While some musicians ponder over albums for years, or even decades, OFF! only needs about three days to cut a masterpiece. Led by punk icon Keith Morris and Dimitri Coates, OFF! cuts violative, explosive music that harkens back to the nascent stage of West Coast hardcore, namely Morris' first band, the legendary Black Flag, all while feeling completely immediate. In 2010, OFF! released their first collection, First Four EPs which gained acclaim from both inside and outside the punk community for being energetic, raw, [...]
Circle Jerks - Live Fast Die Young Listening to Off! Always brings me back to Black Flag and than the Circle Jerks. Here's a personal favorite classic Circle Jerks track of mine, Live Fast Die Young. Enjoy.
The hardcore supergroup returns this May.
Circle Jerks Group Sex 1980 Frontier Records Keith Morris - vocals Greg Hetson - guitar Roger Rogerson - bass Lucky Lehrer - drums 01 Deny Everything 02 I Just Want Some Skank 03 Beverly Hills 04 Operation 05 Back Against the Wall 06 Wasted 07 Behind the Door 08 World up My Ass 09 Paid Vacation 10 Don't Care 11 Live Fast Die Young 12 What's Your Problem? 13 Group Sex 14 Red Tape [...]
Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone (Cinema Guild) tells the tale of how Norwood Fisher (Bass/Vocal - 1979 present) and Angelo Moore (Vocals/Sax 1979 -present) kept Fishbone together since the beginning to present day. Being a white suburban punk I was lucky enough to have caught them from the onset of their journey. Can't say I stayed dedicated their whole career but with respect I went on to do my thing and thanks to them discovered a lots music with a open mind. This documentary features a slattering of [...]
With Beavis and Butthead back on the air after nearly a decade-and-a-half hiatus, I thought I'd take a moment to offer my belated thanks to these two badly-drawn boys for turning me on to a couple of bands that otherwise would have escaped my attention. Even before MTV got out of the music video business, Beavis and Butthead were airing videos that would never have gotten any airplay via mainstream channels. Presumably channeling Mike Judge's musical tastes, Beavis and Butthead provided US viewers with the first glimpses of several well-below-the-radar bands including the Dead Milkmen, the Cramps, Daisy [...]
Hello Waveriders! Lately, I have been really hard on music. By this I mean, it has been hard for me to find something I could listen to over and over and not get tired of it. It's been a while since I have been excited about a traditional punk band. When I say traditional punk, I'm talking about old-school hardcore punk. Bands in the vain of Bad Brains, Black Flag, MDC, Suicidal Tendencies or Minor Threat . Bands that meant something and were not just making punk music to profit off it. The band [...]
Playing her queens early off the ante, avid sister label Twin Turbo busted out it's third installment to her immediate and eager portfolio. Swedish techno hysteric Zoo Brazil is up - a familiar face to mother, edgy in sounds with playful contours. The Kill is a jaunty look on a genre that was recently put on anti-depressants. Funkytown disco percussion and a steady square bassline keeps the groove safe and grounded as stacked leads sweep through waves of white noise. It reminds me a lot of last years Felix Da Housecat 's hit Elvi$ which [...]
From the Raymond Pettibon album art, which invokes his classic album covers for his brother Greg Ginn's band, Black Flag, to the thundering downstrokes, rubbery machine gun rhythms and brash sp... Continue reading "Keith Morris and Steven McDonald Explain Off!'s Rise From The Ashes of The Circle Jerks." >
As of late, I have been listening to Black Flag's "Damaged" nonstop everywhere I go. Car ride, shower, writing posts... Damaged is there with me. With Black Flag often being considered the most important hardcore band ever, and Damaged usually considered their most important release, chances are if you listen to punk rock, you listen to a band that was directly or indirectly influenced by
City Gardens Riot on The Dance Floor film skate deck As hard as we may try to write about new music the past keep coming up again and again like unwanted overgrown hair and reminds me just how truly awesome things were way back when the slang "that was so 10 minutes ago..." never crossed our minds because the landscape of haircuts were so diverse from band to band and scene to scene. We were constantly consuming so much great music at such a rate that personally I think you'd be a fool to stay [...]
Hey you know what's weird? Brooklyn punks Cerebral Ballzy's latest "Self Titled" release is on Adult Swim's (yes, the cartoon network program) record label. Oddness factor aside, any reader of this blog knows that I love Cerebral Ballzy ever since I've seen them a few years back. Bringing their drunk, don't give a fuck punk rock to the masses, their latest debut full length contains
...And we want to be free to kick out the jams It used to be that there was nothing more American than beer, bar-b-ques, Air Conditioners, TVs, car washes, and rock music. You could always count on things that were made proudly in the good ole' U.S.A. We know where this went. However, the one thing though that will always remain true is on this very short playlist is american made rock-n-roll until they figure out how to outsource that shit. Ok with the exception of the U2 track you know what I am getting [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive Charley Gallay, Getty Images As hardcore supergroup OFF! pummeled through their repertoire of raw, aggressive minute-long songs at Toronto's Horseshoe during NXNE on Friday, frontman Keith Morris ( Black Flag , Circle Jerks ) recapped his disdain for the U.S. Government's "Bin Laden's gone! Who's next?" tactics, North American rampant consumerism, and one of the local area's "douche-bag" neighborhoods. While political [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive , Q + A Vice Records OFF! formed when the last Circle Jerks record fell apart in the middle of the recording process and is the latest forum for hardcore legend Keith Morris to spit vitriol and inspire a new generation to grow out their dreadlocks and question musical and societal conventions. They're also a spectacularly fun band that [...]
Rock and roll music is used by Satan in deception. People are led astray and they will no longer respond to the Bible. These people become distant from God, worldly, and immune to Scriptural correction. They become obsessed with their love of Satan's music and will defend it unto the destruction of their souls! Rock [...]
I need some more. One of these things is not like the others. Can you guess which one? (this picture has nothing to do with anything... but Britney's sure got a nice rack here. Much nicer than Henry Rollins' rack). Correct! Uncle Tupelo is the one that doesn't belong... because they are alt-country pussyfucks!!!!!!!
Keith Morris needs a chair. The 55-year-old OFF! front man just ripped through an in-store performance at Atlanta's Criminal Records. His energy level while performing isn't be much diminished from his years in Black Flag and the Circle Jerks; the difference is that now he needs a minute or two to recuperate. The other members of the band, including Morris's collaborator Dmitri Coats, are milling around, moving equipment, and signing copies of OFF!'s debut release, First Four EPs . Morris drains half a bottle of water and warily takes in his immediate surroundings, as if he expects to be [...]
Who: OFF! in the Gobi Tent In 3 or Fewer Words: Past and present I'll Remember This Until: The next time I see a fellow AARP card-eligible rocker get me this excited. "You guys are the best f*cking band here," a fan shouted at the punk quartet's frontman Keith Morris early in OFF!'s set. "I beg to differ with you, sir," the dreadlocked 55-year-old said, pointing a lecturer's index finger in the air. "That Duran Duran band that's playing later on, they f*cking rule ... But, hey, does that mean [...]
Here is part 2 of 2 of Barryfest's report on the 2011 South By Southwest Festival. Part 1 can be found here: Barryfest at South By Southwest, Part 1: SXSW Is Decadent and Depraved . I'm generally not the kind of guy that notices, asks for, or even cares about American politics at rock shows. In fact, there was a time, somewhere between Rage Against the Machine's second album Evil Empire and, not ironically, when Bono started begging George W. Bush for money on behalf of all 3rd World countries, that I wanted every [...]
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