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Greater LA

Music, drugs, and magic in ‘90s LA

Hosted by Steve Chiotakis Aug. 27, 2019 Los Angeles
Rob Zabrecky outside the Magic Castle nightclub in Hollywood, August 2019.

Rob Zabrecky outside the Magic Castle nightclub in Hollywood, August 2019. Photo by Amy Ta/KCRW

Rob Zabrecky, the former frontman of new wave punk band Possum Dixon, has written a memoir called "Strange Cures." It's about LA's rock 'n roll scene during the late 1980s and 1990s. Zabrecky chronicles his early days growing up in "boring Burbank," his fascination with seedy Hollywood and music on the Sunset strip, and his own Hollywood story. 

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Chronicling LA's drug dens and punk rock music of the '80s and '90s

Compared to today’s Hollywood of glitzy malls and high-priced condos, Hollywood in the 80s and 90s was a more raw, seedy place. It was filled with the kind of dives that...

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Host:

Steve Chiotakis

Producers:

Christian Bordal, Jenna Kagel, Sara Pellegrini

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