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There’s nothing better than cracking the spine on a new story on Book Lovers day. OK, maybe listening to your favorite artist or band. What if you could combine the two? You can. Look no further than this list of 10 books written by your favorite musicians to merge your love of melodic lyrics with […]

We’re fast approaching the third season of The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula, and now we have a precise date to mark on our calendars. The horror-themed drag show began on YouTube, but the new season will also premiere on a streaming service for the first time this fall. Read more: twenty one pilots make history with […]

There are thousands of podcasts out there, and more are uploaded each day. While there’s plenty of podcasts about music, we wanted to switch perspectives and introduce you to some created by the musicians themselves. Go ahead and take a break from streaming music to try out one of these podcasts or radio shows hosted […]

“Basically, I went through 30 or 40 different shows,” underground guitar legend East Bay Ray says of DK40, the new triple-disc box set documenting the live fury of San Francisco’s Dead Kennedys, the punk band he founded in 1978. The three shows number among the best tapes Ray’s found from across DK’s history: Amsterdam’s Paradiso […]

Keith Morris is far more cooler than you, this writer and most of our friends. And really, he misplaced that last rat’s ass he could give. That’s because the only thing the former frontman for American punk icons Black Flag and Circle Jerks is really stoked for is the completion of Watermelon, the indie-film foray […]

Who doesn’t love eating tacos, drinking beer, and listening to the best rock and punk bands in the world—all at the same time? Now doesn’t that sound like pure bliss? Well, if you agree with that summation, you may be interested in attending the upcoming Sabroso Craft Beer, Taco & Music Festival. Because, in addition […]

One of the coolest things on Instagram (besides those crazy Wolf Eyes memes) is Tiny Concert, a series of short hand-drawn black-and-white animations coupled with the music of classic punk bands. Simultaneously primitive and wondrously whimsical, the series acts as a cultural inroad toward discovering a greater rubric of all things punk. Read more: 10 […]

Former Black Flag bassist Cel Revuelta has died, according to a report from Metal Sucks. Revuelta was diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor last July. In February, his family set up a GoFundMe to assist with medical costs. On Thursday, the GoFundMe page was updated with the news that Revuelta had died on May 3: […]

Classic hardcore punk sowed the seeds by which today's alternative music blooms. Be it death metal, metalcore, pop-punk or screamo, the current iterations of aggressive rock wouldn't exist without our hardcore forefathers. Here are 10 classic hardcore bands we think you'll love. BLACK FLAG The launch pad for both Keith Morris (now frontman for Off!) […]

While New York and London may have claims to the origins of punk, California and D.C. get to claim hardcore. Hardcore is a style of music that has had various defining characteristics since it first started popping up in the music sphere in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Naturally, hardcore from the ’80s varies […]

New York award-winning film studio A24 launched its first episode of Green Room Radio (GRR!) this week. The new online punk rock radio show is hosted by hardcore scholar Tony Rettman—author of NYHC: New York Hardcore 1980-1990. The radio show features a programming format of intimate interviews, anecdotes and a rotating playlist to bring hardcore […]

Dez Cadena, legendary punk guitarist and former member of both Misfits and Black Flag, has been diagnosed with cancer. A GoFundMe page has been started to raise money to offset Cadena's medical bills. An official statement has been posted to the fundraising page: Dez has just finished debilitating radiation treatments, and is confident he will […]

Apparently, when Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl was 14, he wrote a letter to his self-proclaimed hero Ian MacKaye, who, at the time, was fronting hardcore icons Minor Threat. According to the brief letter, it looks like Dave was looking for some industry hook-ups. Check out the awesome piece of punk-rock history below. Read more: Dave Grohl recalls meeting Frances […]

According to documents first obtained by Consequence Of Sound, guitarist Greg Ginn, co-founder of hardcore punk band Black Flag, has been accused of child abuse by his ex-wife, Marina Ginn. On October 10, Marina filed an affidavit with the Williamson County Texas District Court, asking for an Emergency Motion To Modify Parent-Child Relationship, because she […]

You’ve seen them at shows, you’ve seen them on Instagram, you’ve even seen them across the chests of your favorite punk celebrities. We’re talking about, of course, the classic Black Flag parody shirt, which at this point is as much of a cultural institution as the Black Flag logo itself. We’ve compiled some of our […]

We hope that 2014 is going to be the year you stop settling for compressed-to-hell MP3s and start collecting vinyl albums. Records sound vastly superior when compared against those compressed MP3s you got for free. They have great artwork, lyric sheets (usually) and extensive notes about the music, as well as voluminous “thank you” lists […]

It's a battle of the flags as recent news has come up of Black Flag's founder, Greg Ginn, suing former members of his band; or better known today as FLAG [Keith Morris, guitarist/singer Dez Cadena, bassist Chuck Dukowski, drummer Bill Stevenson and Descendents guitarist Stephen Egerton]. According to SPIN, Ginn “filed suit against FLAG last week, […]