The LA Art Collective that Defined Punk and New Wave Style

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Hailing from London, David Allen arrived in Los Angeles in 1976 on what he describes as “an angry whim”. One day while at the newsstand checking for NME, he spotted a magazine with the word Slash written across the front, in a blood-splattered font. Intrigued, he read a story in it before heading to the magazine’s office, where he embarked upon a career in design. Suddenly he was an outsider on the inside of the emerging punk scene. 

It was while he…

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The LA Art Collective that Defined Punk and New Wave Style
By Miss Rosen

August 7, 2018 at 04:00AM
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