# Haywire’s Video for ‘Flex Your Head’ Documents Their Times Square Siege

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/haywires-video-for-flex-your-head-documents-their-times-square-siege/
- Published: 2026-11-05T16:20:21+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-05T22:06:07+00:00
- Original publisher: Rolling Stone
- Original article: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/haywires-flex-your-head-video-times-square-1235653126/
- Topics: Music

## Key points

- Haywire filmed a Times Square performance before police stopped it.
- Fans turned the street by the M&M’s store into a mosh pit.
- “Flex Your Head” reflects on community and subculture.

## Summary

Boston hardcore band Haywire have released a video of their unauthorised performance of “Flex Your Head” in Times Square. The footage captures the band playing amid a crowd before police ended the set, bringing their unconventional approach to live shows into one of New York’s busiest public spaces.

The song, from their new album *I Don’t Want to Say Goodbye*, explores community in music and other subcultures, as well as people who adopt those scenes without engaging with them in person. Haywire also played part of “Haywire”, a 2024 track, and fans formed a mosh pit near the M&M’s store. Since forming in 2023, the band played 96 gigs in 101 days across all 50 US states in summer 2025.

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