Punk Turns 30

Tonight in Claremont, California - a suburb of Los Angeles, there's an opening reception for an exhibit called VEXING: Female Voices from East LA Punk. The exhibit continues from May 18 - August 31 of this year, so there is absolutely no way you can or should miss this if you are in the greater Los Angeles area. Here's what the Museum's website is saying about the exhibit - and please note that my pal, fellow punk rock photographer Dawn Wirth has some photos in this! Dawn is probably the best chronicler of The Bags. The Claremont Museum of Art is pleased to present Vexing: Female Voices from East LA Punk from May 18 to August 31, 2008. The Museum will host an opening reception at 7 p.m. on Saturday, May 17th, with live performances by Vexing artists Teresa Covarrubias, Angela Vogel, Lysa Flores and Alice Bag (Museum Member’s reception begins at 6 p.m.). The burgeoning punk rock music scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s in East Los Angeles provided an electrically cha...

On December 1, in Toronto, Canada... The Mods will reunite once again to play at the Horseshoe Tavern, celebrating the 29th Anniversary of The Last Pogo, when the Horseshoe claimed to be stopping the Punk Rock... But can you ever stop the punk rock? I don't think so... I would never have known about the Mods if not for Stiv Bators' hijacking of their young drummer, David Quinton way back in 1979. Well, I can't be there because the logistics of The Mods specific show date totally conflicts with my filming on the West Coast and my own tour dates which are still in the South... (if you're in the ATL - come see me!) David Quinton - behind Stiv, and the Disconnected Band featuring Frank Secich and George Cabaniss What I've already missed out on over this Thanksgiving weekend --- both the Reigning Sound and Jack Oblivian played the same venue on the same night the week after I left Memphis... although I really can't complain, since I did have the utmost special...

Sometimes here we do make mistakes. And we correct them! In the Mumps tribute, I posted this flyer that I thought was made by Brad Dunning. Turns out that Dawn Wirth made the flyer! And all this time I never knew! but now I do, and so do you!