Birth of a Cynic is the first independent release of post-grunge rock band 8stops7.
 It was produced by Paul Lani & Paul Yered and released on Elephant Ear Records.
X is an American punk rock band, formed in Los Angeles in 1977, among the first wave of American punk.
 The original members are vocalist Exene Cervenka, vocalist/bassist John Doe, guitarist Billy Zoom and drummer D.J. Bonebrake.
 The band released seven studio albums from 1980 to 1993.
 After a period of inactivity during the mid to late 1990s, X reunited in the early 2000s, and currently tours.
Bend is the third studio album from the American Hard rock band 8stops7 and the follow up to their previous, and most successful release, In Moderation.
8stops7 is a rock band from Ventura, California.
This is a list of notable punk rock bands (letters L through Z).
 The bands listed have played some type of punk music at some point in their career, although they may have also played other styles.
 Bands who played in a style that influenced early punk rock—such as garage rock and protopunk—but never played punk rock themselves, should not be on this list.
 Bands who created a new genre that was influenced by (but is not a subgenre of) punk rock—such as alternative rock, crossover thrash, grunge, metalcore, new wave, and post-punk—but never played punk rock, should not be listed either.
G.a.s. Drummers was a melodic hardcore band formed in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain at the end of 1997 by three teenagers who stood out from their other students due to their colourful hair dies and their taste in the california punk rock bands such as Bad Religion, Operation Ivy, NOFX, Lagwagon, The Descendents etc.
 Original members from other small local bands Dani Llamas (guitar and vocals), Pakomoto (Bass and vocals) and Rafa Camison (Drums) started playing together and composing their own music and after one year of sending demos around the country they got put as the opening act for Swedish Punk Rock band Randy on their Spanish tour.
 A tour that took the band through the whole country helping a lot of Spanish kids discover that there were actually Spanish bands capable of sounding as good as some of their favorite American bands.
 This lead immediately the band to sign to a young record label called Slide Chorus Records a young emerging record label from Madrid which would start releasing albums for other Spanish Punk Rock bands.
 This first release titled Proud To Be Nothing hit the streets at the end of 1999 and was presented on their first European tour which covered Spain, Great Britain, France and the Netherlands amongst Spanish punk rock legend[P.P.M.
Skate punk (also known as skate rock, skatecore and skate-thrash) is a skater subculture and a subgenre of punk rock music.
 Originally a genre of hardcore punk, skate punk changed into a more melodic genre of punk rock in the 1990s.
 The term usually describes the sound of 1990s punk rock bands that have a fast, melodic sound, and similar 21st-century punk rock bands.
 Skate videos have traditionally featured this fast style of punk rock.
 This played a big part in the coining of the term "skate punk".
Demons are a punk rock/garage punk band from Sweden.
 The band includes quotation marks in their name to differentiate themselves from other bands with a similar name.
 Their music has been described as "punk 'n' roll", but the band claims it should only be described as high-energy rock.
 Their musical style relies heavily on the energy derived from punk rock.
 Influences include 1960s garage rock bands such as The Sonics, The Standells and Shadows of Knight, The Velvet Underground, The Stooges and New York Dolls; and punk rock bands such as The Damned, The Heartbreakers and The Saints; and early hardcore punk bands such as Black Flag, Bad Brains and Dead Kennedys.
 "Demons" has often been compared to contemporary groups like New Bomb Turks, The Hellacopters and Electric Frankenstein.
"Question Everything" is a song recorded by the American rock band 8stops7, from their 1999 album "In Moderation".
 It was released in 2000 as a single.
 The song reached the US rock charts, peaking at number sixteen on Mainstream Rock Tracks, at number 25 on Modern Rock Tracks and at 38 in the Billboard Hot Adult top 40 chart.
 The song has a music video.
This is a list of notable punk rock bands (numbers 0–9 and letters A through K).
 The bands listed have played some type of punk music at some point in their career, although they may have also played other styles.
 Bands who played in a style that influenced early punk rock—such as garage rock and protopunk—but never played punk rock themselves, should not be on this list.
 Bands who created a new genre that was influenced by (but is not a subgenre of) punk rock—such as alternative rock, crossover thrash, metalcore, new wave, and post-punk—but never played punk rock, should not be listed either.

Question: 8stops7 and X are both punk or rock bands from which U.S. state?
Answer: California