1st Zafio ad in 17 years!

Check out the new Zafio Records ad in the latest Maximum Rocknroll- the first Zafio ad in 17 years!



Stores: Revolver USA
Mailorder: Alternative Tentacles, Revolver, & Interpunk

Winners won free 7"s while eBay has a rare auction!?!!

Here are 2 of the winners from the AFI News HQ fan site. (Check out AFI's official site while you're out and about!) 4 fanclub members won free copies of the repress of "This Is Berkeley Not West Bay"!

Winner #1!

Winner #2!



Meanwhile, you can find the kick ass, limited reissue of "This Is Berkeley Not West Bay" on ebay in a limited auction. Don't sleep on this, it ends in 7 days and there are very very few left!

This Is Berkeley Not West Bay 2011

After Zafio dissolved, I tried to have the record repressed either on CD or 7-inch by a couple other labels, but it never happened. Eventually I retrieved the original tapes and decided to do a one-time reissue on the newly restarted Zafio.

Over the past 2 years, Noah Landis (Christ On Parade, Blister, Neurosis, Everything Must Go, etc) remixed the songs from the original DAT tapes and George Horn (Fantasy Studios) remastered the vinyl. Markley (Econochrist and every kick-ass Oakland band since) printed the covers at Econopress and the vinyl was pressed at Rainbo.

This pressing is 1000 7-inches on white vinyl with free mp3 download card. There are 4 test pressings. The bands have all received their copies of the compilation and some (see the Bad Skulls site) are also selling them direct.

It's available to stores through Revolver USA and available on-line to The Kids (tm) at:
Alternative Tentacles
1-2-3-4-Go! Records
Interpunk
Bad Skull (run by Brian Stern of Dead And Gone, Creeps On Candy, Look Back And Laugh)

This Is Berkeley Not West Bay 1994

1994- I loved the Modern Methods compilation, "This Is Boston Not L.A." I loved the new crop of East Bay punk bands and chose 4 of my favorites for a take-off on that compilation called "This Is Berkeley Not West Bay."

AFI, Black Fork, Dead And Gone, and Screw 32 were the bands, and this record was the 1st vinyl for 3 of the 4 bands- I believe AFI had 1 previous 7-inch. We had a record release show at 924 Gilman for the release with all 4 bands playing that was a blast. The bands were all active and touring so they helped spread the word about each other and Subterranean Records helped distribute the 7-inch to stores across the planet.

Zafio pressed 2 identical black vinyl pressings then. The 1st was 2,000 copies, the 2nd was 1,000 copies. After those were gone, that was it (I thought) for the Zafio version of the EP.