About Wife Patrol
Wife Patrol is a band made up of three friends who decided to play music together as an inside joke in fall of 2015. It was such a good time, they are still doing it ten years later, so the joke’s on them. Through shared influences including alternative rock, punk, metal, and pop, Wife Patrol creates a sound untethered by genre.
The Indianapolis-based trio was formed in 2015 and consists of Nicole O’Neal (bass/vocals), Natasha O’Neill (drums/vocals), and Greg O’Neill (guitar/vocals). Inspired by collaborative bands like Sleater-Kinney, there is no single lead singer in the band. This creates the signature vocal style which includes co-lead vocals and harmonies not often found in rock music. The instrumentation is stretched in creative ways that both complement and dance around each part, resulting in a full sonic experience that rivals bands twice its size.
Wife Patrol cut its teeth with EPs Electric Blizzard (2016) and Orange (2018) before releasing the debut album Too Prickly For This World in 2020. The album earned praise in publications including VICE, AFROPUNK, and The Alternative; received airplay on radio stations from Montreal to Melbourne; garnered sales across the U.S., the U.K., Europe, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, and Canada; and landed a “New and Notable” mention on Bandcamp, in addition to a slot on its shortlist of 16 all-time best-selling alt rock albums. Following the band’s debut album release, Wife Patrol was also honored with a Punk Rock Night Music Award.
2025’s follow-up NOPLACE brings the bandmates back together after a period of personal and global upheaval. Wife Patrol produced and recorded the 10-track album with P. David Hazel (The Lemonheads, Extra Blue Kind, Bullet Points) from 2022 to 2024. With songs exploring the melancholy of the unknown, NOPLACE demonstrates the band’s growth as songwriters and collaborators. The album is due for release in May of 2025.
Vocals, Bass / Nicole
Vocals, Drums / Natasha
Vocals, Guitar / Greg
Photos by Clay Lomneth
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NOPLACE
Release Date: May 2, 2025
Wife Patrol’s forthcoming LP, NOPLACE, will be released May 2. Featured on both NPR’s Viking’s Choice playlist as well as Bandcamp’s New & Notable listing, the album is available for pre-order on physical and digital formats, and singles “We Who Are About To” and “Ruthless” are available to stream on all major platforms.
“NOPLACE is the product of three misfits maneuvering the ugliness, the uncertainty, and the joy of modern life together,” the band said. “Over the past decade, this group has carried each of us through personal and even global upheaval. The new songs carry on that tradition while also showing off our growth as musicians and songwriters.”
Wife Patrol produced and recorded the 10-track album with P. David Hazel (The Lemonheads, Extra Blue Kind, Bullet Points) from 2022 to 2024.
Christmas ‘96
Release Date: November 25, 2023
The band’s first release since its 2020 debut album, “Christmas ‘96” is a song of nostalgia and reflection on Christmas. The lyrics note the changes from youthful wonder to complicated loss in adulthood.
Written, recorded, and produced by Wife Patrol.
“Christmas ‘96” is available as a digital release on Bandcamp.
Too Prickly For This World
Release Date: September 4, 2020
Wife Patrol’s debut LP, Too Prickly For This World is available on 12” vinyl LP, CD, and digital format on Bandcamp, in addition to major streaming services.
The album was recorded and mixed throughout 2019 by Indianapolis producer P. David Hazel (The Lemonheads, Extra Blue Kind, Bullet Points) and Wife Patrol. Mastered by Margaret Luthar at Welcome to 1979.
The album’s lead singles are “Let’s Hang Out”, “Valentine Citrus”, and “Girl Cactus”.
With touchstones in punk, pop, and metal – and vocal harmonies throughout – the record explores everything from power structures, toxic culture, and friendship, to the hellish winter weather phenomena of the Great Plains.
“Wife Patrol make instantly catchy alt-rock with streaks of punk, new wave, and metal, overlaid with Bangles-esque harmonies.”
“Wife Patrol is what happens when serendipity and high energy combine. The Indianapolis-based band has a new record, Too Prickly For This World, and it showcases how sharp, thoughtful, and impactful the trio’s songwriting can be. Nicole, Natasha, and Greg join this week to share stories of their early love of music, their matching last names, riffs, and so much more.”
“Sleater-Kinney territory permeating through this super-catchy new one from Indianapolis based trio Wife Patrol. ‘Let’s Hang Out‘ is earworm central from their hotly tipped debut album out this month.”
Orange EP
Released September 28, 2018
This 3-song EP captures the wide range of sounds that Wife Patrol creates. From the power-pop melodies of “How Do You Know (If You’re Alive?)” to the punk shouts of “H.A.” Orange EP was produced and recorded by Paul Mahern in early 2018. Recorded at Ground Sound Studios, mixed and mastered at White Arc Studios in Bloomington, Indiana.