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Signing Stories: N8NOFACE

 Date Signed: March 2025 

Label: Stones Throw Records 

Type of Music: Synth-Punk 

Management: Daniel Hall (Worldwide) 

Booking: Nick Storch 

Legal: Bryan Christner 

A&R: Peanut Butter Wolf 

Web: n8noface.la 

Anyone who has seen N8NOFACE (pronounced Nate No Face) live won’t forget the experience in a hurry. The synth-punk provocateur (think L.A. pioneers the Screamers, but more unhinged) has mastered the ability to grab a melody and then twist it round his hairless cranium and impressive moustache, the result emerging from his tear-filled ocular cavities like a dancing Basket Case mutant. It’s a mad, unpredictable situation, and yet it all started with MySpace. 

“When MySpace first started, I made really weird songs and posted them on there, being too shy to tell people it was me, constantly changing the ‘band name’ of the page,” he tells MC. “People in my city started to dig the page, making some noise among artists and bands of my city. I finally settled on the name N8NOFACE (Nathan being my real name) when I came out and revealed myself. The idea being no face or any particular sound—do what I want, which is everything.” 

N8NOFACE was a fan of Stones Throw Records, long before signing on with them himself. “Being a hip-hop head who also loves different styles of music, Stones Throw was that label,” he says. “Then in L.A., finally meeting and becoming friends with Peanut Butter Wolf, getting to send him stuff from time to time and then him remixing a song of mine. The relationship was building, then I sent him the latest project produced by Chico Mann, he was like ‘Let’s do some stuff.’ I was with it.” 

His latest release is “Waiting to Wait for You.” “Chico Mann produced, performed, and wrote all the music on this,” he says. “I just came up with the words and singing. I wrote the song about someone waiting for their partner to get dressed before they both step out. ‘I watched you try five outfits on, I'd wait and watch five thousand more,’ is the first line." 

N8NOFACE will celebrate the Stones Throw deal with an EP this summer, and he’s hitting the road with Eyedress in July before going back into the studio to record a debut album for release in 2026. The man just won’t stay still.