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SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA pop singer Bonnie Hayes applied the brand new influx updating of ’60s girl-group pop (Blondie, the Go-Go’s, etc.) to shiny, bouncy music with a solid, self-confident view. Hayes documented two albums with her support band, the Crazy Combo (guitarist Paul Davis, bassist Hank Maninger, and drummer …

Josie Cotton’s 1982 fresh wave strike “Johnny, ARE YOU CURRENTLY Queer?” is obviously in dubious flavor (although its killer chorus is among the more unforgettable of its period), but there’s even more to the underrated vocalist/songwriter than her one shock-value novelty strike. Not merely are Cotton’s two early-’80s albums underrated …

An all-female German quartet pitched somewhere within the sexually forthright garage area punk primitivism from the Pandoras as well as the sweeter jangle pop from the Bangles (with only a hint from the outrageousness from the fondly remembered mid-’80s U.K. culties WE HAVE a Fuzzbox and We’re Gonna UTILIZE IT), …