{"id":76486,"date":"2026-11-05T16:29:36","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T16:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/haywire-drops-times-square-shot-flex-your-head-video\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T16:29:36","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T16:29:36","slug":"haywire-drops-times-square-shot-flex-your-head-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/haywire-drops-times-square-shot-flex-your-head-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Haywire Drops Times Square-Shot &#8216;Flex Your Head Video&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>\u201cIt feels like you&#8217;re living outside of society&#8217;s rules,\u201d says frontman Austin Sparkman<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tBoston hardcore band <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-pictures\/haywire-punk-band-times-square-popup-1235649792\/\">Haywire recently took over Times Square<\/a> for a guerilla performance of \u201cFlex Your Head,\u201d off their new album <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/haywire-hardcore-boston-new-music-interview-1235636855\/\">I Don\u2019t Want to Say Goodbye<\/a><\/em> \u2014 camera crew in tow. The resulting chaotic video \u2014 directed by Luis Hernandez and shot by Wes Knoll, Anthony Ryan Tripoli, and Stephen Michael Simon \u2014 is out now.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"HAYWIRE 617 - &quot;FLEX YOUR HEAD&quot; TIMES SQUARE OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xBk6y5BLSjc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cIt feels like you\u2019re living outside of society\u2019s rules,\u201d frontman Austin Sparkman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/haywire-hardcore-boston-new-music-interview-1235636855\/\">previously told <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> <\/a>of the band\u2019s penchant for playing under bridges and other unconventional venues. \u201cLike all these missing puzzle pieces from under the couch all link up under a bridge and light shit on fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThat\u2019s what happened the other week in that ninth level of tourist hell, when the band tore through \u201cFlex Your Head\u201d and half of 2024 track \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/haywire\/\" id=\"auto-tag_haywire\" data-tag=\"haywire\">Haywire<\/a>\u201d before the cops shut it down. Fans showed up in droves, though, and turned the streets outside the M&amp;M store into the pit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe song itself is about this kind of community \u2014 and the interlopers that sometimes parachute into it. \u201c\u2018Flex Your Head\u2019 is mostly just based around people that get into certain things, whether it be music or any kind of subculture, and they\u2019re kind of like culture vultures,\u201d Sparkman says.<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cI feel like a lot of subculture is growing exponentially and it\u2019s reaching these people who maybe are also fucked up that it never would have reached before the internet,\u201d he adds. \u201cBut I believe it also lets people feel like they know more than they do from just habitually staying on the internet, not actually going out and meeting people and learning about whatever subculture you\u2019re representing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tHaywire has been immersed in that culture since forming in 2023, going on to play 96 gigs in 101 days across all 50 states in the summer of 2025. \u201cI just try to do everything to the extreme,\u201d Sparkman says.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/haywires-flex-your-head-video-times-square-1235653126\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt feels like you&#8217;re living outside of society&#8217;s rules,\u201d says frontman Austin Sparkman Boston hardcore band Haywire recently took over Times Square for a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":76487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}