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the Paisley Underground: the mythic scene and Los Angeles legacy of the neo-psychedelic 80s
The Los Angeles legacy of the Paisley Underground can be understood through three “L.A. stories”: how it was a scene that was never actually a scene, how its urban representations included the manifest absence of Los Angeles, and how its aesthetic sensibility presaged a future Los Angeles.