Hardcore punk music fan Dave Mandel wasn’t really planning to start a record label three decades ago.
But the photographer and fanzine editor truly found his calling back in 1992, when he thought he was simply helping out a friend’s band release new music.
“I was just someone who loved music and I wanted to put my fingerprint on the music I loved,” Mandel said during a recent phone interview. He’s definitely made his mark, especially in the Southern California hardcore and punk rock music scenes, when he launched his independent record label Indecision Records.
The Garden Grove-based label is throwing its 30th anniversary bash with a two-day concert at Garden Amp in Garden Grove on July 28-29. The pair of gigs sold out quickly inside the intimate outdoor amphitheater, but will feature more than two dozen bands that are currently on the label or a part of its legacy.
It’s a who’s who of influential hardcore royalty that will include reunions from acts like Seattle-based straight edge hardcore punk band Undertow, San Diego straight edge metalcore group Unbroken and Lancaster hardcore band Coolside.
Boston’s The Suicide File will play its first west coast show in more than a decade; Beyond Repair will perform a special set featuring original Throwdown singer Keith Barney; Orange County hardcore band Death By Stereo will play its debut full length, Indecision Records’ “If Looks Could Kill, I’d Watch You Die,” from front to back; and Orange County band Adamantium will play its classic album, “The Depths of Depression,” with the original lineup from that record.
Other performers include Mean Season, Over My Dead Body, Bleeding Through and the first band ever to have a release on Indecision Records, Thousand Oaks hardcore punk outfit Strife.
“It’s just going to be such a great reunion,” Mandel said. “I’m excited to see all the bands playing, of course, but I am way more excited (just) to see all these people.”
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