Biography
Stacey Dee launched Bad Cop/Bad Cop in 2011 as an all-female punk quartet based in Los Angeles and built around a dense, melody-packed approach. Joining her as co-writer and singer/guitarist is Jennie Cotterill, supported by bassist/vocalist Rinh Re and drummer Myra Gallarza; the lineup foregrounds sweeping hooks and three-part vocal harmonies, qualities already clear on the 2014 debut EP Boss Lady. The band tracked that EP on its own in 2013, after which Dee urged her acquaintance Fat Mike of Fat Wreck Chords to catch a set at the Lilith Bear Womyn's Festival in San Francisco. He offered a deal within days and issued Boss Lady the following spring. Echoes of early-nineties punk and alternative acts such as the Muffs, Face to Face, and No Use for a Name surfaced in the sound, yet the buoyant pop leanings of the Go-Go's—an early influence Dee has often cited—remained audible as well. Their first full-length album, Not Sorry, appeared in June 2015.