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Let It Rip.(No Age)(Sound recording review)

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Popular music in Los Angeles has passed through several golden ages, each unlike the others. Perhaps the sounds most closely associated with the region are the sunny harmonies of the Mamas & the Papas and the Beach Boys, from the nineteen-sixties, or the soft rock of the Eagles, from the seventies. In the early eighties, a loose aggregation of punk-rock bands, including Black Flag and X, were responsible for an explosion of musical activity in the area, and by the end of the decade the hard-rock scene in Hollywood had yielded Guns N' Roses--along with a fashion for teased hair and tight leather pants, which helped propel the careers of similar but lesser bands. Now the ...

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