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Black Flag

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Swinging Modern Sounds: Observations on the Occasion of a 100th Column

  • Rick Moody
  • December 3, 2020
The clash of opinions about music is music itself.
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  • Allyson McCabe
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Andrew Savage’s Punk Possibilities

  • Allyson McCabe and Esme Blegvad
  • November 16, 2017
I kept listening over and over again, and eventually I realized this album was challenging my idea of what punk is.
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Henry Rollins Goes After Dr. Seuss

  • Liz Wood
  • June 22, 2016
The former Black Flag frontman has never been short on rants or the impulse to tear down whatever bullshit he can find. Henry Rollins’s latest target: Dr. Seuss’s Oh, the Places You’ll Go!. He…
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The Rumpus Interview with Garth Risk Hallberg

  • Ryan Krull
  • October 16, 2015
Garth Risk Hallberg talks about his debut, City on Fire, living in New York City now and in the ’70s, and the anxiety and gratitude you feel when your first novel generates so much buzz.
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Decline of Western Civilization Series Back from the Vault

  • Liz Wood
  • July 1, 2015
The seminal chronicle of LA punk was re-released yesterday via Shout! Factory on DVD and Blu-Ray, bringing the three films by Penelope Spheeris together with additional archival footage into a…
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Swinging Modern Sounds #65: Tragedy Plus Time

  • Rick Moody
  • May 4, 2015
Jesse Malin is a lifer in a business that rarely features lifers anymore.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #64: Ack! Ack! Ack! Ack!

  • Rick Moody
  • March 30, 2015
Many of you will not want to believe that “Ack! Ack! Ack! Ack!” by the Californian punk band the Urinals, is the greatest song ever written, but that is simply because there is some kind of vise or blood-occluding mechanism attached to the thinking and feeling part of your limbic region.
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Sound & Vision: Scott Crawford

  • Allyson McCabe
  • December 12, 2014
Director and punk rock enthusiast Scott Crawford talks with Allyson McCabe about his film Salad Days, his punk fanzine Metrozine, Kickstarter, and DIY music culture.
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Albums of Our Lives: The Soundtrack to The Decline of Western Civilization, Part I

  • Eric Nelson
  • October 11, 2013
The Decline introduced me to bands like the Germs and X that I would come to love later in college when I needed a break from playing indie rock on campus radio.
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