Biography
Singer/songwriter Colleen Green has built a reputation around her sweetly gritty lo-fi pop aesthetic. Drawing from groups such as the Ramones, Sublime, and the Descendents, her initial home-recorded releases—Milo Goes to Compton in 2010 and Cujo in 2011—emerged as relaxed, punk- and new-wave-tinged efforts that blended her vocals, guitars, keyboards, and basic drum-machine rhythms. That playful outlook has persisted even while her recordings have taken on greater scope and live instrumentation, evident on 2015’s I Want to Grow Up and the more refined ’90s alt-rock approach of 2021’s Cool.
Green entered the world in 1984 in Dunstable, Massachusetts, lived for a time in Boston, and relocated to Oakland in 2009 alongside several friends. There the group began staging performances inside their shared residence. Health complications later prompted a move to her brother’s home in Los Angeles, where she started composing and tracking material with only a guitar and drum machine. The resulting 2010 CD-R EP 4 Loko 2 Kayla and cassette Milo Goes to Compton quickly attracted attention from indie bloggers, leading her to sign with Hardly Art Records before year’s end. Additional EPs appeared on the label in 2011—Green One and Cujo—while Milo Goes to Compton received an LP reissue that same year via Art Fag. Her second full-length, Sock It to Me, arrived on Hardly Art in 2013.
I Want to Grow Up, her third album, surfaced in 2015 after being tracked in Nashville under the guidance of JEFF the Brotherhood’s Jake Orrall, who also contributed guitar; Diarrhea Planet’s Casey Weissbuch handled drums, resulting in a richer sonic palette. The following year she issued a self-titled EP as a limited cassette on Infinity Cat, which sold out rapidly and was expanded with bonus tracks for a 2018 re-release titled Casey’s Tape/Harmontown Loops.
During summer 2019 Green realized a long-held ambition by recording a complete version of blink-182’s 1997 album Dude Ranch; cheekily issued as “Dude Ranch” by blink-182 as Played by Colleen Green, the project featured every track reworked for solo bass. When preparing Cool, she enlisted producer Gordon Raphael of the Strokes alongside drummer Brendan Eder and hip-hop beat maker Aqua, convening at several Los Angeles studios to craft a sound recalling ’90s grunge pop yet filtered through her own seasoned take on neo-slacker attitudes. Hardly Art released Cool in September 2021, by which point Green had departed Los Angeles and returned to Massachusetts.
Green entered the world in 1984 in Dunstable, Massachusetts, lived for a time in Boston, and relocated to Oakland in 2009 alongside several friends. There the group began staging performances inside their shared residence. Health complications later prompted a move to her brother’s home in Los Angeles, where she started composing and tracking material with only a guitar and drum machine. The resulting 2010 CD-R EP 4 Loko 2 Kayla and cassette Milo Goes to Compton quickly attracted attention from indie bloggers, leading her to sign with Hardly Art Records before year’s end. Additional EPs appeared on the label in 2011—Green One and Cujo—while Milo Goes to Compton received an LP reissue that same year via Art Fag. Her second full-length, Sock It to Me, arrived on Hardly Art in 2013.
I Want to Grow Up, her third album, surfaced in 2015 after being tracked in Nashville under the guidance of JEFF the Brotherhood’s Jake Orrall, who also contributed guitar; Diarrhea Planet’s Casey Weissbuch handled drums, resulting in a richer sonic palette. The following year she issued a self-titled EP as a limited cassette on Infinity Cat, which sold out rapidly and was expanded with bonus tracks for a 2018 re-release titled Casey’s Tape/Harmontown Loops.
During summer 2019 Green realized a long-held ambition by recording a complete version of blink-182’s 1997 album Dude Ranch; cheekily issued as “Dude Ranch” by blink-182 as Played by Colleen Green, the project featured every track reworked for solo bass. When preparing Cool, she enlisted producer Gordon Raphael of the Strokes alongside drummer Brendan Eder and hip-hop beat maker Aqua, convening at several Los Angeles studios to craft a sound recalling ’90s grunge pop yet filtered through her own seasoned take on neo-slacker attitudes. Hardly Art released Cool in September 2021, by which point Green had departed Los Angeles and returned to Massachusetts.
Albums
Cool
2021
Casey's Tape / Harmontown Loops
2018
Colleen Green
2016
I Want to Grow Up
2015
Sock It To Me
2013
Sock it to Me
2013
Green One +3
2011
Singles
