Javier Cabral

Editors' note: In this week's print edition Javier Cabral has a downright amazing piece on the eastside backyard punk scene. Don't forget Jennie Warren's excellent slideshow. Also: Our review of Stomp-Outz, The Lumberjacks, and Who Gives A Fuck in a South Central backyard The Five Most Underrated East L.A. Backyard......

For more photos, see "Backyard Punk in East L.A." By 10 p.m. there are 300 of them, mostly second- and third-generation Mexican-Americans, some with 4-inch-high bleached and spiked hair and some with skinned heads, not to mention piercings everywhere: septum, lips, cheeks. The girls' faces are thick with makeup. They......