Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994–2007)

by Dan Ozzi

They’d talk about playing shows in offbeat places like Allentown or somewhere like that. The stuff they were telling me was really hard to believe, except there was no way they could make it up.”

The son of a Chicano studies professor at the University of Texas, Bixler-Zavala describes himself as “the Latin Danzig” of his high school.

Bixler-Zavala eventually dropped out to play in a handful of local bands, most notably drumming for Foss, a grunge rock group fronted by another former El Paso High School student named Beto O’Rourke.