Today (January 7) is the one-year anniversary of the Los Angeles wildfires that devastated Altadena, Pacific Palisades and other LA neighborhoods. To commemorate, members of the punk community got together to record a benefit single, “We Are LA,” with proceeds going to Sweet Relief.
The project was spearheaded by Charlie Overbey (Custom Made Scare) & Vanessa Dingwell (The Backlash) of Lone Hawk Hats & Honeywood Vintage and contributors to the song include: Mike Watt (Minutemen), Jonny Two Bags (Social Distortion), Ron Emory and Greg Kuehn (TSOL), Atom Willard (Alkaline Trio), Rami Jaffee (Foo Fighters), Jim Lindberg (Pennywise), Tony Reflex (The Adolescents), Jane Wiedlin (The Go-Go’s), Annette Zilinskas (The Bangles), Eloise Wong (The Linda Lindas), Texacala Jones (Tex & The Horseheads), Teresa Stone (The Pony Tales), Paul Roessler (The Screamers), Kimm Gardener (CH3), Ted Hutt (Walker Roaders/Flogging Molly), Marko DeSantis (Sugarcult), Johnny Whitmer (The Stitches), Christian Fuhrer (Aversion), Aaron-Rev Peters and Jake Margolis (The Drowns), Aric Steinberg (Sweet Relief Musicians Fund), Patrick Hildebrand (The Amazing Music Store), and Gary Tovar (Goldenvoice).
You can pre-order the limited edition 12″ here, and watch the video for “We Are LA” below.