Mexican Summer
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Founded by Kemado Records
Kemado Records
Kemado Records is an American record label based in New York City founded in 2002. In 2006 the label released the Invaders compilation, which featured many of the label's bands alongside other hard rock and heavy metal bands such as Witchcraft, High on Fire and Witch.In 2008, Kemado introduced its...

 in 2008, Mexican Summer started out by releasing limited-edition, ornately packaged vinyl pieces. Mexican Summer has expanded its catalog to over 100 releases across multiple formats.

The name is taken from the third track of the album Songs III: Bird on the Water
Songs III: Bird on the Water
Songs III: Bird on the Water is Marissa Nadler's third full-length album, released in March 2007 on Peacefrog Records. It was distributed in the US and Canada in August 2007 by New York City-based Kemado Records...

 by Marissa Nadler
Marissa Nadler
Marissa Nadler is an American dream-folk singer-songwriter and fine artist based in Boston.-Early life:Marissa Nadler was exposed to art at a young age through her mother Pamela, an abstract painter, and her older brother Stuart, a guitarist and writer...

, which was released on Kemado Records
Kemado Records
Kemado Records is an American record label based in New York City founded in 2002. In 2006 the label released the Invaders compilation, which featured many of the label's bands alongside other hard rock and heavy metal bands such as Witchcraft, High on Fire and Witch.In 2008, Kemado introduced its...

 in 2007.

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  • Andrew Graham & Swarming Branch
  • Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
  • Beaches
  • Best Coast
    Best Coast
    Best Coast is an American indie rock band based in Los Angeles, California, and is often categorized under the subgenres of garage rock, surf pop, and lo-fi. The band currently consists of Bethany Cosentino, who writes all of the band's songs and fronts the group, multi-instrumentalist Bobb Bruno, ...

  • Bipolar Bear
  • Black Moth Super Rainbow
    Black Moth Super Rainbow
    Black Moth Super Rainbow is an American experimental band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Their music contains elements of psychedelia, folk, electronica, and pop...

  • Bobb Trimble
    Bobb Trimble
    Bobb Trimble is a cult psych-folk/outsider musician from Marlborough, Massachusetts.-Biography:He released two full-lengths, 1980's Iron Curtain Innocence and 1982's Harvest of Dreams...

  • Brain Idea
  • Campfires
  • Cold Showers
    Cold Showers
    Cold Showers is a 2005 French film directed by Antony Cordier. It was a Directors' Fortnight Selection at 2005 Cannes Film Festival. The film tells the story of three teenagers, a girl, Vanessa, and two boys, Mickael and Clement, who face changes and problems over a period of three months as they...

  • Date Palms
  • Dimples
  • Dunes
  • Dungen
    Dungen
    Dungen is a Swedish rock band based in Stockholm. Often classified as progg or psychedelic rock, Dungen is also influenced by Swedish folk music, classic rock, progressive rock, garage rock and alternative rock....

  • Eddy Current Suppression Ring
    Eddy Current Suppression Ring
    Eddy Current Suppression Ring is a Melbourne-based Australian rock group which rose to prominence in 2008.-Biography:The band formed in 2003 when several band members started jamming at the Christmas party at a vinyl pressing plant where they worked. They encouraged now-lead singer Brendan...

  • Farmer Dave Scher
  • Ford & Lopatin
    Ford & Lopatin
    Ford & Lopatin is an American electronic music duo whose first recordings were released in 2010.Ford & Lopatin is composed of electronic musician Daniel Lopatin and Joel Ford of the group Tigercity...

  • Fraction
    Fraction
    In common usage a fraction is any part of a unit.Fraction may also mean:*Fraction , one of more equal parts of something, eg...

  • Gauntlet Hair
  • Golden Triangle
  • Greg Ashley
  • Headdress
  • Jacuzzi Boys
  • John Carpenter
    John Carpenter
    John Howard Carpenter is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, editor, composer, and occasional actor. Although Carpenter has worked in numerous film genres in his four-decade career, his name is most commonly associated with horror and science fiction.- Early life :Carpenter was born...

  • Kurt Vile
    Kurt Vile
    Kurt Vile is a guitarist and singer born in 1980 from the Philadelphia suburb of Lansdowne, Pennsylvania. He was signed by Matador Records as a solo artist in May 2009....

  • Light Asylum
  • Linda Perhacs
    Linda Perhacs
    Linda Perhacs is an American psychedelic folk singer, who released her only album Parallelograms in 1970 to scant notice or sales. The album was rediscovered by record enthusiasts and grew in popularity with the rise of the New Weird America movement and the Internet...

  • Little Girls
  • Lucky Luke
    Lucky Luke
    Lucky Luke is a Belgian comics series created by Belgian cartoonist, Maurice De Bevere better known as Morris, the original artist, and was for one period written by René Goscinny...

  • Marissa Nadler
    Marissa Nadler
    Marissa Nadler is an American dream-folk singer-songwriter and fine artist based in Boston.-Early life:Marissa Nadler was exposed to art at a young age through her mother Pamela, an abstract painter, and her older brother Stuart, a guitarist and writer...

  • Mexican Summer Waterloo Compilation
  • Michael Angelo
  • Nachtmystium
    Nachtmystium
    Nachtmystium is an American psychedelic black metal band formed by Blake Judd, formerly known as Azentrius, and Pat McCormick. The band's name is derived from the German word Nacht meaning "night", and the made-up term mystium which resembles the Latin adjective mysticum...

  • Nite Jewel
    Nite Jewel
    -Biography:Ramona Gonzalez began as Nite Jewel in 2008 as the result of her juggling music with undergraduate studies. With assistance from her husband, Cole M. Greif-Neill, she created songs on a portable eight-track cassette recorder. She stated that "moments of ecstasy, emotion, and...

  • No Joy
    No Joy
    No Joy are a Canadian alternative/shoegaze band formed in late 2009 by Jasamine White-Gluz and Laura Lloyd. Jasamine was living in Los Angeles while Laura was living in Montreal. Via e-mail they started collaborating which eventually led to Jasamine's return to Montreal and their first show with...

  • Part Time
    Part time
    A part-time job is a form of employment that carries fewer hours per week than a full-time job. Workers are considered to be part time if they commonly work fewer than 30 or 35 hours per week...

  • Purling Hiss
  • Puro Instinct
  • Radio People
  • Ramases
    Ramases
    Ramases was the creation and alter-ego of Martin Raphael , born in Sheffield, UK. Formerly an army PT instructor, whilst involved in a central heating business in Scotland, was inspired to assume the mantle of the Egyptian Pharaoh of whom he believed himself a reincarnation, and take up a musical...

  • Real Estate
    Real Estate (band)
    Real Estate is an Indie rock band hailing from Ridgewood, New Jersey now rooted in Brooklyn, N.Y.-Band members:* Alex Bleeker – bass, vocals* Martin Courtney – guitar, vocals* Matthew Mondanile – guitar, vocals* Jackson Pollis – drums...

  • Robert Lester Folsom
  • Soldiers of Fortune
    Soldiers of Fortune
    Soldiers of Fortune is a studio album by American southern rock band Outlaws, released in 1986. . Original guitarist Henry Paul returned to the band for the first time since 1977's "Hurry Sundown".-Track listing:...

  • Steve Moore
    Steve Moore
    Steven Dean Moore is a former Canadian professional ice hockey center, best known for receiving what turned out to be a career-ending injury as a result of an illegal hit by then Vancouver Canucks forward Todd Bertuzzi....

  • Tamaryn
    Tamaryn
    Tamaryn is a vocalist born in New Zealand and now living in San Francisco. Her main collaborator and producer is Rex John Shelverton . In 2009, they released a debut EP as well as several 7"s...

  • Teams vs Star Slinger
  • The Alps
    The Alps
    The Alps is a 2007 American documentary film about the climbing of the north face of the Eiger in the Bernese Alps by John Harlin III, son of John Harlin who died on the same ascent 40 years earlier...

  • The Amazing
  • The Bitters
  • The Black Ryder
    The Black Ryder
    The Black Ryder are an alternative band that originates from Sydney, Australia.Their debut album Buy The Ticket, Take The Ride was released on 6 November 2009 through The Anti-Machine Machine / EMI Music in Australia, and also through Mexican Summer Records on 21 September 2010.- History :The Black...

  • The Mantles
  • The Miracles Club
  • The Orkustra
  • The Samps
  • The Soft Pack
    The Soft Pack
    The Soft Pack is an indie rock band from San Diego.- History :The band was originally named The Muslims, but changed the name due to "ignorant and racist" comments. Matt Lamkin has stated Soft Pack can describe the band as being well mannered or it can refer to a device that when worn is intended...

  • The Tallest Man On Earth
    The Tallest Man on Earth
    Kristian Matsson is a singer-songwriter from Dalarna, Sweden. Since 2006, he has released two full-length albums and two EPs...

  • The Vacant Lots
    The Vacant Lots
    The Vacant Lots are a rock n roll band from Burlington, Vermont.- History :The Vacant Lots who signed to Mexican Summer, earlier this year for their first official single release of ‘Confusion’ have been compared to groups such as Bo Diddley, The Velvet Underground, The Stooges, Spacemen 3 and...

  • The Young
  • TK Webb
  • Valet
    Valet
    Valet and varlet are terms for male servants who serve as personal attendants to their employer.- Word origins :In the Middle Ages, the valet de chambre to a ruler was a prestigious appointment for young men...

  • Viva L'American Death Ray Music
  • Washed Out
    Washed Out
    Washed Out is the stage name of the American chillwave musician Ernest Greene .-Career:In June 2009, Greene graduated with a Master of Library and Information Science degree from the University of South Carolina and was unable to find a job as a librarian...

  • Weekend
    Weekend (American band)
    Weekend is an American lo-fi or shoegaze trio from San Francisco, California. The band formed in 2009 and released two EPs, with the full-length debut album Sports coming on Slumberland Records in 2010. The album received an 8.2 rating from Pitchfork Media...

  • Wooden Shjips
    Wooden Shjips
    Wooden Shjips is a space rock/psychedelic rock band from San Francisco, USA.Their sound has been described as experimental, minimalist, drone rock, and "spacey psychedelic rock". They have been compared to Suicide, The Velvet Underground, The Doors, Soft Machine and Guru Guru...

  • Woodsman
    Woodsman
    -History:Woodsmen or lumberjack competitions have their roots in competitions that took place in logging camps among loggers. As loggers were paid for piece work, the ability to perform a specific task more quickly, or with a degree of showmanship, was something to be admired...

  • Xander Duell
  • Young Prisms
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