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Just after the 30th anniversary of the band’s 1995 self-titled debut album, Foo Fighters have unveiled a fierce cover of Minor Threat’s hardcore classic “I Don’t Wanna Hear It” — with vocals recorded this year over an instrumental track that dates to ’95. The release appears to be part of a larger celebration of the debut, with the band promoting anniversary content under the hashtag #FF30 and revisiting their career history on a Substack.

The cover reflects Grohl’s deep connection to Washington D.C.’s hardcore punk scene. Before Nirvana,...

To celebrate the landmark 30th anniversary of their debut album, Foo Fighters have released a cover of Minor Threat’s 1981 song “I Don’t Wanna Hear It.” Stream it below.

According to the YouTube description, Foo Fighters originally recorded the instrumentals in 1995, with Dave Grohl finishing the vocals this year. Over blistering guitars and drums, the frontman channels his best Ian MacKaye while keeping up with the song’s brisk tempo.

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“I don’t wanna hear it, all you do is talk about you,” Grohl screams. “I don’t wanna hear it, ’cause I know that none of it’s true/ I don’t wanna hear it, I’m sick and tired of all your lies.”

Grohl has a strong connection to the DC hardcore scene. He famously wrote a fan letter to MacKaye when he was 14, and later drummed for Scream, who were signed to MacKaye’s Dischord Records.

As they’ve been doing throughout Metallica’s “M72 World Tour,” bassist Robert Trujillo and guitarist Kirk Hammett performed a local-inspired “doodle” at the band’s show in Landover, Maryland on Wednesday night (May 28th). With the show taking place in the greater Washington, D.C. area, the pair paid tribute to the legendary Fugazi.

Trujillo and Hammett’s Fugazi tribute consisted of them performing the intro to the classic “Waiting Room,” with Trujillo playing the iconic bass riff that made Consequence‘s list of the 50 Greatest Basslines of All Time.

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Heavy Consequence also heard from a reliable source that Fugazi singer-guitarist and all-around hardcore legend Ian MacKaye was in the “Snakepit” section of the audience, with a smile on his face.

The “doodle” portion of the show also saw Trujillo and Hammett play the Metallica rarity “Just a Bullet Away” from the 2011 Beyond Magnetic EP.

The film opens on Jay (Tyler Ivey), frontman of a punk outfit whose last gig feels centuries ago. Their manager, Aj (Darrin Hickok), convenes the crew—John, Menace, Juan—and their partners, Val and Jen, to consider a lifeline: a free music-video shoot funded by a mysterious online suitor. That suitor, Mister Director (Louis Lombardi), awaits them at an isolated Pennsylvania estate draped in peeling elegance.

This isn’t your typical slasher setup; it’s a collision of adolescent ambition and old-world decay. I’m reminded of the outsider spirit in John Carpenter’s early work, where music and menace share the same pulse. Here, the film alternates between rehearsal-room banter and sudden dips into shadow-lit corridors, teasing both camaraderie and threat.

Cinematographer Bliss Bussant frames the mansion’s grandeur in half-light, while editor Noah Marks punctuates each beat with guitar-riff intensity. Sound Designer Kate Howard layers creaks and distant...

A new documentary is set to dig into one of the wildest life’s in punk rock history, that of Cro-Mags bassist and vocalist, Harley Flanagan. A new trailer for the upcoming film, Harley Flanagan: Wired for Chaos, is out now with the film slated to arrive in theaters June 20.

The new trailer opens with a clip of Flanagan playing his bass while going for a run in the woods, saying, “I feel like I’ve been angry for almost 50 years. I’m only starting to now realize that this...

Ahead of its 40th anniversary, hardcore punk stalwarts 7Seconds’ New Wind album will be reissued two ways: in its original form with its original title and as Change in My Head. Ian MacKaye, who co-produced the original album a year before he co-founded Fugazi, completely remixed the record with engineer Don Zientara. The band is previewing the record with one of two previously unreleased songs, “Change in My Head,” which the group recorded in 1985. Both versions will be packaged together and available on May 23.

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7Seconds‘ 1986 album New Wind is being reissued alongside a new version of the LP reimagined by original producer Ian MacKaye. Both will be packaged together, with a vinyl and digital release set for May 23rd via Trust Records.

The reimagined version has been retitled to Change in My Head, taken from one of two previously unreleased tracks from the original sessions (“Change in My Head” and “Compro”) that were restored by MacKaye and Inner Ear Studios’ Don Zientara. MacKaye’s version was also remixed in its entirety — marking his first-ever remix of an album — and reorders the original 13-song tracklist, adding the aforementioned unreleased cuts. “Change in My Head” can be streamed now.

The other half of the reissue contains New Wind in its original form, as the original tapes were restored by Dan Johnson of Audio Archiving Services and remastered by Michael Graves.

The Nevada band’s second proper full-length,...

I grew up in a bohemian household in Southern California where icons of the literary, film, and music worlds would often converge. On any given evening, there might be a noted author in our living room reading something they’d just written, or a titan of the fine arts drinking whiskey with my parents at the dinner table. These guests were friends of my parents, one of whom is the actor and artist Russ Tamblyn. As a kid, I knew them to be godfather-type figures — Dean Stockwell, Dennis Hopper, and...

Punk rock band Fear caused mayhem on Saturday Night Live on Halloween in 1981, bringing a mosh-pit to Studio 8H for the first time.

Days after the show, rumors started to swirl that the band fronted by Lee Ving, who would later star as Mr. Body on cult movie Clue, was permanently banned from SNL as a result of the destruction caused.

Over 45 years later, Questlove, who has directed Ladies & Gentlemen… 50 Years of SNL Music, which premieres on NBC on January 27, has uncovered the truth.

“I’ll occasionally read in the [NY] Post that so and so is banned for life. We’ve never banned anyone. We’re way too crass and opportunistic. If something’s hot, we’re going to go for it and have it on,” says creator Lorne Michaels.

How did a California punk band that once featured Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea end up performing on the hallowed NBC variety show?...

Fugazi’s run as post-hardcore heroes from the late ’80s to the early 2000s is the stuff of legend. Twenty-two years into their “indefinite hiatus,” drummer Brendan Canty says there’s “always a lingering chance” for a reunion.

The musician is the subject of a new mini-documentary recently posted on YouTube titled “A Day in DC with Fugazi Drummer Brendan Canty” from White Lake Productions. In the 21-minute film, the drummer catches fans up with his life today, while also reflecting on the glory days of Fugazi.

At one point in film, Canty is asked why the band still refers to their dormancy as a “hiatus” as opposed to a breakup, to which the drummer responds, “There’s always a lingering chance that we’re going to get back together. I mean it becomes less and less likely, but there were times throughout the last 22 years that we have gotten...

Harley Flanagan at age 11 on drums in The Stimulators with Anne Gustavsson, Patrick Mack and Denise Mercedes

Rex Miller’s unrelenting Harley Flanagan: Wired For Chaos (a highlight of the 15th edition of Doc NYC) on The Stimulators drummer and Cro-Mags founder, features revealing on-camera interviews with his wife Laura Lee Flanagan, Denise Mercedes (his aunt and founder of The Stimulators), Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Ian Mackaye (Minor Threat; Fugazi; founder of Dischord Records), Lucy Sante, Darryl Jenifer (Bad Brains), Henry Rollins (Black Flag), Keith Morris (Black Flag; Circle Jerks; Off), Glenn Danzig (The Misfits; Danzig), Michael Imperioli, Brooke Smith (Jonathan Demme’s The Silence Of The Lambs; Louis Malle’s Vanya on 42nd Street; Alan Rudolph’s The Moderns), Anthony Bourdain, Sacha Jenkins, Marcia Resnick, Scott Ian (Anthrax), Kate Schellenbach (Beastie Boys; Luscious Jackson), and Ray Cappo (Youth of Today).

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At long last, the great Bikini Kill performed live on late-night television, taking the stage on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Monday, July 15.

The riot grrrl pioneers marked the occasion with a ground-shaking, speaker-rattling rendition of their classic 1993 single, “Rebel Girl.” “When she walks, the revolution’s coming/In her kiss, I taste the revolution,” Kathleen Hanna howled before launching into the chorus, “Rebel girl, rebel girl/Rebel girl you are the queen of my world!”

Bikini Kill’s long overdue late-night debut comes amidst a busy summer for the band.

Punk great Kathleen Hanna will hit the road next spring for a special book tour supporting her upcoming memoir, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk, out May 14 via Ecco.

The book tour will begin May 14 in Brooklyn and include stops in Washington D.C., Cincinnati, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Boston, and Philadelphia. The May 22 event in Seattle will also be livestreamed for those unable to attend.

Tickets for all reading events go on sale today, Dec. 12, via Hanna’s website. A portion of proceeds will...

Kathleen Hanna is celebrating her upcoming memoir Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk with a run of book tour dates, scheduled for May 2024.

The Bikini Kill singer will kick things off on the book’s release day — May 14th — at Brooklyn’s Kings Theatre. She’ll then make stops in cities including Chicago, Los Angeles, Portland, and more, wrapping up the 10-date trek with an event in Philadelphia.

Rebel Girl tracks Hanna’s evolution from a fledgling young punk into the incomparable feminist icon she is today. In addition to documenting Bikini Kill’s heyday, the memoir will dive into her friendships with the likes of Kurt Cobain, Ian MacKaye, Kim Gordon, and Joan Jett; falling in love with her now-husband, Ad-Rock of The Beastie Boys; her battle with Lyme disease, and more.

Tickets for Hanna’s book tour are on sale today, December 12th, and you can get yours here.

Minor Threat have released a new EP, titled Out of Step Outtakes, to mark the 40th anniversary of their only studio album. Stream it below via Apple Music or Spotify.

The three-song collection contains material recorded during the original Out of Step sessions in January 1983, Minor Threat’s first time in the studio as a five-piece band. During that period, they did new versions of “In My Eyes” and “Filler”. Using the remaining blank tape on the reel, they also recorded an instrumental called “Addams Family,” which wound up being used as a coda to “Cashing In.”

All three songs ended up being sealed in Minor Threat’s vault for over 35 years, until the multitrack tapes were taken to the studio to be digitized in 2021. Upon the discovery, singer Ian MacKaye and Don Zientara mixed the tracks to be included on Out of Step Outtakes. Pick up your 7-inch vinyl copy here.

A new EP containing unreleased Minor Threat music will coincide with the 40th anniversary of the band’s only full-length studio album, Out of Step. Aptly dubbed Out of Step Outtakes, the three-song EP contains material recording during the original Out of Step sessions in 1983. It will be released on December 1st via singer Ian MacKaye’s Dischord Records.

The sessions that spawned Out of Step Outtakes occurred in January 1983, marking Minor Threat’s first time in the studio as a five-piece band. Experimenting with the new sound, they cut new versions of their songs “In My Eyes” and “Filler,” both previously released on their debut EP, 1981’s Minor Threat, as well as a handful of other tracks. Afterwards, they had blank tape left on the reel, and decided to record an instrumental song titled “Addams Family,” which was ultimately adapted into a coda for Out of Step’s hidden track,...

Today, beloved Washington, DC, hardcore punk band Scream has shared DC Special via Dischord Records. Stream the album via Apple Music and Spotify below.

DC Special is Scream’s first full-length album since 1993, and their first release since 2011. The album sees Scream’s original members Pete Stahl, Franz Stahl, Skeeter Thompson, and Kent Stax team up once more for a 12-track LP. The album also features key names in the hardcore punk scene — including production credits from Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat and Fugazi, and contributions from Nirvana’s Dave Grohl, former Scream drummer.

Scream launched a Kickstarter for the album in 2021, and recorded the album at Inner Ear Studios — an integral studio to the DC hardcore scene. Pick up a physical copy of the album here.

Currently, Scream are in the midst of a North American tour with Soulside. Stream DC Special below, and read on for more information...

Kent Stax, original drummer for legendary hardcore punks Scream, has died. The news arrives just a day after the band announced their upcoming album DC Special, their first new music since 2011 and first full-length since 1993.

Bandmates Pete and Franz Stahl commemorated Stax in a social media post Wednesday, September 20th: “We are heartbroken to share that our drummer Bennett Kent Stacks passed away this morning after a bout with metastatic cancer. Kent is the original heartbeat of Scream. Though we have had to continue on without him before, we have always known Kent is irreplaceable. He was one of a kind. In addition to being a truly unique drummer, Kent was also an accomplished fisherman, skilled carpenter, and avid train enthusiast.”

The post goes on: “Kent also played in prominent punk and harDCore bands including The Suspects, Spitfires United, Alleged Bricks and more throughout his life. He also branched out to other genres,...

DC hardcore legends Scream have announced DC Special, their first new music since 2011 and first full-length since 1993. The record, which features contributions from Ian MacKaye, former drummer Dave Grohl, and more, is out November 10th via the storied Dischord Records. Along with the news, Scream have announced a run of 2023 tour dates, and shared the new song “DC Special Sha La La.” Listen below.

Scream’s original lineup — singer Pete Stahl, guitarist Franz Stahl, bassist Skeeter Thompson, and drummer Kent Stax — recorded DC Special at Washington, DC’s go-to punk studio, Inner Ear, with founder Don Zientara, while Minor Threat/Fugazi frontman Ian MacKaye provided additional production. The band’s first LP since 1993’s Fumble, and first overall release since the 2011 EP Complete Control Recording Sessions, has been a long time coming: In 2021, Scream launched a Kickstarter to fund the project, which ended up being one of the last things...

Many a Riot grrrl books and documentaries have been made over the years, but now, Kathleen Hanna, one of the founders of the ’90s feminist punk movement, is ready to tell her story in her own words. Hanna’s memoir Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk arrives May 14th, 2024 via the HarperCollins imprint Ecco.

Rebel Girl traverses Hanna’s upbringing and introduction to feminism and recounts her groundbreaking formation of Bikini Kill, the band whose “Revolution girl style now” ethos inspired the likes of Ian Mackaye and Kurt Cobain while making Hanna peers with Sonic Youth. The book also details her relationship with husband, Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys, her work in later bands Le Tigre and The Julie Ruin, and her battle with Lyme disease. Pre-orders are ongoing.

Hanna’s memoir comes as her music career enjoys a renaissance of sorts. Bikini Kill re-formed right before the...

Kathleen Hanna will look back on her turbulent formative years and success as the singer for Bikini Kill and Le Tigre in a new memoir, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk, out May 14.

The book will chronicle the tumult that surrounded Hanna’s childhood, as well as her epiphanies at Olympia, Washington’s Evergreen College where she launched a fanzine called Bikini Kill and later a like-named band with drummer Tobi Vail and bassist-singer Kathi Wilcox. She’ll also recall how hard it was to tour, especially when,...

The Gotham Film & Media Institute announced that late filmmaker, activist and Academy Award-winning actor Sidney Poitier will receive the Icon Tribute posthumously during the 32nd annual Gotham Awards ceremony on Monday, November 28 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.

The announcement of this year’s Icon Tribute follows the release of critically-acclaimed documentary film “Sidney,” which had its world premiere during a gala presentation at the Toronto International Film Festival and was released on Apple TV+ in September. The documentary has since won best biographical documentary at the Critics Choice Documentary Awards.

The Gotham Awards Advisory Committee started the Gotham Icon Tribute in 2021, seeking to call attention to the boldness, artistry and impact of a filmmaker from a historically-excluded community whose work has not been previously recognized by the organization. Playwright and filmmaker Kathleen Collins was honored the tribute last year.

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Punk The Capital: Building A Sound Movement, a documentary about the rise of punk rock in the town that needed it most… Washington D.C. (1976-1983) will be available digitally everywhere on June 29th – Pre-order now on Apple TV and iTunes. Check out the trailer:

Punk The Capital: Building A Sound Movement features Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Void, Rites of Spring, and more, including a never-before-seen entire Super-8 archive of early DC punk footage and interviews from Henry Rollins,Ian MacKaye, H.R., Cynthia Connolly, Jello Biafra, Joe Keithley, and many others The Blu-ray and DVD available now includes 50+ minutes of bonus shorts withScream, Void, The Cramps, and The Slickee Boys available via Dischord Records

When punk rock erupted in Washington DC, it was a mighty convergence of powerful music, friendships, and clear minds. This film explores the incredible challenges that this subculture faced when it took root in the...

Dave Grohl talks about the impact of Washington D.C. hardcore legends Scream in a new bonus clip from the forthcoming home and video on-demand release of the documentary, Punk the Capital.

The film dives deep into the punk and hardcore scene that emerged and flourished in Washington D.C. between 1976 and 1983. Scream, who formed in 1981, were one of the most pivotal acts and their debut album, Still Screaming, was the first full-length LP released on Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson’s seminal Dischord Records.

In the clip, Grohl remembers...

Hardcore legend Ian MacKaye explains how Woodstock and an unexpected house guest helped lay the foundation for his love of music in this new excerpt from Eric Spitznagel’s new book, Rock Stars on the Record: The Albums That Changed Their Lives.

The book consists of interviews with an array of artists discussing the music that influenced them most when they were kids. Along with MacKaye, the book features Laura Jane Grace, Mitski, Cherie Currie, Mac DeMarco, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Suzi Quatro and more.

For MacKaye, his parents weren’t...

The story of how Joey “Shithead” Keithley — frontman of the Canadian hardcore legends D.O.A. — pivoted from punk to politics is the focus of the upcoming documentary Something Better Change.

After four decades at the helm of the influential Vancouver punk band, Keithley entered the politics arena in 2018 in an effort to unseat the mayor of Burnaby, British Columbia. Despite a $7,000 campaign budget, the underdog Keithley ended up winning a city councillor seat, which in part helped end the mayor’s five-term reign.

Filmmaker Scott Crawford (Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington,...

Punk legends the Circle Jerks will celebrate the 40th anniversary of their seminal 1980 LP Group Sex with a new vinyl reissue featuring previously unreleased rehearsal recordings.

Due out October 30th, the reissue pairs the 15-minute, 14-song album — released exactly 40 years ago on October 1st, 1980 — with five additional Circle Jerks songs that Keith Morris and company recorded at a rehearsal that year.

The remastered vinyl reissue also features a 20-page booklet with previously unreleased photos and new anecdotes penned Tony Hawk, Mike Patton, Shepard Fairey, Ian MacKaye, Lars Frederiksen and more.

Coriky, the Washington, D.C., band of Ian MacKaye, his Evens bandmate Amy Farina and his Fugazi bandmate Joe Lally, have dropped a new song, “Too Many Husbands.” The track arrives alongside a new release date for the group’s self-titled debut album, now out June 12th via Dischord.

“Too Many Husbands” is a jittery but sturdy blast of power trio post-punk, with MacKaye’s jagged guitar and Lally’s bass rumbling over Farina’s skittering drums. Farina handles vocal duties on this song, letting her crisp bellow sail over the instrumental chaos.

Even in self-isolation, Henry Rollins is maintaining a busy work schedule.

Unable to tour or perform spoken-word shows, the former Black Flag and Rollins Band frontman has launched a new online radio show for Kcrw that he’s dubbed The Cool Quarantine.

The debut episode, which runs four hours, features a story about Rollins and his pal, Minor Threat and Fugazi frontman Ian MacKaye, seeing Led Zeppelin in 1977 — along with bootleg audio from the concert and a bootleg MacKaye made of the Cramps. Rollins also shares stories about the early...

Coriky, a band featuring members of Fugazi and the Evens, will release their self-titled debut full-length on March 27th.

The group features guitarist Ian MacKaye (Fugazi, Evens), bassist Joe Lally (Fugazi) and drummer Amy Farina (Evens); each of the musicians share singing responsibilities. The trio previewed the release with its lead track, “Clean Kill,” a deceptively warm-sounding song about political corruption. “It’s a clean kill, but it’s not clean,” the band members sing in unison on the chorus.

As with many of the albums MacKaye has made over the past 40 years,...

Julia Nash felt as though she’d stepped into a Wax Trax! Records museum when she started looking through Dannie Flesher’s belongings. Flesher had cofounded the pioneering industrial label in 1980 with his life partner, Julia’s father Jim; they were responsible for putting out important releases by Ministry, Kmfdm, Front Line Assembly and My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, among others. When Jim died of AIDS in 1995, his partner tried to keep the label and the couple’s Chicago record store going. Flesher eventually retired to Arkansas, where he,...

Thurston Moore moved to New York in late 1976, a time when groups like the Ramones, Talking Heads, and Blondie were still regulars at Cbgb and the music scene was crackling with creativity and innovation. The future Sonic Youth guitarist was just 18, but music was already at the center of his life and he saw shows as often as possible, learning new lessons from every gig he caught and every new 45 he picked up at record stores.

His new triple-cd set Spirit Counsel draws inspiration from the music he absorbed during this time period.

Spoiler Alert: This post contains details of tonight’s Deadly Class Season 1 finale.

“You know, I always joke that if we don’t get a Season 2 that this’ll be like Freaks and Geeks,” says Deadly Class executive producer Rick Remender as the Syfy series based on the acclaimed Reagan Era set comic he and Wes Craig created concluded its first season tonight.

“Deadly Class will be over but we’ll just have give birth to a whole generation of young adults who are going to go off and take the world by storm, because they are so goddamn gifted, and each one of them brings so much to their roles,” the co-showrunner added of the cast of the Benjamin Wadsworth-led ensemble of a school for assassins.

Having debuted at the beginning of this year, the 10-episode first season also Ep’s by Avengers: Endgame directors Joe Russo and...

Skip Groff, a Washington, D.C. record store owner who produced and championed the city’s seminal hardcore punk acts, has died at the age of 70. Groff’s wife Kelly confirmed to Wtop that the owner of D.C.’s Yesterday & Today suffered a seizure Monday and died at a nearby hospital.

Dischord Records’ Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson, both members of Minor Threat and their predecessor the Teen Idles, penned a tribute to Groff, who produced Minor Threat’s self-titled Ep as well as other hardcore acts that often frequented and worked at Yesterday & Today.

Fugazi may not reactivate anytime soon, but its members are starting to play music with each other again. A new band featuring members Ian MacKaye and Joe Lally and MacKaye’s bandmate in the Evens, Amy Farina, will make its debut at a benefit concert in Washington, D.C. this Sunday. A rep for Fugazi’s label, Dischord, confirmed the appearance and said that the band did not yet have a name and that it was unclear what the group’s plans are beyond the gig.

The concert will benefit Loaves and Fishes,...

Nicknamed the godmother of Punk Rock, Joan Jett shot to fame as a founding member of The Runaways, a rock band made up of Jett, Sandy West, Jackie Fox, Lita Ford and Cherie Currie, a group of precocious and in-your-face teenage girls who were set to take the late 70s rock world by storm. In his new film Bad Reputation, music video director turned documentarian Kevin Kerslake attempts to shine a light on the legend of Jett and the ups and downs she suffered throughout her rocky career, and how she came back from the brink to become one of the most iconic female rock stars of all time.

Discovered at 15, Joan Jett cut an impressive figure amongst the remnants of the deeply uncool hippy era when she and the rest of The Runways broke onto a scene which didn’t know what to do with them. Exploding onto the...

It is a well-established fact that as a high schooler in El Paso, Texas, Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-tx) was in a band, Foss — ::pauses to take giant bong rip:: It’s Icelandic for ‘waterfall’ — with Cedric Bixler-Zavala, who would go on to considerable fame fronting the Mars Volta and At the Drive-In. On Tuesday, the @TexasGOP Twitter account tweeted what it believed was a sick burn of O’Rourke about his pre-political days.

Maybe Beto can’t debate Ted Cruz because he already had plans… pic.twitter.com/LdqKTh...

Music documentaries are center stage at this year’s Sheffield Doc/Fest with the launch of films including Neil Young-directed Milford Graves Full Mantis and Stuart Swezey’s Desolation Center, which opened with a live performance from Sonic Youth frontman Thurston Moore. It also emerged during the festival that The Fader’s Tyler The Creator-associated online music doc project Summer of ’17 is on the brink of becoming a linear series.

Vice UK’s Head of Music Alex Hoffman, who runs music channel Noisey, Rollo Jackson, the filmmaker behind Stormzy’s doc Gang Signs and Prayer, former Fader creative director Robert Semmer and Jacqui Edenbrow, Head of Video at arts organization Frieze, talked about the future of the format at Music Docs: New Forms and Platform at the Netflix Crucible Studio on Saturday afternoon.

Semmer, who is Head of Content at filmmaker agency Premier, said that platforms are starting to...

When Henry Rollins wants to talk music, you listen. Best-known as the frontman for legendary California punks Black Flag through the first half of the ’80s, the singer led his own Rollins Band post-Flag and picked up a Grammy for the spoken-word recording of his Black Flag tour memoir, Get in the Van, in 1995. At 56, Rollins is now a successful spoken word performer, writer and actor who blurs the lines between comedy, confessional poetry and motivational speaking.

He has also never stopped buying records. A supremely well-versed and engaged fan, Rollins DJs, collects, and talks about music with the same...

Now that Juggalos have gone from national laughingstocks to left-wing darlings, it makes sense that such an eminent punk-rock personage as Dischord Records’ Ian MacKaye would be eager to get involved with the grassroots movement that produced this past weekend’s Juggalo March on Washington. Either that, or his home in…

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For years, Lee Ving, the vocalist and leader of impish punk bruisers Fear, has been teasing the release of a song the group recorded with John Belushi in 1981. He's finally putting out the tune — the appropriately snotty-sounding "Neighbors," which was supposed to accompany the Belushi movie of the same name — digitally on Halloween and as a special seven-inch in November. But even before the decades-long wait for its release, the origins of the recording were steeped in strife.

The SNL actor became a fan of Fear after catching them on the L.

The group only existed for three years and released 26 songs, but the '80's hardcore band Minor Threat are a seminal staple to anyone with a passing interest in the genre. Ian Mackaye and company arrived in the midst of a thriving scene that emerged in Washington, DC in the early part of that decade, one that birthed many influential bands and laid down a Diy ethos that would inspire countless others across the country and around the globe in the succeeding decades. It's a fascinating story told in Scott Crawford's documentary "Salad Days: A Decade Of Punk In Washington, DC (1980-90)," and today we have an exclusive clip from the film. Read More: SXSW '12 Review: 'Bad Brains: A Band In DC,' A Kinetic, Frenetic & Long Overdue Tribute To the Legendary Hardcore Band   Featuring insights from Mackaye, Henry Rollins, Thurston Moore, Brian Baker, Dave Grohl,...

Before he was a member of two of the most popular rock bands in the world, Dave Grohl was a fan, just like us. And boy, was he adorable! At age 14, the Foo Fighters frontman and former drummer of Nirvana sent a letter to one of his music idols, rocker Ian MacKaye, then the frontman of popular hardcore punk band Minor Threat. The group broke up in the '80s and he later formed Fugazi. He is currently the lead singer of the group The Evens. Grohl, now 46, shared a photo of part of his fan mail on Foo Fighters' Instagram page this week, saying, "Look what my hero Ian Mackaye (Minor Threat/Fugazi) just found: a letter I wrote to him when I was 14! Haha!" "Good thrash,"...

Foo Fighters' HBO series Sonic Highways visited Washington D.C. Friday night, which marked a homecoming of sorts for Dave Grohl: The rocker was raised in the Virginia suburbs outside of D.C. – his mother still lives there – and he started out drumming for area acts like Mission Impossible, Dain Bramage and "his favorite band ever," Scream.

In addition to recording the Sonic Highways track "The Feast and the Famine," Grohl also provides an extensive look at a pair of homegrown genres that became the backbone of the D.

Foo Fighters' HBO musical travelogue series Sonic Highways next visits Washington D.C., and Rolling Stone has your exclusive preview at what Dave Grohl considers to be his homecoming. Having grown up in the Virginia suburbs outside of D.C., Grohl got his start in the city's influential hardcore scene performing with local acts like Dain Bramage and Scream before popping up on Nirvana's radar.

"The experiences I've had in this city, from the age of 14 years old, set this foundation for the rest of my life as a musician,...

We live in a time where singing about your butt, or other people's butts, is a surefire way to get to the top of charts and amass millions of YouTube views. But for those who like their music gritty, grimy, real and actually about something, there are two documentaries on the way to remind you that there's so much more to love outside the superficial pop sphere. First up is "Salad Days," which chronicles the vibrant and hugely influential DC punk scene of the '80s and '90s. Directed by Scott Crawford, and featuring input from Ian MacKaye, Brian Baker, Dave Grohl, Henry Rollins, Thurston Moore, Fred Armisen and more, it explores what was behind the relatively tiny scene that birthed bands like Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Void, Fugazi, Government Issue, Dag Nasty, Embrace and many, many more. For those who thought punk started and ended with Sex Pistols,...

If boycotts, Congressional hearings or basic human decency weren't enough to convince Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder that it was time to change his team's name, perhaps Wednesday's decision by the U.S. Patent Office will do the trick.

U.S. Patent Office Cancels Washington Redskins Trademark

Calling the name "disparaging of Native Americans," the Office's Trademark Trial and Appeal Board canceled federal trademark registrations owned by the team, a move which could cost them millions in merchandise revenue (the team is expected to appeal the decision). And nothing hurts...

In 1991, Nirvana exploded with Nevermind, instantly changing the musical landscape and ushering "alternative" music into the mainstream. Their influence was immediate and undeniable, but that year, another band would release an album that would also have a lasting impression on a new generation of musicians. Four young lads from Louisville, Kentucky known as Slint quietly dropped their final album Spiderland, but in the two decades since, it has grown into one of the most post-rock albums of all time. And now, the story of the band and those songs is being told. Indie label Touch 'N Go are reissuing Spiderland in an expansive, very limited edition this spring, and part of the package — as we previously revealed — is a new documentary "Breadcrumb Trail," directed by Spike Jonze collaborator Lance Bangs. And the trailer for the film is finally here. And it looks pretty damn great. Featuring interviews with folks like Steve Albini,...

The Punk Singer starring Kathleen Hanna offers an intimate biographical portrait of the feminist art-punk icon, from her scrappy beginnings in Olympia, Washington, to the formation of Bikini Kill, the launch of the Riot Grrrl movement, Le Tigre and her latest band, the Julie Ruin. The film, which opens Friday in New York and Los Angeles, also steps inside her life with husband (and Beastie Boy) Adam Horovitz, as an ongoing struggle with late-stage Lyme disease forced her to step away from Le Tigre and go into treatment.

With interviews from Carrie Brownstein,...