Black Flag (Band)

Top 20 Hardcore Albums in History: 10-1

By 1980, the writing was on the wall: Punk rock might have been making headlines, but it wasn't moving units. The industry responded with the skinny tie bands, retroactively labeled New Wave, a safer, more accessible take on the back-to-basics energy of punk. The street reacted by buzzing its collec ... More >>

RIP Santa Monica Civic Auditorium: Former Punk Haven Finished Holding Concerts

For the last 55 years, the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium has had all types of boring conventions, cat shows and craft fairs. But it's also held some amazing concerts; truth be told, its importance to the local rock and punk music scenes cannot be overstated. Due to a combination of obsolescence and ... More >>

MOCA Web Series Chronicles the Art of Punk

The logo is simple. Four heavy black bars sitting side by side — one up, one down, one up, one down — creating a wave effect: a black flag flying in the wind of discontent. Few logos are as universally recognized and revered as the one Raymond Pettibon designed for L.A. punk legends Blac ... More >>

How's the Food at the Old Black Flag Church?

By Kate Stephanus As referenced in our Henry Rollins cover package this week, a 1924 abandoned Baptist church in Hermosa Beach hosted some of the most influential punk bands in the SoCal scene's nascent days, like the Descendants, Circle Jerks, Redd Kross, and, of course, Blag Flag; some of the lat ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Interview! Anger, Drugs and the Black Flag Reunion

Henry Rollins began writing his L.A. Weekly column in early 2011, and it quickly grew to be one of the paper's biggest draws. The column succeeds for many reasons -- readers' innate fascination with his time with hardcore punk heroes Black Flag, the fervency of Rollins' unflinching advocacy for his ... More >>

Black Flag Are Back Together

Black Flag is back together, and are almost done with a new album, according to an SST press release. See also: Black Flag's Damaged Changed Punk, and L.A.: 30 Years Later, Its Impact Is Still Felt The lineup is Greg Ginn on guitar, Ron Reyes on vocals, Gregory Moore on drums and Dale Nixon on bas ... More >>

Snarl For the Camera!

Top 20 Greatest L.A. Punk Albums of All Time: The Complete List

*Top 20 Worst Bands Ever: The Complete List *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre: The Complete List *Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time: The Complete List *Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time: The Complete List The history of Los Angeles punk is largely composed of a series ... More >>

Top 20 Greatest L.A. Punk Albums of All Time: 10-1

*Top 20 Greatest L.A. Punk Albums of All Time: 20-11 *Top 20 Worst Bands Ever: The Complete List *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre: The Complete List *Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time: The Complete List *Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time: The Complete List 10. The Di ... More >>

Top 20 Greatest L.A. Punk Albums of All Time: 20-11

*Top 20 Worst Bands Ever: The Complete List *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre: The Complete List *Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time: The Complete List *Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time: The Complete List The history of Los Angeles punk is largely composed of a series ... More >>

Off! - Whisky a Go Go - 5/8/12

Off! Whisky a Go Go 5/8/12 See also: Off!'s Keith Morris Mouths Off, Before the Group's Show at the Whisky Tomorrow Better than... a keg party at Ian McKaye's house. Somewhere between a rock and roll history lesson and a lock-in at the Punk Rock Rec Center, Keith Morris and his supergroup Off! ... More >>

Off!'s Keith Morris Mouths Off, Before the Group's Show at the Whisky Tomorrow

See also: Still a Malcontent: A midlife crisis spawns Keith Morris' new band Off! In this week's music feature we get inside the heads of punk rock "supergroup" Off! on the eve of the release their self-titled debut album. (They hate that term, btw.) The group, which is led by former Black Flag and ... More >>

Still a Malcontent

A midlife crisis spawns Keith Morris' new band Off!

Greg Ginn On Black Flag Nostalgia and His Band The Royal We

See also: Coachella Preview 2012: Everything You Need to Know About the Performers Greg Ginn is primarily known as the driving force and only constant member of Black Flag, which is unfortunate as he's done a lot since the Flag broke up 25 years ago. He's so tired of talking about it that he rarely ... More >>

Abigaile, Kitchen 24 to Open Monday

Monday, Feb. 6, sees two restaurant openings: Abigaile in Hermosa Beach and Kitchen 24 in West Hollywood. Like a phoenix, Abigaile rises from the ashes of Union Cattle Co., which closed in January. Same owner (Jed Sanford), new concept (upscale American brasserie), new chef (Max DiMare of Wood Taver ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Masochism Has Its Benefits

​[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] I am in Bristol, England. The cold outside has permeated the walls of the utilitarian bac ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! The Time I Made a Punk Rocker Cry

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] Weeks ago, my L.A. Weekly super editor Ben Westhoff asked me about my plans for 2012. I told h ... More >>

Black Flag's Damaged Changed Punk, and L.A.

30 Years Later, Its Impact Is Still Felt

GV30: Black Flag, Descendents, The Vandals - Santa Monica Civic Auditorium - 12-18-2011

Javier CabralKeith Morris and Chuck Dukowski of Black Flag​See also: *Reviewed: GV30 Night One, featuring Social Distortion, X, Adolescents, 12-16-2011 *Tons Of Punk Videos Were Yanked Off YouTube: Here's What Happened *Milo Aukerman Interview: The Descendents Attempt To Clone Themselves Las ... More >>

Tons Of Punk Videos Yanked Off YouTube: Here's What Happened

Robert KenneyGreg Ginn, second from left​By Nicholas Pell On Wednesday morning, several punk bands awoke to find their videos had been removed from YouTube. They were understandably irritated; that's almost worse than running out of beer. In their places were notes that they'd been yanked d ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! The Time I Drank The Sweat From My Socks

​[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] Florida is a crazy place and I have played some of the wildest shows of my life here. I ... More >>

The Other F Word Review

The Five Most Underrated East L.A. Backyard Punk Bands Of All Time

Javier Cabral​See also: *East L.A. Backyard Punk Scene Rages On As Uninhibited and Intoxicated As Ever *The Five Best East L.A. Backyard Punk Bands *Reviewed: Stomp-Outz, The Lumberjacks, Who Gives A Fuck in a Backyard on West 79th St. Last week I wrote about movers and shakers on the curren ... More >>

The Real "LA Ink": Fletcher Dragge Of Pennywise Opens 3rd St. Tattoo

​The South Bay has been more than influential in the punk rock scene worldwide since the early 1980's- a legendary scene that has produced fashions, trends, and music that reach far beyond the confines of Southern California and even the U.S. Hermosa Beach itself has churned out legends like Black ... More >>

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LA Punk Supergroup OFF! Arrested in Arizona for Hippiest Crime Ever

​Pitchfork reports that LA punk supergroup OFF!, the hard-working outfit led by Black Flag and Circle Jerks' Keith Morris, has been arrested in Arizona and is facing trial. What for, you might ask? Fighting the power? Failing to prove US citizenship? Stickering and skating? Shooting a man in ... More >>

HENRY + GLENN = K-I-S-S-I-N-G

"Hardcore Is a Complete, Legitimate California-born Music Form": An Interview with "American Hardcore" Author Steven Blush, Who Speaks Today at Book Soup with Keith Morris and Others

​ In his 2001 compendium, American Hardcore: A Tribal History, New York writer and former promoter Steven Blush all but dispensed with your dad's glamorized spit-scabs-and-safety-pin punk, instead focusing on hundreds of DIY, anarchic hardcore bands from the scene's peak between 1980 and 198 ... More >>

The LA Times Uncovers Echo Park Gentrification with Insane, LULZy Trend Piece!

Echo Park: Gentrifying itself since 1984​It's generally a bad idea to mock our fellow old-media LA institution the LA Times too much because a) it's too easy and b) they've been known to hire LA Weekly music editors after their stint in our gleaming Culver City cube (hi Randall!) However, ... More >>

THE SPITTLE SCREEN

Off! Releases New MP3 -- Seconds Of Pleasure Within (NSFW)

​ Keith Morris, Steven McDonald, Mario Rubalcaba and Dimitri Coats are Off!, the rippin'-est "supergroup" since the Wylde Ratttz, and today they release a 34-second track from the fourth of the four EPs due for eventual collection and release on Vice later this month. It's called "Full Of ... More >>

Live Review: OFF!, Redd Kross (aka Red Cross) and Scream at Club Lingerie

Diamond Bodine-FischerOFF! at Club Lingerie​Club Lingerie, Hollywood. Last Wednesday evening. By 9:30 the line wrapped around the block, by 10 a roomful of people shuffled their feet, snuck looks at the crowd around them and sipped their beer. Around 10:30 Keith Morris -- founder of Black Fl ... More >>

LA Punk Revival Show: Tonight Redd Kross and Scream join Keith Morris (Black Flag, Circle Jerks) and Raymond Pettibon's OFF! EP Release Party

​Here's a little last-minute communication from Keith Morris (Black Flag, Circle Jerks) and his new band OFF!: TONIGHT at CLUB LINGERIE in Hollywood! Surprise guests are RED CROSS (performing the early punk hits) followed by SCREAM (original lineup)! OFF! is on first at 10pm so hurry across t ... More >>

Interview: Beloved DJ Joe Sib On Growing Up Punk Rock in LA

Joe Sib, unplugged​Joe Sib -- Side One Dummy Records co-owner, former Wax frontman and former Indie 103.1 DJ (he currently hosts Complete Control on Star 98.7) -- gets nostalgic in his one-man show, California Calling: Growing Up Punk Rock, which he's been touring for a year and performs at th ... More >>

LA Punk Supergroup OFF! (Featuring Members of Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Redd Kross, Etc.) Signs with Vice Records

Raymond Pettibon will provide art for OFF!'s Vice Records debut​We previewed in our print section a few months ago the live presentation of OFF!, the Keith Morris-led quartet featuring members of Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Redd Kross, Burning Brides and Earthless, and the art of Raymond Pettibo ... More >>

Off! That Outsider Feeling

Black Flag's Keith Morris and iconic artist Raymond Pettibon reignite the DIY punk fuse

What Do Justin Bieber and Black Flag Have in Common?

[From one of our sibling alt-weeklies, St. Louis' Riverfront Times, comes this LA-related find by music editor Annie Zaleski:] According to this Etsy listing, "Both groups have caused riots, both embrace DIY." Someone named Josiah Hughes is selling the following home-screened T-shirt, which feature ... More >>

Tonight in NYC: Sebastian Meissner and Kwartludium Adapt SST Records Output

This struck us as a potentially fascinating exercise that we would love to see tonight --except it's in New York. German electronic producer Sebastian Meissner (aka Klimek) is teaming up with Polish avant-classical group Kwartludium to present "Solid State Transmitters," an homage to great LA label ... More >>

Black Flag Word Cloud: 'Damaged' Boiled to Its Essence

​In an ongoing effort to better understand the many classic albums of Los Angeles, we've come upon an equation that gets to the heart of the matter without much thinking, analysis, verbiage or any of those other "old-model" music criticism techniques that have become obsolete. Specifically, wo ... More >>

LA Ink's Corey Miller: "I'm a Grateful, Old-School Kind of Carny"

Powerflex 5 via MySpace​St. Louis is hosting a tattoo convention and Nick Lucchesi at our sister paper The Riverfront Times scored an interview with LA Ink's Corey Miller, reality star (he's the one on the show without the boobs), surf rocker, punk rock lifestyle decorator, and self-described ... More >>

Got a Black Flag Bars Tattoo? Get It Photographed for Art Book This Weekend

Barred for life? Black Flag's four bars, that is? Philadelphia writer Stewart Ebersole invites tattooed fans of the legendary hardcore band inked with their famous Raymond Pettibon-designed logo to be a part of his upcoming book Barred for Life (estimated publication in 2010). ****More hardcore th ... More >>

25 Years of 'Double Nickels on the Dime': Celebrating Los Angeles, 1984

The 25th Anniversary of the Summer of LA Post-Punk is upon us. It was a quarter-century ago this month that San Pedro's best, the Minutemen, with a simple, defiant declaration -- "Take That, Huskers!" -- unleashed Double Nickels on the Dime, a double-album response to SST labelmate Husker Du's equal ... More >>

ROCK & ROLLS OF FILM

Ten Great Cover Songs from Coachella 2009 (and a few extras)

Timothy NorrisEven the machinery was flashing the horns. Nothing says "I love you" like a cover song. Artists at Coachella like to acknowledge their influences, love to thrill the crowd with a surprise singalong. This year bands drew from music of many genres, from ragtime to post punk to hip hop. ... More >>

New Book to Arrive on Black Flag Tattoos, and the People Who Get Them (MP3)

Rednecks and punks alike understand the unspoken power of FOUR BARS. The Daily Swarm has a great post on a new photography book coming out called Barred for Life, featuring people who have Black Flag's iconic four-bar logo tattooed on their body.

Idealist Propaganda: The Raw Power of Glen E. Friedman

Photos by Erin Broadley. Click images for entire Idealist Propaganda slideshow."Search and Destroy" funnels out onto the 10:30 p.m. Saturday Sunset Blvd. sidewalk, violently greeting late-arrivals to Glen E. Friedman's Idealist Propaganda exhibit. Iggy's cocaine cacophony carves up Tymphanic cavitie ... More >>

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Documenter

Jeffrey Lewis (Interviewed) & Crass (Covered): Part 2 of 3

Jeffrey Lewis: "Whereas the Sex Pistols you might hear that played in any given venue. They probably get played in the Gap or something... The Fugs and Crass, though, you just don't hear them in polite society."