Title: In Store Performance with THE SHRILLS and MR ELEVATOR
Location: Mass Media Records
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Description: Mr. Elevator & The Brain Hotel and The Shrills Live at Mass Media / Resurrection Records for One Night Only!!!
June 8th at MMRR Mr Elevator and the Brain Police with The Shrills
Show starts at 5 PM.
Vinyl DJ set before the show by Dapper Society (Las Vegas!!)
Start Time: 17:00
Date: 2012-06-08
Mass Media Records is a label, print shop and now a fully stocked bricks and mortar shop carrying tons of independent music, apparel, zines, books and all kinds of outsider DIY ephemera. The label started in the early 90s as a way to document the “orange county peace punk” scene which was a group of idealistic punks set into motion by the peace punks in the UK such as CRASS, CONFLICT, and ANTISECT to create their own politically conscious hardcore punk scene amidst a growing trend of violent apathy in the 2nd wave of hardcore in Los Angeles and Orange County. While our release schedule has picked up in the past years we have always been committed to releasing music by bands whose sound and message embraces the Do-It-Yourself Independent spirit and the political ideas that naturally spring from such radical rejections of mainstream conventions. Through the network of label trading Mass Media Records operated as a distro set up at shows selling independently released records for many years and has now grown into a physical store. In a time when music has very much transcended the physical realm we feel that much of the artistry and proliferation of ideas (both aesthetic, poetic, political, or whatever) lies in the physical product of records, tapes, cds, zines and books.
Collector/Horder-isms aside, we would hope that the power that music and words gives us in our daily lives might be relegated to more than a simple file on a device.
Record of the Week 3/17/2012 DISASTER “WAR CRY” lp with bonus flexi
Buy this record here!
RECORD OF THE WEEK 2/2/2012 MARIA TATA EP
Maria Ta Ta y El Empujon Brutal EP
Obviously there is a lot of history going on here but I havent even tried to read the todo en espanol insert included with this release yet. Fuck history class anyways, this is fucking punk rock remember? Glad this was released on vinyl saving it from forever being blog rock tape horder secret jams now the masses can know the wonders of this 80s Peruvian Punk gem. Are we at Mass Media biased because it has raw as fuck female vocals? Well of course because lets face it punk has been dude i fied to death and maybe its some 30 years on its existence but not too late to give the ladies their due place in punk history what with Alice Bag giving her side in a book and numerous gems being reissued on vinyl. This record is right along the lines of Killed by Death style punk with some hardcore faster punk moments but not so much as to lose catchiness and make this another hc record that you’ll forget about instantly. Fans of early Ultimo Resorte and Enola Gay will dig this up as I did! Check this out, drop out of history class and start a band! Buy it here: http://www.massmediadistro.com/store/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1786
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