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The Los Angeles hardcore group announce they are writing a new album.

​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." >

Rocks Off: You desire a gig in Mississippi or Alabama. Why? I can barely remember the last time any of my other bands played in either of those states. Now, the excuse I keep getting is that th... Continue reading "Keith Morris Sounds OFF! About His Dark Punk Party" >

The front cover of Nick Drake's Five Leaves Left. Photography by Keith Morris. The inimitable Nick Drake , recognized after his death as a brilliant songwriter but rarely before, is still the master of that brand of moody, emotive finger-picked acoustic guitar. The haunting melodies, the unshakable vocals, the ability to move through song: Nick Drake, an English songwriter but a speaker for deep veins of sadness and despair running through all culture, is still untouchable as a musician. His first album, Five Leaves Left , was produced between 1968 and 1969, [...]

dukowski still a total fucking dude. Filed under: music stuff , video Tagged: black flag , chuck dukowski , keith morris , music , music video , no age

Former Black Flag members Keith Morris and Chuck Dukowski recently joined No Age onstage at MacArthur Park in Los Angeles to perform a quick ten minute set of BF songs, including "Wasted," "Fix Me," "I've Had It," "No Values" and "Nervous Breakdown." Click below for the video.

Monday Afternoon Quick Fix runs every Monday afternoon to showcase the best of Chicago music news, views and stories from around the interwebs and blogosphere that we might have missed. • The Reader's Miles Raymer catches up with OFF! frontman Keith Morris to talk about record collecting and punk rock expectations. • While we didn't exactly love Destroyer's set at Pitchfork Music Festival this weekend, John Dugan over at Time Out Chicago surely did. • WBEZ's beloved curmudgeon Jim DeRogatis (my spirit [...]

During the recent House of Vans show featuring Superchunk , OFF! and Lemuria , OFF! frontman Keith Morris joined Superchunk onstage during their encore to perform Black Flag 's "Gimme Gimme Gimme" and Misfits ' "Where Eagles Dare." Click below to watch.

We have a full post with pictures and review of last night's show at House of Vans coming, but meanwhile check out a video of 2/3 of Superchunk 's encore, aka the part where (Off!'s) Keith Morris came out and performed Gimme Gimme Gimme (Black Flag) and Where Eagles Dare (Misfits) with Mac and band. It was pretty amazing (especially the Misfits part, no offense Keith). Video below... Continue reading "Superchunk played Black Flag & Misfits w/ Keith Morris (video)" at BrooklynVegan.com

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 [...]

OFF! @ Yonge Dundas Square (Keith fucking Morris... AMAZING!)

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 [...]

[In response to the inevitable questions I am asked at shows — What have you heard? What are you listening to? What's new? — today I embark on something called Random Dispatches ... the contents of my notebook, spilt.] ► Lavender Diamond's recent show at the Eagle Rock Center for the Arts was a revelation, and not merely because we hadn't heard much from Lavender Diamond since singer Becky Stark and the band released "Imagine Our Love" in 2007. The [...]

Download: Cerebral Ballzy "Insufficient Fare" Brooklyn band Cerebral Ballzy play completely wrecked hardcore and destroyed our Valentine's Day show in February. They will also destroy the Echo tomorrow. Singer Honor Titus speaks now on puke, cops, jail, jazz, yuppies and Cyndi Lauper. This interview by Chris Ziegler. When you did the 'Puke Song,' you actually recorded a live puke. What is the best way to capture a puke in hi-fidelity? Honor Titus (vocals): It was [...]

• Cerebral Ballzy - Insufficient Fare

Keith performing with OFF!, Coachella 2011 by Sung As a fan of both Keith and OFF!, I thought this was pretty funny. Have a great weekend. WE ANALYZED KEITH MORRIS'S DREADLOCK It Contained Uranium and Arsenic ...The next time we heard from [OFF!], they told us that not everyone was into it. Initially, we figured it was Keith who was uncomfortable with the idea because he felt singled out due to the situation on his head. But for the record, we must state that Dimitri Coats, Steven [...]

Last night (this morning?) on the Radio 1 Rock Show, Reading & Leeds Festivals confirmed the line-up for the Lock Up Stage - the two days of the festival where the third biggest stage is given over to punk. And despite us often joking among ourselves that it always seems to be 20 bands picked [...]

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 [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News It was a year ago at SXSW that OFF! played its first gig, and singer Keith Morris celebrated the anniversary Friday (March 18) by essentially carrying on a running conversation with himself, interrupted now and then by songs, at Spin's day party at Stubb's in Austin, Texas. The ex- Black Flag and Circle Jerks singer held forth on lying politicians and greedy corporations, thanked the rest of the bands on the bill -- "even the ones that, [...]

What happens when former members of Circle Jerks, Red Kross and Rocket from the Crypt get together to bring back that good ol hardcore sound? You get OFF ! More news at Pitchfork about Off! playing shows in hardcore cities this March. OFF! Tour dates: 03-22 Atlanta, GA - Drunken Unicorn * 03-23 Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506 * 03-24 Washington, DC - The Red Palace * 03-25 Baltimore, MD - The Ottobar * 03-26 New York, NY - Santos Party House * 03-28 Cambridge, MA - Middle East Downstairs * 03-30 Buffalo, [...]

Good people seem to travel in packs, and good people are SLANG CHICKENS and ORIGAMI VINYL , the pairing that are hosting the Monday night residency series at The Echo this month. Tonight the Chickens bring other friends, namely PAPA, MINI MANSIONS, RACHEL FANNAN , and the legendary Keith Morris (OFF!, Circle Jerks, Black Flag) will be DJing all evening. Slang Chickens will be showcasing the new material found on their latest EP release, " My Floor " which you can pick up [...]