Caught in the Crossfire

The new Melvins album that is underway will reunite the band’s original drummer Mike Dillard with Buzz Osborne and Dale Crover. Crover will move from drum duties to bass as a result. Look out for ‘Tres Cabrones’ scheduled for releae on Ipecac on November 5th.

Reminisce with the band’s first album here.

Black Flag’s henchman Greg Ginn is said to have filed a lawsuit against Keith Morris and co from FLAG as the battlke of Black Flag reaches boiling point. Both Ginn’s Black Flag and Flag have taken to the road to share their 6 packs in the last few months, but it looks as though Ginn has had enough and has decided to look further into copyright infringement as an ender to the situation.

Ginn claims he and his label, SST Records, exclusively own the rights to the Black Flag name (and “Flag” variation) and the bars logo, which Flag use on tour. View the documents here. Even Rollins has been named as a defendant, so he is definitely out to make sure that none of his ex band mates are out there to make a few quid off the back of his hard work. This is a fraud claim against the use of the logo and name and also an injunction against the FLAG tour. We await the outcome of what comes next but all of this sucks.

In good Black Flag news though, a new documentary on the infamous art of Raymond Pettibon is out there and needs to be watched. The Art of the State video discusses everything you need to know about the ‘bars’ and more. Do it.