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The Knitters

Photo by Gary Leonard

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Exene Cervenka - X

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Exene Cervenka of X

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John Doe and Exene Cervenka of X

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Exene Cervenka of X

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Exene Cervenka of X.

Photo by Rick Nyburg

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John Doe, Exene Cervanka and Billy Zoom of X, from Search & Destroy #9 (1978, top photo by Ruby Ray).

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“You can't drive around and hear your favorite song / So you tape it live if you can get inside when it comes along / I can't stand people who bitch and whine / Let’s drink a beer from a paper bag while we got time / Bang, bang let the music go bang! / Brilliant, shining and nasty/ Bang, bang make the music go bang! / Let me hear a guitar sound like a train …”

/ Lyrics by Exene Cervenka and John Doe /

“This furious, fuzz-amped tear through the lives of the underclass and the willfully decadent comes close to justifying every extravagant claim ever made for this Los Angeles band. Without closing their eyes to the grief around them, X has supplanted the melancholia of Under the Big Black Sun with a firm determination to have fun. More Fun in the New World, the group's fourth LP, is an album of keen observations and vibrantly played music whose breadth and compassion may finally win X the audience they deserve … it shows that X, like the punk movement that spawned them, isn't some pop-hating musical aberration. They're a proud part of rock & roll, and More Fun in the New World can only enhance their growing reputation.”

/ Christopher Connelly reviewing More Fun in the New World by X in the October 1983 issue of Rolling Stone magazine /

Released forty years ago this month (September 1983): More Fun in the New World, the ferocious fourth album by definitive Los Angeles punk band X. Pictured: X frontwoman Exene Cervenka photographed by Ken Andersson.

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X at Berkeley Square, Berkeley CA 1979

Photos by Richard McCaffrey

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X at Berkeley Square, Berkeley CA 1979

Photo by Richard McCaffrey

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X at Berkeley Square in Berkeley CA 1978

Photo by Richard McCaffrey

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Exene Cervenka of LA punk band X performing at the Nashville Rooms, London, 1979.

Photos by David Corio

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80’s Queen Exene

Exene Cervenka 1981 photo by Lisa Haun

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Exene Cervenka with X performing at Park West, Chicago, Illinois, July 21, 1982.

Photos by Paul Natkin

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X by Ruby Ray

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