Lois Maffeo, known simply as Lois turned eighteen the day she arrived in Olympia from her home in Phoenix, Arizona, to attend the Evergreen State College.

Lois became fascinated by the punk scene in the area, hosting her own KAOS FM radio show called Your Dream Girl and writing album reviews for underground zines. She started doing the occasional performance around town, sometimes singing a song, other times taking part in performance art.

It was in the mid-eighties that a spur-of-the-moment decision started her career. Lois had moved to Portland and in her own words, was "...lonely for Olympia and I was walking by a guitar shop and there it was - my dream guitar."
Lois began writing songs and a band came together with Patrick Maley called Courtney Love.
Three records down the line, in 1991 they disbanded.

Then came Lois. With different collaborators over each release, no less than four full length records have been made.