Photos: Alice Bag at the Echo

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Alice Bag at the Echo (Photo by Carl Pocket)
Alice Bag at the Echo (Photo by Carl Pocket)

Over the years, Alice Bag has fought the good fight as an author, educator, feminist and, as it points out in her bio, “master troublemaker.” On Saturday night she celebrated her return to her original rabble-rousing station — punk-rock  prolucutor. Backed by a rotating cast of musicians, including Donita Sparks of L7, the 57-year-old frontwoman (and first-wave punk-rocker with the Bags in the 1970s)  gave a ferocious performance at the sold-out Echo in support of her self-titled solo album, just released on Don Giovanni Records. The songs confront such topics as date rape, immigration domestic abuse, immigration and corporate power, and the rage was palpable throughout the show, peaking with the shout-along, mosh-pit inspiring “No Means No.”

Photos by Carl Pocket, courtesy of the Echo

||| Live: Alice Bag performs Saturday, July 16, at the Glass House as part of Viva! Pomona.