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Mar 1, 2022 · The Go-Go’s. If darker impulses drove L.A. punk, at least on the surface the five-woman Go-Go’s were the musical embodiment of the year-long sunshine that made their hometown famous. Singer ...
- Tim Stegall
With its natural inclination toward more aggressive punk, L.A. became the center for the music's shift into hardcore, with Black Flag (and, later, its seminal SST label) leading the new direction by the beginning of the '80s.
- Tim Stegall
- The Runaways. Best heard on: The Runaways – The Mercury Albums Anthology. The Joan Jett-led quintet predates The Masque generation by two years. But they were essentially Hollywood’s answer to the Ramones—an example of How It’s Done to many burgeoning young punks, including future Germs Darby Crash and Pat Smear.
- The Weirdos. Best heard on: Weird World Volume 1. Next out the gate have to be these CalArts students, centered around singer John Denney and brother Dix on blasting lead guitar.
- Germs. Best heard on: (GI) They began as a joke, an excuse for clever teenage miscreant Jan Paul Beahm to smear peanut butter all over himself as his buddy Pat Ruthenberg learned guitar onstage, alongside novice bassist Terry Ryan and non-drummer Becky Barton.
- Screamers. Best heard on: YouTube video Every Recorded Song by the Screamers (until the upcoming first official release of their tapes emerges) Seattle transplants who pioneered techno-punk, alongside Devo, Paris’ Metal Urbain and Cleveland’s own Pere Ubu.
Punk rock in California. Since the mid-1970s, California has had thriving regional punk rock movements. It primarily consists of bands from the Los Angeles, Orange County, Ventura County, San Diego, San Fernando Valley, San Francisco, Fresno, Bakersfield, Alameda County, Sacramento, Lake Tahoe, Oakland and Berkeley areas. History. edit. Pre-1976.
Jul 1, 2016 · We're going to take a look back at the LA punk scene with three people who helped define it - John Doe and Exene Cervenka, co-founders of the band X and Dave Alvin, who co-founded The Blasters...
Apr 15, 2020 · LA Punk in the 1980s Comes to Life in Never-Before-Seen Photos - LAmag. A Photographer Is Resurfacing Her Trove of Photos of L.A.'s '80s Punk Scene. Linda Aronow's immense archive...
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Sep 29, 2016 · When it comes to getting credit for nurturing the rise of punk music, L.A. is typically overshadowed by such cities as New York and London, which are known for giving birth to seminal punk bands...
