Mike Alvarez at AvantGarden,
Houston, TX., November 21, 2011.
Photo by Andres Martinez.
Musician Mike
Alvarez formed Not Records
Tapes music recording company in Austin
Texas in 1984. Before moving to Los Angeles
in 1988 to expand his work in music, film and television,
he produced the likes of Daniel
Johnston, Roky
Erickson, The True Believers (with Alejandro
Escovedo), and many other influential, independent
artists.
Not
Records Tapes is the founding company of NRT
Entertainment Group, which includes film production
in addition to music production. NRT is the
producing arm for the Louisiana based film company
4HG
Entertainment, currently in animation production
with The Greatest Escape, starring Lou Gossett, Jr.,
and Caitlin Wachs.
Alvarez
has been a professional musician since 1970, beginning
in high school as a guitarist for the McAllen, Texas
rock group Medusa.
In 1981, Alvarez joined Austin's Max
and the Makeups and has been an independent music
producer, singer-songwriter-guitarist, and filmmaker
ever since.
NRT
News and Events
Mike
Alvarez and Ken Jones Play Houston's AvantGarden
information
coming
Download
the Mike Alvarez 2010 4-song release
"Yes
It's Good"
Yes It's Good (ep). Art by Angela
Duncan
Mike Alvarez released the 4-song EP titled "Yes
It's Good". Featured guest artists include Lisa Gamache
& Jonie Hell from Max & The Makeups, Ron Schafer
(F.Y.C.K.) and Schuyler Hupp. Cover art by Angela
Duncan.
Click on song titles below for free MP3 download
1.
Yes It's Good (M. Alvarez)
2.
Head (M. Alvarez, J. Lusitana, K. Jones)
3.
Bless You (M. Alvarez)
4.
Speak My Peace (M. Alvarez, K. Jones)
Click
Here for More Information
Peace Corps "Pastures of Plenty" Released
on Not Records Tapes
Late 80's Austin post punk Peace Corps have remastered
their 1989 album Pastures of Plenty for release on Not
Records Tapes.
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Here For Product Information
Max
and the Makeups News
See
Max and the Makeups video and photos from 2009 Summer
California Mini Tour
Click
Here
Max
and the Makeups' Lisa Gamache and Mike Alvarez revved
up for a West Coast mini-tour this past summer.
The group's first show in over 25 years was at the Riff
Haus in Fullerton California. The following day,
the group performed at a house gig near UC Santa Barbara. Also
filling in for the group's original members: Matt
Jansky (rhythm guitar), Bill Dumas (drums) and Schuyler
Hupp (bass guitar).
A
follow-up ep with Puke N Vomit Records is in the talking
stages.
80s
Max and the Makeups releases first record 26 years after
the band's demise
Orange County's
Puke N Vomit Records found Max and the Makeups music
here at Not Records Tapes and asked "Why hasn't this
band ever been released?" Puke N Vomit has
released a 4-song ep with the songs Poland, Day In Day
Out, 60-Minute Man, and Let Go. Click below to listen
to MP3 recordings of the songs and all of Max and the
Makeups major studio works.
Max
and the Makeups is back row, left to right: Max
Gottlieb, Mike Alvarez, Lisa Gamache. Bottom row,
left to right: Jon Howard (a.k.a. Jonie Hell), and the
late Karl Remstam. Photo by Kevin Smith.
To
order disc, click Not
Records Tapes or Puke
N Vomit Records.
Odd
News
Ambrosiedies
and the Guardian of the Guitar from Hell music tracks
released here on NRT
Edgar Allan Poe
Beginning
on Christmas day 1985, this experiment by Mike
Alvarez on guitar and the late Charles
Gunning on vocals eventually yielded three songs based
on a fictional story by Alvarez and Gunning. They titled
the musical adventure and tale
Ambrosiedies and the Guardian of the Guitar from Hell.
The songs, Hymn For Morella, Andromeda Woman and The Lady's
From Hades, weave an imaginary tale of guardian angels.
Hymn for Morella is the Edgar Allan Poe poem written after
the passing of Poe's wife Morella.
Click
on song title below for free MP3 downloading and listening.
Other songs coming soon!
Hymn
For Morella
Words
by Edgar Allan Poe. Charles Gunning on voice. Mike
Alvarez on guitars. Mike Jensen on drums.
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