You're Not Alone: MX-80 SOUND Release Party August 03 2013

MX-80 SOUND is one of the real oddities in American music. Their debut album, Hard Attack (released in the UK on Island Records), found little-to-no audience in the States upon its release in 1977, yet remains a key document of the mid-'70s proto-punk zeitgeist. According to Trouser Press, "If ever a band realized the potential of pre-punk 'underground' noise rock, MX-80 is it."

In 1978, band members relocated to San Francisco and signed to THE RESIDENTS' Ralph Records label. For the past 35+ years, MX-80 wrote and recorded volumes of staggering music – six nights a week in various clubs or in their basement practice space. Superior Viaduct is honored to present the definitive version of Hard Attack. Meticulously restored from the original analog tapes, this 2CD set features 19 previously unreleased songs from 1976-1978.

To celebrate the occasion, MX-80 founders Bruce Anderson and Dale Sophiea will perform live at Stranded in Oakland on Sunday, September 1st. Spread the word.

Photo by Andrea Ross.


Now Shipping: MX-80 SOUND and MONITOR LP's May 16 2013

Two more lovely platters of wax ready to ship!

Certainly the hardest album to find in MX-SOUND's illustrious catalogue, Hard Attack has sparked many questions over the years about different pressings, dubious genre distinctions, etc. This reissue settles it once and for all – meticulously restored from the original analog tapes and with liner notes by Byron Coley. Get it here.

MONITOR has been spinning non-stop in our cars ever since March when the CD version came out. Well, now the world has been righted with the release of the vinyl version. Package design by World Imitation Productions. Get it here.