No videos, no articulate essay, no impassioned rants on behalf of favorite bands. Just a list of bands from L.A. because when I looked at Wikipedia's list of L.A.-based bands, there were ten bands listed before you even got to the A's.

In alpha-numeric order, and just the bands I like(d):

• Angry Samoans
• Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
• Audioslave
• Bad Religion
• Devendra Banhart
• The Bangles
• The Beach Boys
• Beck
• Black Flag
• Buffalo Springfield
• The Byrds
• Concrete Blonde
• Cypress Hill
• The Doors
• Dr. Dre
• Dream Syndicate
• Electric Prunes
• Frank Zappa
• Flo & Eddie
• The Germs
• The Go-Go's
• Guns N'Roses
• Ice-T
• Jan and Dean
• Kush
• Little Feat
• Los Lobos
• Maroon 5
• The Mars Volta
• The Monkees
• The Mothers of Invention (yes, a 3d Zappa band!)
• N.W.A.
• The Offspring
• Oingo Boingo
• Ozomatli
• Porno for Pyros
• Quiet Riot
• Rilo Kiley
• Red Hot Chili Peppers
• The Skulls
• Snoop Dogg
• System of a Down
• Tool
• The Turtles
• Van Halen
• Wall of Voodoo
• War
• Weezer
• The Wallflowers

And yes, I agree that some of these bands aren't necessarily from L.A., but someone put them on a Wikipedia list....