Exene Cervenka
Christine Natanael, Rage!, May 1990
Formed in 1976, out of L.A.'s punk explosion, X gave us the voice we had lost. You see, somewhere along the way, music lost its ability to communicate. Though X may not have given us platinum album sales in the '80s, they gave us something more, much more...
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