Antigone Four was the name four of the members of Antigone Rising went by briefly in 2008. The band has since continued on using their original name, Antigone Rising. In the mid-1990s in New York City, the Henderson sisters created Antigone Rising and started playing gigs, initially in Bleecker Street venues including The Back Fence, Cafe Figaro and The Bitter End with Jen Zielenbach on bass and Dena Tauriello on drums. The band is known for earning a dedicated fanbase very early on that follow them from concert to concert all along the East Coast and increasingly across the country.