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	VH1.com : Exene Cervenka : Biography
		Although Cervenka has been closely associated with California for a long time, she is not originally from the West Coast.
		With Cervenka changing the spelling of her first name to Exene, the group led the Hollywood punk movement, but there was much more to their sound than the average punk band -- as country, rockabilly, and Exene's poetic lyrics set them apart from the pack.
		In addition to her X duties, Cervenka appeared as part of the country spinoff the Knitters (1985's Poor Little Critter on the Road), and issued (also in 1985) a poetry collaboration with Wanda Coleman entitled Twin Sisters.
	www.vh1.com /artists/az/cervenka_exene/bio.jhtml (542 words)

	Rhino -- Words From the Front - Rzine # 128
		Exene Cervenka was born in Chicago in 1956, the second child in a family of four daughters.
		Exene quit school when she was sixteen, and following the death of her mother in 1974, she devoted the next two years of her life to looking after her two younger sisters.
		A week after their wedding Exene’s older sister, Muriel Cervenka, was killed in an automobile accident in L.A. This was a huge loss for Exene, but it didn’t slow her down, and over the next six years X released five more critically acclaimed albums.
	www.rhino.com /rzine/StoryKeeper.lasso?StoryID=128 (5890 words)

	Metroactive Music \| Exene Cervenka
		Recent reissues reinforce the notion that Cervenka and her band mates were pioneers of an edgy brand of Americana rich in country-inflected harmonies and guitars, unafraid to explore the nation's seamy underbelly, and inviting comparisons to film noir and the work of Bowery bum-cum-Beat poet Charles Bukowski.
		Cervenka later wrote about that relationship in "Come Back to Me," an early X song about her sister's suicide at age 26.
		Exene Cervenka performs Sunday, Aug. 31, at 4pm--along with Patti Trimble and Al Young, and others--at Rhyme, Rhythm, and Song III at the Phoenix Theatre, 201 Washington St., Petaluma.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/08.28.03/cervenka-0335.html (708 words)

	Untitled Document
		Cervenka--who used "Exene" as an "Xmas"-type abbreviation of her given name, Christine--reworked one of her poems as a song lyric and auditioned for Doe and Zoom's new band.
		Doe and Cervenka recorded a punk/folk/country album for Slash as the Knitters; it was released in 1985, as were The Unheard Music, a documentary film about X that was some five years in the making, and the X album Ain't Love Grand.
		Exene also released Surface to Air Serpents for the 2.13.61 label, as well as a reading of the Unabomber Manifesto, after changing her name to Cervenkova.
	www.xfan.info /Bio.htm (1497 words)

	Exene Cervenka
		After a 20 year recording hiatus, John Doe, Exene Cervenka, and DJ Bonebrake, all of the legendary punk band X, have joined forces with Grammy® winner Dave Alvin and Jonny Ray Bartel to release their first album since 'Poor Little Critter on the Road,' their 1985 debut.
		Exene's new line of OFFICIAL bootleg t-shirts or rather bootlegged bootlegs.
		The t-shirts are reprints of bootlegs collected by Exene over the years.
	www.exenecervenka.com (90 words)

	KZSU Radio Interview with Exene Cervenka
		Exene was a hero/heroine for many people, a flashpoint in the influential LA music scene of the early 80's.
		Exene and Jason's eloquence and amiability while in KZSU's studios were exceeded only by the genuine quality of their new musical effort, The Original Sinners.
		Exene: I think it was about 2 weeks, but we couldn't work around the clock… We mixed (the record) in three days.
	www.shavedneck.com /ExeneCervenkaInterviewKZSU.htm (2533 words)

	Exene Cervenka and the Original Sinners - Nitro Records!
		A founding member of X and co-writer of their vast catalogue of astonishing songs, Exene was, and continues to be, a hugely influential figure.
		Exene continues to gig regularly with X, is an accomplished spoken word artist who’s published five volumes of poetry, and is a founding member of country music quintet the Knitters.
		Born in Chicago in 1956, she had a difficult childhood and precious little encouragement to develop the creativity that was a part of her personality from an early age.
	www.nitrorecords.com /artist.php?artist_id=20 (845 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		CERVENKA’s journals combine rough drafts of songs and personal reflections rendered in a baroque calligraphic script with photographs, drawings and scraps of ephemera found while traveling as a musician.
		Similarly, the collages are created from found materials to form an interpretative composite portrait of the country she’s come to know through her life experiences on the road.
		An icon of Los Angeles’s seventies punk scene, EXENE CERVENKA is known internationally for her work with the critically acclaimed band, X.
	www.dcktcontemporary.com /press.php?Press_ID=24 (264 words)

	Tucson Weekly: Exene Cervenka (July 18 - July 24, 2002)
		The music on the Original Sinners' debut is the kind of high-speed punk best played deafening, leavened sparsely by punk ballads tinged with the surf and country influences that distinguished X from their East coast and British counterparts.
		The highlight is actually the searingly serious "Aluminum Flavored Honey." Cervenka's lyric limns the denouement in a co-dependent relationship, underscoring the mix of emotions with her own wrenching guitar solo.
		Exene Cervenka performs with the Original Sinners on Friday, July 19 in the Hotel Congress Banquet Room.
	www.tucsonweekly.com /tw/2002-07-18/qscans.html (310 words)

	guterman.clips.underthebigblacksun
		That's Exene Cervenka talking in 1981, comfortable in a clean, climate-controlled conference room, as her band X signed a deal with Elektra Records, a division of the Warner Brothers recording empire.
		Exene wrote "Come Back to Me," but John wrote "Riding With Mary." On those two songs, Exene delivered some of the most delicate and precise vocals of her career.
		Exene wrote this while we were on tour stranded in a hotel in Davenport, Iowa, waiting to get a broken-down car fixed.
	guterman.com /guterman_clips/guterman_clips_underthebigblac/guterman_clips_underthebigblac.html (1907 words)

	First Avenue - Event Listing: EXENE CERVENKA AND THE ORIGINAL SINNERS
		Exene Cervenka is one of the great treasures of Los Angeles, and it is an auspicious day indeed when she unveils a new band, a new record, and a new batch of songs.
		As anybody worth a damn knows, Exene was a founding member of seminal L.A. punk band, X. Though the members of X continue to occasionally play together, they stopped writing new songs as a band in 1993.
		Exene plays guitar on four tracks on the album, and among them is “Tick-Tock,” a fantastic instrumental she wrote.
	www.first-avenue.com /calendar/event_917.aspx (928 words)

	Comet Magazine/ Exene Cervenka
		Cervenka also performs occasionally with the Knitters, a country side project with Doe, Bonebrake, and Dave Alvin of the Blasters.
		Cervenka often does poetry readings and participated in the first Spitfire Tour in 1998, described on its website as a “free speech tour of musicians, actors, and activists speaking out on global affairs”(www.spitfiretour.org).
		While Cervenka never courted mainstream acceptance, she witnessed her unique style copied by others and the ideals of the punk scene turned into a fashion statement.
	www.cometmagazine.com /cometsite4/exene.html (1620 words)

	Exene Cervenka interview
		Their lyrics tackled issues beyond post- adolescent frustration, Cervenka and Doe sang like they were either fighting or making love, and the band, which also originally included guitarist Billy Zoom and drummer D.J. Bonebrake, could actually play their instruments.
		Cervenka has pursued a solo career concurrent with and after X, releasing two roots-rock albums (1989’s Old Wives Tales and 1990’s Running Scared) as well as various spoken-word recordings and books.
		Every time I went on the radio, or was introduced in a club or something, they would introduce me as 'Exene Cervenkova,' because there's no such thing as a woman with just an 'a' at the end of her name.
	www.furious.com /perfect/exene.html (2822 words)

	SuicideGirls > News > Culture > The Art of Exene Cervenka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		WEDNESDAY AUGUST 17 2005 11:56 AM Artnet News reports (6th item) that Exene Cervenka, one of the founding members of the pioneer L.A. punk band X, will be hanging her artwork at the Santa Monica Museum of Art next month.
		"Exene Cervenka: America the Beautiful" will include Cervenka's journals and collages created between 1974 and 2005, and the artist will be performing at Bergamot Station in November.
		Exene Cervenka is the gold standard for what all punk rock musicians should be.
	suicidegirls.com /news/culture/11001 (623 words)

	Biography: X
		Cervenka is the author (with Lydia Lunch) of poetry collection Adulterers Anonymous, Grove Press, 1982; Doe and Cervenka released solo records, contributed to film soundtracks, and pursued film roles, among other projects, 1989-92; Bonebrake worked as session player and sideman, late 1980s-1992; Gilkyson played on Cervenka and Alvin solo albums.
		Fronted by vocalist Exene Cervenka and bassist-vocalist John Doe, both of whom wrote the band's material, X stunned critics and fans alike with their debut album, Los Angeles, in 1980.
		After struggling to carry their music beyond a cult audience for the better part of a decade, the group finally disbanded, pursued solo projects, and then--after the multi-platinum success of such "alternative" rock bands as Nirvana--reunited for a new album and tour in the early 1990s.
	home1.gte.net /havasu/bio.html (1857 words)

	I Get My Show on the Road!: Exene Cervenka exhibition
		Everybody in LA and SoCal needs to head on over to the Santa Monica Museum of Art this Friday night (7-9 PM) for the very first exhibition of Exene Cervenka's journals and mixed media collages.
		"An icon of Los Angeles’s seventies punk scene, Exene Cervenka is known internationally for her work with the critically acclaimed band, X. Today she continues her musical career in solo performances and participation in such bands as The Knitters, Auntie Christ, and The Original Sinners.
		Cervenka’s journals combine rough drafts of songs and personal reflections rendered in a baroque calligraphic script, with photographs, drawings, and scraps of ephemera that she found while traveling as a musician.
	rubberbandlazer.blogspot.com /2005/09/exene-cervenka-exhibition.html (271 words)

	LYDIA LUNCH & EXENE CERVENKA: FIRE AND BRIMSTONE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The incendiary duo -- Lydia Lunch, the punk scene queen and performance-art maven who got her start, in the late '70s, playing guitar with Teenage Jesus and the Jerks; and Exene Cervenka of X -- sent the Central Square club up in a blaze of anarcho-feminist oration that drew out 100-plus loyal troops.
		Lunch and Cervenka spiraled their dueling monologues into a cyclone of apocalyptic wrath, lamenting everything from sexism, rape, poverty, war, AIDS, "ecological genocide," and industry's Third World "Labor Camp" to the unpunished hubris of O.J. the religious right, and that evil succubus, Courtney Love.
		The material made frequent nods to a roguish clan of literary mentors, including Sade, Rimbaud, Sartre ("Hell is other people") and Yeats (Cervenka's quip that "slouching has nothing to do with Bethlehem").
	www.bostonphoenix.com /alt1/archive/music/reviews/12-07-95/REX/LYDIA_LUNCH.html (571 words)

	FEMMUSIC.com Exene Cervenka Interview
		There are few names in music that reverberate as strongly as Exene Cervenka.
		Exene is the founder of X, the band that shaped punk and rock in the 80's.
		Cervenka is a poet, writer, producer and has written about the history of punk.
	www.femmusic.com /interviews2003/exene.htm (1478 words)

	Exene Cervenka : Twin Sisters - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		Twin Sisters is the recorded evidence of a joint poetry reading held at McCabe's in Los Angeles on February 1, 1985, by Wanda Coleman and Exene Cervenka, each of whom get one side of the LP.
		Coleman's dramatically spoken and sometimes sung lyrics are personal reflections on African-American street life from an observer suffering from a self-described "triple whammy" -- to be female, fl, and intelligent.
		Cervenka's observations are somewhat more upscale, relating to the rock & roll lifestyle, including diary notes from life on the road with X.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,62880,00.html (207 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		As the vocalist and lyricist for the seminal Los Angeles rock band X, Exene Cervenka has rightfully established her reputation as a performer and writer of extraordinary conviction and skill.
		In addition to her role in X, whose first two albums, "Los Angeles" and "Wild Gift", were released to wide critical praise In 1982, Cervenka has established herself as a dynamic and compelling writer.
		As a spoken word performer, she has also appeared on various audio recordings including "English as a Second Language" (a spoken word compilation), "Two Sisters" (with poet Wanda Coleman), and "Cause" (a benefit compilation for the pro-choice organization Rock For Choice).
	www.colleges.com /Umagazine/exclusives/spitfire/cervenka.html?cb=354711&_userReference=null (139 words)

	MAGNET Interview: Exene Cervenka
		Needless to say, the John Doe/Exene Cervenka vocal tandem was as spellbinding as advertised.
		Here’s the director’s cut of a phone interview with Cervenka, detailing the debut album by her new band, the Original Sinners, and a look back at X. We spoke on the eve of a May 2002 West Coast tour with the Knitters, the outfit she sometimes shares with Doe and Blasters big cheese Dave Alvin.
		To calm us down and make us not nervous he got on the studio mic and said, “Hey, John, Exene, remember: This is forever.” Which was the worst possible thing he could say.
	www.magnetmagazine.com /interviews/exene.html (1596 words)

	Red Dirt by Exene Cervenka: Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Though not as immediately accessible or easy to define as a folk or rock record, Cervenka's second solo album is richer than the first, and in the long run, probably better for it.
		Tony Gilkyson holds the production reins and Cervenka takes a chance on rocking again on the anthemic "Just Another Perfect Day." Penned with old pal Doe, it's an X-like ode to love in the messed-up late 20th century.
		Once again, Cervenka proves with the power of her own convictions that things ain't all that bad....
	www.mp3.com /tracks/274408/reviews.html (150 words)

	The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music - X (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Members Exene Cervenka and John Doe have their own solo albums.
		Lyrically, John Doe and Exene Cervenka wrote virtually all of X's songs (singly or jointly).
		Exene's and John Doe's harmonies occasionally reached brilliance, though her solo efforts still fell flat (literally and figuratively).
	ectoguide.org /commentator/neile/x&p=9 (854 words)

	Lydia Lunch
		"Exene is on stage with me, and we're sort of a tag-team," says the thirty-something Lunch over the phone from Vermont, where she and Cervenka have just landed after battling their way through a blizzard that walloped the Eastern U.S. and forced cancellation of a performance in Boston this past weekend.
		A veteran of literary readings, Cervenka recorded a collection of poetry with WANDA COLEMAN in '85 entitled Twin Sisters and has an album of her own called Service To Serpents that will be out in April on HENRY ROLLINS' new spoken word label.
		The 40-ish Cervenka, who describes her style as "dry humor, sarcasm, understated, caustic in its own way," sees herself as a writer more than a poet.
	www.octopusmediaink.com /LydiaLunch.html (759 words)

	The Stranger \| Seattle \| Books \| Feature \| TRASH COLLECTOR
		Like her collection of found things scavenged from garbage off the streets (a habit she picked up in the '70s), her art--whether it's punk, poems, lyrics, or kitsch--is an unsorted pile of ideas, and to sort through her work and organize it in some fractured way would be a lie.
		After the fall of the underground, or maybe its rise (her first label, Slash, is now housed in the Polygram high-rise), Exene Cervenka casually discusses the way every interest of hers has been co-opted.
		This is her ideology: inevitably, "Everything's co-opted the minute it's developed." I imagine her examining her nails as she tells me this, checking for snags and chips as though her next statement will be, "Everybody dies, honey.
	www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=903 (781 words)

	TrouserPress.com :: X
		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 meditations on sex and society at high velocity, happy to ride the coattails of more instinctual performers.
		Doe and Cervenka's best material achieves an arresting cinematic vividness — see the cheesy "Motel Room in My Bed" and "The Have Nots," a poignant lament for the common man highlighted by a surprisingly swingin' groove.
		For her next trick, Exene assembled the Original Sinners, a younger set of players eagerly willing (and able) to crank out the country-punk roar of her past.
	trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=x (1847 words)

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