Black Flag
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Review by Roy Trakin, Creem, July 1984
WHAT HAPPENS to hardcore bands when they get old? They turn into Hawkwinds, that's what. Redondo Beach's finest have let their skinheads grow out and ...
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Interview by Mark Sinker, Rock's Backpages Audio, 1988
The hardcore label boss talks about setting up SST in order to release his band, Black Flag's recodings; learning how to run a label; the importance of independent distribution; how the label is perceived; subsidiary labels New Allience and Cruise; the SST audience(s), the reactionary fanzine scene, and the difficulty of releasing non-rock 'out there' music.
File format: mp3; file size: 28.4mb, interview length: 29' 38" sound quality: ***
Interview by Andy Gill, Rock's Backpages Audio, May 1994
Henry reflects on Kurt Cobain's recent death; Black Flag's influence on the new bands; his disapproval of slackers and his ascetic lifestyle; his disciplinarian father; violence in America; what he likes and loathes about England; his youthful fondness for Ted Nugent, and '70s hard rock in general; the difference between Black Flag and his Rollins Band; music vs. spoken word; his literary influences, including Nietzsche; his mother's record collection; being knocked out by punk rock; his gym work... and his relationship with his fans.
File format: mp3; file size: 79.5mb, interview length: 1h 22' 46" sound quality: ****
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Report by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 11 April 1981
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA is always preceded by its own legend. There is no way you can avoid that legend if you grew up with the price ...
Southland Punk Discs: A Primer
Overview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 1981
BESIDES MAKING names for themselves in local rock clubs and in the hearts of the police and the media, the Southland's hard-core punk bands have ...
Report and Interview by Richard Harrington, The Washington Post, 19 July 1981
THE PIT is ferocious and frightening: Young men's bodies slam into each other, arms and elbows out, fist flailing, like razor-edged Mexican jumping beans popping ...
The Decline of Western Civilization (Dir. Penelope Spheeris)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Don Waller, New York Rocker, September 1981
THE DECLINE of Western Civilization, Penelope Spheeris's documentary of the L.A. punk scene circa late '79/early '80, is by turns funny, provocative, pretentious, inspiring, boring, ...
Black Flag: Damaged (SST Import)*****
Review by Garry Bushell, Sounds, 30 January 1982
Hardcore heaven ...
Black Flag: Damaged (Unicorn/SST, import)/Panther Burns: Behind The Magnolia Curtains (Rough Trade)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 6 February 1982
AS GUN Clubs and Blasters abound and multiply from the original Slash stock of X’s and Flesh Eaters, the LA hard punk core gets back ...
Black Flag in the California Scum
Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 20 November 1982
WHEN BLACK FLAG came to England last winter, they felt more than the ice and snow – they felt the cold studs on leather jackets, ...
Report and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 1983
MOST ROCK bands send out photos and press clippings with their records. But inside the new album Everything Went Black is a copy of a ...
Profile and Interview by Mark Leviton, BAM, 12 August 1983
LET'S FACE IT – much of what passes for music in our country is, in fact, nothing more than product, the worthless, soulless result of ...
Review by Don Watson, New Musical Express, 31 March 1984
TO SAY that Black Flag's Damaged was the punk LP of 1981, is tantamount to (if I may be allowed to lapse for a moment ...
Wheel Me Out Flagging!: Black Flag: Marquee, London
Live Review by Mat Snow, New Musical Express, 26 May 1984
"SEARCH AND DESTROY" is the tattoo emblazoned across the sweat-rivuleted, hawser-taut shoulders of Henry Rollins. ...
The Flag Is Up For Henry Rollins
Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 1984
SUNDAY AFTERNOON, Henry Rollins will work himself into a frenzy as he leads L.A. punk kingpins Black Flag in a special matinee performance at West ...
Interview by Don Watson, New Musical Express, 15 September 1984
RUN! THIS can't be happening! The headlights of the car bearing down on Greg Ginn and Bill Stevenson capture two slack-jawed faces, stark with astonishment, ...
Interview by Mark Leviton, BAM, 29 March 1985
LOS ANGELES — Henry Rollins simply will not look at me. The Black Flag vocalist has been described as everything from Jim Morrison with Charlie ...
Punk Lives: The Minutemen, Meat Puppets and SST Records
Report and Interview by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 18 July 1985
They don't sound like the Ramones, and they don't look like the Sex Pistols, but bands like Hüsker Dü, the Minutemen and the Meat Puppets ...
Black Flag: 9.30 Club, Washington DC
Live Review by Simon Witter, New Musical Express, 27 July 1985
THE INTENSE energy with which they maliciously rioted across the grooves of Damaged inevitably doomed them to an early burn out, and tonight's show was ...
Black Flag: Damaged (SST 007) ****/In My Head (SST 045) *****
Review by Neil Perry, Sounds, 16 November 1985
THE ELECTRIC box in the corner is getting as tedious as the night is getting chilly. Cold comfort indeed, and time to slip on something ...
Black Flag: My War (Continued)
Report and Interview by Richard Grabel, New Musical Express, 12 July 1986
FRIDAY NIGHT at New York's Irving Plaza, filled to the rafters with punks letting their freak flags fly. Tattered, dazed and confused kids line the ...
SST Records: Working Muscles, Packaged Wallop
Report and Interview by Danny (Shredder) Weizmann, L.A. Weekly, 5 September 1986
YOU COULD SAY this is the darkest Dark Age the music world has seen yet, what with commercial radio more dead than death itself and ...
Ex-Black Flag Rockers Battle The Mainstream
Interview by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 27 November 1986
"WE WEREN'T a band that came out and played a lot of our old songs," reflects Black Flag founder/guitarist Greg Ginn in the wake of ...
An Oral History of Hardcore Punk
Retrospective and Interview by Pat Blashill, unpublished, 1995
NOTE: I conducted these interviews and more for a magazine story that never ran. What follows is a rough, incomplete edit of the piece. I ...
Marc Spitz with Brendan Mullen: We Got the Neutron Bomb - The Untold Story of L.A. Punk
Book Review by Barney Hoskyns, The Village Voice, 2001
IT'S KINDA IRONIC that the untold story of the Los Angeles punk scene should be officially told (tolled?) at a time when New York City ...
Book Excerpt by Michael Azerrad, Our Band Could Be Your Life, 21 July 2001
The following is the first chapter from Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991, in which Michael Azerrad vividly ...
Retrospective by Ian Winwood, Kerrang!, 19 January 2002
On the long, straight drive from Los Angeles airport, down a curving freeway, past oil wells and gas stations, diners and office supply stores, onto ...
L.A. Punk: California Screamin'
Retrospective by Don Waller, MOJO, July 2004
Ignored by the major labels, hounded by cops, fuelled by booze and drugs, L.A. punk was born in a concrete basement in Hollywood known as ...
Black Flag and All That: Joe Carducci's Enter Naomi
Memoir by Barney Hoskyns, eMusic.com, Winter 2007
THE RECENT PUBLICATION of Joe Carducci's moving and fascinating Enter Naomi: SST, L.A. and All That... (Wyoming: Redoubt Press) takes me back 25 years to ...
R.I.P. SPOT: Glen M. Lockett, 1951-2023
Obituary by Joe Carducci, unpublished, March 2023
I HATE TO type out the words but... SPOT passed away after 10am today/Saturday (Mar. 4, 2023) at Morningside Healthcare in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. His nurse ...
see also Circle Jerks
see also Henry Rollins
see also Gone
see also SWA
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