Trust Records have announced their new 99 Cents Movie Night at Brain Dead Studios in Los Angeles. The series kicks off on Thursday, January 27 with a viewing of The Slog Movie—a raw and unparalleled DIY documentary about the West Coast Punk scene made by a group of young fans/filmmakers about the bands they loved.
The night starts at 8 p.m. with special guests in attendance including director David Markey, who will be taking questions from the audience. There will also be a special premiere of the Circle Jerks’ new music video for “Wild In The Streets,” directed by Atiba Jefferson. Tickets can be purchased here.
In 2020, Trust Records launched with a whopper of release: Circle Jerks’ 1980’s landmark Group Sex. The genre-shaping, 15-minute album was given the “Trust” treatment for its 40th Anniversary. The deluxe reissue included packaging by Robert Fisher, designer of Nirvana’s Nevermind, a bonus recording of a 1980 rehearsal; a 20-page booklet including unreleased photos and anecdotes from Tony Hawk, Mike Patton, Shepard Fairey, Ian MacKaye, Lars Frederiksen and so many others; in addition to a quality repackaging in a limited colored vinyl schema.
The remastered audio, which also includes five bonus songs from Circle Jerks’ first rehearsal in 1980, was also made available across all digital retailers. It sold out in just under 24 hours, but a second pressing is underway and will hit stores in May 2021, limited to just 1500 copies. It is available for preorder now exclusively on Trust’s official web store, which launched last week. Trust Records will house all your favorite punk cornerstones, bringing new and exclusive apparel, accessories, vinyl, books, art, and so much more. Trust will partner on merch with each iconic artist for every release along the way.
Trust Records are the brainchild of Matt Pincus and Joe Nelson, who met as hardcore kids and went on to build successful careers in music. Matt, who is non-executive founder of Trust, was the bass player of legendary New York hardcore band Judge and went on to found and run SONGS, the leading contemporary music publishing company of its time. Publisher of the Weeknd, Lorde, Diplo, DJ Mustard, and many of the world’s leading songwriters and artists, SONGS was the principal competitor to the major label publishers until its sale in 2017.
Joe, who is co-founder and GM of Trust, is a music merchandise veteran of two decades. Most recently serving as senior vice president of the Araca Group and previously at Band Merch and Cinder Block, Joe created merchandising programs for over 100 artists including Run the Jewels, Leon Bridges, Phantogram, The Offspring, AFI, Britney Spears, Papa Roach, Slayer, Motorhead, Bon Jovi, Death Row Records, NWA, and Evanescence.
With Trust Records, Matt and Joe want to give back to the scene that got them started in music. The idea for the label came out of Know Your Rights, a non-profit music publisher for hardcore bands such as Gorilla Biscuits and Youth of Today. The project started while Matt was running SONGS.
“Hardcore is inherently about DIY, but DIY by definition has no infrastructure,” details Matt about the inherent differences with this new label. “So, when you start to think generationally, there becomes a real fear that this music will become lost. Because I ran a publishing company, we started with songwriters. After Joe came aboard, we realized that the best way to preserve and promote hardcore was by starting a label.”
Purchase tickets to The Slog Movie here.
More information on Trust Records releases here.
