At the end of the year they went to a local recording studio in Costa Mesa and got 9 songs down to tape in one afternoon, until they ran out of money —$300 well spent!
A cassette tape was hastily copied and passed around. A copy of the tape was given to Kevin Seconds at a show with 7 Seconds in Reno. Kevin passed it on to Tim Yohannan of Maximum Rocknroll. It eventually ended up in the hands of Felix Alanis at Smoke Seven and Greg Shaw at Bomp.
By mid-1982, M.I.A. ended up on 3 vinyl releases: Tell Me Why on Bomp’s American Youth Report compilation, New Left on Alternative Tentacles’ Maximum Rocknroll Presents: Not So Quiet on the Western Front compilation, and 8 of the 9 tracks on the infamous Last Rites for Genocide and M.I.A. split LP on Smoke Seven.
...In one corner is M.I.A., a band originally from Las Vegas, the champions of punk’s positive side. They’ve managed to fuse a super tight thrash sound with enlightened attitudes— ”I Hate Hippies” is obviously meant as a satire with a moral — and the results are absolutely stunning.
- Jeff Bale’s 1982 review of the Last Rites LP in Maximum Rocknroll #2
This release marks the final chapter in Modern City‘s reissue campaign of M.I.A.’s catalog, started in 2023 with Notes From the Underground (National Trust 1985) and After the Fact (Flipside 1987), Murder In a Foreign Place (Alternative Tentacles 1984) and a 7” with two compilation tracks Just a Dream and Turning Into What You Hate.
$12.00
M. Grig is a multi-instrumentalist who specializes in dobro, lap steel and pedal steel guitar living in Durham, North Carolina. His songs are beautiful, slow, wistful...
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Release date: December 6, 2019This Lynchian collaboration pairs the calm, late-night vocals of Tanya Maus with the melancholic piano, sparse electronics, and foreboding processed guitar...
$12.00
On M. Ostermeier's debut full-length CD, both mood and melody come into focus. The acoustic piano provides a warmth and familiarity that offsets the abstract...
$8.00
Release date: November 22, 2019 The German label [ parvoart ] recordings released M. Ostermeier’s debut album Percolate in a numbered edition of 50...
$11.40
Poignant and at times avant-garde piano style mixed with the spare use of electronics and processed acoustic recordings. Empty space and minimalism figure heavily in...
$8.00
Release date: February 21, 2025 (Original release date on Home Normal was April 29, 2016) The piano sketches of M. Ostermeier's fourth album are more...
$8.99
Darla Records is proud to offer the first digital and CD reissue of M.I.A.'s fourth and final record After the Fact, originally released on Flipside Records in early...
