Mike
Alvarez at Houston's Art Craw 2007. Photo by Rachel
Sublik © 2007.
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), Texacala
Jones and many other influential, independent
artists.
Not
Records Tapes is the founding company of NRT
Entertainment Group, which includes Not Records
Tapes and NRT Films, the production arm of the Louisiana
based film studio 4HG
Entertainment.
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.
News
and Events.....
New
Mike Alvarez Music Coming Soon
Produced
by Mike Alvarez and John Lusitana. Guest artists include:
Lisa
Gamache, Schuyler Hupp, Jonie Hell, Ron Schafer and others.
More
Information Coming Soon!
Mike Alvarez in Las Vegas 2008.
© 2008. Photo by Amber Smith.
For
Immediate Release
Coming
Soon! Austin's Peace Corps Re-issue To Be Released on
Not Records Tapes This Summer
Late 80's Austin post punk pioneers Peace Corps have remastered
their 1989 album Pastures of Plenty for Summer release
on Not Records Tapes. Led by Poet Ken Jones as lyricist
and vocalist, with other original members Mitch Ginsburg
(guitar) and Rob Cooley (drums), joined by the inimitable
Jonie Hell (bass), Peace Corps plan a series of events
and gigs in celebration of this "20th Anniversary Regurgitation".
A CD release party is planned for June, a reunion gig
in July with fellow Austin old schoolers Bigfoot Chester
(Middle Walter Daniels), and a potential Fall Texas tour
with NRT's own Mike Alvarez. More schedule details as
they develop
Max
and the Makeups News
For Immediate
Release
Max and the
Makeups to release 4-song vinyl EP - twenty two 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?" The vinyl label plans
a fall release of 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.
There
have been delays in getting the right materials to the
vinyl record pressing plant. But we promise, records
will be available at NRT soon.
 
Max
and the Makeups' bassist, the late Karl Remstam (l), Max
Gottlieb (c) and Mike
Alvarez
(r) at Club Foot, Austin, Texas, 1983. Karl and
Max photos by Ken Collier.
Mike
photo by Lori Price.
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