[11][12] After receiving her bachelor's degree in philosophy from California State University, Los Angeles, Bag began working as an English teacher in inner-city L.A.

As a lead singer of the Bags, she pioneered the first wave of California punk alongside Black Flag, X, the Germs, Phranc (then in Catholic Discipline), and the five musicians who would go on to form the Go-Go's.

[12] Bag went on to appear and perform in other Los Angeles–based rock bands including Castration Squad, The Boneheads, Alarma, Cambridge Apostles, Swing Set, Cholita – the Female Menudo (with her friend and collaborator, performance artist Vaginal Davis), Las Tres, Goddess 13 (the subject of a KCET/PBS produced documentary, "Chicanas in Tune"), and Stay at Home Bomb.

[16] Alice Bag began singing professionally at the age of 8, recording theme songs for cartoons in both English and Spanish.

[13] Alice collaborated with Patricia Morrison and Margo Reyes in what they first called Mascara, then Femme Fatale, and then finally the Bags.

[citation needed] Stay at Home Bomb is an all-female community centered around punk rock that exists to address social constraints that are put on women domestically and musically.

[4][8] Another song on Blueprint, "Se Cree Joven", features backing vocals from Teri Gender Bender and Francisca Valenzuela.

[21] Bag's memoir, Violence Girl, From East LA Rage to Hollywood Stage – A Chicana Punk Story, was published by Feral House in fall 2011.

Violence Girl also reveals how domestic abuse fueled her desire for female empowerment and sheds a new perspective on the origin of hardcore, a style most often associated with white suburban males.

Bag channeled deeply rooted personal trauma into power on stage, refusing to be victimized or oppressed by men.

[27] Since 2004, Bag has also maintained a digital archive of interviews with women who were involved in the first wave of the Southern California punk scene in the 1970s, including musicians, writers, and photographers.

Bag was the keynote speaker at the 2012 Women Who Rock: Making Scenes Building Communities (un)Conference in Seattle, Washington.

By embracing her identity as a queer brown feminist body in the music industry, she has projected herself into spaces that have traditionally ignored or excluded people like her[29].

She remains musically active and collaborates with artists including Teresa Covarrubias, Lysa Flores,Martin Sorrondeguy, Allison Wolfe, and others.