Diet Cig is an indie-pop punk duo from New Paltz, New York – also home to their mutual friend Dean Engle from Quarterbacks. They are made up of Alex Luciano on guitar/vocals and Noah Bowman – of Earl Boykins – on drums.

Of the origin of the band name, the two explained:

N: I don’t remember now…
A: It was short enough to embroider on stuff.
N: No, I think it was whoever we knew was trying to quit smoking and was just like “I need a diet cigarette…”
A: And we were like, “We’ll be your diet cigarette!”
N: We didn’t really think about it. We were just like, “We need a name.”

Their Facebook and Bandcamp bios read “two homies making tunes and eggs on the regz.”