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Alice Bag | |
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 Bag at the Women Who Rock 2012 Conference in Seattle, March 2012 | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Alicia Armendariz |
| Born | November 7, 1958 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Genres | Punk rock, Chicano punk |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, author, educator, feminist activist |
| Member of | Bags |
| Website | alicebag |
Alicia "Alice" Armendariz (born 7th November 1958), also known as Alice Bag, is an American punk rock singer and author. She is the lead vocalist and co-founder of the Bags, one of the earliest punk bands to form in Los Angeles in the mid-1970s.
Bag has remained active in music since the late 1970s. She released her first book, Violence Girl: From East LA Rage to Hollywood Stage, in 2011 and her second book was published in 2015.[1] She released Alice Bag, her debut solo album on Don Giovanni Records in June 2016.[2][3] A second solo album, Blueprint, was released in 2018,[4] followed by 2020's Sister Dynamite.
In 2024, her work is being shown in Xican-a.o.x. Body a comprehensive group exhibition on the experiences and contributions by Chicano artists to art narratives from 1960s to the present time. The show was on view at the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum, California, and the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida.[5][6]
- ^ Bag, Alice; Pearson, Tanya (July 18, 2015). "Alice Bag" (Video interview – oral history). Women of Rock Oral History Project. Northampton, MA: Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College.
- ^ "Alice Bag's Punk Odyssey". MTV. Archived from the original on June 9, 2016. Retrieved August 21, 2016.
- ^ ""No Means No" by Alice Bag Review". Pitchfork. May 2, 2016. Retrieved August 21, 2016.
- ^ Rettig, James (January 30, 2018). "Alice Bag – "Turn It Up" ft. Kathleen Hanna and Allison Wolfe". Spin. Retrieved January 10, 2019.
- ^ "Xican-a.o.x. Body • Pérez Art Museum Miami". Pérez Art Museum Miami. Retrieved September 17, 2024.
- ^ Fajardo-Hill, Cecilia; Del Toro, Marissa; Vicario, Gilbert; Chavez, Mike; Chavoya, C. Ondine; Salseda, Rose; Valencia, Joseph Daniel; Villaseñor Black, Charlene; Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum, eds. (2024). Xican-a.o.x. body. New York, NY : Munich, Germany: American Federation of Arts ; Hirmer Publishers. ISBN 978-3-7774-4168-9. OCLC 1373831827.