MAKE-A-MESS RECORDS

Bands: Rank / Xerox

2011-10-06T19:12:00.000-07:00

RANK / XEROX

OUT NOW! WHOA!

self-titled debut LP

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Debut album from San Francisco post-punkers Rank/Xerox.The album follows a now-out of print four-song 7" and a split cassette with Grass Widow. The sound is one of post-punk tension, messy but vaguely pop in a fractured fashion, guitar scratchers and synth screamers.The record inhabits darker, danker spaces than previously, damaged dirges seep out from a confused consciousness, and are stared down by obtuse ragers and disorienting excursions into the synth zone.The LP was recorded in a Chinatown dungeon by San Francisco luminaries Eric Bauer (aka King Riff) and Ty Segall.

Instant Fun Thru Mailorder!

2010-12-06T13:05:00.000-08:00

Look! Mailorder your goodies at the Make-A-Mess Shop and free Eric from merch table duty! U.S. distribution is through Revolver/Midheaven. Email any questions to makeamessrecords@hotmail.com

our current in-print catalog

Shows We'll Be At

2010-12-06T12:59:00.000-08:00

May 26: Milk Music / Nodz / U.S. Doors @ Hemlock in S.F.

Bands: The Babies

2010-12-06T12:03:00.000-08:00

The Babies

"Meet Me In the City"
b / w "Somebody Else"
Debut Single

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'Meet Me In The City' and 'Somebody Else' are rollicking pop gems, pungent with sweet harmonies, raucous beats, tambourines, skyscraping guitars, the works. Summer dreams, psychic revelry, concrete heat, the Babies are born! The individual Babies are no strangers to melodic transcendance, as their work in such groups as psych-pop wonderkinds Woods and chainsaw sirens Vivian Girls will attest to. Anybody with an ear for indie pop mayhem had best put their spending shoes on pronto, as these Babies are star children of an entirely different breed!

Read about The Babies on Pitchfork

From Brooklyn, New York.

Bands: Brilliant Colors

2010-12-06T11:00:00.000-08:00

Brilliant Colors

"Walk Into the World"
b/w "Bad Vibes"

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'Walk Into The World' shimmers into life with a 60's girl group swing and timeless pop drama, refracted through a hazy DIY lens, initially curious and ultimately triumphant. 'Bad Vibes' turns your world upside-down with a downer dose of delightful disorientation.

"Should I Tell You" Debut EP

Limited to 500. Sold Out!

Directed by Anthony Atlas

Brilliant Colors Skateboard. SOLD OUT.

From San Francisco, California.

Bands: Gun Outfit

2010-12-06T10:00:00.000-08:00

Gun Outfit

"High Places" EP

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"High Places" by Gun Outfit

Olympia, Washington's enjoying some of the best bands in the country again, and out from the basement comes High Places EP by Gun Outfit. The group's timeless, dueling guitar work twists and braids with melody around the trading vocalists, hypnotizing a growing legion of true believers stateside and abroad. Carrie Keith and Dylan Sharp shred with patience and deliberation, casting spells with the grace and power of Patti Smith or Husker Du, the lyricism and six-string tenacity of Felt or Television. Four songs and an empty room, you'll sit close to the needle to put it on over and over again. After last year's triumphant Possession Sounds LP (PPM), High Places is a bright, open page in Gun Outfit's continuing songbook.

From Olympia, Washington.

No Upcoming Shows.
[*Please note: "High Places" song writing credit Chico's own the 28th Day]

Bands: Grass Widow

2010-12-06T09:00:00.000-08:00

Grass Widow

Self-Titled Debut LP originally on

Make-a-Mess

2010. Back IN PRINT!

Yowzers, get it here:

GW SHOP

Debut record from San Francisco's great all-girl trio!

Directed by Hannah Widow

From San Francisco, California.

Bands: Knight School

2010-12-06T08:00:00.000-08:00

Knight School

"Revenger" Debut LP

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Kevin Alvir and Chris Balla wrote and recorded 'Revenger' themselves, conjuring epic bedroom hypnosis from acoustic guitars, electric jangle and chime, primitive drum machines, tumbling drum kits and dreamy harmonies (and harmonicas). The album recalls early Guided By Voices, ’60s folk-pop wonderment, The Go-Betweens and post-punk-era indie, but casts off into foreign waters on the strength of its own charmingly personal vision.

From Brooklyn, New York.

No Upcoming Shows.

Kevin now plays in The Hairs!

Bands: Nodzzz

2010-12-06T07:00:00.000-08:00

Nodzzz

"I Don't Wanna (Smoke Marijuana)"

b / w "We Are the Only Animals" debut single

2008. Limited to 500.

Sold Out!

All-time classic debut single that sent a pop

tidal wave to the shores of San Francisco!

From San Francisco, California.

Bands: Proper Ornaments

2010-12-06T06:00:00.000-08:00

Proper Ornaments

"Recalling"

b/w "Are You Going Blind?"
Debut single

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Sensational debut single from the London duo, Proper Ornaments. These talented Beatles-listening Englishmen offer up two songs of languid drift, rainy day vibes and ethereal pop power. Dreamy hits from these fellas of the great Veronica Falls and Germs of Youth Records.

Excitement around the Mess HQ!

From London, England.

No Upcoming Shows.

Bands: Traditional Fools

2010-12-06T05:00:00.000-08:00

Traditional Fools

Self-Titled LP

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First Make-A-Mess record! Classic fuzzy garage punk coasting to the shores of kids across the globe and inspiring them to fashion their own dude-burger pokey tattoos! Also doing stuff in Ty Segall and Culture Kids. On white-hot vinyl.

From San Francisco, California.

No Upcoming Shows.

Bands: White Fence

2010-12-06T04:00:00.000-08:00

White Fence

Self-Titled Debut LP

SOLD OUTTIES

Wander into the sweltering Cali smog to find yourself
transported into a lysergic pop netherworld, where White
Fence carves broad strokes of color into your mind. Com-
ing on like Love in a Lollipop Shoppe, or Chris Knox
abusing a Vox, the record oscillates between a sun-dappled
English meadow, a crumbling SoCal suburban bedroom, and a riotous Sunset Strip leather gang knife fight, with
the kind of warped precision and purity that marks the
wolves from the sheep and the profound from the pretend
in this instant online age. You know what I mean.

White Fence in the New York Times

Live Shows

Credit: David West

From Los Angeles, California

Make-A-Mess Attended Shows

2010-12-06T03:00:00.000-08:00

Make-A-Mess Photographs of Live Shows 'N' Tours

2010-12-06T02:00:00.000-08:00

White Fence / The Mantles / Culture Kids

San Francisco Freeway Underpass show

2010

Brilliant Colors / Grass Widow

San Francisco to Austin's Chaos in Tejas

Tour 2010

Make-A-Mess Bonanza

Lipo Lounge 2010

Featuring:

White Fence / Brilliant Colors / Grass Widow / The Babies

See your face in the crowd?

Credit: David West

Make-A-Mess at Necro Hippies Show

Extras

2010-10-04T13:38:00.001-07:00

R.I.P. Mark Sheehan