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Though X was arguably the most important band to emerge from the Los Angeles punk scene, its members started a long way from easy punk credibility. Too self-conscious, artsy and ambitious to simply spew, Baltimore native John Doe (bass/vocals) and Floridian Exene Cervenka (vocals) had to package their bohemian lifestyle as new wave, delivering desperate…

Matrimony emerged from the scrum of yobbos making noise in late-’80s Australia (Cosmic Psychos, Lubricated Goat, etc.), a nearly all-female band of punk-pop minimalists as raw emotionally as musically. Building songs around simple, repetitive bass lines and the languidly morose vocals of one Sybilla, the band reveals its disaffection more through what it doesn’t say…

The vanguard foursome — at its late-’78 start, a trio plus Echo the drum machine — emerged from Liverpool’s new wave renaissance with a debut album stunning in its starkness and power. Unlike also-rans with the same idea, Ian McCulloch’s specter-of-Jim Morrison vocals are no mere pilferage; where Morrison would have ordered you on your…

Drugstore kicks off its debut album with “Speaker 12,” a letter-and-‘tude-perfect imitation (but for the breathy enthusiasm of Brazilian-born bassist Isabel Monteiro’s singing) of early three-chord Jesus and Mary Chain singles, but then has a struggle to better the seductive charm of that track on the 13 that follow. (Although the sizzling stutter of “Fader”…

When the peripatetic Royal Trux — a revolving cast led by Pussy Galore expatriate Neil Hagerty and junkie priestess-turned-Calvin Klein model Jennifer Herrema — talks about wanting to emulate the Rolling Stones, they’re not articulating a desire to pantomime an nth-generation version of Exile on Main St. They’re doing their level best to fashion a…