No Age

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No Age
Origin	Los Angeles
Genre(s)	Noise rock, Experimental rock, Punk rock
Years active	2005 – present
Label(s)	FatCat, Sub Pop
Associated acts	Wives
Website	Official Blog
Members
Randy Randall Dean Allen Spunt

No Age is an experimental rock band based in Los Angeles, currently signed to Sub Pop records. They take their name from the title of a 1987 SST instrumental compilation, which member Dean Allen Spunt discovered while working at Aron's, a record store in L.A..^[1]

1 History
2 Discography
3 External links
4 References

[edit] History

No Age playing live at the banks of the Los Angeles River.

No Age formed in December 2005 out of the ashes of hardcore punk band Wives and played their first proper show at Downtown Los Angeles venue The Smell in April 2006 with sister band Mika Miko. They have been listed as mainstays of The Smell, along with HEALTH, The Mae Shi, Mika Miko, Silver Daggers, Abe Vigoda, BARR, John Wiese, David Scott Stone and Lavender Diamond.^[2] The band recorded 5 limited vinyl singles and EPs, and released them on 5 different labels on the same day, March 26, 2007. 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."^[3] 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.^[4]^[5] The cover featured the exterior of The Smell, re-done to read No Age and, below, Weirdo Rippers by Amanda Vietta, an artist and friend of No Age.^[6]. This re-do can also be seen in the band's first music video for the song Boy Void. No Age are known for playing many un-traditional venues, such as their show at the Los Angeles River(shown at right). Among other places, they have also played at Food Fight, a vegan grocery store in Portland, Oregon.^[7] A New Yorker article on the band from November 19, 2007 entitled Let It Rip earned them much acclaim and fans. Buoyed by positive reviews in the music press, the band have since signed to the prominent Seattle-based independent label Sub Pop. The band have gotten support from many contemporary artists. Deerhunter's Bradford Cox named No Age his favorite new band in an interview with Pitchfork Media on February 2, 2007.^[8]^[4] Radiohead's Colin Greenwood has also shown his support, most notably when he wore their signature rainbow font t-shirt in their January 16, 2008 live online concert broadcast.^[9] 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.^[10] On May 6th, 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. Recently, UK music magazine Mojo named No Age one of the top ten best new acts, beside Bon Iver and Sub Pop labelemates Fleet Foxes.^[11]