In the Punk of the Night: Penelope Spheeris and the Underground of Shock
Richard Harrington, The Washington Post, 10 November 1981
WALKING ALONG Hollywood Boulevard one night in 1979, Los Angeles filmmaker Penelope Spheeris was drawn underground into a tawdry punk club called the Masque. What she saw was straight out of Dante's nightmare — violent graffiti covering the walls, spasmodic teen bands playing at 300 beats per minute, dazed kids bashing into each other or sitting on the floor in their own vomit.
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