The Washington Post, August 17th, 2006
Tuesday night's 9:30 club bill of X and Rollins Band wasn't just a flashback to 1980s L.A. punk but to the precise period in which each band was at its best -- which wasn't necessarily in the '80s. X has reassembled several times since its first layoff in 1988 but without original guitarist Billy Zoom, who departed in '84. Now Zoom is on board again, and in response Exene Cervenka and John Doe have returned to their earliest material and style. Drawing heavily from the band's first two albums, X played a set that sounded remarkably like its 9:30 debut some 25 years ago. The quartet was lean an...
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