This chapter analyses the representation of the American City in The Gun Club’s music. The analysis is based on selected songs from their second and third LPs: Miami (1982) and The Las Vegas Story (1984). The chapter contextualises the recording of the albums in the 1980s and makes a connection between the imaginary city displayed in selected songs with the ‘L.A. noir’ artistic rhetoric highlighted by Mike Davis in City of Quartz and with Simmel’s ‘the stranger’ concept in urban sociology. The chapter highlights the ambiguous relationship of the band towards their hometown Los Angeles and analyses how this stance has influenced the shape and feel of the band’s imaginary city. The crafting of these urban stories displayed in selected songs borrows from William S. Burroughs’ cut-up writing technique, whom The Gun Club’s Jeffrey Lee Pierce met several times. Pierce, the band’s songwriter, blended different media in his lyrics: literature and movies as well as his own ‘urban imaginary’ made from his experiences in the city.