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From The Desk Of Quasi: “Complete ’82 Demos” By Black Flag

QuasiLogoFor the past 20 years, Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss have made passionate, raucous music in Quasi. In the beginning, their partnership was marital as well as musical, but it continued past their divorce and concurrent with their work in other bands: Coomes in Heatmiser with Elliott Smith when Quasi began, and later as a guest with Built To Spill; Weiss as a member of Sleater-Kinney, Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks and Wild Flag. Mole City (Kill Rock Stars) is a culmination of Quasi’s many strengths: its oversaturated and distorted sound, its singsong and shouted melodies, its controlled abandon. Coomes will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our brand new Quasi feature.

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Coomes: It’s a weird time for Black Flag, as the band has become a locus for hipster irony (e.g. Black Flag onesies, Hollywood celebrity Black Flag T-shirts, “Cat Flag” T-shirts with cats arranged into the bar pattern, etc.), and of course there’s the whole FLAG/Black Flag soap opera. But you gotta forget about all this and just get with the music, which at its best is one of the most powerful bullshit obliteration machines in existence. This is easily Black Flag’s best album—unfortunately, it never actually was released and only exists in bootleg form. It’s well worth tracking down.

Video after the jump.