Mecca Normal -- directed by Pat Maley. + Informações

Jean Smith vocals, David Lester guitar, Peter Jefferies piano. Directed by Michael Morley.. + Informações

from the Dovetail LP. + Informações

From 1993's Flood Plain (K Records). Footage from Lounge Ax in Chicago, Pat Maley (from the Waiting for Rudy video), Rhino Records in LA from Atomic TV. Mecca Normal Newsletter: meccanormal.wordpress.com Mecca Normal on Facebook www.facebook.com. + Informações

PUNKCAST#96523 - Mecca Normal, from Vancouver BC, performing live at Union Docs, Brooklyn on May 7 2006. The song 'Attraction Is Ephemeral' is from their new album 'The Observer' on Kill Rock Stars. More info: punkcast.com. + Informações

Part of a Mecca Normal show I filmed. they played with Distorted Pony.. + Informações

7" single b/w Blue Sky & Branches (K Records, 2011). www.krecs.com Jean Smith - vocals & piano. David Lester - guitar. Film by Jean Smith. Malachi Ritscher (1954-2006) was an American musician, free speech and anti-war activist who for many years made high quality recordings of other musicians (often jazz and experimental) performing live in Chicago. He would give a copy to the performers and sometimes these would become official releases. After the US invaded Iraq, he became a vocal opponent of the war at demonstrations and was twice arrested. Like monks opposing the Vietnam war, his final act of protest culminated in an act of self-immolation. Malachi And camera goes click and you press record and you hand the document to the jazz musician after they perform And you talk and you listen and you protest this war And there is pain and it instigates change And there is frustration that your voice is not heard when you protest the war -- with a sign above your head -- in words And your camera goes click as you press record and the can of gasoline is there for this final document -- your protest against the war and some of us understood you know the history And your camera goes click as you press record and you pour the gasoline and Malachi you light match that ends your life in this final statement and some of us heard your final words and Malachi you light the match that ends your life in this final document -- your protest against this war and some of us understood and .... + Informações

From the album, Calico Kills the Cat (K Records,1989). Jean Smith vocals, David Lester guitar. Video by Jean Smith, inspired by Occupy Wall Street and beyond. Buy the LP from the K Records Shop: www.krecs.com Buy the song on Bandcamp: meccanormal.bandcamp.com Calico Kills the Cat was recorded by Calvin Johnson and Pat Maley in Olympia, Washington in 1989. Mecca Normal's second LP, it is often thought to be the first because the first LP was released on Mecca Normal's own label, Smarten UP! Records (1986). Calico Kills the Cat came as an LP on K Records and then, some years later, Matador released it as double CD with Water Cuts My Hands, Mecca Normal's third album (the second LP with K Records). When the rights to digital versions returned to Mecca Normal from Matador, Smarten Up! Records made Calico, Water, Snaps, Eagle and Elvis available on iTunes (with some songs popping up on Bandcamp).. + Informações

From their 2009 "Art Can Change The World Tour". Filmed rockingly by moi.. + Informações

David had this new guitar thing yesterday. We'd decided not to record our rehearsal. He played the guitar part and I sang, then I set up a mic and we did it again and then this here is the third time. Nov. 23, 2007 So, we'll keep working on it. Mecca Normal Newsletter: meccanormal.wordpress.com Mecca Normal on Facebook www.facebook.com. + Informações

Mecca Normal "What About the Boy?" from The Family Swan CD on Kill Rock Stars. Filmed at the Capitol Theater in Olympia, Washington .. + Informações

Clip of "Joelle" -- Chicago, mid 90s -- Lounge Axe.. + Informações

Mecca Normal on the evening news -- mid 90s.. + Informações

Oh Yes You Can (7" on K Records, !987). This was Mecca Normal's second release. The LP came out on Smarten UP! Records in 1986. Strong White Male & Man Thinks Woman by David Lester, 1987. More, More, More by Heather Conrad.. + Informações

Jean Smith vocals and David Lester guitar. Shot in pixelvision by Jean Smith. From the album Water Cuts My Hands (LP on K Records, CD on Matador, 1991, and re-released by Smarten UP! Records, 2010, available in iTunes). Mecca Normal Newsletter meccanormal.wordpress.com. + Informações

Live from Philadelphia PA ,Nexus art Gallery On their 25th Anniversary Tour . Playing an updated version of I Walk Alone, From their First LP! Still has so much power to it!. + Informações

Mecca Normal (David Lester on guitar and Jean Smith vocals) "Breathing in the Dark" -- The Eagle and the Poodle (Matador 1996, re-released on Smarten UP! Records, 2009). Peter Jefferies on drums. Available in iTunes. Film by Jean Smith (in-camera edit, September 20, 2009) Mecca Normal Newsletter: meccanormal.wordpress.com Mecca Normal on Facebook www.facebook.com. + Informações

Mecca Normal with "Man Thinks Woman" from 1987's Oh Yes You Can! [IPU004]. "Man Thinks Woman" was also featured on Mecca Normal's later LP Jarred Up [KLP018] from 1993. Both releases are available from the K Mail Order Dept.: Oh Yes You Can! [IPU004] - shop.krecs.com Jarred Up [KLP018] - shop.krecs.com. + Informações

from the CD The Observer on Kill Rock Stars. + Informações

Mecca Normal - Don't Shoot (video after UC Davis pepper spray) "Don't Shoot" is on "Calico Kills the Cat" originally released on an LP (K Records, 1989). The CD was released by Matador Records and recently re-released by Smarten UP! Records (2010). Malachi 7" (November, 2010) on K Records www.krecs.com/Shop/product_info.php?cPath=38&products_id=4630 Mecca Normal started in 1984 with the express purpose of changing the world. Writer Jean Smith turned her zine Smarten UP! -- A How to Change the World Publication -- into a record label to release the first Mecca Normal LP in 1986. "Arguably the greatest rock band without a rhythm section ever, the duo of acid-voiced singer Jean Smith and guitar hero David Lester must be seen to be believed." -- Douglas Wolk In April 2009, Mecca Normal celebrated its 25th anniversary with 25 shows in 25 days, including university and high school presentations of "How Art & Music Can Change the World" -- a lecture intending to inspire audiences to consider adding political content to their creative self-expression. Mecca Normal is known as a fore-runner and inspiration to the riot grrrl movement in the 90s. As part of the regional DIY scene at that time, Mecca Normal co-founded the Black Wedge -- anti-authoritarian poets and minimalist musicians "setting wild hearts free, spreading the damn difficult word of how to combine poetry with activist resistance culture". In 2010 Smith and Lester launched The Black Dot Museum of Political Art with a .... + Informações

Mecca Normal on the Evening News -- 1993. + Informações

Mecca Normal (David Lester on guitar and Jean Smith vocals) "Trapped Inside Your Heart" -- Sitting on Snaps (Matador 1995, re-released on Smarten UP! Records, 2009). Available in iTunes. Film by Jean Smith (September 20, 2009). Mecca Normal Newsletter: meccanormal.wordpress.com Mecca Normal on Facebook www.facebook.com. + Informações

Throw: The Yo-Yo Studio Compilation (1987-1992). + Informações

Dovetail, 1992. + Informações

At the opening of the Black Dot Museum of Political Art at Northern All-Ages in Olympia, Washington, May 1, 2010. Video-ed by Pat Maley. Available on a three song K 7" www.krecs.com The Black Dot Museum of Political Art blackdotmuseum.wordpress.com. + Informações