Alice Bag, who was in the vanguard of the Los Angeles punk rock scene, had stepped back from music for much of the last decade and a half. New songs would occasionally appear online, but it wasn ...

The night after the Sex Pistols broke up, Ray was photographing a show at the Mabuhay Gardens club where another punk scene stalwart, the Bags ... across his shirtless chest, drawing blood ...

Unlike the many punk dudes whose careers continued, though, Bag and other female artists’ trailblazing work has been treated by many a Black Flag- and Germs-loving fan as an afterthought.

Blue-haired, this time as herself, Bag sets off a TNT explosion of money and defibrillates a man’s bare chest with clothing irons. The women mosh around a GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS neon sign and chant “it’s ...

there was riot grrrl Alice Bag, lead screamer for the early LA punk band The Bags. Growing up a misfit led Alice to find her own place in the punk scene.

But punk was where she would find her community. Alice Bag was featured in the 1981 documentary, "Decline of Western Civilization," along with other L.A. punk icons such as Black Flag and X.

In 1977, Alicia Armendariz became Alice Bag, lead singer of pioneering Los Angeles punk band the Bags. Though their output on wax was minimal, their ferocious live ...