DFLย aka Dead F*cking Last, the iconic โ90s hardcore band that featured first wave punkerย Monty Messex, Adam Horovitz aka Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys, and skater โCrazy Tomโ Davis, will reissue their influential debut album,ย My Crazy Life. Originally released on theย Beastie Boysโ own Grand Royal Recordsย in 1994, the record turned heads as it was fueled by the savage power of first wave hardcore during a time when punk rock was heading in a poppier, radio-friendly direction. The reissue is the first time the album has ever been on 12-inch vinyl and is also the first printing of the album in 29 years.ย
The band brought in original producerย Mario Caldato Jr. (Beastie Boys, Moby, Freddie Gibbs)ย to remaster the entire release. Further, the reissue contains expanded art, unreleased pictures, as well as a 10,000 word oral history of the band, as taken from interviews with the band members themselves, Grand Royal Records executives, and other contributors from the scene. As an additional bonus, the first run of the reissue will come with a complete, previously unreleased, live show titledย Live at G-Son Studios. The live album was professionally recorded by Caldato at the Beastie Boysโ G-Son Studio during a party the day after DFL recorded the tracks fromย My Crazy Lifeย and features eleven, savage live recordings.ย
My Crazy Lifeย will be released viaย Trust Recordsย onย August 11, 2023ย in stores and across all digital retailers. Trust is an archival record label whose mission is to preserve and present classic punk records as an iconic and important part of Americaโs cultural history, much in the same way as jazz, folk, and the blues have been celebrated. In order to pay tribute to the iconic records that it releases, each Trust pressing is presented as a deluxe release with premium vinyl, expanded and heavy-duty liner notes and jacket, as well other bonuses. Trust Records previously released deluxe reissues of Circle Jerksโย Group Sexย and 7 Secondsโย The Crew, both which received massive critical acclaim.
Includes a 20-page full-color oral history, a massive full color zine featuring unreleased pictures by Sofia Coppola, flyers, and other archival images made byย Bryan Ray Turcotte
