Costa Mesa band on a mission
	By Todd Aaron Jensen,Daily Pilot In a perfect world, the makers of great music wouldn't need to brand themselves with acrobatic, yet easily digested labels for the corporately-impaired at major record companies. Shrugging the rules of the game, Costa Mesa's Mission Delores has put a pie in the face of industryites looking for a quick definition, borrowing the title of their new album, due Saturday, from those lapel stickers worn self-consciously by church socialites and corporate comers. "Hello, My Name Is..." is actually the four-piece band's second album, a rich, sumptuous 10-song affair that's melodic, textured and instantly hummable. Standout tracks like "What Your Wanted" and "AM Radio are buoyed by traditional popsmarts, solid musicianship, and an infectious spirit that recalls early R.E.M., Toad the Wet Sprocket and Billy Joel. "Nowadays mainstream music can be a lot of things," said guitarist Chris Cunningham, 30." It doesn't have to be three chords in G with 120 bpm. We wanted to make an album that would hook listeners without pandering to them." Two years of steady gigging and pavement pounding have cracked doors for the up and comers. We're on the 'keep an eye out list," Cunningham said, laughing. "The meetings are always, 'I like this stuff. What else ya got?' So we are at a place where people will listen. We're just looking for something to happen." The band, which also features Philip Whittles, Dow	Mission Delores encore album...
		Draper, and a bassist known simply as Rolf, drew it's unique name from Humbert Humbert's obsessed determination to seduce the woman-child Lolita by courting her mother, Delores, in Vladimir Nabokov's novel. "My mission is Delores," Humbert breathes". It is with this devotion that Mission Delores has carried on. Formed in 1995 through ads in the Recycler, the band recorded a four-song demo "at Mach One," Cunningham said, "just so we could get some gigs." That tape, along with Cunningham's credentials in county staple Psychic Rain, landed the crew a spot opening for Eric Burdon at the Galaxy. "We had 130 people at the gig just for us," Cunningham said proudly. "That earned us an open invitation at the Galaxy." The band augmented their original demo with a handful of new songs, selling a quick 750 copies of the resulting album, "Chasing Butterflies."	After playing a year in support of that project, the band headed back to the studio, recording "Hello," which will premiere Saturday night at a Coach House release party. The band's live show embellishes the warmth and jubilance behind much of the recorded music, at times recalling the singalongs and lovefests proffered by rock music's hippie godfathers and mothers. "There's an honest feeling to our music, I think," Cunningham said. "It's very real and very accessible. Our live shows are like a bunch of friends hanging out together, and we happen to be the the entertainment for the evening." TODD AARON JENSEN covers the local music scene for the Daily Pilot.