Los Angeles, X’s first LP, was released in 1980 on the indie label Slash Records. Selling 60,000 copies, an impressive showing for an indie label at the time, and topping the Los Angeles Times’ best ...

X - Live in Los Angeles If the world's a mess, ... L.A. punk band X, whom with compatriots like The Go-Go's and The Germs ruled the punk scene of the late-Seventies and early-Eighties.

Punk rock in the mid-to-late ’70s and early ’80s meant different things to different people, depending on which city you were in. For Los Angeles, it was the band X that helped define the ...

Los Angeles punk band X performs at Pacific Amphitheatre on Sunday. (Photo by Kelly A. Swift, Contributing Photographer) Exene Cervenka of X performs at Pacific Amphitheatre on Sunday.

Several songs off Los Angeles were featured in The Decline of Western Civilization, Penelope Spheeris’ 1981 documentary of the L.A. punk scene, placing X in the landscape of Germs, Black Flag ...