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The Los Angeles Police Department, using the aggressive nature of punk rock shows and audiences as the excuse to raid the venue, attacked the audience and musicians, beating them severely. Investigating the incident, Monitor's O'Connell interviewed the Rampart Division sergeant and published a critical editorial on the event in Slash magazine ...
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.
Under The Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk is a book by John Doe of the American punk rock band X and co-author Tom DeSavia. [1] The book examines the evolution of Los Angeles punk rock between 1977-1982, covering the years between the emergence of punk as an underground phenomenon and ending as some of the musicians in the scene crossed over to mainstream success. [2]
The all-female hard-rock/alt-rock quartet came out of L.A.’s male-dominated punk rock scene, and singer-guitarist Donita Sparks noted the inevitably male-leaning lineup of the fest, saying the ...
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 ...
Women in the early East Los Angeles punk scene were part of a subcultural movement associated with a brand of feminism that combined the ethics and politics of the Chicano movement, Second-wave feminism, the LGBT community, and punk rock music during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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 ...
In the early ‘80s, she photographically documented the East Los Angeles punk rock scene. [10] From 1980 to 1987, she was a member of ASCO , a conceptual multi-media performance art group. [ 11 ] Gamboa appeared in performances and also created costumes and makeup concepts that "shaped the group's look."