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Mar 1, 2022 · 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.
- Tim Stegall
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.
Find L.A. Punk Albums, Artists and Songs, and Hand-Picked Top L.A. Punk Music on AllMusic.
- 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.
Sep 29, 2016 · The punk scene developed in L.A. after it burst out of London and New York, where such bands as the Ramones, who formed in 1974, and the Sex Pistols, who came together in 1975, were...
- Richard Guzman
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 ...
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Jul 30, 2024 · Remarkably, when X hangs it up, a part of L.A. rock history will disappear with them. Formed in 1977 by Doe (who’d bring in Cervenka) and Zoom, X became the standard bearers of the punk scene.
