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+44
+44 (sometimes stylized (+44) or Plus 44) is an alternative rock band formed by Blink-182 members Mark Hoppus (vocals, bass guitar) and Travis Barker (drums, electronics, keyboards). The band also included former Transplants touring guitarist Craig...
45 Grave
45 Grave, (also known as .45 Grave) is an American punk rock band from Los Angeles, California formed in 1979. The original group broke up in 1985 but vocalist Dinah Cancer subsequently revived the band. 45 Grave are noted as one of the first bands...
A Cursive Memory
A Cursive Memory is an American rock band, from Los Angeles, California.
A Cursive Memory is a Pop Rock band from Los Angeles, California. The band originally formed as Sincerely Me in 2003 after members Colin Baylen and Shaun Profeta had met at a...
Aaron North
Aaron Wright North, born March 22, 1979 is the co-founder and former guitarist of punk band The Icarus Line, the former lead guitarist of the industrial rock group Nine Inch Nails and the co-founder of the website and independent record label...
ALL
All is an American punk band originally from Los Angeles, currently residing in Fort Collins, Colorado, formed by Descendents members Bill Stevenson, Karl Alvarez, and Stephen Egerton.
All formed in suburban Los Angeles in 1987 when Milo Aukerman,...
Amen
Amen is a hardcore punk-influenced band, they formed in 1994, continuing on today.
The band has an almost constantly rotating lineup, with founder Casey Chaos remaining as the only constant member throughout. Chaos writes all the music and lyrics,...
Angel City Outcasts
Angel City Outcasts is a band that originated in Los Angeles, California in 2002. Their music consists of a style somewhere between punk rock and rock n' roll. The band consists of 5 members that all live in Los Angeles. Their music is characterized...
Angry Samoans
The Angry Samoans are an American punk band in the first wave of American punk. Formed in August 1978 in Los Angeles, California by early 70's rock writer "Metal" Mike Saunders and his brother lead guitarist Kevin Eric Saunders, along with co...
Astrovamps
Astrovamps is an American death rock group. It was formed in the early 1990s by Daniel Ian and Eyajo Joseph.
Astrovamps released their first two records on cassette from 1991-1993, "Savage Garden" and "Blood And Flowers." In 1992, the band wrote the...
Billy Gould
Billy Gould (born William David Gould, April 24, 1963, Los Angeles, California) is an American musician and producer. He is noted for playing bass in the band Faith No More.
Gould started playing the bass while he was at Loyola High School in Los...
Billy Zoom
Billy Zoom (born Tyson Kindell on February 20, 1948, in Savanna, Illinois) is an American guitarist, best known as one of the founders of the punk rock band X.
The son of a Big Band woodwinds player, Kindell began playing a variety of instruments,...
Black President
Black President is an American punk rock band. It was formed in 2005 by Circle Jerks/Bad Religion guitarist Greg Hetson and Goldfinger guitarist Charlie Paulson.
The band was originally formed in late 2005 by Hetson and Paulson, who were joined by...
Bleed the Dream
Bleed the Dream is an American rock band from Southern California. They broke up in 2007 after releasing their new album "Killer Inside" with a new line-up.
Keith Thompson had left Baltimore for Los Angeles a year earlier to follow his musical...
Body Count
Body Count is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1990. The group was founded by Ice-T, best known for his contributions to the hip hop genre. Ice-T founded the group out of his interest in heavy metal, and took on the...
Butt Trumpet
Butt Trumpet was a Los Angeles punk band that was known more for its crass lyrics and deliberately offensive style than its music. The group featured two bassists among its members. They became famous in 1994 when their Chrysalis Records debut...
Crazy Town
Crazy Town is a alternative band formed in Los Angeles in 1995 by Bret Mazur and Seth Binzer. The band is best known for their 2001 single, "Butterfly", which reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Members of the band mix elements of hip...
Diva Destruction
Diva Destruction is an American darkwave project. It was formed by singer/songwriter Debra Fogarty in 1998.
Diva Destruction was formed in 1998 by Debra Fogarty. Shortly after, Diva Destruction signed to German music label Alice In... of the Dark...
Downset
downset. was a Rap Metal / hardcore punk group hailing from Los Angeles, California.
The band's original moniker was Social Justice. They released their debut album, Unity Is Strength, in 1989 and the EP I Refuse To Lose under this name with a...
Error
Error is an Electro-hardcore band founded in 2003 by 12 Rounds member and Nine Inch Nails collaborator Atticus Ross, and Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz. Since the 2004 release of their self-titled EP, the project has been on hiatus.
According...
Fear
Fear is an American punk band from Los Angeles, California that formed in 1977 and is still a band today. Credited for helping to shape the sound and style of American hardcore punk, the band started out as part of the early California punk rock...
Fishbone
Fishbone is an American alternative rock band that plays a fusion of ska, punk rock, funk metal and more. The band was formed in 1979 in South Central Los Angeles by Angelo Moore, who uses the stage name of Dr. Madd Vibe (vocals, saxophones ranging...
Flogging Molly
Flogging Molly is a seven-piece American Celtic punk band that formed in Los Angeles, California and is currently signed to SideOneDummy Records.
Prior to forming Flogging Molly, Dublin born Dave King was the vocalist for heavy metal band Fastway...
Glue Gun
Glue Gun (briefly known as Glü Gun) is an American punk rock band that formed in Los Angeles, California in 1991 by The Grim's Bob Oedy, who is the lead singer and only constant member as of the band's reunion. To date, the band has released two...
Goldfinger
Goldfinger is a Los Angeles pop punk/ska punk band that formed in 1994. They support the imprisoned 'SHAC 7' animal rights activists, and John Feldmann, lead singer, is an advocate for and supporter of the Animal Liberation Front.
Goldfinger was...
Greg Graffin
Gregory Walter Graffin (born November 6, 1964 in Racine, Wisconsin) is an American punk rock musician and college professor. He is most recognized as the lead vocalist and songwriter of the noted Los Angeles band Bad Religion, which he co-founded in...
Haircuts That Kill
Haircuts That Kill was a punk band from the San Francisco Bay area. The band included singer Chuck Mosley, who later recorded two albums with Faith No More (We Care a Lot and Introduce Yourself ) and lesser-known band, Cement (albums Cement and Man...
HEALTH
Health, (usually stylized as HEALTH) is an American noise rock band from Los Angeles, California. The band's 2007 release with Crystal Castles charted at position nine in the UK indie singles chart.
The band have found fame by playing multiple...
Hole
Hole was a Grammy-nominated American alternative rock band that formed in Los Angeles in 1989 and disbanded in 2002. The band was fronted by vocalist/rhythm guitarist Courtney Love, who co-founded Hole with songwriter/lead guitarist Eric Erlandson....
Ice T
Tracy Marrow (born February 16, 1958), better known by his stage name Ice-T, is a Grammy Award and NAACP Image Award-winning American rapper, actor and author. He is credited with helping in pioneering gangsta rap, in the late 1980s. As an actor, he...
IMA Robot
Ima Robot. is a Indie/Punk/Dance band based in Los Angeles that formed in the late 1990s, after Alex Ebert's band The Lucky 13's broke up. But they really only came to fruition in the early 2000s after signing with Virgin Records. The band's...
Jesse Johnson
Jesse Mack Johnson, born June 3, 1977, plays the synthesizer for the band Motion City Soundtrack. Jesse, who was a co-worker of guitarist Joshua Cain at Pizza Lucé in Minneapolis, joined the band in January 2002 to relieve lead singer and guitarist...
John Doe
John Doe (born John Nommensen Duchac on February 25, 1954 in Decatur, Illinois) is an American singer, songwriter, actor, poet and bass player who was the founder of the L.A. punk band X. His musical compositions and performances also include...
Jughead's Revenge
Jughead's Revenge is an American punk rock band from Los Angeles, California. The band formed in early 1989 and played their first show in November of that year. The original line-up consisted of Joe Rimicci (guitar), George Snow (guitar), Brian...
Julien-K
Julien-K began as a side project for electronic music created by Amir Derakh and Ryan Shuck from Orgy, with the later addition of Brandon Belsky and Elias Andra.
Their debut album, Death to Analog, which was mixed by Tim Palmer, was released on...
Kittens for Christian
Kittens for Christian is a Punk rock band that is currently signed with System of a Down lead singer Serj Tankian's record company, Serjical Strike Records. They released an album, Privilege of Your Company, on September 9, 2003.
KrunK
Kottak, formerly known as KrunK, is a pop punk rock group formed in Los Angeles in 1996 by James Kottak aka Jimmy Ratchitt, drummer for the hard rock band Scorpions and his wife Athena Kottak. Current members are:
The band describe themselves as ...
L7
L7 (pronounced [ɛl ˈsɛvən]) was an American rock band from Los Angeles that was active from 1985 to 2000. Due to their sound and image, they are often associated with the grunge movement of the late 1980s and early 1990s.
L7 was formed by Donita...
Legal Weapon
Legal Weapon was an early Southern California punk band, initially composed of singer Kat Arthur, guitarist Brian Hansen, drummer Charlie Vartanian and bassist Patricia Morrison. The band's early full-length albums Death of Innocence (for which...
Lone Justice
Lone Justice was an American country rock band formed in 1982 by guitarist Ryan Hedgecock and singer Maria McKee.
They began their career as part of the L.A. cowpunk scene of the 1980s. Lone Justice was inspired by Hedgecock and McKee's mutual...
Los Abandoned
Los Abandoned is an American alternative rock band from the Los Angeles, California area. The band's lyrics are in Spanish and English, or a combination of the two known as Spanglish.
Their biggest hits were "Panic-oh!," "Van Nuys (es Very Nice),"...
Love
Love was an American rock group of the late 1960s and early 1970s. They were led by singer, songwriter and guitarist Arthur Lee and the group's second songwriter, guitarist Bryan MacLean. One of the first racially diverse American pop bands, their...
LoveHateHero
LoveHateHero is a post-hardcore band from Los Angeles, California. They are signed to Ferret Records and have released three albums, Just Breathe in May 2005, and White Lies in February 2007 and recently, America Underwater.
They have toured with...
Maria McKee
Maria Louise McKee (born August 17, 1964, Los Angeles, California) is an American singer.
A solo artist, McKee was a founding member of the cowpunk/country rock band, Lone Justice, in 1982, with whom she released three albums. Her band opened for...
Maroon 5
Maroon 5 is an American rock band. Since debuting in 2002, the band has sold over 10 million albums in the United States and nearly 15 million worldwide. While they were in high school, the four original members of Maroon 5 played in a garage band...
Medicine
Medicine is an alternative noise-pop/rock band from the San Fernando Valley, USA. They were formed in 1991 by guitarist Brad Laner (born November 6, 1966) and signed to Rick Rubin's American Recordings label the following year. Medicine was/is...
Michael John Burkett
Michael John Burkett, better known as Fat Mike, is the lead vocalist and bass player of the American punk rock band NOFX as well as bassist for the punk rock supergroup cover band Me First and the Gimme Gimmes.
The moniker "Fat Mike" was given to...
Mika Miko
Mika Miko is an underground youth punk/noise band formed in 2003 in Los Angeles, California. In 2004 they gained local popularity for their frenetic live performances. Featuring Victor Fandgore (Jennifer Clavin), Jet Blanca (Jenna Thornhill),...
Missing Persons
Missing Persons was an American band who played a blend of New Wave music and pop rock. The band was founded in 1980 in Los Angeles by guitarist Warren Cuccurullo, vocalist Dale Bozzio, and drummer Terry Bozzio. They went on to add bassist Patrick O...
Moving Units
Moving Units is a dance-punk band from Los Angeles, California.
The band was formed in 2001 by Chris Hathwell, Blake Miller, and Johan Boegli, when Hathwell's previous band, Festival of Dead Deer, broke up. They released their debut EP, Moving Units...
No Age
No Age is a two-person American indie rock group consisting of guitarist Randy Randall and drummer Dean Allen Spunt. The band is based in Los Angeles and currently signed to Sub Pop records. The group takes its name from the title of a 1987 SST...
NOFX
NOFX (pronounced no-eff-ex) is an American punk rock band from San Francisco, California, formed in 1983 in Los Angeles. The band was formed by vocalist and bassist Fat Mike and guitarist Eric Melvin. Drummer Erik Sandin joined them shortly...
Oingo Boingo
Oingo Boingo was an American new wave band. They are best known for their influence on other musicians, their soundtrack contributions and their high energy Halloween concerts. The band was founded in 1972 as a performance art group called The...
Osker
Osker was a Los Angeles melodic punk rock band who formed in 1998 and split in February 2002, ultimately due to the departure of their drummer. The line up originally consisted of Devon Williams on vocals and guitar and Dave Benitez on bass. They...
Peppermint Creeps
Peppermint Creeps are a Glam metal band from Hollywood, California, formed in 1997. Their music can be compared to the band KISS's style and J-Rock styles with a Pop-Punk sound. The group are recognisable by their makeup, often fluorescent red, pink...
Red Aunts
The Red Aunts were an all-female punk band that formed in 1991 in Long Beach, California when Terri Wahl (aka Angel, or Louise Lee Outlaw) recruited friends Kerry Davis (aka Sapphire, or Taffy Davis) and Debi Martini (aka E.Z. Wider, aka Connie...
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Red Hot Chili Peppers (often abbreviated RHCP or shortened to simply Chili Peppers) is an American alternative rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1983. For most of the band's existence, the members have been vocalist Anthony Kiedis,...
Rock Kills Kid
Rock Kills Kid is an American alternative rock band from Los Angeles, California that consists of Jeff Tucker (guitar and vocals), Shawn Dailey (bass), Sean Stopnik (guitar), Reed Calhoun (keyboards/vocals), and Mike Balboa (drums). Their music...
Rocket
Rocket is an all-girl pop-punk band from Los Angeles, California.
Say Anything
Say Anything is an indie rock band with punk rock influences from Los Angeles, California, fronted by singer-songwriter Max Bemis. The band formed in 2000 with Bemis and four of his friends. Within two years, they self-released two EPs, Junior...
Shane Gallagher
Shane Gallagher is an Indonesian-American musician who played guitar for rock/alternative band +44, goth-punk band Mercy Killers, and formerly The Nervous Return.
Shane Gallagher was born on December 30, 1973 in Jakarta, Indonesia. Shane is of...
