Circle Jerks

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 >>

Artopia: New L.A. Weekly Party Coming to Chinatown

To celebrate the release of L.A. Weekly's annual People issue in May, we're inviting all our favorite people to come party with us as we transform Chinatown Central Plaza into (drum roll!) Artopia. During this first-ever event on Thursday, May 16, drinks are on us all night, with a hosted bar from ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Weekend

Friday, December 21 "Christmas 101" with Rufus and Martha Wainwright, Van Dyke Parks, Emmylou Harris, Carrie Fisher UCLA ROYCE HALL Rufus and Martha Wainwright's late mother, Canadian folk singer Kate McGarrigle, created the annual "Christmas 101" holiday event, which features carols from around th ... More >>

Nice Jerk if You Can Get It

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!

Page Two: Cerebral Ballzy Are Brainy, Nuts

Tuesday Twofer: The Sounds at Avalon, Punk Rock Karaoke at The Dragonfly

Kirsti Anna UrpaThe Sounds' Maja Ivarsson ​Tuesdays are always teeming with possibility when it comes to live music in Los Angeles. Of course, the toe-to-toe hipster hoedowns that are Dim Mak Studios and Check Yo Ponytail dominate the night most of the time, but other venues big and small seem ... More >>

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 >>

"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 HARDER THEY CORE ...

Interview: Punk Photographer Ed Colver On Angels, Assholes and Anarchists (Plus Legendary Album Cover Outtakes)

edward colverblack flag's damaged and damaged outtakes​ For about five years, five nights a week, Edward Colver was there to see L.A.'s punk scene erupt through a small viewfinder, snapping photos with black and white Kodak Tri-X film, a 35mm camera with a 50mm lens and "no fucking auto-focus ... More >>

Exene Cervenka Live Set, Gift Giveaway Friday at Vacation Vinyl & Porterhouse Records X-Mas Party

Exene Cervenka Live Set, Gift Giveaway Friday at Vacation Vinyl & Porterhouse Records X-Mas Party

THE SPITTLE SCREEN

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 >>

New OFF! Video Features Keith Morris, Raymond Pettibon, and Skateboarding Madness

New OFF! Video Features Keith Morris, Raymond Pettibon, and Skateboarding Madness

Exclusive: Heavy Rockers Coliseum Discuss Will Oldham Collab, Louisville Hardcore and the Philosophies of Punk

Exclusive: Heavy Rockers Coliseum Discuss Will Oldham Collaboration, Louisville Hardcore and the Philosophies of Punk

Q&A: The FYF Fest

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 >>

Nightranger: In Bloom

Off! That Outsider Feeling

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

Su Tissue, where are you?

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 >>

Thelonious Monster to Play Surprise Echo Show Tonight in Advance of Warped Dates, Feature Film

Thelonious Monster is reuniting for their first show in 5 years tonight at the Echo, a surprise gig featuring a pretty impressive line-up of LA punk veterans, including: Mike Martt (Tex & The Horseheads, Steve Earle), Zander Schloss (Circle Jerks, Two Free Stooges) and Dix Denny (The Weirdos), bassi ... More >>

Lightning Bolt, Black Lips, Tim & Eric, No Age to Headline Festival Formerly Known as F Yeah Fest

Lightning Bolt at WFMU​ It's been a crazy past few months for F Yeah Fest principals Sean Carlson, Keith Morris and Phil Hoelting. The annual summer music festival, which changed its name from the Fuck Yeah Fest two years ago for obvious reasons, has been the sturdy little engine of the punk/ ... More >>

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 >>

In Her Madgesty's Court

Also, Paper's trail and Punk Rock Karaoke

Go, Greased Lightning! F Yeah Fest Tours U.S. on Veg-Fueled Bus

Is this the future of touring?

Carnality Circa '82: A Dave Naz Joint

XXX movie, by ex Chemical People band member, delivers punk-drenched, suburban-angst, back-then realism — with a Circle Jerks soundtrack

F YEAH FEST Announces Summer Tour

The Yeah Fest formerly know as Fuck has announced its summer tour across the Eastern, Southern, and Middle United States, and a little bit of Canada. Bands touring are Matt & Kim, Circle Jerks, Dillinger Four, The Death Set, Monotonix, Dan Deacon, Paint it Black, Team Robespierre, Brother Reade, Cr ... More >>

Rock Picks: Circle Jerks, Money Mark, No Age

For the week of Jan. 3 - 10

Hardcore Scores

Son of a Beach

A Noble Throttling

Qui, the Bronx, Circle Jerks, the Melvins, and the Locust August 4 at the Echoplex

Keith Clark

Wild in the spreadsheets

Rock Picks

For the week of April 26 – May 3

Rock Picks

for the week of January 25 – February 1

Shanghai Neck-Lick

Fuck Yeah Fest at the Echo and environs, August 18-20

Rock Out

Farewell, Madame Wong

Nothing About Sunset Junction!

The Boldface Life

Covering the clubs

Dandyland

Polaroids from Silver Lake

Gotta Ham It to Ya

Edited by Kateri Butler

Darwin, Dogma and Loud Guitars

The Sunshine Boys

Frying with Fu Manchu