Alice Bag
Biography
Alicia "Alice" Armendariz (born 7 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; her second book was published in 2015. She released her debut solo album, Alice Bag, on Don Giovanni Records in June 2016. Her second solo album, Blueprint, was released in 2018, followed by Sister Dynamite in 2020. In 2024, Bag's work was featured in Xican-a.o.x. Body, a comprehensive group exhibition on the experiences and contributions by Chicano artists from the 1960s to the present. The exhibition was presented at the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum, California, and the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Credited work
84 releases · 24 albums · active 1978–2025
- Performance · 116
- Production · 9
- Other credits · 8
Studios: Station House Studio · Hong Kong Cafe · Waterworks West · Permanent Hearing Damage
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Bags
- Cliquey Bitches
- Xiu Xiu
- Alice Bag & The Sissybears
- Le Butcherettes
- The HIRS Collective
- Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds