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These articles chronicle the bands coming up through the Los Angeles Punk and New Wave club scene during a key period. They read like a diary in the lives of these young clubgoers and the burgeoning scene they covered.
These writings provide a sketchy look at the underground club scene in Los Angeles during the time that groups like X, The Go-Go's, The Minutemen and Wall of Voodoo entered the public consciousness. Billy
Eye reported on the Downtown & Hollywood punk art/rock scene, a
hardcore world of small, dark dives like The Brave Dog and Al's
Bar, floating clubs like The Veil as well as established
Hollywood icons like The Starwood, The Roxy, and
Odyssey. Judy Zee also covered the Hollywood scene, while writing about Westside happenings in clubs like The Whisky, Blackies and Club 88 - she was one of the few female rock columnists on the scene at that time.
A look at what nightclubbing meant in Los Angeles in the early eighties. |
TVparty
presents
found articles circa 1980-82 written by Billy Eye and Judy Zee from
Data-Boy, a gay entertainment magazine published in Hollywood.
In
the early-eighties, young people in Los Angeles were flocking to makeshift
clubs in droves to see new up and coming bands. Live new music, not
DJs, was what they craved. 
Performances
by The Go-Gos, Fear, U2, Grace Jones and Talking Heads are reviewed
along with other obscure but influential LA rockers - particularly two
up and coming bands, one that made it (early-MTV fave Missing
Persons) and one that didn't (Red Wedding).
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