Los AngelesX ALTERNATIVE · 1980 Preview Rising out the disregarded L.A. punk scene, X’s hook-thick and emotionally powerful songs on this 1980 debut mixed haunted Hollywood imagery and street-grit poetics with snarly guitars and songcraft. The album owes as much to traditional country ...
One of the most important bands to emerge from Los Angeles since the late 1970s returns to the Bay Area when pioneering punk outfit X plays two sold-out shows at Cornerstone in Berkeley starting Monday night.Among the first punk bands to cross-pollinate the aggressive new sound with ...
Infants, Amnesics, and Dissociable Memory Systems The title of this book—infant memory—appears straightforward. On reflection, however, it becomes apparent that the term memory applies to many different facets of an organism's ability to conserve and utilize the effects of its experi... DL Sch...
The Psychedelic Furs came together in England's emerging punk scene in 1977 initially consisting of Richard Butler (vocals), Tim Butler (bass guitar), Paul Wilson (drums), Duncan Kilburn (saxophone), and Roger Morris (guitars). By 1979, this line up had expanded to a sextet with Vince ...
List of Los Angeles bands, listed by their level of fame. This Los Angeles musicians list includes both bands and solo artists. All famous Los Angeles bands ...
The movie is about the Los Angeles punk rock scene and was directed by Penelope Spheeris. In 1981, the LAPD Chief of Police Daryl Gates wrote a letter demanding the film not be shown again in L.A. Over the years the film has gained cult status. The film's title is possibly a...
The Go-Go's - Photo: Ebet Roberts/Getty Images One of the most popular all-female rock bands to explode out of the 70s/80s punk and New Wave scene, the Go-Go’s enjoyed a lengthy and commercially successful career. Despite their ascent in the pop world, the quintet were still the ...
As his acting career began to take off in the 1980s — his first big screen role was as an Amish man in Peter Weir’s “Witness” — Mortensen married punk singerExene Cervenkaof the Los Angeles band X after they played husband and wife in the 1987 tel...
Set in the waning days of the Los Angeles punk scene, “Border Radio” is the first feature by Allison Anders, who co-wrote and co-directed it with Kurt Voss and Dean Lent. This relatively unheralded 1987 indie -- a DIY effort from three UCLA film students -- may seem an odd fit fo...
From their birthplace in Venice Beach to iconic LA music venues, read on for the best locations in Los Angeles to experience The Doors.