Dean Spunt

Operating as the drummer and vocalist in Los Angeles punk duo No Age, Dean Spunt founded the Post Present Medium label as well. Beyond his primary work with the group, he has issued occasional solo recordings and, in 2022, collaborated with noise artist John Wiese on the joint release The Echoing Shell. The electronic album Basic Editions followed in 2024.

Born Dean Allen Spunt in 1981, he took part in punk bands from his teenage years onward. He started Post Present Medium in 2001, using the imprint to issue 7"s by DIY punk acts such as the Intima, Mika Miko, and Wives, the band to which he belonged at the time. Spunt played bass and sang in Wives, yet after the group split during a 2004 tour, he and fellow member Randy Randall immediately formed No Age. Launched in Los Angeles in 2005, the duo placed Spunt on drums and vocals opposite Randall’s guitar. Their rapid blend of punk drive and noisy electronics resonated widely, and through steady touring the pair became one of the more prominent acts to emerge from DIY circles in the latter half of the 2000s.

In the decade that followed, No Age placed recordings with major labels including FatCat, Sub Pop, and Drag City while retaining a punk approach and full creative command of their sound. Outside the band and his work running Post Present Medium, Spunt performed bass in the short-lived hardcore group C.R.A.S.H. and continued to release solo material under his own name, typically on limited cassettes or other limited-distribution formats. His most developed solo statement to that point arrived with the 2018 album EE Head, whose abstract electronics and insistent rhythmic repetitions moved well beyond conventional song structures. Another notable project surfaced in 2022 with the Drag City release The Echoing Shell, a collaboration with noise veteran John Wiese consisting of two extended, heavily processed pieces. Basic Editions, an abstract electronic album assembled from E-MU synth modules, appeared in 2024.