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n. (plural of stain English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: stain)

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Stains (Los Angeles band)

The Stains is a hardcore punk band from the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. One of the first East Los Angeles punk groups, the band started playing punk in 1976. Their debut album, produced by SST Records house producer Spot, was recorded in 1981, and released by SST in 1983. The band has been on tours with Black Flag, Hüsker Dü and countless others. They were one of the bands that played at a 2001 "anniversary show" memorializing the landmark East Los Angeles punk venue Vex Populi (and music writer Josh Kun wrote in Los Angeles magazine that their set was "punk rock enough for the Stains to leave a pool of blood on the stage's wood beams").

On the album, the band's members were Robert Becerra, guitar; Ceasar Viscarra, bass; Gilbert Berumen, drums; and Rudy Navarro, vocalist. Their style is described as hardcore and speedy, and as an innovator in bringing elements of metal into hardcore. Guitarist Robert Becerra's performance style was a model for Greg Ginn's musical concepts for Black Flag. Viscarra and another Stains drummer, Louie Dufau, later played with Dez Cadena in his post-Black Flag band DC3, and Viscarra also played with cowpunk band Blood on the Saddle.

Usage examples of "stains".

And the stains could have only come from one place: the water of the Caves.

It screeched and scratched its way along the varnished wood for a few feet before stopping in the center, some of its various brain-matter stains still visible.

To hide his emotion, he looked down at his trousers and tried to brush away some of the red stains, but they remained persistently in place.

Here he was given a fine laboratory and a sudden undreamed-of wealth of apparatus and two assistants and enough money so that he could spend sixteen or eighteen hours of his working day among his stains and tubes and cluttering guinea-pigs.

He told himself that the blots, stains and smudges in that billowing, sky-filling cloud were only by chance finding the shape of a face.

The X-shaped wooden crosses were bare, with only stains of blood, urine and excrement to show that living beings had once hung from them in agony.

I passed the remnants of a sacked village, reeking with the smell of burned wood rotting after the long winter and weeping black stains into the scorched earth.

I saw green stains smudging the painted walls and garbage in the waters, the smell rising with the temperature as the sun climbed.

The roof of the hall had fallen in but the walls still stood four square and defiant, fine-dressed stone still visible through the stains of age and decay.

The handle and hinges were dark stains of corrosion on the wood and windblown soil obscured the bottom edge of the door.

Wall stains were notoriously difficult to get out if they had bled through paint.

He watched it, standing there, his arms full of his clothes from the day, the T-shirt with the grass and snot stains rolled into the middle, his jeans and socks a shell surrounding it.

The rear portion of the tower has not been neglected, either, but is clothed with a clinging garment of polished ivy which hides the wounds and stains of time.

The door was streaked with rusty stains that had dripped from the fungus-chewed durasteel sign above.

The older, whose teeth showed scarlet thyssel stains, was called Lesh.