Because of a potential lawsuit from a pre-existing band, The Bangs – loud, made-you-look, not rigidly gendered – became the ...

Long before their chart domination, global popularity and, ultimately, their implosion, the Bangles began with an ad on a big board in the Sunset Boulevard shopfront of Musicians Contact Service.

A new authorized biography of The Bangles says that it wasn't just that they were an all-female band that perplexed the male-dominated world of 1980s pop music, it was that they were an all-female ...

Because of a potential lawsuit from a pre-existing band, The Bangs – loud, made-you-look, not rigidly gendered – became the softer, more overtly feminine The Bangles. The writing may have been ...

For members of The Bangles, the quintessential all-female band of the 1980s, “Walk Like An Egyptian” was an aberration — not just a departure from their rock-influenced roots, but running ...