Black Flag

If you like punk, and you live in L.A., Headline Records is the place to go to. Read More

I was lucky enough to see Black Flag play live a number of times in the '80s, around the time Glen E. Friedman shot the photo that graces this book's cover. Read More

The tricky part is trying to get past years of accumulated cliches and received wisdom in order to actually listen to the music and codify an honest response. Read More

For some, the mere notion of Metal Night sells itself. Read More

Becoming a member of the Winchester Skateboard Park and hearing Black Flag’s “Jealous Again” for the first time. Read More

The recent rumour that Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler had decided to leave his band sent shockwaves through, well, nowhere, really. Read More

"At one point, I met a young couple who recognized me and we stopped to talk. Around that time, a female vendor walked up to us wearing a most interesting T-shirt. The couple got the irony of the situation and explained to the woman why I was asking to take her picture. She just smiled gently and patiently allowed me to take a few photos before she moved on, perhaps wondering what the hell that was all about." Read More

So it was Talking Musical Revolutions last night, transplanted to a pleasantly dank cellar in Shoreditch, and Stevie Chick is discussing his fine-sounding, just-out book about Black Flag with John Robb, and Stevie mentions that guitarist Greg Ginn was a huge Grateful Dead fan, and how the whole punk Year Zero concept is a bit of a myth, and that the Sex Pistols were really into Yes, and I mutter sotto voce that, actually, it was the Buzzcocks (specifically Steve Diggle) who were into Yes, and Billy completes my thought process by asserting that the Pistols (specifically John Lydon) were more into Van Der Graaf Generator , and I wonder whether we should start a Facebook group or something of that ilk for people to get all nerdy about the banal minutiae of the whole Now-Form-A-Band culture, although wouldn't it be more punk not to care? Read More

The first floor of Mykee Ramen's home is covered in graffiti, from X-rated permanent marker scrawlings to murals of alien life. Read More

A wonderful cascade of covers from a friend has turned my thoughts to covers of punk music this week. Read More