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11:00pm Rise Above by Black Flag from Damaged
#KJAC #TheColoradoSound #BlackFlag

An image of the cover of the album 'Damaged' by Black Flag

Black Flag – Return to the Stage

New lineup debuts live in Sofia: Greg Ginn, Max Zanelly, David Rodriguez & Bryce Weston. European tour underway. #HardcorePunk #BlackFlag #PunkNews

🎥 VIDEO INSIDE: https://punkshits.com/black-flag-return-to-the-stage-with-new-lineup/

42 Years Ago – ⚡️Pure Energy⚡️

Black Flag – Depression
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, June 11, 1983

Opening Act: Misfits and The Vandals

Video – Quality 🫣
Those Were the Days 👍

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Watch: Black Flag’s new lineup makes live debut in Bulgaria

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Bacon Wagon – Trauma Cake Review

By Tyme

Noise rock n00bs Bacon Wagon are a trio of Swedish scoundrels not as “n00” to the scene as you might think. From the ashes of disbanded noise act Acid Ape, siblings Marcus and Kristoffer Kinberg arose like Porky the Phoenix and formed Bacon Wagon in 2003. After numerous guitarist auditions, some instrument swapping, and finally finding its third with drummer Peter Johansson in 2006, Bacon Wagon released a couple of splits and an EP before going dark in 2008. While not entirely unproductive in the interim, the trio reunited in 2023 and wrote a slew of new songs that serve as the basis for Bacon Wagon‘s Reptile Records debut album, Trauma Cake. With a Marcus Kinberg cover that had me reaching for a pair of 3-D glasses to keep my eyes straight, I settled down with Bacon Wagon‘s first proper release in twenty-two years, wondering whether eating this particular dessert before dinner would be worth it.

Bacon Wagon in 2025 sounds like an early-aughts garage band trying its best to channel the raucous, late-80s, early-90s-era milieu dominated by Steve Albini projects and the Am Rep roster. Whipped up with equal parts Hammerhead flour, Melvins sugar, Butthole Surfers butter, and Black Flag eggs, baked, then paired with a cold glass of Cows milk, Trauma Cake is a rowdy period piece reflective of its ingredients. Album opener “Tar Salad,” with its screechy, feedback-as-riff intro that gives way to a chest-beating rocker that serves as an aperitif, foreshadowing much of what Trauma Cake has to offer. Marcus Kinberg’s guitars, awash in reverb and fuzz, sans any stoner entanglements, bounce around with Kristoffer’s punk-bully bass lines with loads of King Buzzo-like, grunge-sludgy goo (“Lady Cramps,” “Honey! (I’m Home),” “Bear of a Man”). Johansson pounds the skins with Crover-Grohl power, beating both on and off-tempo beats while keeping things in line. Brothers Kinberg share the mic and steep the Bacon Wagon vocal blitz in loads of sarcastically pompous smarm and snarkumstance. Bacon Wagon keeps its tongue firmly cheeked with an immature attitude that conjures some fun moments, but I’m just not convinced 2025 is the most relevant time for Trauma Cake.

Dumb in a way that doesn’t necessarily mean bad; there’s nothing Bacon Wagon does on Trauma Cake that will have you diving deep into the recesses of your psyche looking for answers. Low-brow and unthought-provoking tracks pulse with punky, chunky energy (“A Voodoo That Actually Works,” “I-Beam”) and lurch about like drunken college students after too many cheap keg beers. Bacon Wagon plays music perfect for sweaty basement venues shrouded in clouds of cigarette smoke, besotted with puddles full of piss and solo-cup spillage. With little in the way of innovation, it’s as though Bacon Wagon recorded Trauma Cake in a time capsule, keeping any modernity at arm’s length while embracing a musical period in time that did not need a retro movement, thereby tapping into a mysterious, underground zeitgeist, like some pre-Sub Pop Nirvana demo.

While the grungier side of Trauma Cake mostly works, the noisy parts detract and, in some cases, are just downright annoying. The biggest offender, “Love Blister,” is as painful to listen to as it would be to pop. With its slow plod of overly fuzzed bass work, Kinberg-squared’s vocals are cartoonishly swoopy and out of tune, as are most of the guitar chords and leads, which screech along before the song ends in a grinding, sustained vocal that recalls Jim Carey’s ‘most annoying sound in the world’ from Dumb and Dumber. And while Trauma Cake only clocks in at a lean thirty-three minutes, by the time “I-Beam” squeals to a close, giving over to the shrieky feedback of “Brown Gravy,” it feels like you’ve spent a lot more time with Bacon Wagon than you have. Lacking any real dynamic detours, the constant and deliberate songwriting approach and execution cause ear fatigue to set in, further blurring the lines of what Trauma Cake is doing into a fuzzy slog.

Better served had it been released in the early 2000s, Trauma Cake is an excellent example of too little, too late. Bacon Wagon‘s wheels have been rolling in the same direction since 2003, and while they aren’t a bad band, they’re just not bringing anything original or exciting to the table. Fans of the mentioned bands will get some enjoyment from Bacon Wagon. But for a genre and era of music that has yet to experience a renaissance, Trauma Cake will not be the record to revitalize it.

Rating: 2.5/5.0
DR: 9 | Format Reviewed: 320kbps mp3
Label: Reptile Records
Website: Bandcamp
Releases Worldwide: June 6th, 2025

#25 #2025 #BaconWagon #BlackFlag #ButtholeSurfers #Cows #Hammerhead #Jun25 #Melvins #NoiseRock #ReptileRecords #Review #SwedishRock #TraumaCake

42 years ago today
Black Flag, Misfits and The Vandals - Santa Monica Civic Auditorium - June 11, 1983

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Watch: New BLACK FLAG Lineup Performs Live For First Time

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#BlackFlag #GregGinn #Sofia #Bulgaria #Mixtape5 #PunkRock #MaxZanelly #DavidRodriguez #BryceWeston #SSTRecords

Black Flag / Damaged (1981); Ein Faustschlag ins Gesicht der Spießigkeit. "Damaged" ist roher, wütender Hardcore-Punk ohne Kompromisse – voller Dreck, Schweiß und Selbsthass. Henry Rollins schreit, als würde er sich die Seele aus dem Leib reißen, während Gitarren und Drums wie Abrissbirnen wüten. "Six Pack" ist der saufende Mittelfinger zur Gesellschaft – stumpf, brutal, ehrlich. #BlackFlag #Punk #HenryRollins #Hardcore #PunkRock #PostHardcore #California

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Great songs with great covers ...

The Boys of Summer
-- Don Henley (1984)
-- The Ataris (2003)

Nobody on the road, nobody on the beach
I feel it in the air, the summer's out of reach

#music #rockAndRoll #rockMusic #donHenley #theEagles #eaglesBand #theAtaris #ataris #atarisBand #gratefulDead #blackFlag #coverSongs #songCovers #coverTunes #80sRock #80sMusic #2000sRock #2000sMusic #arenaRock #classicRock #popRock #punkRock #popPunk

Understand we're fighting a war
And we can win!
They hate us, we hate them!
But there's a way we can win!
We're gonna chase those crazy bald heads
Gonna chase those lousy bump heads
Gonna chase them crazy ICE agents
Outta town, yeah!
So if you see ICE cruisin' around
In your city, in your town
And you don't like what's goin' down
Then it's time for you to stand up!

#USPol #BlackFlag #BobMarley #Fugazi

Something odd happens twenty seconds in to "Rise Above" by punk band Black Flag on their album Damaged (1981). Either it's a recording problem, or someone (the drummer?) makes a mistake. The beat is lost but quickly recovers after a confusing second or two.

#BlackFlag #punk

Released 44 years ago

'Six Pack' by American hardcore punk band Black Flag

Black Flag - "Six Pack" live in Berlin, Germany (February 18, 1983)

#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #blackflag #sixpack #history #punkrockhistory

44 years ago
Six Pack is the third EP by the American hardcore punk band Black Flag, released in June 1981 through SST Records on 7" vinyl.

Cover Art Raymond Pettibon

#punk #punkrock #hardcorepunk #blackflag #sixpack #history #punkrockhistory

- https://workersliberty.org/index.php/story/2025-06-02/black-flag-means-order-you-must-disobey

Avner Wishnitzer du groupe d'action Black Flag en Israël s'est entretenu avec Owen Flood de Solidarity.

# Qu'est-ce que le groupe d'action Black Flag ? Comment a-t-il vu le jour ? Comment vous situez-vous par rapport aux autres groupes anti-guerre en Israël, tels que Standing Together et Mesarvot ?

Black Flag est un groupe d'action d'universitaires en Israël qui a été créé au début de la semaine dernière pour résister aux massacres, à la famine et aux déplacements de population à Gaza. En Israël, le terme « drapeau noir » (degel shachor) symbolise un ordre illégal ou manifestement immoral auquel les soldats doivent refuser d'obéir. Il trouve son origine dans les suites du massacre de Kfar Qassim en 1956, lorsque la police des frontières israélienne a abattu 49 citoyens palestiniens d'Israël pour avoir violé un couvre-feu soudain. Dans son arrêt historique, la Cour suprême israélienne a déclaré que certains ordres sont si clairement illégaux qu'un « drapeau noir d'illégalité flotte sur eux », et qu'ainsi aucun soldat ne peut justifier d'y obéir. Nous utilisons cette expression, que tout Israélien reconnaîtrait, pour dire qu'un drapeau noir flotte sur ce qu'Israël fait à Gaza.

Il existe d'autres groupes qui résistent à la guerre et ont organisé des manifestations. Par exemple, je suis un militant du mouvement israélo-palestinien Combattants pour la Paix qui co-résiste à la guerre depuis de nombreux mois maintenant. Standing Together, Women Wage Peace et d'autres groupes se mobilisent également contre la guerre. Black Flag rejoint cette résistance. Jusqu'à présent, plus de 1 300 universitaires ont signé notre lettre ouverte et ces derniers jours, des manifestations ont eu lieu sur différents campus à travers le pays. Les étudiants se joignent également aux manifestations et s'organisent pour se mobiliser.

# Quels autres types de mobilisation y a-t-il eu contre la guerre sur les campus israéliens ?

Avant la création de Black Flag, il y avait des actions sporadiques sur différents campus. Par exemple, des conférences et des étudiants de l'Université hébraïque de Jérusalem ont organisé des séances d'information sur Gaza et des manifestations ont eu lieu à l'Université de Tel Aviv et à l'Université de Haïfa. Cette activité, cependant, n'était pas coordonnée et était parfois limitée par les autorités universitaires. Black Flag stimule cette activité et cherche à élever une voix contre les atrocités qui se déroulent à Gaza, non seulement sur les campus mais dans toute la société israélienne.

# Certaines estimations suggèrent que plus de 100 000 réservistes israéliens refusent de servir. Y a-t-il des groupes sur les campus israéliens qui appellent ouvertement à refuser de servir ?

L'estimation de 100 000 est une exagération grossière. Des milliers de personnes évitent le service de différentes manières ; beaucoup d'entre elles sont pour le moins mal à l'aise avec les politiques israéliennes. Mais seuls quelques-uns refusent ouvertement et risquent l'emprisonnement. En tant que groupe, Black Flag adresse sa protestation principalement au gouvernement et au grand public. Certes, il y a des voix sur les campus et en dehors qui appellent les soldats à refuser, mais ce n'est pas ce que fait Black Flag.

En particulier dans le milieu universitaire international, il y a des appels à rompre les liens avec Israël – ce qui, dans certains cas, a entraîné l'exclusion d'universitaires israéliens à l'étranger. De plus, parmi certaines parties du mouvement BDS, certains appellent au boycott même des groupes anti-guerre et anti-occupation juifs-palestiniens tels que Standing Together. Ces boycotts affectent-ils le travail du groupe d'action Black Flag ? Affectent-ils le sentiment d'isolement des travailleurs de l'éducation de gauche en Israël par rapport à la gauche internationale ?

Nous sommes très concentrés sur la société israélienne et comme le groupe vient juste d'être créé, nous n'avons pas encore traité du BDS. Cependant, c'est une vieille discussion maintenant. Ma position personnelle est qu'un boycott généralisé de tout ce qui est israélien, même des groupes qui s'opposent activement aux politiques criminelles israéliennes en Cisjordanie et à Gaza, tels que Combattants pour la Paix, ou Standing Together, est contre-productif. Il affaiblit l'opposition plutôt qu'il ne la renforce.

Il y a eu beaucoup de victimisation des travailleurs de l'éducation pour avoir protesté contre la guerre ? Comment la gauche sur les campus a-t-elle réagi ? Quelle a été la réponse des syndicats de l'enseignement supérieur ?

Les syndicats sont restés jusqu'à présent non impliqués dans les protestations contre la guerre, et je ne pense pas que cela soit susceptible de changer de sitôt, étant donné que la société israélienne dominante est encore largement aveugle aux conséquences de nos actions à Gaza. Les médias israéliens dominants ne montrent tout simplement pas ce que le reste du monde voit, créant une bulle qui « protège » les Israéliens de l'horreur. Ajoutez à cela l'impact des atrocités du Hamas le 7 octobre, et des années de déshumanisation et de brutalisation et vous pouvez comprendre où se situent la plupart des Israéliens, y compris les syndicats. Je pense cependant que les choses changent. Plus de lettres sont publiées, plus de manifestations organisées, plus de voix critiques s'élèvent dans la presse.

# Que compte faire le groupe d'action Black Flag ensuite ?

Nous espérons amplifier ces voix critiques et encourager une discussion plus ouverte, plus sincère des politiques israéliennes, et une résistance plus efficace à celles-ci. Nous le ferons par le biais de manifestations sur les campus et au-delà, d'articles d'opinion, de webinaires et de nombreux autres moyens. Notre message principal est que face à la catastrophe que nous avons nous-mêmes créée, nous ne pouvons tout simplement pas rester silencieux. Nous devons brandir un drapeau noir.

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Avner Wishnitzer of the Black Flag Action Group in Israel talked to Owen Flood from Solidarity.

What is the Black Flag Action Group? How did it come into being? How do you relate to other anti-war groups in Israel, such as Standing Together and Mesarvot?

Black Flag is an action group of academics in Israel that was established early last week to resist the mass killing, starvation and displacement of the population in Gaza. In Israel, the term "black flag" (degel shachor) symbolises an illegal or blatantly immoral order that soldiers must refuse to obey. It originates from the aftermath of the 1956 Kfar Qassim massacre, when Israeli Border Police shot and killed 49 Palestinian citizens of Israel for violating a sudden curfew. In its landmark ruling, the Israeli Supreme Court stated that some orders are so clearly illegal that a "black flag of illegality flies over them," and thus no soldier can justify obeying them. We use this phrase, that any Israeli would recognise, to say that a black flag flies over what Israel is doing in Gaza.

There are other groups who resist the war and have been organising protests. For instance, I am an activist with the Israeli-Palestinian movement Combatants for Peace that has been co-resisting the war for many months now. Standing Together, Women Wage Peace and other groups are also mobilising against the war. Black Flag joins this resistance. So far, more than 1,300 academics have signed our open letter and in the last few days protests were held in different campuses across the country. Students too join the protests and are organising to mobilise.

What other kinds of mobilisation has there been against the war on Israeli campuses?

Before Black Flag was established, there were sporadic actions in different campuses. For example, lectures and students at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem held teach-ins about Gaza and in Tel Aviv University and Haifa University protests were held. This activity, however, was not coordinated and was sometimes limited by the universities’ authorities. Black Flag boosts this activity and seeks to raise a voice against the atrocities taking place in Gaza, not only in campuses but across Israeli society.

Some estimates suggest that over 100,000 Israeli reservists are refusing to serve. Are there groups on Israeli campuses calling openly to refuse to serve?

The estimate of 100,000 is a gross exaggeration. Thousands are avoiding service in many different ways; many of them are at the very least uncomfortable about Israeli policies. But only few openly refuse and risk imprisonment. As a group, Black Flag addresses its protest mostly toward the government and the general public. To be sure, there are voices on campuses and outside them that call upon soldiers to refuse but that is not what Black Flag does.

Particularly in international academia there are calls to cut ties with Israel - in some cases resulting in Israeli academics being excluded abroad. Moreover, amongst parts of the BDS movement are those who call for a boycott of even Jewish-Palestinian anti-war and anti-occupation groups such as Standing Together. Do these boycotts affect the work of the Black Flag Action Group? Does it affect how isolated left-wing education workers in Israel feel in relation to the international left?

We are very much focused on Israeli society and since the group has only just been established, we have not dealt with the BDS yet. However, that is by now an old discussion. My personal position is that a blanket boycott of everything Israeli, even groups that actively oppose Israeli criminal policies in the West Bank and Gaza, such as Combatants for Peace, or Standing Together, is counter productive. It weakens opposition rather than strengthen it.

#Israel #BlackFlag #Gaeza #Solidarity #StandingTogether

»We've Been Silent Too Long': 1,300 Israeli Academics Call to End #Gaza War, Citing 'Moral Collapse'«
»This is a horrifying list of war crimes and crimes against humanity – our own doing,' the academics' letter states, urging Israeli academic leaders to 'mobilize the full weight of Israeli academia to stop the war'« #Israel #BlackFlag
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-05-28/ty-article/.premium/1-300-israeli-academics-urge-end-to-gaza-war-citing-moral-collapse/00000197-1617-df22-a9d7-9ef7724d0000 (paywall)

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Nästa märkliga kapitel i det som är ett av de mest legendariska amerikanska punkbandens historia. En ny (redan bespottad och hånad) line-up från Greg Ginns utvattnade version av det mäktiga Black Flag. Iofs det kan väl inte bli mer kront än den förra? Följer med spänning!

#blackflag #gregginn #hardcorepunk

#GregGinn Reveals First Look at #BlackFlag’s New #GenZ Lineup

https://consequence.net/2025/05/greg-ginn-black-flag-gen-z-lineup/
https://consequence.net/2025/04/black-flag-new-lineup-2025/

Black Flag founding member Greg Ginn has offered the first look at the #punkband’s new lineup, which features vocalist #MaxZanelly, bassist David Rodriguez, and drummer Bryce Weston.

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BLACK FLAG Releases First Photo Of New Lineup, Promises 'Exciting Season Of Live Shows And New Music Production'

https://blabbermouth.net/news/black-flag-releases-first-photo-of-new-lineup-promises-exciting-season-of-live-shows-and-new-music-production

#BlackFlag #GregGinn #MaxZanelly #DavidRodriguez #BryceWeston #SSTRecords #HermosaBeach #PunkRock #Hardcore #MikeVallely