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Los Angeles had a very strong glam rock scene in the early 1970s, mostly centered on the club Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco, run by Rodney Bingenheimer, who later, as a disc jockey for KROQ's Rodney on the ROQ, did much to promote LA punk bands. Many figures from this earlier scene would play notable roles in the later punk scene.
- Tim Stegall
- X. X could have only happened in Los Angeles. Billy Zoom’s loud/fast rockabilly guitar work and DJ Bonebreak’s orchestral drumming drove Doe and then-wife Exene Cervenka’s Charles Bukowski-on-biker-crank lyrics.
- Black Flag. If inchoate anger and unfocussed rebellion have a soundtrack, it’s Black Flag. Primarily the brainchild of songwriter/guitarist Greg Ginn and bassist/theoretician Chuck Dukowski, these Hermosa Beach intellectual bruisers welded the heaviest metal to avant-jazz’s noisy atonality.
- 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.
- FEAR. Blue-collar avant-punk ruffians FEAR might have the oddest story of any of these bands. Shades of blues and jazz wove into a high-energy metal assault, alongside a gonzo stage act that elevated audience baiting into a frenzied wrestling match.
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...
Apr 15, 2020 · A Photographer Is Resurfacing Her Trove of Photos of L.A.'s '80s Punk Scene. Linda Aronow's immense archive captures a bygone moment in the city's music scene—and she's only...
L.A. Punk. The Los Angeles punk scene was the last of punk's Big Three (the others being New York and London) to develop, and was neither as musically diverse nor as adventurous. However, L.A.'s scene has also proven to be the longest-lasting; as punk mutated into hardcore, then alternative rock, then back to a revivalist punk-pop sound during ...
Mar 27, 2016 · Relive the Punk-Rock Scene of 1970s Los Angeles. By Catie L'Heureux. 18 Photos. Punk style might be most closely associated with New York and the Ramones, or London and Vivienne Westwood, but there was a flourishing scene in Los Angeles in the ‘70s as well, and Slash magazine faithfully documented every moment.
Sep 16, 2019 · The venue was a key part of the early LA punk scene, and became home to bands like X, the Go-Go's, the Dickies, the Weirdos, the Dils, the Screamers and many more. The first wave of punk rock growled out of the economic and social malaise of New York and London in the mid-1970s.
