Tagged: Black Flag
Cop A Look: The Style Council
The mod, punk and new wave archetypes of 1980s England come up time and time again as fashion inspiration, but The Style Council, as a band, had a unique look that set them apart from … read more »
Mumdance Presents: Cerebral Ballzy – The Griptape (Hosted by Beavis & Butthead)
If you like to break shit and annoy people, Mumdance‘s new mixtape with Brooklyn ruffnecks Cerebral Ballzy is your theme music. Along with a couple rippers from the latter and a couple remixes from the … read more »
Video: Death Documentary/Tour Dates
In our profile on 1970s Detroit cult metal band Death from FADER #60, member Bobby Hackney told us, “I think a lot of [our rejection of Motown sounds] might have been fueled by the rejection … read more »
Touch and Go Zine Resurrected As Coffee Table Book
Hardcore Encore! read more »
Winter Hours
While Winter Hours is staunchly abrasive, if you listen closely, there are definite filigrees of melody throughout. Little sonic oases like “The Great Silence” offer small periods of respite with clean guitar and more atmospheric tones, but this is not a record for the faint of heart. Winter Hours is definitely not going to be the soundtrack for your next holiday gathering. read more »
Exclusive Premiere – Nisennenmondai "Destination Tokyo"
Ok, this is less of an exclusive (I think we got it up first), and more about me begging to post a track from Nisennenmondai’s upcoming long player (although only 5 songs, it’s 44 minutes) Destination Tokyo. Well, my persistence payed dividends, because today we can share with you the title track. This is the best thing I’ve heard all week. read more »
Freeload: Major Lazer, “Hold The Line (Poirier Remix)”
One of the best things about Ghislain Poirier is that when he remixes a song he has little to no respect for anything about said song other than its empty spaces because he can fill … read more »
Thank You For Your Patience
Like their neighbors in D.C., Richmond is a capital city with a crime rate as high as its median income is low. It’s a city just Southern enough to rankle politically correct Northerners, but such ‘old world’ sensibilities are juxtaposed against the fact that the fairer-complected old guard is very much a minority. Both groups have embraced the epochal “give me liberty or give me death” proclamation that rang through the city so many years previously, displaying an uneasy tendency towards the latter in recent years. While Richmond is hardly the Gaza Strip, it breeds a tension in the city that you can feel in bands like Mouthbreather. read more »
