SXSWness

Lovvers killing it at the PPM/Smell day party
Deano
Scotty boy met up with us to run sound from the boardsthe crew.
Devon Williams blowing up the PPM/Smell day party
Infinite Body bringing the house down

Labor of Love

Dean was invited to speak on a panel about running a label. 

As you can see it was a packed house and the topics discussed kept the audience on the edge of their seats.
This dude in front of me was furiously taking notes on everything Dean said.

Ride back from Austin

We took 5 days to ride back from Austin to LA
The best part of the ride was when we turned off the 10 and took the 70 from Lordsburg, TX to Phoenix, AZ. 
We stopped in this awesome town called Safford. It was so Beautiful.
Then we rode through the national park just outside Phoenix, through a town called Top of the World.

inspiration

ppm30 - BEST COAST "Something In The Way" 7" Back In Stock

PPM has repressed the BEST COAST 7". 500 copies, 200 on orange and 300 on black with different colored labels as the first pressing. Full color jacket on heavy uncoated stock. Colored vinyl available through the mail-order HERE.

May 1st NO AGE, GROWING, ERIC COPELAND

We are beyond excited to play this show, come out and hang... we are going to be playing new songs that we are really psyched on.

No Age
Growing
Eric Copeland (From Black Dice)
@ Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock
2225 Colorado Blvd.
LA, CA 90041
$10 / All Ages / 7:30pm

buy tickets HERE

WIN FREE NO AGE CONCERT PASS FOR LIFE

A site called Crafts For A Cause run by our friend is starting to auction off items to benefit Haiti. Artists and other celeb types like Spike Jonze, Chan Marshall, Natalie Portman, The Strokes etc are all auctioning off one of a kind items to raise money for people and projects who need it in Haiti.

You can check out and bid on our item HERE and what you get if you win is a Limited Edition T Shirt that we made back in 2008, and also as the winner you will get into any of our shows for free for LIFE! So, just wear the shirt, and you are in... so like 30 years from now, you can still see us play when we are on our opening for some 18 year olds "cyber-industrial renaissance fair hardcore" band. The auction ends on March 27th at 6pm, Good luck!!!

Los Margaritos

You might have heard of the MtyMx Festival happening in Monterrey, Mexico soon, but you probably haven't heard of Los Margaritos. We played with them last year when we went down there and they blew us away. They are playing the festival and are going to shred. Great songs, delivered well and you can tell they pay attention to detail. Super Weirdo vibes. We got psyched when they got added to the show.

NA PARTY SXSW

COME SHRED (if you are in Texas for SXSW i mean). Late night party mind warp STYLES! It's going to be great.

XXXSXSWXXX

new cell phone photos of stuff

I have an obsession with duct tape. When I was a kid I used to go through rolls and rolls. Just making weird things to play with. Like I made a building out of card board and duct tape and I would tape my GI Joes back together. I also used to freeze my GI Joes in ziplock bags full of water and take them out and pretend they were like guys frozen in ice like cave men.  
Duct tape really is the coolest thing. You can get it in all these crazy colors. When I was in Japan they had so many rad random designs on the duct tape. I have this stupid collection of all these different rolls. My favorite for a long time was this hunting camouflage tape that had branches and leaves all over it.

RODARTE / NO AGE

We made the soundtrack for an awesome short film for Rodarte (if i were a girl i would be decked out in their clothes) made by Todd Cole (Fashion photographer and epic human extraordinaire). It is up on the website NOWNESS so you should check it out. Thanks to Todd Cole, Rodarte for being awesome, and The Directors Bereau for holding it down.

*** We made this music while recording our new record, it was a nice breather and change of pace***

birthday night photos by Atiba

Holy shit! I (Randy)turned 29 yesterday. 
We went bowling in Eagle Rock.  It was super fun. Thanks to the homies for coming out and bowling.
Natalie made a super sweet vegan guitar cake.
Patrick shows off his No Age Ed Templeton kicks.

Tonight, we are going to play w/ Mike Watt and Tim Kerr

Tonight at Family Bookstore we are playing a set with Mike Watt and Tim Kerr. There is an art show that Tim curated going up as well, it is going to be fun! we are going to play at 8pm or so, and it's free. Come hang!

Daytrotter

Randy and I turned into weird 11 year old cartoon characters for Daytrotter and recorded a couple songs. HERE is the link to the 3 songs we did. Also, we are in the studio as i write this finishing up bits and pieces of our new LP. YYYYYYYYYYEAH! I should get back to work.

New Best Coast 7" on PPM

For sale in the PPM web shop HERE . It will be at your fine local record store (if you have a cool one near you) on Tuesday. Colored vinyl ONLY available through the PPM site, and at Best Coast shows (until they run out). Good Luck!

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***********THIS 7" IS SOLD OUT*********************SOLD OUT*******************************SOLD OUT*****

If you care about the label that Dean runs (i am writing this BTW) PPM, then this post pertains to you. I started the label back in 2001 with the release of a 7" by a band called The Intima. The Intima were a band from the Northwest and the members lived in Portland and Olympia. I saw them play circa '99 at the PCH club in wilmington, CA where i think they played with !!!, it's hard to remember. I got their demo tape and they invited me to a house show they were playing the following night in Ventura, so i went up and saw them play again, they were amazing. They sounded kind of like unwound with a little more Gang of Four influence and they had a violin player. We kept in contact, i still lived with my parents at the time, and soon after that they came down the west coast pretty regularly, i even set up a show for them at a restaurant i worked at called Vegan Express (it was the first show i did there, i set up a handful, it could fit maybe 40 people if you crammed, i didn't even have a PA because i didn't even really know that a band needed one!). I eventually got a settlement from an auto accident i was in and decided i wanted to start a label, and it seemed like all my favorite ones like Dischord, Rough Trade, SST all put out 7"s first. So i asked The Intima and they agreed, and they were into the zines i was i was making with my friends and roommates Dallas Clayton and Mike Runion at the time so they asked me to do the art. I screened the covers at my mom's silk screen shop Kwik Ink and that was it. I made 500, didn't really sell that many on my own, i didn't know what i was doing, then i gave the remaining copies i had to the band right before they broke up. The 7" is long sold out, BUT i recently found out that Insound.com has 7 left. So if you care about the label, about the band or anything, i suggest you grab one because they are rare and i was very surprised to see that there were still copies somewhere. Here is the link YES

Child Actor

Did you know Randy was a child actor? Yep, he is the kid at the end of this commercial that says "And the hulk muaa maaaayy"

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