Early years

Pony Up! formed on New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve is observed annually on December 31, the final day of any given year in the Gregorian calendar. In modern societies, New Year's Eve is often celebrated at social gatherings, during which participants dance, eat, consume alcoholic beverages, and watch or light fireworks to mark the...

 2002 and, upon developing a relationship with singer Ben Lee

Ben Lee

Benjamin Michael "Ben" Lee is an ARIA Award winning musician and actor. Lee began his career as a musician at the age of 14 with the Sydney band Noise Addict, but focused on his solo career when the band broke up in 1995. He appeared as the protagonist in the Australian film The Rage in Placid Lake...

, released their debut, self-titled EP

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

, Pony Up! in 2005 on his friend Steve Aoki's label, Dim Mak

Dim Mak Records

Dim Mak Records is a record label founded in 1996 by Steve Aoki and based in Los Angeles, CA. Dim Mak's first release was a 7" by a little known hardcore band from southern California, Stickfigurecarousel.-Roster:Active* Steve Aoki* All Leather...

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2006-2007

April 2006 Make Love to the Judges with Your Eyes

Make Love to the Judges with Your Eyes

Make Love to the Judges with Your Eyes is the first full length album by Pony Up! It was released on May 9, 2006, by the all-female indie pop band based in Montreal, Canada, formed on New Year's Eve 2002...

is the first full-length from Pony Up. To promote their debut, the band toured Australia extensively in the summer of 2006, where their single "The Truth About Cats and Dogs (Is That They Die)" would later be voted #47 on the world's largest music poll, Triple J

Triple J

triple j is a nationally networked Australian radio station intended to appeal to listeners between the ages of 18 and 30. The government-funded station is a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation...

's Hottest 100

Triple J Hottest 100

The Triple J Hottest 100 is an annual music poll, based on the votes of national Australian radio station Triple J listeners, in order to determine their favourite song of the year. Voting is conducted by the internet and begins roughly two weeks prior to the new year for the previous year's songs...

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2008-present

In September 2008 Pony Up supported The Mountain Goats

The Mountain Goats

The Mountain Goats is an American indie rock band formed in Claremont, CA by singer-songwriter John Darnielle. For many years, the sole member of the Mountain Goats was Darnielle himself, despite the plural moniker....

 on tour. Lisa Smith and Laura Wills joined the touring lineup of The Dears

The Dears

-History:The band formed in 1995 and released their first album, End of a Hollywood Bedtime Story, in 2000. Their orchestral, dark pop sound and dramatic live shows cemented The Dears at the foundation of the then-emerging Canadian indie renaissance...

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The Song "A Crutch Or A Cradle" off the upcoming CD was leaked early.

On October 27, 2008 Pony Up created a blog on their MySpace

MySpace

Myspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....

 asking listeners to help them choose the single off their new album, Stay Gold, which will be released in the spring of 2009. They then began posting all of the songs on the upcoming album on the main myspace page.

Discography

• Pony Up! (2005, EP)
• Make Love to the Judges with Your Eyes
  Make Love to the Judges with Your Eyes
  Make Love to the Judges with Your Eyes is the first full length album by Pony Up! It was released on May 9, 2006, by the all-female indie pop band based in Montreal, Canada, formed on New Year's Eve 2002...
  
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• Stay Gold (2009)

Current members

• Lisa J. Smith – bass guitar
• Lindsay Wills – drums
• Laura Wills – keyboards and vocals
• Sarah Moundroukas – guitar and vocals

Music videos

Song	Released	Director	Album	Notes
The Truth About Cats and Dogs (Is That They Die)	2006	Toben Seymour Toben Seymour Toben Seymour is a music video and commercial director, and puppeteer based in Los Angeles, California.-Biography:Toben Seymour grew up in Cedarburg, Wisconsin, and began making puppets in grade school...	Make Love to the Judges with Your Eyes Make Love to the Judges with Your Eyes Make Love to the Judges with Your Eyes is the first full length album by Pony Up! It was released on May 9, 2006, by the all-female indie pop band based in Montreal, Canada, formed on New Year's Eve 2002...	Shadow puppetry and animation by Moving Pictures

External links

• Band Site - Iheartponyup.com
• Not Just Another Girl Band: The Pony Up Interview by Michael Mercadante 2006