WFPK Song of the Day: X "Big Black X"

Legendary LA punk band X have announced they will be releasing their final album, Smoke & Fiction on August 2 via Fat Possum Records . The original lineup of John Doe, Exene Cervenka, DJ Bonebrake and Billy Zoom shared the first single, “ Big Black X ,” that pays tribute to the group’s history spanning more than four decades.

Cervenka commented, “X is a great band name; also a bad idea sometimes when it gets lost in print or on the marquee. Gotta have a sense of humor. We all did in the early days. Los Angeles was a carnival of weirdness back then, with left over traces of silent movie stars, long haired hippies, bikers, and brand new self-defined punks doing anything we wanted. When we started touring the country we found like-minded people everywhere, and somehow they all found us. Even if the X was lost on the old marquee.”

Watch the video for “Big Black X”below.

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