Keith Morris
My Damage: The Story of a Punk Rock Survivor
Da Capo Press (2017)
Keith Morris is one of the remaining original punk rock figures that is still going and has never really ceased to have an impact on what is widely perceived to be punk and hardcore at large. With a career spanning over four decades as the frontman of genre coining outfits not Circle Jerks, Black Flag and more recently OFF, he has seens it all – physical ailments, the peaks and valleys of the music industry, addiction in all shades and variations and he has survived to tell the tales. Despite My Damage being told through the subjective lense of Morris, it sheds light on the emergence of a scene, how it moved to become palatable to the mainstream, success and losses as well as other luminaries who started out around the same time as Morris and eventually became mainstream icons and rock gods. My Damage is a no-holds barred engaging autobiography who has come out of the mist of debauchery and the violence of the early west coast punk movement based on the recollections of someone who has been there, done that, made more than a few bad decisions and survived to tell the tale.Starting off with his childhood under … Read more
Long Knife
Sewers of Babylon 7”
Beach Impediment (2017)
Oh man, haven’t heard Long Knife’s name called in a long time. You can choose to split pubic hairs over … Read more
Hard Girls
Floating Now
Asian Man Records / Specialist Subject Records (2017)
Hard Girls are a complex band – or maybe they’re not. They sing about hard life choices, serious moments, and … Read more
J. Hunter Bennett
The Prodigal Rogerson: The Tragic, Hilarious, and Possibly Apocryphal Story of Circle Jerks Bassist Roger Rogerson in the Golden Age of LA Punk, 1979-1996
Microcosm Publishing (2017)
After pilfering the band’s vehicle in 1983, the man in charge of the 4-strings, a reprobate by the name of … Read more
