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The Long VICE Interview with FLAG

Original vocalist Keith Morris, bass player Chuck Dukowski, drummer Bill Stevenson, and guitarist Dez Cadena are going on the road as FLAG. Meanwhile, Black Flag’s founding member, guitarist and principal songwriter, Greg Ginn, announced in January that he, too, would be reforming the band, and would tour heavily across the US and Europe this year as Black Flag in support of a new record. Full story

Obseshes

Punk and Me: A Dissociation Love Story

There was a year of high school where I basically only listened to the Velvet Underground, and so it went from there. My primary bands are hardcore: Black Flag, Minor Threat, and the Adolescents. I also like X and Social Distortion and Bad Brains and some Fugazi and the Germs. Bu… Full story

Can I Get in the Van?

I Hitchhiked to Texas This Winter and Almost Joined Black Flag

It dawned on me: Black Flag did not have a bass player. I decided right then and there to find out where Ginn was living, hitchhike across the country, and persuade him to let me try out—just as I had attempted to do at 16. Full story

A Black Flag Kid Wrote a Book of Poems

By now you've probably heard about the Black Flag reunion that everyone is creaming themselves over. What you might not have heard, however, is that Chuck Dukowski's stepdaughter, Mira Gonzalez, is publishing her first book of poetry, and it's the bee's knees. Full story

Obseshes

Obseshes ≠ Endorsements

So when I say I’m obseshed with the just announced mini Black Flag re-re-reunion, I mean that I am interested in the way that an academic is interested when a Google Alert pops up about something tangentially related to his research but isn’t like busting a nut about it. Full story

The Family Man Responds

You really want to take my children into the street? Go ahead, my wife needs some peace and I work nights all this week. Good luck with that, though. I seriously think you have no fucking idea what you're getting yourself into. First off my daughter is two months old. Do you know… Full story

Big Surprise - Henry Rollins Can Reform Health Care, Man!

I realize that the Henry Rollins I see on my television is not the same person I pictured the first time I heard Damaged as a kid. And he shouldn't be. That Henry—immortalized for punching a mirror—was a lot younger, angrier, and less politically aware. He also represented the ep… Full story

Noisey

Cute Kids Moshing to Black Flag

In maybe the best You Review yet, we gave little kids "beer" and taught them how to smash the state and circle the pit. Full story

Solid-State Transmissions

Joe Carducci on the Glory Days of SST Records

When Joe came on board, he made the city better for music than it ever had been (and arguably has been since). Full story

Hola! Que Paso?

My band's first public performance was at an eighth-grade graduation party opening for Black Flag in 1978. Full story