Generation X

Generation X emerged from the same clustered London scene that spat out these feral iconoclasts. They wore the same torn and ...
Los Angeles Times

OC’s original punks describe the birth of the world-famous ‘Orange County sound’

This excerpt is from Chapter 3 of “Tearing Down the Orange Curtain: How Punk Rock Brought Orange County to the World,” out May 20 from Da Capo Press. The book explores the trajectory of punk and ska ...
Los Angeles Times

O.C. punk exhibit showcases the sound and scene that ‘put punk rock on the map’

In the early 1980s, at the peak of the punk rock scene in Fullerton, the interest and demand for punk in Orange County reached a boiling point during one particular TSOL show at Fullerton College. The ...
The Washington Post

Straw Man Army sound like punk visionaries. Can they see what’s next?

In the 1980s, hardcore punk warned of existential threats clotting on the horizon, prescient like sci-fi, loud like an alarm. Nonstop war. Ecological peril. The unresolved legacy of colonialism. The ...
American Songwriter

A Preview Clip From Billy Idol’s New Documentary Reveals How He Developed His Signature Danceable Punk Sound

The new Billy Idol documentary, Billy Idol Should Be Dead, will get its TV premiere Thursday, March 26, on Hulu. The film, which currently is being shown in select theaters around the world, offers an ...
Yahoo

O.C. punk exhibit showcases the sound and scene that 'put punk rock on the map'

In the early 1980s, at the peak of the punk rock scene in Fullerton, the interest and demand for punk in Orange County reached a boiling point during one particular TSOL show at Fullerton College. The ...