Numero Group Announces 20th Anniversary Festival with Unwound, Codeine, The Hated, Karate, Tsunami and More

On February 18th and 19th, 2023, The Numero Group will celebrate two decades spent researching, resuscitating, and reintroducing the unsung heroes and precious lost sounds of music history. Announced today, the two-night Numero Twenty event is taking place at The Palace Theater in downtown Los Angeles, featuring three floors and live performances by ten dynamic bands from Numero’s 200 Line series of punk, hardcore, and artistic rock from the 1980s and 1990s. Unwound, Codeine, The Hated, Karate, Ida, Chisel, Everyone Asked About You, Ui, Rex and Tsunami will all take the stage to mark Numero Group’s 20th Anniversary, while a pop-up record shop and additional programming will spotlight the hundreds of titles and a boundless array of genres that the company has excavated over its past twenty years and eleven GRAMMY nominations.

“Twenty years is a long time to do anything, let alone a record company,” says Numero Group co-founders Ken Shipley and Rob Sevier. “Especially in the 21st century. Somehow Numero managed to survive downloading, the collapse of several distributors, streaming, vinyl, and the ever-evolving and particular tastes of the average reissue connoisseur and has arrived in its second decade doing our most adventurous work. We were ten when we began looking at ’90s indie as a potential source of artists ripe for rediscovery. We spent Numero’s teenage years making lavish box sets for Codeine, Unwound, and Karate, just like we wished we did in our actual teenage years in the 1990s. Numero Twenty is a reissue of a feeling, of an era. Those before times when we weren’t connected electronically and found out about cool shit through Letraset flyers and word of mouth; Of mix tapes, and letters, and beat up atlases in the glove box.”

Numero Twenty goes on sale at 10am ET on Monday, October 3rd. Find tickets and more information here:

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