No Age
Ian Gittins, Man About Town, Spring 2011
WHAT DOES the face of Los Angeles music look like? Back in the day, when Guns N' Roses and Mötley Crüe stalked the earth (which, incidentally, both still do) it would have worn a pout and an exaggerated slash of mascara beneath a haystack of dyed hair. It would have wrapped itself in leather pants, leopard-skin blouses and bandanas and strutted its stuff up and down Sunset Strip. It would have rocked, dude!
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