Wednesday, December 4, 2013
X Wins the Rialto! (Exene Cervenka Forever)
- C. Elliott
- Exene Cervenca with fellow X members Billy Zoom, left, and John Doe, right
Exene Cervenka left her apron at home on this visit, but the band X arrived at the Rialto Theatre last Saturday with plenty of the uniquely punked up genre soup that's attracted fans worldwide for more than three decades.
- C. Elliott
- Exene Cervenca and John Doe
For anyone unfamiliar, here's a radically encapsulated history: Proto west-coast punk rockers, X introduced country and rockabilly in the 1970s and '80s into a mix then being dominated by the sound of New York brattiness and and Midwestern industrial damage. Along the way X influenced a generation of punk country bands, who in turn inspired the alternative country fly-by outfits of the 90s. Ergo, if you like Wilco, you should have been at that show.
C Elliott shows you some of what you missed.
- C. Elliott
- D.J. Bonebrake of X
- C. Elliott
- John Doe
Tags: '70s and '80s punk music , Left Coast Velvet Underground , X , Exene Cervenka , John Doe , Billy Zoom , D.J. Bonebrake , Rialto Theatre , image , images
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