The Return of Flipper

Posted on 23. Jun, 2009 by some guy in Music

By Jacob Sprecher
Flipper is one of those bands that most people will immediately hate upon first listen. But way back when in 1979, at a time when San Francisco was a musical hotbed busting with one of the country’s most notorious underground hardcore scenes, the group carved out a legacy by playing an amalgamation of punk rock that was altogether dissonant, raunchy and flamboyantly absurd. Flipper found ways to be anything but the norm by utilizing the shrill and hideous guitar work of Steve DePace atop the jive-like, wild cynicism [...]