (and constantly changing mosaics), O’Brien has won over audiences at festivals such as NYC’s CMJ, Howl! Fest, MEANY Fest, The Seaside Music Festival, The NY Funny Songs Festival, and The Joys of Hemp Festival.

Her two studio albums, Inconsequential Dream and Panic, earned two New Century Music Awards, and she’s currently recording another album, with collaborator Mitch DiStefano.

MPress Records CEO Rachael Sage once made the sage remark that O’Brien is “fierce, fearless, and a force to be reckoned with.” She has a unique talent for writing lyrics that explore the infernal, existential depths of the human condition, injected with a wicked dose of humor and spontaneity, sure to entertain and enliven even New York’s most tortured souls.

She also has a unique fashion sense, and I wouldn’t be surprised if O’Brien secretly received wardrobe design tips from a reincarnated Germ Free Adolescents-era Poly Styrene, eternally preserved as a demonic entity in a jar in a remote, undisclosed location, existing for the sole purpose of giving wardrobe design tips to the few brave artists who dare inquire.

– Jesse Statman

Read more of Cannonball’s coverage of the NYC music scene from this era:

1. Review of The Grasping Straws’ self-titled debut album
2. Profile of Stu Richards, formerly known as Chicken Leg
3. Review of Thomas Patrick Maguire’s In The Bag
4. Review of The First Law’s She Traveled With Me
5. Review of Little Cobweb’s Indelible Marks
6. Review of Zack Daniel’s Memoirs of a Scared Teenager
7. Review of Prewar Yardsale’s Black and Blue
8. Review of Yeti’s Pill
9. Profile of Horra
10. Profile of Lauren O’Brien
11. Review of Nancy Paraskevopoulos’ Comfort Muffin
12. Blurb for The Icebergs’ Eldorado

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