Gina Volpe
- Composer
- Actress
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Gina Volpe is NYC based guitarist, singer, songwriter and visual artist.
Fusing a foundation of pop, chunky rock riffs, electro and dance sounds, Volpe's diverse songs reflect her hometown's all-in ethos. Volpe began establishing herself as a solo artist in 2017 with her debut solo EP, 'Different Animal' followed up by 2019's "Winter to Spring" single collection and 2021's "Chaos Agent" EP. Volpe is set to release her latest album, "Delete the World" in 2023.
Gina Volpe is also known for the band she co-founded back in high school, the legendary NYC punk band Lunachicks, along with her hard hitting power trio BANTAM.
Hailed by the NY Times as "trashy, sloppy and louder than a speeding subway car," Lunachicks formed in the dawn of the 90's as an artistic outlet for Volpe and her high school classmates' anarchic energy and feminist sensibilities. Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon numbered among the band's earliest fans, and the pair helped the teens launch their career and land a record deal. Over the course of a half-dozen albums, Lunachicks toured with everyone from the Ramones and the Buzzcocks to No Doubt and the Go-Go's, in addition to performing at massive festivals around the world and appearing in multiple films.
Known as a blistering lead guitarist, Volpe made the leap to fully-formed frontwoman in the early 2000's when she launched her own band, Bantam. The music was more dissonant, artful, complex, and dark than Lunachicks, with the Village Voice raving it combined "brute force with bewitching melodies." By 2006, though, life on the road had taken a toll, and Volpe returned to New York City to focus her work behind the scenes. She set up a home studio and began scoring for films, expanded her output as a visual artist, composed an off-Broadway rock musical, and even served as the motion capture model for the female guitarist and bassist characters in the blockbuster video game Rock Band.
In 2017 Gina Volpe teamed up with producer Barb Morrison (Blondie, Franz Ferdinand) and returned to the studio to record 'Different Animal,' her debut solo release. An explosive, exhilarating EP, blending analog and electronic elements into a thoroughly modern sound Volpe has found a way to create a genre of her very own.
For further info please go to https://www.ginavolpe.com/
Fusing a foundation of pop, chunky rock riffs, electro and dance sounds, Volpe's diverse songs reflect her hometown's all-in ethos. Volpe began establishing herself as a solo artist in 2017 with her debut solo EP, 'Different Animal' followed up by 2019's "Winter to Spring" single collection and 2021's "Chaos Agent" EP. Volpe is set to release her latest album, "Delete the World" in 2023.
Gina Volpe is also known for the band she co-founded back in high school, the legendary NYC punk band Lunachicks, along with her hard hitting power trio BANTAM.
Hailed by the NY Times as "trashy, sloppy and louder than a speeding subway car," Lunachicks formed in the dawn of the 90's as an artistic outlet for Volpe and her high school classmates' anarchic energy and feminist sensibilities. Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon numbered among the band's earliest fans, and the pair helped the teens launch their career and land a record deal. Over the course of a half-dozen albums, Lunachicks toured with everyone from the Ramones and the Buzzcocks to No Doubt and the Go-Go's, in addition to performing at massive festivals around the world and appearing in multiple films.
Known as a blistering lead guitarist, Volpe made the leap to fully-formed frontwoman in the early 2000's when she launched her own band, Bantam. The music was more dissonant, artful, complex, and dark than Lunachicks, with the Village Voice raving it combined "brute force with bewitching melodies." By 2006, though, life on the road had taken a toll, and Volpe returned to New York City to focus her work behind the scenes. She set up a home studio and began scoring for films, expanded her output as a visual artist, composed an off-Broadway rock musical, and even served as the motion capture model for the female guitarist and bassist characters in the blockbuster video game Rock Band.
In 2017 Gina Volpe teamed up with producer Barb Morrison (Blondie, Franz Ferdinand) and returned to the studio to record 'Different Animal,' her debut solo release. An explosive, exhilarating EP, blending analog and electronic elements into a thoroughly modern sound Volpe has found a way to create a genre of her very own.
For further info please go to https://www.ginavolpe.com/
