Monday, September 29, 2008

MAD RAD- SUPERDOPE



These homies rule. Check out their new CD White Gold on Out For Stardom, coming soon. Gnartape dropping soon.

http://www.myspace.com/madandrad

-Erik

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Recovering

Breakfast Mountain, Madrad, White Fang. Throw some Darwin in the middle of all that and you have cooked up one mean night.

Only two words to explain what happened last night. "High Energy"

First off, the hush was packed to the brim. Terry Radjaw called me at 8:30 to tell me there was already a line outside.

Nine oclock rolls by, house lights still up and there is anticipation in the air. Darwin hits the laptop, mashing up some sweet Bollyfunk sounds with bands like Weezer, Soulja Boy and Ol' Dirty Bastard. Darwin knows the rules and he breaks them.

Breakfast Mountain is so dear to my heart. The beats are so grimy. Madrad couldnt stop talking about them the rest of the night. Which brings me to Madrad.

I'm not sure if Portland was ready for them. But we brought them anyway. People were dancing so increadibly hard that on the floor below you could see the cealing shake and the had to build a makeshift stage support in one of the bedrooms below. A adoring female fan jumped on stage and tackeled Buffalo Madonna and proceeded to hump him. Hard. Really hard. Stage dives, groping, being groped. I've never heard the word "Pussy" so many times in one set. Rightly so, it is the number one inspiration of their music.

White Fang, we all know White Fang here at Gnartapes. But it was an amazing set. Very rowdy. Gnar. Gnar Gnar. I examined my body today and I'm 25 percent bruises. Nuff said

Expect Photos and videos from Squints, me and Tony in the next couple of days.

Gnar tapes is blowing up. As you can read below, Erik has asked me to join the team. I am putting full effort into this. Tapes are up for sale on our myspace! myspace.com/gnartapesandshit

White Fang
MadRad
Breakfast Mountain
Gnar Tapes
Marriage Records
Out For Stardom
Go Machine

-Jordan

gnartapes@gmail.com

The Return

It's almost as if Gnar Tapes & Shit didn't exist before this point. Things have become far more organized and serious since the last time I posted.

For one thing, I'd like to introduce my new business partner, Jordan Strong.



This bro has been a deeper member of both White Fang and SK8 & Rhone f, wor some time now. In fact, after Zach and the other bros moved to Kansas City, Jordan took Zach's old closet room. Jordan also works at the awesome art gallery on Burnside called Grass Hut. Jordan is also one fucking amazing photographer. I couldn't do this without him. As we go along, you'll all get to know and love him. But for now, let's talk about what I know you all want to hear about... tapes.

I'm sure you're familiar with White Fang's doppleganger band, Super Destroy. As of right now there are four different Super Destroy tapes.

There are two very new ones. First we have Eat My Shred, a ten minute tape that me and Kyle made. 6 tracks. There is no way this one will disappoint you. Very charming and welcoming, this tape will help you to realize that you have a friend in the merry pranksters here at Gnar Tapes & Shit.

There's also the newly found Death Eaters tape also by Super Destroy. Another ten minute banger, this raw and noisy spazz document took a few days of listening to figure out just who made it. We realized that it as TC on drums and me on a fucked-over and effected three stringed Kramer guitar. This tape fucking owns!

We've also re-upped on our previous Super Destroy tapes, Gamma Ray and Cool Bros. These tapes couldn't be more different from one another. Gamma Ray was the first Super Destroy piece to ever exist and it contains jams ranging from its A-side of primal noise-punk jams, to the ending nylon guitar almost-joke song. The tripped-out Cool Bros is a tape collage of songs that everyone could recognized, recorded and fucked with from CDs, radio, and tapes. Destroyed songs from the Beatles, Peter Gabriel, Usher, Fergie, radio commercials, etc. This tape will weird you out and make you smile.

Within a day or so we will also have finished our tape duplications of our bro-beatmaster Breakfast Mountain. This tape holds a very, very special place in all of our hearts. There are a lot of folks trying to make good beats, but no one can make such heartfelt and banging tracks like he can. This tape will rule your world, I promise.

We will also finally have our White Fang live tape GNAR OUT: LIVE ON KPSU very soon. I just have to find the CD-R that contains the performance. This tape's performance is one of the first that include Chuck on the second drum-set. Raw and unyielding, this tape will be a fine addition to any rad tape collection.

That's a lot of information about each tape and I'm getting tired of writing and not watching this rad 1979 Jackie Chan movie called Fearless Hyena. (This movie is awesome. It is overdubbed in the traditional-comedic way, complete with British voice acting and very strange and tripped out reverb/delay on the fight sounds. I love it.)

Soon we will have tapes from Panther, White Rainbow, Fist Fite, and other bands that you know and love. As well as a scream-punk tape from White Fang, a grind-techno tape from TC, a few mix-tapes from Feather Headdress (one of the best rap-beat duos you've never heard), etc.

Shirts soon too. A skate video. DVD-Rs and CD-Rs (aka CD-GNARS).

Also I made a Super Destroy record by myself that will be coming out as a clear-purple 10" record on Virginia's Now Hereness Records.

We also have White Fang's Marriage Records debut Pure Evil, as well as States Rights Records most recent Zone compilation, Grown Zone.

That's all for today. We are going to start posting every day now. We'd love to hear from you.

Check our Gnar Tapes & Shit myspace: http://www.myspace.com/gnartapesandshit

You can order a few tapes so far there through PayPal. We'll have more up soon. We will have all of this going smoothly soon. It's only been a week to this day that I quit smoking weed.

EMAIL US! gnartapes@gmail.com or email me personally at bravebravebears@hotmail.com

Keep on keepin on!

-Erik

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

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I'm putting shit together TONIGHT.

You have no idea what wonderful tapes I bring.


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