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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.
1 lip 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...
In Los Angeles, the opposing factions were often described as "Hollywood punks" and "beach punks", referring to Hollywood's central position in the original L.A. punk rock scene and to hardcore's popularity in the shoreline communities of South Bay and Orange County.
24 maj 2008 · On one side is Brendan Mullen, an author and leading figure of the 1970s punk music scene in Hollywood, where he ran the Masque, a club at the epicenter of the local punk movement.
1 mar 2018 · Defining Punk. : Queerness and the LA Punk Scene, 1977–1981. Journal of Popular Music Studies (2018) 30 (1-2): 155–170. Forty years have passed since the inception of punk, yet interest in punk history has intensified within the last decade or so.
6 cze 2024 · One day in 1981, Gary Tovar was standing on a veranda in Santa Barbara's Riviera neighborhood and had a thought that changed his life, as well as the trajectory of the punk rock scene in California. “I said, ‘I’m gonna shake this town up,'" Tovar tells L.A. TACO over the phone. "'This town needs a good shaking up. This town needs some action.'"
Birthed in 1980, in lead singer Greg Graffin's mom's garage in the West Valley, Bad Religion rode the wave of the burgeoning punk scene in Southern California, along with Black Flag, the Adolescents, the Circle Jerks. Their sound has, oddly enough, become something that's classic and current at the same time.
