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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
Punk rock in California. Appearance. 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.
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.
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...
- 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.
Nov 14, 2022 · I wanted to explore what the biggest bands from the L.A. punk scene had to offer and how they changed the scene into what it is today. The Germs are the most influential punk band of all time, acknowledged by both Nirvana and the Foo Fighters as one of their biggest influences.
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Mar 1, 2022 · As the 1980s began, most of the world was under the impression that punk rock failed when the Sex Pistols... The post 15 bands that defined LA punk in the ’80s, from Black Flag to the Go-Go’s appeared first on Alternative Press Magazine.
