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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.
Scopely was founded in 2011 in Los Angeles, California, by Walter Driver, Ankur Bulsara, Eric Futoran and Eytan Elbaz. [7] [8] Previously, Elbaz co-founded Applied Semantics, which was acquired by Google in 2003, and Bulsara was a software developer at MySpace.
Club 88 was an all-ages [1] live music venue [2] that was a key part of the early Los Angeles punk scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Many seminal punk and New Wave groups got their start playing shows there.
Flipside, known as Los Angeles Flipside Fanzine, was a punk zine published in Whittier and Pasadena, California, from 1977 to 2002.The magazine was associated with its own record label, Flipside Records, releasing vinyl records and compact discs beginning in 1978.
If it necessarily leaves out a lot, "Chinatown Punk Wars" nevertheless provides a good primer to L.A.'s late '70s underground music scene and its rise and — not a fall, really, but a transition.
X – Los Angeles; Disbandments. Joy Division; The Teen Idles; Germs; Events. DIY Punk Rock label Dischord Records was founded by key figure in the development of hardcore punk Ian MacKaye. Ian Curtis, Joy Division lead singer, commits suicide 18 May 1980 at age 23. The rest of the band become New Order
Lloyd was born in Pittsburgh but moved to Greenwich Village with his parents at age six. With aspirations to become a musician, he left New York and arrived in Los Angeles in 1971.
A coming-of-age movie with a dramatic punk rock twist has a storyline that may sound unreal, but it's based on true events. In "Los Frikis," set in early 1990s Cuba, hundreds of young ...