Germs
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Catch A Wave? No, West Coast NEW WAVE!
Overview by Jack Basher, Creem, December 1977
CREEM's Punk Guides Stagger On... ...
L.A. Punk: Pogo-ing On The Fault Line
Overview by Mark Williams, Melody Maker, 20 September 1979
If Los Angeles is the future, how come its bands all sound so backdated? MARK WILLIAMS puts the case for the defence ...
Review by Phast Phreddie Patterson, L.A. Weekly, 26 October 1979
TWO YEARS ago, when the Germs first hit the struggling L.A. punk circuit, this writer figured they would soon give up and return to the ...
Report by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 11 April 1981
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA is always preceded by its own legend. There is no way you can avoid that legend if you grew up with the price ...
The Decline of Western Civilization (Dir. Penelope Spheeris)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Don Waller, New York Rocker, September 1981
THE DECLINE of Western Civilization, Penelope Spheeris's documentary of the L.A. punk scene circa late '79/early '80, is by turns funny, provocative, pretentious, inspiring, boring, ...
The Germs: Germicide (Mohawk/Bomp)
Review by Byron Coley, New York Rocker, September 1981
THIS ALBUM'S a real pisser. If you've got a nose for noise and don't buy this slab, you're up Hell Creek without an asbestos wiener. ...
Traditional Discs: Is It R.I.P. FOR R.P.M.?
Report and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 1982
IS THE phonograph record on its deathbed? Neil Cooper, who runs a record company that doesn't sell records, thinks so. "Within five years, vinyl will ...
The Germs, The Stimulators, Circle Jerks, Flipper: Albums Reviewed
Review by Jon Young, Trouser Press, August 1982
The Germs: Germicide (ROIR A108 cassette) Stimulators: Loud Fast Rules! (ROIR A109 cassette) Circle Jerks: Wild in the Streets (Faulty Products COPE3) Flipper: ...
Slash: L.A.'s Maverick Label Meets the Majors
Interview by Mark Leviton, BAM, 10 February 1984
LOS ANGELES —"Music is a vehicle for ideas, and if the ideas suck and the music's good, it's still pretty bad music." The man at ...
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 11 December 1993
Forget all the bullshit! Forget the scandal! This is the real NIRVANA! Mellow! Happy! And capable of lounging Stateside arenas without baulking! In a Big K! exclusive, ...
Marc Spitz with Brendan Mullen: We Got the Neutron Bomb - The Untold Story of L.A. Punk
Book Review by Barney Hoskyns, The Village Voice, 2001
IT'S KINDA IRONIC that the untold story of the Los Angeles punk scene should be officially told (tolled?) at a time when New York City ...
The Germs: Germicide/The Dead Boys: All This And More/Various: What? Stuff (Bomp! Records)
Review by Gary Pig Gold, In Music We Trust, July 2001
OK CLASS, READY? It's time to remember exactly WHAT (real) Punk Rock is (was). ...
Retrospective by Chris Campion, Dazed & Confused, November 2002
HE WAS Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious rolled into one. A befuddled punk prophet with a brilliant mind whose rise was as shocking as his ...
L.A. Punk: California Screamin'
Retrospective by Don Waller, MOJO, July 2004
Ignored by the major labels, hounded by cops, fuelled by booze and drugs, L.A. punk was born in a concrete basement in Hollywood known as ...
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