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*''[[Everything in Between (No Age album)|Everything in Between]]'' CD/12" ([[Sub Pop]], 2010)
*''[[Everything in Between (No Age album)|Everything in Between]]'' CD/12" ([[Sub Pop]], 2010)
*''[[An Object (No Age album)|An Object]]'' CD/12 ([[Sub Pop]], 2013)


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No Age
No Age playing a show in Albuquerque
No Age playing a show in Albuquerque
Background information
OriginLos Angeles, California, USA
GenresNoise rock
Years active2005–present
LabelsFat Cat, Sub Pop, Post Present Medium
MembersRandy Randall
Dean Allen Spunt
Websitewww.noagela.org

No Age is a two-person experimental punk group consisting of guitarist Randy Randall and drummer/vocalist Dean Allen Spunt. The band is based in Los Angeles and is currently signed to Sub Pop records.

History

Formation, EPs, and Weirdo Rippers

No Age formed in December 2005 out of the ashes of their previous band, Wives, in which Dean played bass and sang and Randy played guitar.[1] They played their first show at the New Image Art gallery for a show curated by friend and artist Rich Jacobs on January 22, 2006.[1] Their first proper show was at The Smell in April 2006 with Mika Miko, BARR and more. "The Smell is where we got to experiment and find what kind of band we wanted to be. It pushed the boundaries of whatever ideas we had about music and art—and we had a community to try out these new ideas," Randall told Drew Tewksbury in 2008.[2] The band recorded 5 limited edition vinyl singles and EPs, and released them on 5 different labels on or around the same day, March 26, 2007.[3] Designed by Brian Roettinger, Randall and Spunt, the back of each record's sleeve was a different color, and had one of the letters that, when you collected all of them, would join to spell "No Age."[4] Half of the songs off these 5 EPs and singles were collected and released in album form under the title Weirdo Rippers, on June 11, 2007 through Fat Cat Records.[5][6] The cover featured the exterior back wall of The Smell painted No Age and, below, Weirdo Rippers by Amanda Vietta, an artist and friend of No Age.[7] The painting of the smell can also be seen in the band's first music video for the song Boy Void. No Age are known for their constant touring, community allegiance and playing un-traditional venues, such as their show at the Los Angeles River.[citation needed] A New Yorker article on the band from November 19, 2007 entitled Let It Rip earned them much acclaim and fans.

Sub Pop, touring, and Nouns

Buoyed by positive reviews in the music press, No Age signed to the prominent Seattle-based independent label Sub Pop. On January 25, 2008, No Age began their profile building month-long, 23-date tour with New York band Liars.[8] Liars and No Age also released a joint 7" single limited to 1200 copies to coincide with the tour. 200 copies of the two-song single were sold on tour, with unique cover art for each individual city designed by Brian Roettinger, and the other 1000 featured hand letterpress-printed covers with different ink and vinyl color for each one.[9][10] Fulfilling their tendency to play at un-traditional venues, No Age played a show at an Ethiopian restaurant named Queen of Sheba in Philadelphia.[11] The change of venue took place at the last minute when Liars' Angus Andrew got sick beforehand. In April Randy Randall accompanied the Altamont Apparel skate team to Paris, France to film them for a short tour film entitled "The Foreigners," with the soundtrack featuring exclusively No Age music.[12][13] The film is being distributed for free, at skateshops and accompanying certain Altamont products, and also features the video for Eraser.[14][15] No Age appeared on a straight-to-VHS edition of Juan's Basement on April 22, 2008. The episode was broadcasted on Pitchfork Media's Pitchfork TV site.[16] On May 6, 2008, No Age released their debut record for Sub Pop, Nouns. No Age appeared in an episode of VBS.tv "Practice Space," showing their Bushwick, New York practice space, which used to be a metal shop. In May 2008, UK music magazine Mojo named No Age one of the top ten best new acts, beside Bon Iver and Sub Pop labelmates Fleet Foxes.[17] The band, along with Brian Roettinger were nominated for a Grammy for their design and packaging of the Nouns CD, which came with a 64 page book of art and photos.

The music video for No Age's song "Eraser" debuted on June 27, 2008.[18] It was directed by Andy Bruntel, also responsible for the videos of artists such as Will Oldham, St. Vincent, and The Mountain Goats.[19][20] The video begins with No Age's instrumental song "Impossible Bouquet" from Nouns, before it segues into "Eraser".

A No Age music video for the song "Goat Hurt" has appeared on the band's blog, and is included on a new DVD entitled New Video Works released by Dean Spunt's label, Post Present Medium.[21] The song is off of the band's out of print Dead Plane EP, but was also available through a limited edition 10" EP made available at the Fuck Yeah! festival held in L.A. on August 30, 2008.[21] The video was directed by "sister band" Mika Miko's Jennifer Clavin.[22]

Losing Feeling and Everything In Between–present

No Age worked with skateboarder Andrew Reynold's clothing company, Altamont Apparel, and for the company's fall line they contributed a collection for which the theme was "The human body's amazing capacity to heal."[13] Those contributing were Hisham Baroocha, Sam McPheeters, Matthew Thurber, and the members of the group themselves.[23] The group released the EP Losing Feeling on October 6, 2009. The release had a companion zine called "Losing Feeling" made by the band and Brian Roettinger that was for sale with pre-orders and also at art book stores Ooga Booga in Los Angeles and Printed Matter in New York. The zine was in an edition of 200.

On April 1, 2010, No Age performed a Live Score at the Red Cat Theatre in Los Angeles for the film Aanteni directed by Todd Cole for the fashion designers Rodarte. The film includes original No Age music.

On June 24, 2010, No Age announced their new album, Everything In Between, along with the tracklisting.[24] On July 28, No Age premiered the first single from the album, Glitter on a BBC 6 Music interview with Steve Lamacq.[25] On August 10, the album's cover was released, and plans to release two Glitter singles were announced, along with their respective covers.[26] The singles were released on August 24.[26] Everything In Between was released on September 28, 2010, to generally favorable reviews.[27]

During June 16–20, 2011, No Age accompanied video artist Doug Aitken and actress Chloë Sevigny to Athens and Hydra Island in Greece to perform the multimedia installation piece Black Mirror. Supported by the DESTE Foundation and the Greek Festival the performances took place on an old Greek barge at the Port Of Piraeus in Athens on June 16 and 17 and off the Island of Hydra on June 19. With a final performance on June 20 with the barge driven a mile off the coast of Hydra in the middle of the ocean.

In September 2011 No Age made a zine called "Reality Problems" that was commissioned by the Los Angeles art book and clothing store Ooga Booga for their booth at the New York Art Book Fair. The zine was in an edition of 50.

On November 12, 2011, No Age made a soundtrack and installation piece for Hedi Slimane's California Song at the MOCA Pacific Design Center. They performed their piece with audience participation for the opening of the show and the soundtrack as a continuous loop played for the duration of the show ending on January 22, 2012.

In February 2012 No Age released the "Collage Culture" 12" on Post Present Medium, A soundtrack to readings of excerpts from the book Collage Culture written by Aaron Rose, Mandy Kahn and designed by Brian Roettinger published by JRP-Ringier. The record is split in two channels, one side has readings from both essays in the book and the other is No Age music written specifically for the release.

Discography

Studio albums

EPs

  • DVD-R No. 1 (Self Released 2006)
  • Get Hurt 12" (Upset The Rhythm, 2007)
  • Dead Plane 12" (Teenage Teardrops, 2007)
  • Sick People Are Safe 12" (Deleted Art, 2007)
  • Flannel Graduate CD-r (with Zach Hill) (Self-Released, 2008)
  • Goat Hurt 10" (2008)
  • Losing Feeling 12" (Sub Pop, 2009)
  • "Collage Culture" 12" (PPM, 2012)

Singles

  • "Neck Escaper 7" (Youth Attack, 2007)
  • PPM 7" (Post Present Medium, 2007)
  • Liars / No Age split 7" (Post Present Medium/Hand Held Heart, 2008)
  • "Eraser" (Sub Pop, 2008)
  • "Teen Creeps" (Sub Pop, 2008)
  • "Glitter" 7"/12" (Sub Pop, 2010)
  • Bored Fortress split 7" with Infinite Body (Not Not Fun, 2010)

Cassettes

  • "Secret City"/"Brett Schultz Himself" split cassette with Abe Vigoda (Death Bomb Arc, 2007)
  • Slow Gag live in Glasgow 9 October 2010 cassette (Rude Fans, 2011)

References

  1. ^ Tewksbury, Drew. "Interviews No Age". Drew Tewksbury: Multimedia Journalist. Retrieved 2008-09-24.
  2. ^ Hughes, Josiah "No Age Find Eternal Youth", Exclaim!, May 2008.
  3. ^ "No Age - Singles Series « Seven Ten Twelve". Seven Ten Twelve. Archived from the original on May 7, 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-29.
  4. ^ Stosuy, Brandon. "No Age: Weirdo Rippers: Pitchfork Record Review". pitchforkmedia.com. Archived from the original on 2008-05-05. Retrieved 2008-05-21.
  5. ^ "Amazon.com: Weirdo Rippers: No Age: Music". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2008-05-29.
  6. ^ Frere-Jones, Sasha. "Let It Rip: Musical Events: The New Yorker". New Yorker magazine. Retrieved 2008-05-25.
  7. ^ Thompson, Paul. "Liars, No Age Announce Joint Tour Pitchfork". pitchforkmedia.com. Archived from the original on 2008-04-23. Retrieved 2008-07-01.
  8. ^ "Liars / No Age - Liars + No Age". Discogs. Retrieved 2008-08-23.
  9. ^ "Liars / No Age : Hand Held Heart". Archived from the original on 2008-10-12. Retrieved 2008-12-06.
  10. ^ "Of No Significance: NO Age Interview". Of No Significance. Retrieved 2008-11-09.
  11. ^ Curtis, Carleton. "Altamont x No Age = The Foreigners Teaser". Transworld Skateboarding. Retrieved 2008-09-07. {{cite web}}: Text "transworld Skateboarding" ignored (help)
  12. ^ a b "NO AGE - NO MORE R&R: Links to The Foreigner reviews". No Age: No More R&R. Retrieved 2008-09-06. Cite error: The named reference "altamont" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  13. ^ Mercer, Nik. "Altamont Apparel Tour Video Directed By Randy Randall". Anthemmagazine.com. Retrieved 2008-09-07. {{cite web}}: Text "Anthem" ignored (help) [dead link‍]
  14. ^ "Blog « Altamont Apparel". Altamont Apparel. Retrieved 2008-09-06.
  15. ^ "Eraser". pitchfork.tv. Archived from the original on 2008-04-24. Retrieved 2008-05-16. {{cite web}}: Text "Pitchfork.TV" ignored (help)
  16. ^ Bennett, Ross. "MOJO's Mid-Term Report - News - Mojo". Mojo4music.com. Retrieved 2008-06-03.
  17. ^ "No Age - "Eraser"". MTV.com. Retrieved 2008-06-30. {{cite web}}: Text "FNMTV Premieres" ignored (help); Text "MTV" ignored (help); Text "Music Video" ignored (help); Text "Rihanna, Maroon 5, T.I., No Age, Day 26" ignored (help)
  18. ^ "Andy Bruntel / Eraser". Andy Bruntel. Retrieved 2008-07-19.
  19. ^ "MTV Search". MTV.com. Retrieved 2008-06-30.
  20. ^ a b Hogan, Marc. "Goat Hurt". Pitchforkmedia.com. Archived from the original on 2008-08-25. Retrieved 2008-08-22.
  21. ^ "NO AGE - NO MORE R&R: New Video Jerks". No Age: No More R&R. Retrieved 2008-08-22.
  22. ^ "No Age << Contributors << Altamont Apparel". Altamont Apparel. Retrieved 2009-09-08.
  23. ^ "Pitchfork: No Age Announce New Album". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 2010-10-01.
  24. ^ "BBC - BBC 6 Music Programmes - Steve Lamacq, 28/07/10". BBC. Retrieved 2010-10-01.
  25. ^ a b "Pitchfork: No Age Unveil Album Cover". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 2010-10-01.
  26. ^ "Everything In Between Reviews and More at MetaCritic". MetaCritic. Retrieved 2010-10-01.
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