For Alice Bag, punk was always more than just music – it's a way of life. Born in East Los Angeles to immigrant Mexican parents, Bag first embraced music's riotous energy when she founded the Bags with Patricia Morrison in 1977. The band only lasted four years but made an indelible mark on the burgeoning LA punk scene, thanks in no small part to how the young …
So, Alice Bag was 19 years old when she became the voice and front woman of one of Los Angeles' most surreal and punk acts, the Bags. Bag played a crucial role during the early years of LA punk, contributor to the feminist movement and community by being an educator and giving endless of herself, not only to the movement, but also to motherhood.
Alice Bag | Photo by Denée Segall As seen in Guitar Magazine Issue 11 – Spring 2020 – SoCal Inspired The Bags was one of the first punk bands of the Los Angeles punk scene in the late '70s, a vibrant, thriving music scene full of not only musicians, but photographers, journalists, fans, and fanzines pushing the boundaries of mainstream music …
Alice Bag – Blueprint (2018) Posted by root on March 24, 2018 Artist: Alice Bag. Album: Blueprint. Released: 2018. Style: Punk Rock. Format: MP3 320Kbps. Size: 90 . Tracklist: 01 – Turn It Up 02 – Invisible 03 – 77 04 – Stranger 05 – Shame Game 06 – Etched Deep 07 – Blueprint 08 – The Sparkling Path 09 – Se Cree Joven 10 – Adrift 11 – White …
Wherein Ms. Alice Bag gets to babble, babble on... Wednesday, December 07, 2011. Death Lends a New Perspective. You're watching yourself But you're too unfair You got your head all tangled up But if I could only make you care Oh, no love, you're not alone No matter what or who you've been No matter when or where you've seen All the knives seem to …
Alice Bag interviewed Jenny Lens in 2004. Alice is considered by many to be the very first hard core singer with her radical band, the Bags, who first hit the streets in 1977. Their riotous show at the Troubadour, known for folk singers and laid-back rockers, is still talked about today. I always considered Alice a sweet, thoughtful, beautiful woman and never realized this side of her. She …
Alice Bag took the stage where the spirited young females stood at the front–a thunderous round of applause from the adults, teens, and kids packed deep into The Hi Hat had Bag smiling, sporting her neon green hair, a retro pink dress, and a pair of Chucks.
Alice Bag: "I feel the need to combat the extreme misogyny and xenophobia coming from the White House. When you have a president that considers talk of grabbing women by the genitals acceptable, he's setting the tone for the nation. There have also been numerous reports of sexual harassment and sexual assault, against him. I will call these allegations for legal …
Alice Bag takes us on a journey of exploration and truth seeking rebellion. She writes with honesty and integrity, she is unapologetically herself. When Bag talks about her adolescent years I think she does a great job of reaching all audiences. I did not grow up in the same place or with the same heritage yet I understood completely the complexities of youth …
Alice bag writes about how she began to identify with feminism around the same time she began to identify with punk. She was in a couple of bands after the Bags that Spoke about feminist issues (i.e. Cholita!) and she is currently a feminist archivist. I did a bit of Facebook stalking and Bag recently applied to be a volunteer at a "rock and roll" camp for young in Los …
Alice Bag: Punk as a Multicultural Innovation. Reviewed by Sam Behrens. Violence : East LA Rage to Hollywood Stage a Chicana Punk Story written by Alice Bag (also known as Alicia Armendariz) is a memoir recounting Alice Bag's early life growing up in East LA and also as the lead singer of the 70s punk band, The Bags.Alice Bag is one of the few women …
Leading the charge was Alice Bag. Born into an East LA-based Mexican family as Alicia Armendariz, she found an outlet for her teenage discomfort in the city's burgeoning DIY scene. At first, the young Alicia attempted to form an all- glam-rock band with her friend Patricia Morrison – who would later go on to play with everyone from The Gun Club to Sisters …
Violence by Alice Bag, 9781936239122, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide.
With a multifaceted career now spanning more than four decades, Alice Bag is more than a Punk pioneer: she is a singer/songwriter, musician, author, artist, educator and feminist. Alice Bag was born Alicia Armendariz and raised in East Los Angeles by her Mexican immigrant parents.
Alice Bag was shopping at her local 99 Cents Only store one day when she noticed a couple of women whispering to each other, obviously about her. She attempted to go about her shopping, but she could feel their eyes following her around the store. Whenever she looked up, they pretended to be eyeing the merchandise, but cotton balls ain't that interesting, and when …
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Violence is not some sentimental look back at how great it all was. Alice [Bag], without exaggeration, allows the reader to understand how exciting and in-the-moment things could be--but also how quickly and easily things can go bad and come to an end.With The Bags in the middle of it, it was a time of incredible innovation, explosive creativity and recordings …
Alice Bag's third solo album, Sister Dynamite, comes out May 8th on In the Red Records and the newly revealed single "Spark" is an exercise in unapologetic self-expression.
Stopping at a vinyl shop, Vander catches the attention of a young man who is enamored with Vander pursuing Vander to a nightclub. Shortly thereafter, Alice Bag joins Vander on stage and embraces ...
If you ever get to meet Alice Bag in person, you'll quickly realize two things about her: she's as electric as her blue hair and at 60 can light up a room like a strobe. She's a force of nature wrapped in leopard print and leather with the kind of energy you can feel the second she's in your presence. The realization that she could make a living doing what she loved came at a young …
Alice. I remember perusing one of the magazines and there was an example of a real "punk" wearing a big crinoline undergarment as a skirt and leaning back on the hood of a car. It identified the young lady as "Alice Bag," but as I stared more closely at the image I realized it was my old classmate from French class, Alice Armendariz.
Alice Bag: I wake up and pour my cup of green tea, which I sip while making breakfast and brewing my coffee. I used to turn on the morning news but these days, I've been feeling a little overwhelmed. I'm 61 years old, I have asthma and about a year and a half ago I was hospitalized with a scary bout of pneumonia. I take in this viral threat and try to move through my days but …
Her status as a legendary Punk pioneer led to a career as a highly respected educator, feminist activist, and author. Her critically acclaimed books Violence (2011) and Pipe Bomb For The Soul (2015) have been warmly embraced by her longtime fans and those who were previously unfamiliar with her musical career.
Alicia adopted the punk name Alice Bag, and became lead singer for The Bags, early punk visionaries who starred in Penelope Spheeris' documentary The Decline of Western Civilization. Here is a life of many crossed boundaries, from East L.A.'s musica ranchera to Hollywood's punk rock; from a violent male-dominated family to -dominated transgressive rock bands.
Leading the charge was Alice Bag. Born into an East LA-based Mexican family as Alicia Armendariz, she found an outlet for her teenage discomfort in …
Alice Bag established her place within the early punk scene by being one of the first females in the male dominated space with her late '70s Los Angeles band the Bags. Despite a sparse recorded output, the band was featured significantly in Penelope Spheeris's The Decline of Western Civilization...
Alice Bag took the stage where the spirited young females stood at the front–a thunderous round of applause from the adults, teens, and kids packed deep into The Hi Hat had Bag smiling, sporting her neon green hair, a retro pink …
Alicia Armendariz (aka Alice Bag) is a Los Angeles punk legend, not just for her groundbreaking first band the Bags (featured in Penelope Spheeris's Decline of Western Civilization), but for her outspokenness, activism, writings, and embodying the D.I.Y. ethic instilled in her by her mother. Lucretia Tye Jasmine spoke with Bag for PKM.
alice-bag. Alice Bag No soy monedita de oro. About the author. Musician, author, punk feminist, participatory precipitator. Master troublemaker. Search. Blog Tools. Archive ; RSS; 16 notes. December 23, 2020 "Sadly, very few Christmas carols include the image of Santa Claus beating the sh*t out of white supremacists. But today, we've got a new entry in the canon." No …
The young latina punk rocker remembers standing on stage with a bag on her head, copious amounts of sweat dripping down her face and sticking to the paper bag creating a sort of paper mache. A friend eventually ripped the bag off Alice's head, tearing down the only barrier between the vocalist and the audience before her. It was like an out-of-body …