Black Flag

Black Flag was an American punk rock band formed in 1976 in Hermosa Beach, California. The band was established largely as the brainchild of Greg Ginn: the guitarist, primary songwriter and sole continuous member through multiple personnel changes. They are widely considered to be one of the first hardcore punk bands.

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Guest top 10s: Pulled Apart By Horses
We’ve been going on about them all year - now the mighty Pulled Apart By Horses take turns to tell us what rings their collective bells. <!--break--> 1 - Future Of The Left So the second FOTL album was released this year and we got to go on tour with them in the UK and abroad a few times and to be quite honest I genuinely think these guys are the tightest, loudest and kick...
Blast from the Past: Hüsker Dü's Zen Arcade
Late last week word came down that Bob Mould had recruited No Age to perform a set of Hüsker Dü tunes it warmed my heart to know that the second best possible version of the band would indeed be hitting a stage. Sure, it may not be Mould, Grant Heart, and Greg Norton, but it will be the first time Hüsker Dü songs are played in a live setting in a few years and I’m...
The 9's Have It: Historical Reasoning Why 2009 Will Be A Great Year for Music
Inspired By Tim Duffy 2008 was a shit year for music. With the economy falling down around us, the music industry continued to crumble under the pressure of the internet…falling down, down, down and barely even pulling in a cent (or so they would like you to believe). Bands inspired by the few cash cows we have left aped and copied their way through records. Folks were led to believe...
Articles of 2009 - #1 Sonic Youth
With less than 48 hours left of 2009, I can finally reveal (to this lonely audience of pretty much myself) my favourite article and interview of 2009. Given the opportunity to interview Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo - twice, once on the phone and once in person - might as well be the climax of my writing intentions. Getting Sonic Youth on the cover of a magazine may as well signal the end of my...
Interview: Nissenenmondai
Nisennenmondai and I are in a Turkish restaurant in London, and we are trying to speak to each other in English. Katoman, their tour manager, translates some questions into Japanese, answers others on the band’s behalf. Sayaka Himeno (drums, driving force) concentrates on my words as if lipreading. Masako Takada (motorik riffs; quartzy loops) and Yuri Zaikawa (one-note bass thwacks) smile...
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The Widow Babies interview
Well Nurtured Minor Players In the early 1980s Los Angeles was the centre of a ferocious musical revolution. Bands such as The Dead Kennedys, Circle Jerks, The Germs, Black Flag and Bad Brains shook the foundations of popular music, storming the scene with a new style of hardcore punk music that attacked the political aspirations of post-Vietnam America and refused to conform to the new world...
DOWNLOAD: Flipper - Be Good, Child!
By my count, San Francisco slow-punk titans Flipper have reformed twice, once in 1993 at the behest of uber-fan Rick Rubin and again in 2005 to support the dying CBGB. Unlike CBs, the new Flipper flourished, and the quartet–joined in 2006 by Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic–just released a new studio album, Love, along with an accompanying live disc, Fight. Both are available...
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Mika Miko - We Be Xuxa
 Mika Miko – We Be Xuxa 9/10 Hard, fast, lo-fi punk rock in the vein of Sleater Kinney, The Slits or The Ramones, LA’s Mika Miko have been lovingly described by some as “pony thrash”, possibly because of the girly element the four girls and one boy create with their punk aesthetics. They’ve been described in terms as creative as their music: “Imagine...
Singles for the week beginning Oct 22!
Band name: Young Knives, Ladytron, LCD Soundsystem and more… Label: various indie schmindies Teaser: This week’s extraordinarily large mound of singles sees Mercury nominees slugging it out on the dance-floor, and James Murphy taking on his DFA prodigies Prinzhorn Dance School. Lewis Hingston lets battle commence… Pull quote 2: Wichita’s Los Campesinos! are...
Politics Of Cruelty
Band name: Gay For Johnny Depp Label: Captains Of Industry Teaser: The band behind 2005’s ‘Blood: The Natural Lubricant’ EP are back! Richard S Jones introduces us to the sexuallly deraved and morally ambiguous world of Gay For Johnny Depp. Pull quote 2: There’s little doubt that there’s madness in their method. Somwhere. I’m fucked if I know where...
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