Alice Bag

Alice Bag (born Alicia Armendariz on November 7, 1958, in Los Angeles, California) is a punk rock singer, musician, author, educator and feminist archivist. She is the lead singer and co-founder of Bags, one of the first wave of punk bands to form in the mid-1970s in LA. Her first book Violence Girl, From East LA Rage to Hollywood Stage is the story of her upbringing in East Los Angeles, her eventual migration to Hollywood and the euphoria and aftermath of the first punk wave. This former bilingual elementary school teacher continues as an author, outspoken activist, feminist and a self-proclaimed troublemaker. Bag has remained active in music since the late 1970s and will release her second book in 2015.

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