No Age is a two-person American indie rock group consisting of guitarist Randy Randall and drummer Dean Allen Spunt. The band is based in Los Angeles and currently signed to Sub Pop records. Th . .   Expand    Wikipedia

No Age is a two-person American indie rock group consisting of guitarist Randy Randall and drummer Dean Allen Spunt. The band is based in Los Angeles and currently signed to Sub Pop records. The group takes its name from the title of a 1987 SST Records instrumental compilation, which Spunt discovered while working at Aron's, a record store in Los Angeles. No Age has been listed as a mainstay of The Smell, along with HEALTH, Mika Miko, Silver Daggers, Abe Vigoda, BARR, and David Scott Stone. Its strong ties with the Los Angeles underground community centered around the Smell and their DIY ethic is a throwback to the 1980s hardcore and punk underground, which is displayed through on much of the group's music. No Age has released two full-length albums, toured extensively in support of them, and is a strong advocates of the All-ages Movement Project, an organization that connects youth to each other and the arts through independent music. No Age formed in December 2005 out of the ashes of their previous band, the hardcore punk group Wives, in which Dean played bass and Randy played guitar. 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. Their first proper show was at Downtown Los Angeles venue The Smell in April 2006 with sister band Mika Miko. "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 we had a community to try out these new ideas," Randall told Drew Tewksbury in 2008. On March 6, 2006 Randy and Dean played one reunion show as their previous incarnation, Wives, for the underground film 40 Bands 80 Minutes! directed by Sean Carnage. The band recorded 5 limited edition 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." 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. 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. This re-do can also be seen in the band's first music video for the song Boy Void. No Age are known for their community allegiance and playing un-traditional venues, such as their show at the Los Angeles River (shown at left), to protest the Aqueduct. Among other places, they have also played at Food Fight, a vegan grocery store in Portland, Oregon, and the Los Angeles Central Library in downtown Los Angeles. A New Yorker article on the band from November 19, 2007 entitled Let It Rip earned them much acclaim and fans.

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