Against Me! is an American
punk rock band formed in
Gainesville, Florida, United States, in 1997 by singer and guitarist
Laura Jane Grace. Since 2001, the band's lineup has also included guitarist James Bowman. After releasing three studio albums through
independent record labels, Against Me! moved to
Sire Records for 2007's
New Wave, which reached no. 57 on the
Billboard 200. Their fifth album, 2010's
White Crosses, was their most successful, reaching no. 34. In 2011 the band launched their own record label, Total Treble Music, through which they plan to release future albums. In 2012 Grace publicly
came out as
transgender, beginning a transition to living as a woman and dropping her birth name. The band finished recording their sixth studio album,
Transgender Dysphoria Blues, during the summer of 2013, and released it on the twenty-first of January, 2014.