Punk scene

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Punks

Photographer Michael Jang captured the Sex Pistols' final performance and other groundbreaking moments as the Bay Area punk scene exploded in the 1970s.

There is a number of stereotypes and meanings attached to the word “punk”. A popular stereotype would assume fast, loud, tuneless music welcomed by the young people who wear ripped clothes with bizarre haircuts. In a more complexed way to understand it, punk can be seen as an attitude, a lifestyle choice and a fashion. As a musical genre the term "punk" is applied liberally in the most recent days. Punk means The Clash and The Damned and their contemporaries of the late 1970s. But punk also…

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For decades a low-budget, high-energy punk rock scene has been burning through the back yards and empty lots of East Los Angeles, Boyle Heights and South Central Los Angeles. If the new documentary "Los Punks: We Are All We Have" is any indication, the neighbors aren't too happy about it, but the mohawked kids keep coming anyway.