The Pandoras

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The Pandoras
L-R Kim Shattuck, Karen Blankfeld, Paula Pierce, Melanie Vammen
Background information
Origin	Chino, California, United States
Genres	Hard rock, garage punk, garage rock, punk rock, heavy metal
Years active	1982–1991
Labels	Bomp!, Rhino, Elektra, Restless
Members	Melanie Vammen Karen Basset Sheri Kaplan Hillary Burton
Past members	Paula Pierce Deborah Mendoza Gwynne Kahn Casey Gomez Bambi Conway Melanie Vammen Julie Patchouli Karen Blankfeld Gayle Morency Kim Shattuck Kelly Dillard Sheri Kaplan Rita D'Albert Billy Jo Hash Lissa Beltri Note: Shown in order of joining.

The Pandoras were an American all-female garage punk band from Los Angeles, California, active from 1982 to 1991. The band is among the first handful of all-female rock bands to ever be signed. From the beginning, the band found a strong following in the Hollywood garage rock and Paisley Underground scene, making the gossip pages almost weekly. The Pandoras enjoyed strong radio support from DJ Rodney Bingenheimer. The band graduated from the garage rock sound to a more contemporary, hard rock style in later years, spawning the off-shoot band The Muffs.

The Pandoras founder/singer/guitarist/songwriter, Paula Pierce, died of a brain aneurysm on August 10, 1991, at the age of 31.^[1] The Muffs frontwoman/founder Kim Shattuck, who played bass in the Pandoras from 1985 to 1990, appeared as lead singer/guitarist of the reunited Pandoras until she died of complications from ALS on October 2, 2019, aged 56.