By Nick A. Zaino III Globe correspondent, Updated December 23, 2020
Alan Richardson and Matt Minigell had a simple business plan when they launched Dead & Mellow Records one year ago: sign some of their favorite comedians, record their albums live, and also release some noisy punk music along the way. As they celebrate their anniversary by releasing a stand-up and music compilation album on Christmas Day, they find themselves in a completely different entertainment landscape.
Most live entertainment shut down in March. Great Scott, the Allston club where Dead & Mellow recorded many albums and hoped to record many more, lost its Commonwealth Avenue location in May, though efforts continue to revive it at a new address. That left a big hole in their plans for new releases. “We had a whole lot of different things kind of more planned out by January, February, that we had to kind of scrap because of the pandemic,” says Richardson. “So a lot of what this year has been is just kind of us [getting] on our feet.”
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Boston record label Dead & Mellow marks a first year in which nothing went according to plan – The Boston Globe