Ep363: The Vinyl of MxPx w Mike Herrera
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
MxPx is coming up on 30 years of releasing vinyl and have recently announced three reissues of some of their most beloved albums. Mike Herrera talks us through that process, securing the rights, pressing the records and the rarities of the MxPx vinyl catalogue.
Topics include:
- New MxPx Vinyl reissues
- Challenges of the MxPx Boxset
- The records of Mike's youth
- Acquiring the license for repressing vinyl
- MxPx and the positive message
- The role of the Christian faith in MxPx
- How the band dealt with perceptions of MxPx
- The story of the single "17"
- The album "Pokinatcha" coming out in High School
- Creating the "Pokinatcha Punk" symbol
- Plans for more MxPx music
- MxPx materials they haven't licensed
- How did they obtain the licenses from Universal
- Touring and supporting plans
- Supporting bands by purchasing vinyl
- Interview wrap up
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Groove Washer, the best record cleaners and protective sleeves for your vinyl collection. Ask for the Groove washer from your local shop or go to groove washer.com. Discount code, Vinyl Guide 10. And now on with the show. Hey, what's up everybody? My name's Mike Herrera. My band MXPX has been busy lately. You can hear all about it. Well, keep listening. |
| 0:21.6 | You're on the Vinyl Guide. |
| 0:22.5 | Well, hello, everyone. |
| 0:23.9 | It's Nate. |
| 0:24.4 | Welcome to episode 363 of the Vinyl Guide, the podcast for record collectors and music nerds. |
| 0:29.9 | And today we've got a wonderful guest, Mr. Mike Herrera, who many of you will probably know from MXPX or author, his time in Goldfinger, even his solo work, |
| 0:40.1 | or even the Mike Herrera podcast. |
| 0:42.3 | But today, Mike and I are going deep into MXPX, specifically on the new vinyl reissues that they have up at mxpx.com. |
| 0:51.5 | Yes, they're putting out the ever-passing moment, life in general, and slowly going the way of the Buffalo. Go to mxpx.com. Yes, they're putting out the ever-passing moment, life in general, and slowly going the way of |
| 0:56.3 | the buffalo. Go to mxpx.com to see those beautiful vinyl variants. Today, Mike and I are going to |
| 1:02.2 | talk about these recent vinyl reissues, the MXPX vinyl box set, which I think sold out in a single |
| 1:08.8 | day or something like that. We talk about the early |
| 1:11.8 | records of MXPX, the industry perceptions of the band, the creation of the Poconacci of punk |
| 1:17.5 | mascot that's become synonymous with MXPX, touring, new music, and more. Mike and I cover it all |
| 1:23.7 | here today. And Mike is so damn charming. We even have an extended interview up at patreon.com slash vinyl guide. |
| 1:32.7 | It's commercial free, much more Mike, much more MXPX and Vinyl Talk. |
| 1:37.3 | It's got no ads and it's in high resolution. |
| 1:39.9 | So you audio nerds will love it even more. |
| 1:42.7 | Support the vinyl guide for five or ten bucks a month. |
| 1:45.9 | Whatever you can afford is appreciated, and you'll get all sorts of extras at patreon.com slash vinyl guide. |
| 1:53.9 | Finally, if you can indulge me for one more minute here, I want to make sure that all the nobs to the Vinyl Guide podcast know that we've got a huge backlog of episodes that are freely available simply by subscribing to the Vinyl Guide in your podcast app. |
| 2:08.1 | Some 350-something episodes and interviews, including East Bay Ray of Dead Kennedys, Episode 355, Off Circle Jerks, and Former Black Flag frontman Keith Morris, Episode 355. Off Circle Jerks and former Black Flag frontman Keith Morris, |
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