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In 1978 in Southern California, the first hardcore punk bands arose, including Middle Class, Black Flag, Vicious Circle, Fear, and the Circle Jerks.Hardcore bands and fans tended to be younger than the art punks of the older LA scene and came mainly from the suburban parts of the Los Angeles area, especially the South Bay and Orange County.
Brendan Mullen (October 9, 1949 – October 12, 2009) [1] was a Scottish nightclub owner, music promoter and writer, best known for founding the Los Angeles punk rock club The Masque. Through Mullen's support at various nightclubs in California, the scene gave birth to such bands as the Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Go-Go's, X, The Weirdos and the ...
The Masque was founded by Scottish-American rock promoter Brendan Mullen, opening on August 18, 1977. [1] It quickly became the nexus of the Los Angeles punk subculture.It was located in the basement of the Shane Building, with a secondary access point in the building's neighboring pornographic movie theater.
An interview series hosted by Isaac Mizrahi, a workplace improv comedy created by Ron Howard and a true-crime deep dive into a notorious murder case from L.A.’s early 1980s punk rock scene with ...
Emerging from the 1980s Los Angeles punk scene, ... Bad Religion and Social Distortion are the last two bands standing of the third wave of 1979-1980 Los Angeles punk rock. We've been pretty ...
Lee James Jude Capallero [1] (born April 10, 1950 [2] [3] [additional citation(s) needed]), also known as Lee Ving, is an American guitarist, singer, and actor.Ving is the frontman of the Los Angeles-based hardcore punk band Fear.
Longtime Los Angeles punk band X is touring for their final album, 'Smoke & Fiction.' After that, they say, they're calling it a career.
McKenna wrote for the Los Angeles Times from 1977 through 1998 and was one of the first mainstream journalists chronicling the early L.A. punk rock scene. [5] [6] She was Music Editor for influential avant-garde arts publication Wet [7] and West Coast Editor of NME.