Punk Rock

Revisiting Black Flag's My War

Confirmed: Ian MacKaye Not Dead

Some Show Suggestions For This Evening

Duff McKagan: Alternative To What?

Kurt Bloch, left, at Sub Pop's 20th anniversary party at Hattie's Hat on April 2. Photo by Sarah Joann Murphy. Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb.I got an email the other day with a question from a friend who was basically trying to settle a bet. The argument was over what actually ... More >>

The Assault of the Valkyries

Punk-rock goddesses batter Seattle’s eardrums with their debut record.

Agent Orange

Friday, February 20

The Faint

Friday, February 20

The Copyrights

Monday, July 21

My Life Into, and Inside, Flipper

Your mother won’t like proto-grunge.

NOFX, No Use for a Name, American Steel

Your mother won’t like proto-grunge.

Bowie Vs. T-Rex Night

Sending up rock’s glam gods

Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten: More Alive Than Anything on the Radio Today

Sending up rock’s glam gods

Rocket Queen: Annihilate This Week

The Melvins turn 25 and Big Business expands.

New York Dolls

Wednesday, May 27

Live Music Roundup: Wednesday, June 17

Seminal, reunited punk band the Germs play Neumos tonight with Poison Idea, Krum Bums and the Bloodclots. It's hard to know how to feel about this, since the Germs broke up after original lead singer Darby Crash made good on his promise to commit suicide-- and he must be rolling in his grave to know ... More >>

Green Day

Friday, July 3

The Short List: The Week's Recommended Shows

Friday, July 3

Rocket Queen: The Punk-Metal Equation

The Ruby Doe and Red Fang do the math.

Can You Hear Me Now?

Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb.My column from last week ("Summer Vacation, the Black Bag, and a Mini-Tirade (Or Two)") received more response than any other column in the near-year I've been doing this thing for Seattle Weekly. In my "mini-tirade," I quickly took a swipe at thos ... More >>

The Short List: The Week’s Recommended Shows

Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb.My column from last week ("Summer Vacation, the Black Bag, and a Mini-Tirade (Or Two)") received more response than any other column in the near-year I've been doing this thing for Seattle Weekly. In my "mini-tirade," I quickly took a swipe at thos ... More >>

My iPod: From Prince to Judas Priest

Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb.​I had the chance to take part in a Camp Freddy gig down in L.A. last weekend at the House of Blues. Camp Freddy is a sort of rock-and-roll collective that gets together once in a while to play some gig or another (from fundraisers to straigh ... More >>

My Records of the 1970s

Duff McKagan writes for Reverb every Monday and Thursday.​Being the youngest of eight kids exposed me to a LOT of music that my older brothers and sisters were listening to at any given point during my youth. Some of my earliest memories are of leafing through album covers like the Beatles' Sg ... More >>

Rocket Queen: Penelope Houston Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle

The triumphant return of the Avengers.

The Short List: The Week’s Recommended Shows

The triumphant return of the Avengers.

Saul Williams

The triumphant return of the Avengers.

I've Been Playing Sex Pistols, the Ramones, and Zodiac Midwarp

Sex PistolsDuff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. He writes about what music is circulating through his space every Monday.​Next week I will be playing a show in Phoenix with Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols. He is probably my all-time favorite guy to play with, and, really, just ... More >>

Black Flag - My War Revisited

"Swimming in the mainstream, is such a lame dream."​Listened to Black Flag's My War again. I wrote about this seminal album a couple of years ago and need to stress again what an impact this work had on Grunge music. We know that Grunge is a mix of old school heavy rock and punk. And that's w ... More >>

Tonight: Maxwell & Jill Scott @ Key Arena, The Buzzcocks at El Corazon

​Maxwell & Jill Scott, with Guy Torry. Key Arena, 305 Harrison St., 682-8225. 7 p.m. $39.50-$150. All ages. Drawing on his most recent chart-topping release BLACKsummers'night as well as 1996's multi-platinum Urban Hang Suite, the Brooklyn-born Maxwell's silky vocal stylings ponder love and em ... More >>

Buzzcocks

​Maxwell & Jill Scott, with Guy Torry. Key Arena, 305 Harrison St., 682-8225. 7 p.m. $39.50-$150. All ages. Drawing on his most recent chart-topping release BLACKsummers'night as well as 1996's multi-platinum Urban Hang Suite, the Brooklyn-born Maxwell's silky vocal stylings ponder love and em ... More >>

Today: Eric Davidson of New Bomb Turks Book Signing at Easy Street in Queen Anne

​Eric Davidson spent the 90s fronting the Ohio punk band New Bomb Turks; now he's written a book about it. We Never Learn: The Gunk Punk Undergut, 1988-2001 is the tale of the later generation of punk rock, or what Davidson calls the "first and only book on the last great wave of punk rock." ... More >>

Sara Marcus

​Eric Davidson spent the 90s fronting the Ohio punk band New Bomb Turks; now he's written a book about it. We Never Learn: The Gunk Punk Undergut, 1988-2001 is the tale of the later generation of punk rock, or what Davidson calls the "first and only book on the last great wave of punk rock." ... More >>

My 3 Favorite Ramones Anthems, Without Which I Don't Know Where We'd Be

Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. He writes about what music is circulating through his space every Monday.​Rock and roll was having a great go at it from the '50s into the '70s. Somewhere around 1973 or so though, things became less unpredictable and more soft and corporate ... More >>

Forks High School Students Suspended For Wearing Sex Pistols Shirts

God Save The First Amendment ​The first band T-shirt I ever purchased was a black and white Sex Pistols "Pretty Vacant" tee back in 1995. I was in the 7th grade. At the time, most kids just giggled at the word "Sex," having no idea who the most influential punk rock band of the era was (sorry ... More >>

Bad Religion

God Save The First Amendment ​The first band T-shirt I ever purchased was a black and white Sex Pistols "Pretty Vacant" tee back in 1995. I was in the 7th grade. At the time, most kids just giggled at the word "Sex," having no idea who the most influential punk rock band of the era was (sorry ... More >>

Tit Pig Starts a Mosh Pit in a Kitchen on Saturday Night

Rylan Morris SchererTit Pig​Local thrash provocateurs Tit Pig might not seem like the sort of band that would create opportunities for etiquette lessons, but that was the case at a house show this past Saturday. The show began as an early evening BBQ, and Tit Pig started playing just before du ... More >>

How Keith Morris Got OFF!

"This is my chance to relive some of my old glory from Black Flag."

Punks Celebrate Easter at the Church of OFF!

Dave Lake​OFF! Sunday, April 24 Neumos Punks, by nature, tend to be heathens, questioning the importance of religion and just about every other societal construct. So how better to celebrate Christianity's second-biggest holiday than with loud, fierce, early '80s-style hardcore at Neumos with ... More >>

Virgin Islands: Feels Like the First Time

A conversation about unforgettable firsts.

Dropkick Murphys Bring Their Concept Record and a Little Bit of Boston to the Paramount

Dave Lake​Dropkick Murphys Paramount Monday, June 27 The mere concept of a concept album is often enough to make most rock fans bristle (Kilroy Was Here, anyone?). Add punk rock to the mix and many fans will head screaming for the hills. But as Green Day proved in 2004 with American Idiot, an ... More >>

Battle of the Block Party Beardos: Les Savy Fav's Tim Harrington versus Fucked Up's Damian Abraham in a Hot, Sweaty, Shirts-Off Bear-Off

Via Bears I'm Jealous OfIn the left corner, Tim Harrington; in the right, Damian Abraham​Tim Harrington of dance-punk pranksters Les Savy Fav and Damian Abraham of post-hardcore howlers Fucked Up are two of the most sweaty, bearish bruisers going in rock music and since both excellent bands ar ... More >>

Who's the Better Rock Band: Fucked up or "The Rolling Stones"?

My shoes (last year's Cons) before Fucked Up; after below​There was a lot I wanted to see (and did see) yesterday, but there were only two sets I was wholly determined to see: Canadian hardcore juggernaut Fucked Up and Seattle's own "The Rolling Stones." Both were playing indoors: Fucked Up at ... More >>

Sound Fest: New Punk(s)

A Seattle festival launches in the shadow of Warped's enduring legacy.

(Un)Sound Fest

The financial difficulties of local punk promoters have left many performers at the debut festival underpaid.

Kathleen Hanna Documentary The Punk Singer Needs Thousands of Dollars to Finish Editing

Original riot grrrl Kathleen Hanna was memorialized in film earlier this year in Kerthy Fix's documentary Who Took the Bomp? Le Tigre on Tour; now the Brooklyn filmmaker Sini Anderson is taking a more extended look at Hanna's life with her own film, The Punk Singer. Of the film, Anderson writes:The ... More >>

Youth of Today

Original riot grrrl Kathleen Hanna was memorialized in film earlier this year in Kerthy Fix's documentary Who Took the Bomp? Le Tigre on Tour; now the Brooklyn filmmaker Sini Anderson is taking a more extended look at Hanna's life with her own film, The Punk Singer. Of the film, Anderson writes:The ... More >>

Dave Hernandez Derek Erdman's Total Poseurs DJing the Office Happy Hour at the Crocodile Tonight

​It's a slow night for live music--not surprising, considering it's a Monday and a short holiday week. If you're still looking to get out, though, we recommend Crocodile's back bar. In tonight's installment of the Office Industry Happy Hour series, local artist Derek Erdman will be DJing punk ... More >>

Tell Me About That Album: Punk in Drublic by NOFX

​Humorous, political and staunchly independent, NOFX are one of the great punk rock bands of all-time. They were at the forefront of the '90s punk rock wave that made rock stars out of Green Day, The Offspring and Rancid, and you'd be hard pressed to find a list of important punk records that ... More >>

Tell Me About That Album: NOFX's Punk in Drublic

Fat Mike sizes up a classic nearly 20 years after its release.

Tell Me About That Album: Heart Beats Pacific by Banner Pilot

​With NOFX tackling our questions last week, that makes two punk rock bands in a row for our Tell Me About That Album feature, as labelmates Banner Pilot go under the microscope this week. We chatted with bassist and primary songwriter Nate Gangelhoff, who answered questions about the band's t ... More >>

NOFX Play Wasted, Fans Don't Care at the King Cat Last Night

​NOFX Tuesday, Jan. 24 King Cat Theater NOFX are famous for a lot of things, and though their humor, politics and independence may spring to mind first, their penchant for partying is also legendary. Over the course of their nearly 30 years together, the band has become world class at playing ... More >>