Nardwuar the Human Serviette Vs. Alice Bag

"Alice Bag and her band The Bags set the bar the catchy, punchy, and intense punk rock emanating from Los Angeles in the late 1970s.”

Alice Bag is a singer/songwriter, musician, author, artist, educator and feminist. Alice was the lead singer and co-founder of the Bags, one of the first punk bands to form during the first wave of punk rock in Los Angeles. The Bags are considered one of the key bands of the early Hollywood punk scene that centered around the Masque in 1977-78. Alice went on to perform in other groundbreaking bands, including Castration Squad, Cholita, and Las Tres. She has published two books, including the critically acclaimed memoir Violence Girl in 2011 and the 2015 self-published Pipe Bomb For the Soul, based on her teaching experiences in post-revolutionary 1980’s Nicaragua.

Photos by Shanty Cheryl, Kat Jetson, Todd Taylor
Original layout by Amy Adoyzie
Adapted layout by Matthew Hart
Transcription by Rishbha Bhagi

Originally appeared in Razorcake #75, August/September 2013

5.5” x 8.5”
28pp