Greg Ginn

Dirty Projectors' last album, 2007's Rise Above , was a chamber-rock rewrite-from-memory of Black Flag 's 1981 hardcore punk classic Damaged , a radical reinterpretation so thorough that the songs were barely recognizable. Read More

Hooh, doggy, we got us a good 'un today. Read More

When Nirvana covered three Meat Puppets songs for the band's MTV Unplugged session in the mid '90s, the nation was introduced to an obscure punk/hardcore band that's been around since the '80s. Read More

Polliwog Park was the pride of affluent, pristine Manhattan Beach, a peaceful suburb on the South Bay of California, near Black Flag's home in Hermosa Beach. Read More

He was scheduled to play the Minneapolis club 7th Street Entry on Thursday, two nights after his former Husker Du bandmate and ever-active sparring partner Bob Mould performed next door for probably 10 times the crowd at the larger venue First Avenue. Read More

Little Stephen recently said that the music industry is swimming in a sea of mediocrity. Read More

When it comes to the history of alternative music and culture in Memphis, all roads lead to the fabled Antenna Club, a grimy black hole of a bar once situated on the northwest corner of Madison and Avalon, between a pawn shop and a dentist's office that was also — most conveniently — a leasing office for inexpensive Midtown rental properties. Read More