Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story

East L.A. punk pioneer Alice Bag tells the raw, feminist memoir of survival, music, and the birth of West Coast punk.

Violence Girl is the memoir of Alicia Armendariz—better known as Alice Bag—frontwoman of The Bags and one of the earliest voices of the Los Angeles punk scene. Raised in East L.A. by Mexican-born parents and shaped by a turbulent, often violent home life, Armendariz crossed cultural and geographic boundaries to become part of the 1970s underground movement that transformed Am...