Anti-Flag

Anti-Flag

Anti-Flag is an American punk rock band from Pittsburgh, United States, active from 1988 to 2023. The group forms around singer and guitarist Justin Sane and drummer Pat Thetic, who found the band together. Its later line-up includes guitarist Chris Head and singer and bassist Chris Barker, known as Chris #2. Barker replaces Jamie “Cock” Towns, who in turn replaces original bassist Andy Flag in 1997, after Flag leaves the band the previous year.

The band’s music is associated with anarcho-punk, hardcore punk, melodic hardcore, political hip hop, pop punk and punk. Anti-Flag is known for politically charged lyrics and activism, with songs and public positions focused on human rights and left-wing causes. The group also advocates for progressive organisations including Greenpeace and Amnesty International, and it declares solidarity with Occupy Wall Street and the Black Lives Matter movement.

Anti-Flag releases music through A-F Records and Spinefarm Records.