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Last year, 100% Breakfast! released a CDentitled "Detect the Mind Control Helicopters," acompilation of songs by various Harvard bands.DeMay funds his record label with his personalearnings, aided by a UC grant for recording costs.Its releases are mostly of Harvard groups, but heis starting to branch off and release outsidebands as well...
...wonder that he is. DeMay, a seniormajoring in economics, is the founder of the HIMS,what he calls "a connecting organization" Histasks include finding practice spaces, gettingshows together, borrowing a P.A. from the UC forvarious shows and connecting bands with hispersonal record label, 100% Breakfast! Records."Everyone was doing their own thing haphazardly,"he says of the music scene before the HIMS. "Iwanted an organization that would get bandstogether...
...They're a bunch of East Coast Jewish boys who have turned their lives into a weird fantasy, and they know it. They date movie stars. They have their own recording studio in California, with a skating ramp and a basketball hoop. They just started their won record label. They have a fanzine, except that since they're big stars, it looks a real magazine. When they get interviewed they point out all of these things, and say "Isn't this crazy?" When, on their last LP Check Your Head, Mike D raps "I live my life just...
...Record Hospital broadcasts not the major label music played on commercial radio, but rather independently released rock and roll. Commercial radio stations, such as WBCN or WFNX, almost always play music that is produced and distributed by one of six major record companies. But for every record released by one of these major companies, 100 independently released records are produced and distributed by small companies. Because commercial radio stations need to maintain a large listenership in order to attract sponsors, they hardly ever play music by artists that are not already well-known and could cause listeners to tune...
College radio has become the exposure point for independent-label records. Over the past 10 years, the Record Hospital has launched the careers of many local bands. Members of The Lemonheads were Record Hospital DJs, and the program was one of the first to play Bullet L Volta, another successful Boston band...