X – Alphabetland (Fat Possum 2020)
It’s a strange combination of wonderful and surreal that I should be typing a review of a new X album in 2020. A key proponent of LA punk in the …
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MORE FUN IN THE NEW WORLD – THE UNMAKING OF LA PUNK – John Doe with Tom DeSavia and friends (Da Capo Press 2019)
When UNDER THE BIG BLACK SUN was published in 2016, I mistakenly expected it to be a biographical piece on X as told by John Doe. There’s certainly a worthy …
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WELCOME TO VENICE: Ric (RXCX) Clayton (Gingko Press/Kill Your Idols 2018)
The self-determination of underground culture is such that every fully formed tribe has its unique indigenous features, and as with the often self-taught nature of underground musicians, many of these …
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