The band began as a recording project in Rochester, New York with frontwoman April Laragy on vocals and guitar, Gary Trainer on bass, and Roy Stein on drums.
Ostrowski, a blues-based traditional rock guitarist contrasted with Yockel's jagged ambient style to create an edgy tension to their sound.
Laragy's on-stage persona is of a space-aged biker lesbian and the band's homoerotic stage show and lyrics have not gone unnoticed by the LGBT community.
[4] The band's debut, self-released, concept album, Coming Out Electric, was released in 2004 and produced by Christopher Hooker,[5] originally it was to be called Intergalactic Lesbian Love Songs.
An animated video, described as "Barbarella-meets-Samurai Jack", was shot by director Joel Trussell and tells the story of a lesbian starship captain searching for her abducted lover.