La punk scene

Doom - crust-punk band from Birmingham, UK

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.

Bassist Teresa Ryan, who co-founded the L.A. punk band Germs as Lorna Doom, has died. The musician influenced generations of punk bassists, and artists including Flea, Belinda Carlisle and Mike Watt have been paying tribute.

Jim Jocoy's intimate polaroids and prints (1977 - 1980) take us back to the days of West Coast punk.

Janet Koontz, Alice "Douche" Bag, Joe Nanini, Geza X and Pat "Trash" Bag.

Photographer and filmmaker Angela Boatwright had spent six months documenting the grunge lifestyle, producing dozens of fascinating pictures from impromptu shows where teens go to let out steam.

Kevin Salk was an angry and alienated teenager in the South Bay when he started photographing LA's emerging punk rock scene. Now his old photos are gaining new attention.

We enter the sun-kissed world of Southern California in the 1970s – complete with roller skates, beaches and burgeoning punk rock – via a brilliant new book by record producer and photographer, Spot