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At the 2008 exhibit "Vexing: Female Voices From East L.A. Punk" at the Claremont Museum of Art, Armandariz performed punk versions of mariachi music (and some Bags songs too). [ 10 ] In 2011 Alice Bag published her memoir, Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, A Chicana Punk Story [ 11 ] and embarked on a reading and performance ...
Bag is best known for being a member of the Bags, one of the first bands on the L.A. punk scene. The Bags were notable for having two female lead musicians (the group was co-founded by Bag and school friend Patricia Morrison) and for pioneering an aggressive sound and style that has been cited as an early influence on what would become the ...
A 1977 concert featuring the Germs inspired them to move toward a more punk sound, and to form the Bags, with Janet Koontz joining them on guitar. The band wore bags over their heads onstage. Morrison recalls: "The Bags were playing somewhere very early on and my mother came running out of the driveway yelling 'Patricia you forgot your bag!'
The PBS SoCal/KCET series "Artbound" kicks off its 14th season with a look at the rivalry of two venues, Madame Wong's and the Hong Kong Cafe, in the heyday of L.A. punk and new wave.
The Bags are an American hard/punk rock band from Lexington, Massachusetts, formed in 1985. The band is composed of members Jon Hardy, Jim Janota, and Crispin Wood. Though a couple of early recordings were released on the Crawling from Within multi-artist compilation, [1] their debut album, entitled Rock Starve, was released in 1987.
1. Punk Rock Museum (Las Vegas, USA) What’s great about this brand-new museum is not just that it’s 12,000 square feet packed with instruments, clothing, set lists, and other artifacts from ...
In We Got the Neutron Bomb, an oral history of the L.A. punk rock scene collected by Marc Spitz, Claude Bessy aka: Kickboy, claims that he came up with the title. [ 3 ] The film is the opening act of a trilogy by Spheeris, depicting music scenes in Los Angeles during the late 20th century.
77: The Year of Punk and New Wave (Helter Skelter Publishing, 2006) is a book by Henrik Poulsen that catalogues every punk rock band to have made a recording in the United Kingdom during the punk era. [1] The book has about 200 entries starting with Acme Sewage Company and ending with the Zeros. [2]