Black Flag
Οι Παλιές Καλές Μέρες της Punk Σκηνής της Washington
Πολλά έχουν γραφτεί για την αμερικανική punk rock, αλλά ποτέ μέχρι σήμερα δεν αναλύθηκε η συμβολή της σκηνής της Washington, όσο λεπτομερώς γίνεται στο ντοκιμαντέρ "Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington DC".
Black Flag: Anatomy of a Lawsuit
Keith Morris and I have been pals for about a million years, ever since I crashed on his floor after another drunken night hanging out in LA during the 1970s. A month after we finished this interview, Greg Ginn, the guy who co-founded Black Flag...
The Art of Punk with Bryan Ray Turcotte
We spoke to Bryan Ray Turcotte, author of the book Fucked Up + Photocopied, about punk-rock flyers and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art's exhibit, Art of Punk.
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...
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...
Can I Get in the Van?
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Solid-State Transmissions
When Joe came on board, he made the city better for music than it ever had been (and arguably has been since).
Hola! Que Paso?
My band's first public performance was at an eighth-grade graduation party opening for Black Flag in 1978.