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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 ...
Johanna Went is an American performance artist who primarily works in the Los Angeles area. [1] [2] [3] She started her career in the late 1970s as musician in the punk scene. Music is still an important element of her shows.
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.
Templeton started to pursue photography at the age of 15 when her mother gifted her a camera. [2] She used the camera to explore and document the local Los Angeles punk scene. [1] Early in her photography career, Templeton traveled with her husband and other professional skateboarders on their international tours, documenting the scene.
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.
Zoom rejoined X in 1999, but at first, the band’s classic lineup primarily toured and performed their old songs. Then, in April 2020, X celebrated the 40th anniversary of Los Angeles with the ...
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 ...
World Imitation Productions (WImP) was an interdisciplinary art and music collective active during the early years of punk in Los Angeles, California, through the late 1970s and early 1980s (c. 1977–1982).