Black Flag evolved rapidly across the years leading up to 1981’s crucial debut LP, Damaged.The progress was charted across a series of EPs and singles, collected on 1983’s The First Four Years ...

Damaged finally made it into record stores and gave Black Flag the ammunition to propagate their hardcore mission for years to come, as Rollins recalled in Get in the Van, "Soon after the ...

sporting a fresh Black Flag bars tattoo that he had gotten that very day. By October the band and its new singer were ready to begin work on Damaged. They worked quickly, recording all of the ...

As far as full-lengths go, Damaged is Black Flag’s only pure hardcore album. It’s a rush of short, mile-a-minute songs that have become embedded in punk’s DNA and are just as essential today ...

In 1981, Black Flag launched hardcore punk’s most definitive and explosive salvo. Four decades on, Damaged still rails and emits an undeniable emotional punch; a combination of sneering rage ...

In 1981, Black Flag launched hardcore punk’s most explosive salvo. Four decades on, Damaged still rails and emits an undeniable emotional punch, a combination of sneering rage, desperation and ...

In a pretty unusual story, Brooklyn-based indie rock outfit The Dirty Projectors has unveiled a new project wherein they remade Black Flag's classic Damaged, entirely from memory. The album, titled ...