Volcano Suns: The Homestead Years
The rate at which eighties’ underground bands wound up releasing music was a pretty astonishing achievement. Just think about how much material sported the Black Flag name between 1978 and 1985. Making that all the more impressive is the sort of development over that frame of time. Granted, not everyone issuing work worked up the sort of visionary catalog as Greg Ginn and company. But there were a huge number of groups working with independent labels all pushing for some sort of creative epiphany. If that was achieved is up for debate – even if the debate usually goes from the Sex Pistols being visionaries in 1977 to Nirvana being prophets in 1991.
