The end for legendary Los Angeles punk band X comes not with a whimper, but with a bang. That bang comes in the form of Smoke & Fiction, X's ninth and reportedly final studio album that arrived this ...

John Doe’s had more visibility as the bassist for seminal LA punk band X than as an Americana singer-songwriter, but that’s no indictment of his work on the latter front. He’s released a dozen or so ...

Punk legends X got in the van to leave their home of Los Angeles for their first tour on December 9, 1980; they’d been a band for about three years at that point. One day earlier, John Lennon was ...

Singer Exene Cervenka is somewhere in the middle of Wisconsin in a van carrying the Los Angeles punk band X from Milwaukee to Minneapolis when she answers the phone. She’s ready to talk about the tour ...

Beggar Weeds open for John Doe again, 39 years later Words by Shelton Hull “Why am I in Jacksonville? I’m not really sure,” says John Doe via telephone from Austin Texas. We know why: He’ll be ...

John Doe has packed enough adventure into his 63 years to fill the lives of three people. Not only is he a founding member of X, arguably the last great American punk band left standing, but he's also ...

John Doe of X admits he was a reluctant chronicler of the Los Angeles punk scene, which launched bands such as X, the Go-Go’s, Los Lobos and more in the late ’70s and ’80s. But neither his friend and ...