Lina Lecaro

Still Cyco

Lina Lecaro
“We were voted ‘Worst Band/Biggest Assholes’ in Flipside back in ’82, when we first started,” recalls Mike Muir, the elusive mastermind behind veteran thrashers Suicidal Tendencies. “But the thing with punk rock is, you break rules.” From the start, Suicidal was all about breaking the rules, so the resistance they......
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Baby Let’s Twist

Lina Lecaro
Yeah, they call her the female Iggy Pop or the Queen of Raunch or the Texas Terror, but crimson-haired hell-raiser Texas Terri has a soft side, too. Ask anyone who knows her and they‘ll tell ya she’s the sweetest gal you‘ll ever meet . . . just don’t fuck with......
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It Boy

Lina Lecaro
In a sea of black leather, tattoos and head-noddin’ nonchalance, several pockets of fresh-faced, glammed-up girls gather by the Dragonfly’s stage, oozing with an excited energy that seems to glow like Christmas lights in the dark. It’s a Wednesday night at Hollywood’s Pretty Ugly club, and the glittered-and-gelled gals eagerly......
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Time After Time

Lina Lecaro
Photo by Larry Hirshowitz The ’30s and ’40s: Swing, Swing, Swing Curly-coiffed chicks with movie-star makeup and vintage rayon dresses jitter and flitter with their dapper dates in zoot suits and wing tips, while those too timid to trample the dance floor look on nonchalantly and sip their martinis: It’s......
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Have You Ever Been Teen?

Lina Lecaro
Alice Cooper lost his snake there. Sean Cassidy played his first show there, opening up for Iggy Pop (who proceeded to slash himself to bloody ribbons onstage). David Bowie pranced and posed on an empty dance floor to the sounds of Elvis Presley there. (The King himself came to check......
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Spellbound

Lina Lecaro
With her bewitching profile and seductively shrill voice, Siouxsie Sioux is a mysterious and magical icon. Partnered with drum master Budgie, the singer is known for the kind of stark melodies one might hear in the background of a dream — ethereal, darkly inspiring. And while most remember their pioneering......
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