Latest Release
- 14 APR 2024
- 7 Songs
- Sex Bomb Baby! · 1981
- Spacetime - EP · 2023
- Sex Bomb Baby! · 1987
- Ode - EP · 2023
- Ode - EP · 2023
- Ode - EP · 2023
- Ode - EP · 2023
- Ode - EP · 2023
- High Voltage Punk - A Tribute To AC/DC · 2023
- Songs for a Drifting Rose - EP · 2023
Albums
- 1993
- 1984
Artist Playlists
- Huddle up with the antiheroes of Californian hardcore.
Singles & EPs
- 2023
- 2023
- 2020
Live Albums
Compilations
- 1987
Appears On
About Flipper
San Francisco’s Flipper were a festering boil on the behind of early hardcore. With a slower, slapdash take on the burly noise taking shape all over the country like so much acne, Flipper let feedback and repetitive, rolling rhythms do the work that other bands left to velocity and vigor. Their bleak lyrics and nihilistic worldview launched snot in the face of proactive punks in a way that was apolitical but searingly volatile. Accidentally avant-garde, but never pretentious, Flipper’s modus operandi was to make something too hideous to love. In that, they only half-succeeded.
- ORIGIN
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- FORMED
- 1979
- GENRE
- Alternative