Considered Portland's first all-female punk band,[1] Neo Boys are noted for their political and feminist lyrics.
[1][2] Hannah Lew, of Grass Widow, wrote: "They created a world I have taken refuge in during times when I felt the effects of narrow attitudes about gender and women's voices in music.
[5] After Jennifer LoBianco left the Neoboys, Carol Steinel played guitar with the band from 1979 to 1980, followed by Meg Hentges who joined as a guitarist in 1980.
[7] Keeping with the punk template at the time, the band started as four teens making loud sounds and writing self-reflective lyrics.
But this quartet was one of the first all-female groups of its kind in Portland, distinct when compared to the city's male-dominated music scene.