Antigone Rising: Let The Music Do The Talking - by Shane Handler

...it seems Joe Perry was up to the Antigone Rise challenge after all. After Steven Tyler listened to Traveling Circus and openers Cheap Trick couldn't make a rescheduled show on June 30th at the PNC Arts Center, the iconic rocker gave Antigone Rising the nod. If this big time dream gig wasn't enough of a highlight for Cassidy, she later joined the Boston bad boys on stage for a version of "Walk This Way." And she thought South by Southwest and Bonnaroo were this years highlight...just stick around.

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STAR LEDGER - JULY 3, 2004

AEROSMITH/ANTIGONE RISING REVIEW - Review by Bradley Bambarger

Opening for Aerosmith was the Long Island/New Jersey all-woman crew Antigone Rising. Sounding like Bad Company fronted by Janis Joplin, this band plays arena rock with the air of those days when you could still smoke in arenas. After its big moment, the quintet was seen boogying just off stage as Aerosmith played. The flirty Tyler brought on the band's lead singer, the uni-monikered Cassidy, for an impromptu dance routine during "Walk This Way," surely a dream come true for a Jersey girl whose favorite teenage pastimes included, she noted, "smoking cigarettes, drinking beer and listening to Aerosmith."

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CLEVELAND ONSTAGE.COM - June, 2004

Lead singer Cassidy managed to get the patrons hanging out at the bar away from their drinks from the opening song, "Goin Down" and had them watching the band until she sang the last words of "Buying Bridge".  Her voice was nothing short of phenomenal.... read more & check out the photos

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Midwest Beat Magazine - may 29, 2004

ANTIGONE RISING PUSHES IT TO EXTREMES AT SCHUBAS - Review by Anita Maree Lande

Lava recording artists' Antigone Rising , a five-piece all rock În' roll female band from the New York area, blasted their way into Chicago to showcase a variety of songs from their soon to be released new studio album,  along with songs culled from their live CD from 2003 called Traveling Circus.

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ROLLING STONE - April 29 issue

Signed to Lava Records, these five women turned in the Big Rock show of the [SXSW] festival, with Lynyrd Skynryd-army guitars, the country-gospel harmonies of a biker Dixie Chicks and a Janis Joplin-esque vocal dynamo named Cassidy. On a weekend full of stoic alt-rock acts staring at their shoes, this was old-school, blow up the bar action.

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Concert Livewire Review from SXSW

Antigone Rising- Lava Records Lunch

If Janis Joplin were to be reincarnated, she may come back fronting this band, a female fronted ensemble that harkens back to rock's glory days. The once indie act recently turned major label signees was slick in its presentation that ranged between smoldering ballads and ballsy guitar grinders (complete with some spicy sensuality).

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THE AQUARIAN WEEKLY - New Jersey - 2/11-18,2004

Antigone Rising, Rising Force - by Wes Soriano

Though most all female groups are immediately dismissed in the hard rock genre, Antigone Rising have clawed their way through three years of releases and constant touring. Their hard work was rewarded when Lava Records took note of the girls and label president Jason Flom recruited them for his impressive stable of artists...(entire interview with Cassidy coming soon)

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VILLAGE VOICE-NEW YORK, NY

PICK OF THE WEEK

Antigone Rising is, well...rising. Cocked and loaded in Lava/Atlantic president Jason Flom's star making cannon, this hard working, double-X chromosomed quintet is primed to show everybody what the East Coast and college audiences have known since 1999.

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NASHVILLE SCENE

PICK OF THE WEEK - by Saby Reyes-Kulkarni

Antigone Rising No less an authority than Joan Jett herself pointed to this NYC quintet as "carrying on the feral spirit of The Runaways." Though it's a pity audiences still focus so much on whether their rock is delivered in male or female form, the undue attention is almost worth it for how offhandedly Antigone's members handle it. .

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Style Weekly

Rock Uprising: Girl band Antigone Rising hits Alley Katz - by Carrie Nieman

You wouldn't want to piss them off, that's for sure. But you damn well should check out Antigone Rising when these five rockin' girls play Alley Katz this weekend. Why? First, they rock harder than any swishy emo band, and although they're from New York, they manage to avoid copycat new, New York rock (read: Strokes) territory. Their sound is more '70s classic rock crossed with pop, Led Zeppelin riffs with scorned-chick angst. It's a beautiful thing. That may sound like a cliché, but the band's musicianship more than makes up for any stereotype you may hold against them. So don't think to hard about it, just go.

If you need more: A Lava/Atlantic records founder signed them shortly after seeing their show. And ESPN just named lead singer Cassidy one of the “Top 10 Underrated Female Celebrities,” in the company of Gina Gershon, Diane Lane and Cynthia Nixon.

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LONG ISLAND PRESS

ON THE RISE: ANTIGONE RISING'S MAJOR MOVE - by Brendan Manley

Antigone Rising lead guitarist Cathy Henderson is on a shopping spree of dreamlike proportions.

The Glen Cove native, who co-founded the five-piece all-female rock group along with rhythm guitarist and sister Kristen, is scouring Manhattan's music stores in search of an arsenal of guitars and amps to use on the band's upcoming major-label debut on Lava Records. After years of tireless self-promotion, endless touring and shrewd DIY recording, Henderson now has the enviable task of choosing between a '59 Les Paul, '52 Telecaster, or both.

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CONCERT LIVE WIRE

Antigone Rising Heats Up the Kitchen With Some Real Nice Beats! - by Anita Lande

The only thing confusing about this band is the correct pronunciation of their name. Antigone (say it as 'an-TIG-uh-nee') Rising is an all female, five-piece band from New York and once you see AR in action, you will beg for the show to never end. AR has a large receptive audience in the eastern states and an established college fan base, so as they tour the Midwest they will lure you with their musical leash and grab hold of more and more fans with their original style of pop/rock.

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WIDEANGLE NY

Mickey Z. Talks with Kristen Henderson of Antigone Rising

Northampton’s Iron Horse Music Hall was crammed full…Cassidy, with her Robert Plant curls and convulsive elbows, leaned toward the microphone in rhythm with Cathy Henderson’s wah-wah guitar.

“Did they hit where she aimed…or where it hurt?” Cassidy snarled. “Did they wipe off that smile…” Then she cooed the magic words: “…with dollar bills, dollar bills?”

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WOMEN WHO ROCK

Women Who Rock Magazine features Joan Jett in the May/June 2003 issue. Inside the article, Joan names 4 female bands she feels are "carrying on the feral spirit of The Runaways".

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VALLEY ADVOCATE - 05/01/03

Getting Commited - by Gary Carra

Covers or originals? Grow it long or shave it all? Keep the day job or go for it full-time?

These are the universal dilemmas facing most serious musicians. And while the first two are relatively easy to decide -- and, not coincidentally, bare the least severe consequences irrespective of the decision -- it is the third that usually requires the most soul-searching.

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The Berkshire Eagle

Girl band boasts classic values - by Seth Rogovoy

GREAT BARRINGTON -- There would be something quaint bordering on funny about seeing any band of young musicians playing original rock music that owes its greatest debt of influence to Aerosmith.

While that dinosaur rock band still occasionally comes out of its lair and wanders the Earth, for the most part, its vintage, classic-rock sound is the stuff of nostalgia for baby boomers too old to rock out to the contemporary sounds of Foo Fighters, Zwan and Linkin Park.

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