¡La Vasa! was born in Santa Barbara in late 2009 as an unhealthy male punk band weighing in over 500lbs of muscle and beer. At first this new baby of a band had no name and was even forced to perform multiple shows without a name to it's own. So sad. Now with a name and shows under their belt, this group of rebellious heathens formed from bands such as The Irritants, Surrounded By Assholes, Silent Meow, Forgainst It, and Trite, are ready to punch your earhole with energy the likes of which have never been felt.

¡La Vasa! has played with many monstrous punk bands including: Mad Caddies, Pour Habit, The Dwarves, Agent Orange, Total Chaos, Voodoo Glow Skulls, The Dickies, Battalion of Saints, Reagan Youth, Angry Samoans, The Grim. Hit the Switch, The Generators and so many more awesome bands!

When ¡La Vasa! is near your hair will stand on end, toenails will rot, knees will explode, mouth will go dry, and a new sense of certainty that everything is not okay will take over or something like that. Bringing back old school brutal punk tracks that are needed more than ever, La Vasa! is here...

Genre: Punk

Sound description: Old School OC Punk with a back beat that just won’t quit and as close to a lost band from the Beach Blvd. (Hostage Records)

RIYL: Punk Rock with an old school sound.

Web site: http://www.myspace.com/damagedgoods

Email: damagedgoods805@aol.com

History
Yeah, we took that class. We are four guys from other bands, same interests in music and tired of the same sounding stuff being created everywhere. We have released a couple demos, few compilations, 7” record, and a full length album. We have played all over CA & Vegas with many different bands and we are not gonna be done for a while.

Formed
2001, Santa Barbara, CA

Influences
Punk Rock, Life & Times, Booze.

Current status
Working on new material. Re-grouping after a short hiatus.

SB’s newest rock creation. Experimental punk rock.

D.I. is a Southern California punk band featuring ex-Adolescents and Social Distortion drummer Casey Royer on vocals. Royer formed the group after he and former Social Distortion original member Rikk Agnew (also formerly of Christian Death), left the original Mike Ness crew.

Since forming in 1982, D.I. has had many line-up changes and Royer has been the only constant member of the band. They almost usually consist of former members of The Adolescents and Social Distortion (including the Agnew brothers Rikk and Alfie). The band has continued to work to this day, although they have been inactive perodically, which include the band going on hiatus between albums. During their years of touring and recording albums, D.I. never gained a large mainstream success, but they have influenced many of today's later punk rock groups, including F.T.E.,[1] Face to Face, Guttermouth, Jughead's Revenge,[2] The Offspring and Pennywise.[3] Members of the band also joined up with Daddy X and The Dirtball of the Kottonmouth Kings, to create the punk rock/hip-hop group The X-Pistols, in 2010.

D.I. are typical of '80s Orange County, California punk -- aggressive and fast, yet melodic, with a sneering, sarcastic attitude permeating nearly all their material. Such a basic style has undoubtedly helped keep the group's sound fairly steady over its myriad lineup changes; vocalist Casey Royer has been the group's one constant. D.I.'s 1981 debut, Team Goon, featured future guitarist John Bosco on bass, soon-to-be Adolescents guitarist Rikk Agnew, drummer Derek O'Brien, and further contributions from guitarists Steve Roberts and Tim Maag, plus bass from engineer Fredric Taccone. Ancient Artifacts followed in 1984, and then the well-crafted Horse Bites Dog Cries in 1985; when D.I. switched from the Reject label to Triple X in 1986, the latter reissued all of their previous output. With a lineup centered around Royer and Bosco, D.I. delivered their first album for Triple X in 1988, What Good Is Grief to a God? 1989 witnessed the release of Tragedy Again, which proved to be the band's last album of new material until 1994, when they resurfaced on the Doctor Dream label with State of Shock