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If you’ve not heard of Slint then you probably have been missing a whole chunk of life, Louisville’s seminal band are a bench mark in history so if this is the first time you’ve heard the...

On the 3rd August 1987 British rock band Def Leppard released the album “Hysteria”. Already a major force in rock music, “Hysteria” catapulted the band into the stratosphere. The statistics for “Hysteria” are astounding. The album...

The UK is about to feel a rush, a surge of power similar to that of a nuclear bomb, the epicentre in this case will be mighty new Punk maestros The Mercanaries. Hailing from the heart of...

The Black Keys recently won ‘Best Rock’ album at this year’s Grammys for their album, ‘El Camino’.  Putting aside the obvious question (are the Black Keys actual rock?), something else has intrigued me about this story. ...

Valentines Day, a day where historically men who have a partner spend a fortune on Champagne, Flowers and Chocolates and single men spend a fortune on Stella, Tequila and a classic Arnie movie. So I, The...

I recently came across a Facebook page that literally made me laugh out loud. Goths in Awkward Everyday Situations was set up by Jess Clay, who initially created the page for a laugh. Overnight though the...

I’ve been writing for The Black Flag for just over a year – from Oct 2011 to present in fact- and, my how things have changed here at Black Flag towers in that time. So cast...

Morrissey was hospitalized over the weekend with a bleeding ulcer, leading  to the cancellation of a further six dates of his ill-fated American tour. The ex Smiths front man admitted himself  into  Beaumont Hospital in Royal...

Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon took joined protesters in Albany, New York who gathered together to voice concerns against hydraulic manufacturing otherwise known as ‘fracking’. The process used to drill for gas “kills the land, nature...

No matter how unique we consider ourselves to be the simple fact is most of us at some point in our lives still want to have the wedding day that we always dreamed of. The alternative...