Jim Freek

After slugging it out in L.A.'s shithole-dive bar-club scene, the best-looking band in leather since Girlschool finally delivers its first full-length album with one foot in the gutter and the other planted firmly in the crotches of MTV's endless battalion of carefully pierced 'n' primped Hot Topic rockers. The quartet's...

God bless L.A.'s the BellRays, for they -- more than any other band in the superficially inseminated "Entertainment Capital of the World" -- know what it means to rock. No, not "rock" in the same way as those bands slugging it out at the Coconut Teaszer every weekend that think...

Bands may come and bands may go, but as long as the Muffs are still around and making music, Los Angeles rock can't be half as bad as people say it is. Vocalist-guitarist Kim Shattuck and bassist Ronnie Barnett (with, at one time or another, drummers Criss Crass, Jim Laspesa...