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She Wants Revenge
She Wants Revenge is an American music duo, based in San Fernando Valley, California. The group's debut album She Wants Revenge was released in early 2006, with three singles to follow ("These Things", The video for which features Shirley Manson...
Shiny Toy Guns
Shiny Toy Guns is a Grammy-nominated American rock band originally from Shawnee, Oklahoma, that formed in 2002 in Los Angeles, California. They have released three versions of their first studio album We Are Pilots, which featured three singles that...
Son of Sam
Son of Sam is an American horror punk band that is a side project created by Todd Youth in 2000, during his tenure as the guitarist for Danzig. The band recorded one album, which features members of Samhain, Danzig, and AFI. Much like its members'...
Sparks
Sparks is an American rock and pop music band formed in Los Angeles in 1970 by brothers Ron (keyboards) and Russell Mael (vocals), initially under the name Halfnelson. Best known for their quirky approach to song writing, Sparks' music is often...
Spinnerette
Spinnerette is an American alternative rock band, consisting of Brody Dalle, Tony Bevilacqua (both former members of The Distillers), Jack Irons (What Is This?, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Walk The Moon, Eleven, and Pearl Jam) and Alain Johannes (What Is...
Strife
Strife is an American hardcore punk band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1991.
Their first LP, One Truth, was released in 1994 by Victory Records. Strife was considered one of the three "big" bands on the then-new Victory Records label,...
Terri Nunn
Terri Nunn (born 26 June 1961 in Los Angeles, California) is an American singer and actress.
Nunn joined the New Wave, techno-pop band Berlin in 1979, but temporarily left the band the following year to pursue an acting career. In 1981, Nunn...
Terror
Terror is an American hardcore punk/metalcore band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2002. Though the group consider themselves a "hardcore" band, guitarist Doug Weber says Terror, "sounds like all of the old metal bands I used to listen to....
That dog.
That Dog (styled as that dog.) was a Los Angeles-based rock band that formed in 1991 and dissolved in 1997. The band consisted of Anna Waronker on lead vocals and guitar, Rachel Haden on bass guitar, her sister Petra Haden on violin, and Tony...
The Adored
The Adored is a power pop band based in Los Angeles, California. Until 2007, they were signed to V2 Records in North America (reportedly signed by former Black Flag and Circle Jerks frontman Keith Morris). They released a 5-song EP in 2005, which...
The BillyBones
The BillyBones is an American punk rock band. Based in Los Angeles, California, the band features Steven Williams "Billy Bones" Fortuna, formerly of The Skulls (U.S. Band), guitarist Alex Mack, bassist Drew Milford, and drummer Alex Gomez, formerly...
The Briggs
The Briggs are a punk rock band based out of Los Angeles, California. The Band Formed in 2001 by brothers Joey and Jason LaRocca and Chris "X" Arredondo. Since the band started touring in 2002, they have shared the stage with many of the biggest...
The Bronx
The Bronx is a hardcore punk band formed in 2002 in Los Angeles, California. They have released three eponymous albums, with the fourth, Mariachi El Bronx, released in September 2009.
The Bronx formed in 2002 in Los Angeles, California. The initial...
The Diffs
The Diffs are a punk band from Los Angeles, California. Founded in 2003, their influences include original Los Angeles punk bands such as Black Flag, The Germs, The Weirdos, and X.
The band is featured in the documentary Punk's Not Dead.
Brothers...
The Distillers
The Distillers were an American punk band formed in Los Angeles in 1998. They released their first two albums on Hellcat Records/Epitaph Records before moving to Sire, part of the Warner Music Group. The Distillers were originally formed by...
The drips
The Drips is a punk rock band from Los Angeles, currently signed to White Drugs/Wichita Recordings.
A side-project of members of various other bands, The Drips are Matt Caughthran and Joby J. Ford, both from The Bronx, Tony Bevilaqua from The...
The Germs
The Germs are an American punk band from Los Angeles, California, originally active from 1977 to 1980. Germs have since reformed in 2005 with Shane West replacing Darby Crash. Their 1977 single, "Forming"/"Sexboy", is generally regarded as the first...
The Go-Go's
The Go-Go’s are an all-female American rock band formed in 1978. They made rock history as the first all-woman band that both wrote their own songs and played their own instruments to top the Billboard album charts.
The Go-Go's rose to fame during...
The Gun Club
The Gun Club was an American punk blues band from Los Angeles, California that existed from 1980 to 1996. Led by flamboyant singer and guitarist Jeffrey Lee Pierce, The Gun Club merged the contemporary genre of punk rock with the more traditional...
The Hippos
The Hippos were an American rock band formed in 1995 in Los Angeles, California, and disbanded in 2000. During the band's lifetime they released 3 full-length albums. Their early work is best classified as part of the third wave of ska music, or as...
The Hollywood Squares
The Hollywood Squares were an American band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1977. They are probably best known for their classic "Hillside Strangler". Released in a very limited edition on the trio's own Square Records label, the issue quickly...
The Messies
The Messies are a pop rock band from Los Angeles, California.
The Messies released their inaugural album, Behind Every Scream, in 2003. The album introduced them to the Southern California music scene, and the single "Super Sexy" was featured on the...
The Muffs
The Muffs are a rock band based in Southern California, formed in 1991.
After releasing their initial 7" EPs and singles independently and on local labels, The Muffs signed to Warner Bros. Records in the early '90s and released their self-titled...
The Nervous Return
the Nervous Return was a New Wave/Post-punk band from Los Angeles. Noted for their electrifying and unpredictable live shows, the band toured Europe and North America headlining their own club tours as well as supporting arena tours with well known...
The Outline
The Outline are an experimental band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2002. The group's first release was a self-recorded EP, titled The Outline Proudly Presents the Chestnut Tree, in 2005. The band was signed by Fearless Records in the...
The Plugz
The Plugz were a Mexican-American punk rock band from Los Angeles, California that formed in 1977. They and The Zeros were among the first Chicano punk bands, although several Latino garage rock bands, such as Thee Midniters and Question Mark & the...
The Skulls
The Skulls were a Los Angeles punk band formed in 1977, and later reformed in 2000. Their final show was in Corona, California in March 2006. The Skulls had several line-ups with only one consistent member, vocalist Steven William "Billy Bones"...
The Sound of Animals Fighting
The Sound of Animals Fighting was an experimental rock sideproject put together by Rich Balling, anchored by Circa Survive's Anthony Green and members of Rx Bandits. They released a trilogy of records between the years 2004 and 2008, and performed...
The Weirdos
The Weirdos were an American punk rock band from Los Angeles, California. They formed in 1976 and broke up in 1981, were occasionally active in the 1980s, and recorded new material in the 1990s. Critic Mark Demming calls them "quite simply, one of...
Tim Mahoney
Timothy Jerome Mahoney (born February 17, 1970 in Omaha, Nebraska) is the lead guitarist for the group 311. Tim is best known for his single-noted riffs, and fusion of punk, latin, rock, and reggae styles. Tim went to Westside High School. In 4th...
Tom Morello
The Nightwatchman is the alter-ego and solo act of Rage Against the Machine, ex-Audioslave and Street Sweeper Social Club guitarist Tom Morello, which he created in 2003 as an outlet for his political views while playing non-political music with...
Tom Petty
For the New York based band, see The Heartbreakers
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are a heartland rock band, most of whose members are from the United States. They were formed in 1976 by Tom Petty, Mike Campbell, and Benmont Tench, all of whom had...
Tony Cadena
Anthony Brandenburg (born February 24, 1963) — also known by the stage names Tony Cadena, Tony Montana, Tony Adolescent, and Tony Reflex — is an accomplished punk rock singer/songwriter and poet.
Tony's musical career started with a band he formed...
Uncle Slam
Uncle Slam was an American crossover thrash band from Los Angeles, California.
Uncle Slam originally formed in 1984 under the name The Brood by vocalists and guitarists Jon Nelson, Todd Moyer, bassist John Flitcraft, and former Suicidal Tendencies...
Vaginal Davis
Vaginal Davis (born February 20, 1959) is a drag queen, performance artist, painter, independent curator, composer, and writer. Davis's name is a homage to activist Angela Davis.
Davis is often associated with the formation of the queercore zine...
VOM
VOM was conceived in 1976, a self-described beat combo featuring the renowned writer and critic Richard Meltzer on vocals, with Gregg Turner on 2nd vocals and "Metal" Mike Saunders on drums under the pseudonym "Ted Klusewski". The band also featured...
Wall of Voodoo
Wall of Voodoo was an American rock group from Los Angeles best known for the 1983 hit "Mexican Radio". The band had a sound that was a fusion of synthesizer-based New Wave music with the spaghetti western soundtrack style of Ennio Morricone.
Wall...
Wasted Youth
Wasted Youth (also known as LA's Wasted Youth) was a hardcore punk band in early 1980s from Los Angeles, California. The band followed in the footsteps of Black Flag and the Circle Jerks, and were a prominent and popular act amongst the Los Angeles...
Weezer
Weezer is an American alternative rock band from Los Angeles, California formed in 1992. Initially, the band consisted of Rivers Cuomo (lead vocals, lead guitar), Patrick Wilson (drums, guitar, backing vocals), Matt Sharp (bass, backing vocals), and...
White Flag
White Flag is an American punk band originally from Moreno Valley, California, now based in Los Angeles. Their current lineup consists of frontman Pat Fear (guitar), El Swe (guitar), Kim Crimson (guitar, organ), Doug Graves (bass), and Victor M....
X
X is an American punk rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1977. While they achieved only limited mainstream success, they were widely considered one of the most revered of Los Angeles' many punk bands. Formed as part of the first wave of...
