Episode #284 | 8.25.26
Alice Bag: The Punk Scene That Soundtracked a Serial Killer
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In this episode
This is the story of Alice Bag of the Bags, an underground feminist icon and a leader in the early LA punk scene, a scene rooted in the shadow of a crazed murderer known as the Hillside Strangler.
Sources
Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage – A Chicana Punk Story, by Alice Bag
The Tragedy of Jane King: How a Murder Spree Collided With Hollywood’s Punk Revolution (Vanity Fair)
Alice Bag on LA Punk, Politics and Resistance (Red Bull Music Academy)
Life at the Canterbury (Red Bull Music Academy)
Woman Found in Los Angeles Lot, 1 ith Apparent Victim of Strangling (NY Times)
Who Were The Victims Of 'The Hillside Stranglings' In Los Angeles? (Oxygen)
Network Awesome's Women of Punk week: Trashing of the Troubadour (LA Times)
Credits
Hosted by Jake Brennan.
Written by Zeth Lundy.
Copy edited by James Sullivan.
Mixed by Colin Fleming.
Produced in partnership with the Exactly Right Network and iHeartPodcasts.
DISGRACELAND theme song, “Crenshaw Space Boogie,” written and produced by Jake Brennan. Performed by Jake Brennan, Bryce Kanzer, Jay Cannava, and Evan Kenney. Mixed and engineered by Adam Taylor.
*illustrations by Avi Spivak @avispivak