littlerecords.net:
Lee Ving, frontman of Fear, on the cover of "Slash" in 1980.
littlerecords.net:
Slash Records ad from 1980.
littlerecords.net:
Artwork for The Weirdos' seven inch, "We Got the Neutron Bomb", released on Dangerhouse Records in 1978.
littlerecords.net:
LA hardcore band Wasted Youth, photographed on the inner sleeve of their 1981 album, "Reagan's In".
littlerecords.net:
Artwork for the cover of the Urinals' "Sex" 7", released on the band's own Happy Squid Records in 1980.
littlerecords.net:
The Screamers, one of the original LA punk bands and pioneers in the use of synths in punk rock. Photo by Jeff Wood.
littlerecords.net:
An early photograph of LA's The Motels, featuring Martha Davis on vox.
littlerecords.net:
The cover of The Last's "L.A. Explosion" seven inch, released in '78.
littlerecords.net:
The Flesh Eaters, featuring vocalist Chris D. (Chris Desjardins), pictured far left, mixed blues, roots rock, and punk. The band, at times, included John Doe & DJ Bonebrake from X, Dave Alvin of The Blasters, & Joe Nanini of Wall of Voodoo, among others.
littlerecords.net:
Artwork for The Dickies' 1978 single, "Paranoid". The group was one of the earlier examples of "pop-punk" in America.
littlerecords.net:
Artwork for deranged LA punks The Deadbeats' 1978 "Kill the Hippies" single on Dangerhouse Records.
littlerecords.net:
The Cramps, photographed in 1982, were LA transplants from NYC.
littlerecords.net:
The Brainiacs were an LA-based no-wave band in the mold of The Contortions.
littlerecords.net:
The Beat, aka Paul Collins' Beat, were one of LA's finest punky power-poppers.
littlerecords.net:
Artwork for the debut 1981 single from the Bangs, who quickly changed their name to the Bangles.
littlerecords.net:
Independent Project Records (IPR) released some of the coolest-looking record jackets, such as this letter-pressed jacket for Savage Republic's debut LP, "Tragic Figures" (1982). Savage Republic and IPR were founded by Bruce Licher.
littlerecords.net:
A letter-pressed flyer for a 1985 Savage Republic / Abecedarians show in Venice, CA.
littlerecords.net:
LA hardcore punks turned jazz-funk improvisers Saccharine Trust, one of the weirder (and better) bands on SST Records.
littlerecords.net:
"Rodney on the ROQ, Volume 2" was released on Posh Boy Records in 1981 and featured many of the LA scene's most compelling new bands, including Channel 3, Gleaming Spires, Red Cross, Social Distortion, and Agent Orange.
littlerecords.net:
Hawthorne, CA's Red Cross, prior to being forced by the actual Red Cross to change the spelling of their name to Redd Kross, play a gig at the Santa Monica pier in 1982. This pic appears in David Markey's "We Got Power!" book.
littlerecords.net:
Randall Kennedy was a real weirdo in the LA scene. This is his "Scenes of Redemption (pts. 1 & 2)" album, released only on cassette in 1983 by LA's Trance Port Tapes.
littlerecords.net:
Part of the Paisley Underground scene, LA's Rain Parade featured some cool cover artwork on their first two records, released by Enigma Records in 1983/84.
littlerecords.net:
The cover for Party Boys' "No Aggro". The experimental group, which included performance artist Marnie Weber, was certainly one of the stranger bands in LA.
littlerecords.net:
Oingo Boingo were one of LA's most successful new wave groups.
littlerecords.net:
Mood of Defiance, a South Bay avant-garde punk band, featured vocalist Hatha, who was 14 when she joined the group in 1979. This pic appears in Dave Markey's "We Got Power!" book.
littlerecords.net:
The Mau Maus, legends of the early LA punk scene, photographed in 1978.
littlerecords.net:
Artwork for the Marina Swingers' "I'm A Swinger" 7-inch, released in 1979.
littlerecords.net:
The booklet cover for Trance Port Tapes' "LA Mantra II" compilation (1984), which featured many in LA's experimental/post-punk music scene.
littlerecords.net:
Sherry Rubber and Patrik Mata of synth-goth group Kommunity FK.
littlerecords.net:
Gun Club (left to right): Terry Graham, Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Ward Dotson, and Rob Ritter. Photo by Ed Colver.
