In the fall of 2017, Flasher were close to a breaking point. The Washington, D.C. punk group had traveled to Brooklyn to make their first full-length album, and it wasn’t going very well. Before ...

After releasing the excellent 2018 debut album Constant Image, Flasher went quiet for a while. When they returned last year, things were different. They’d pared down to a duo, and they’d become ...

Over the years, we've seen bike lights/turn indicators incorporated into wearables such as helmets, backpacks, gloves and jackets. The Flasher system takes yet another approach, by fastening the ...

I first began shaving my legs in middle school, and I’ve been plagued by a lifelong battle with hair removal ever since. While I have enviably thick hair on my head, the corresponding coarse hair on ...

If you’re looking for a soundtrack to any road trips in your future, you could do worse than Love Is Yours, the second full-length from Flasher. “I think of it as ...

As D.C. punks with ties to Priests, Fugazi, and Comet Ping Pong, Flasher are expected to have something to say about politics in 2018—but their debut album would have felt just as timely 30 years ago.

Tim Ramirez has a rack of tiny dumbbells in his Costa Mesa gym. Two, 3, 5 pounds. The time he showed Mark McGwire, the onetime slugger and now Dodgers hitting coach, how to do an exercise called the ...