Member Since: 7/19/2005
Band Website: 5rc.com
Band Members: THE ADVANTAGE
AMPS FOR CHRIST
BARR
DEERHOOF
EXCEPTER
GODZIK PINK
HELLA
ZACH HILL + MICK BARR
INCA ORE
THE MAE SHI
MEN'S RECOVERY PROJECT
METALUX
NEED NEW BODY
NERVOUS COP
NO NECK BLUES BAND
OUTHUD
THE PLANET THE "
THE PUNKS
ROB FISK
THE ROBOT ATE ME
SCHEMA
THE SECONDS
SEMIAUTOMATIC
WITCHYPOO
WOODEN WAND AND THE VANISHING VOICE
XBXRX
XIU XIU
YOUNG PEOPLE
Influences: 1. 5RC gambles in inspiration. It throws out ideas engineered to provoke you. We can't help you understand how they make you feel. We are not here to aid or entertain you, but try to rifle out some kind of reaction.
2. We are nobody's poor cousin. We are not interested in hand-me-downs or castaways. We are not the branch of some other record label, we're a whole fucking forest. Soon you will recognize this.
3. Irony is dead and useless. We don't like irony.
4.Community is important to us. We want the people on our label and our friends and our consumers to be all swimming about in the same pool. We'd all live together in a big house if we could. But we can't.
5. There is nothing we aren't afraid to do. Music is fine but that's just the keystone in this organization. Today we release an album. Tomorrow we're dedicating a bridge in Tangiers. Friday we are all going to the sea-side. You get the idea.
6. We like noises and we like the spaces between noises and words and the sounds of words. We like the sounds of fax machines and static and babbling brooks and drive-thru's. Now that's what i call music.
7. Success has no place in our organization-as long as there's bread on the table and gas in the car that's enough. Sell four records we'll press you to our bosoms-sell a million and we'll gun you down.
8. People we would like on the label-Balzac, John Fante, Alexander Trocchi, all of ESP-Disk, E.S.G., Felt, Sam Fuller, all of EL, John Fahey, Gertrude Stein, all of cash money records, Balthus, Thomas Wolfe, anyone from Scotland, the whole medway sound, Leonard Cohen, Sunny Murray and The Beatles.
9. It is tasteless to talk about parameters, or to impose any kind of ideology or substance to any form of creative outlet. And so, much of what you come across should be ignored. Gaughin didn't start painting until he was 50, Kafka didn't have a thing printed in his lifetime. John Grisham releases things daily and he's an abortion.
10. "Chaos comes before all principles of order and entropy, it's neither a god or a maggot, its idiotic desires encompass and define every possible choreography, all meaningless aethers and phlogistons: its masks are crystallisations of its own facelessness, like clouds."-Hakim Bey.
11. It is better to be on 5RC than Kill Rock Stars, or anything else.
Record Label: 5RC
Type of Label: Indie