Love Justin Bieber, but afraid to reveal it to your punk rock friends? Do you tell your friends that the music you’re blasting on your iPod is the latest pop sensation when it’s really Black Flag’s Damaged? Wish these two worlds could finally meet? Well, XLR8R and Exclaim! music wr[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Black Flag’
April 9th, 2010 - 12:25 am § in True/Slant
Black Flag's Chuck Dukowski and hardcore punk's garage sale
A couple years back, Minor Threat drummer and Dischord Records co-founder Jeff Nelson decided to do a little spring cleaning. So, he did what any person looking to unload a whole lot of perceived junk would do: Sell it on eBay. Yet, Nelson wasn’t getting rid of, say, an old Tickle Me Elmo. Nel[...]
December 2nd, 2009 - 8:46 pm § in True/Slant
Sons of Anarchy, Henry Rollins and a few good musician-actors
Last night, FX aired the “Sons of Anarchy” season finale to the largest audience in the show’s history. And it was a doozy of a show, and no doubt will draw more people into the show’s Hamlet-inspired tale of a California biker gang caught in the eye of an ideological storm when the third se[...]
September 3rd, 2008 - 1:15 am § in Perfect Lines
A Heavy Cure
You have to hand it to the Boston Herald on this one. The Weekly Dig usually dispenses the mean-spirited disses, but this Michael Marotta column on bad summer trends takes the cake. Specifically, the following point: Ivy League indie rock Right now, Vampire Weekend and Chester French are taking our [...]