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Love,
Chris
VP
GT&S
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Monday, June 22, 2009
PORTLAND DROOLS
Things have been good here in Portland for White Fang and Gnar Tapes & Shit. The house is a wreck to some degree and there's no gear in the practice space. The only reasons that I can give for the situation is that A) we haven't been cleaning and B) the gear is being used. Currently the other in-house band, Grandparents, are recording in the forested hills of northern Oregon in a mansion. Supposedly I should have a new tape from them in the next few days. Grandparents remind me of Neil Young & Crazy Horse if they were younger, dumber, and honestly less sober. Seriously, I came home from buying weed and they were sitting in a circle on the floor playing tablas and a sitar. NO SHIT. One of the funniest spectacles I've ever witnessed with my own eyes.
White Fang just played a sick show with ...WORMS and Eternal Tapestry and this band called Paper/Upper/Cuts. If it had been just those four bands it would have been a pretty solid night of drunken noise. However, much to the chagrin of the majority of players, a young band comprised of members hailing from, get this, Oregon City AND Vancouver, Washington jumped the bill. Supposedly they had just shown up and somehow convinced the owner of the club to let them play, saying that they brought "twenty people willing to pay." They were fairly chubby and white (as you'd assume.) Their mode of dress suggested an interest in mallcore and bro/chad styles, as well as some dabbling in nu-metal and Juggalo throwbacks. They all had hilarious facial hair that made them look seriously creepy and one of their mothers was there. She was a trip. An older blond with sunken eye sockets and fading tan skin, her blank expression and bulging eyes made for one of the less attractive sights of the night. They were called Trulie and they unleashed a woefully uninspired set of Metalcore on a woefully uninspired audience of twenty-two.
Thankfully, they agreed to play first and no one had to watch them for long. Personally, I walked in and laughed. I couldn't stop laughing because the singer was trying to get really energetic, but he was kind of chubby and drunk and was mostly stumbling over the cables and the drums. I looked over to my friend Joel, who works the sound there at Satyricon, who gestured to the band before giving me and the rest of the world a big thumbs down. I couldn't help but sadly smile at him, who would have to sit, watch, AND listen to them for their entire set.
After the show the fat singer called over to some attractive young black ladies, referring to them as "brown sugar." I showed the dude my ass and he tried to create trouble, but we were rolling twelve deep and we were all very drunk; there would've have been little they could've done to beat us. We were already in Warrior mode after the show, some of us bleeding, all of us numb.
Funnily enough, shortly after leaving the Satyricon for the Hush down the street, a neighboring dance night had spilled out onto the street and a full-on street brawl went down in the parking lot across from the Satyricon. We saw most of it as we were walking back from the Hush. There was a lot of energy flowing through the streets and we could feel it. We walked around the corner to see around 300 or so kids our age, though black, full on screaming at each other from across the train tracks that happened to be in front of the Satyricon. We could hear the sirens coming as we started to cross the street into the roaring crowd, as we drunkenly asked each other and certain opinionated security guards what was going on. No sooner had the cop cars blocked all corners before the crowd dispersed back into Friday night in downtown Portland.
According to the ten or so people I talked to after, there were fifty or so people punching each other in the lot across the street from the club. A lot can be said about why the mostly young and black crowd happened to be fighting each other. There has been MASSIVE amounts of gentrification in Portland, especially in North Portland, a historically black neighborhood. Developers have basically moved out the generally poorer citizens of NoPo out to cheaper and, let's face it, gnarlier east Portland, as well as the neighboring city of Gresham, which is a horrifically class-divided hell hole of a town. All of this happened a lot faster than you'd imagine. Certain gangs, especially the Bloods, used to have almost all their territory restricted to North Portland. Now with new turf lines being drawn and more and more youngsters joining the ranks, things have been coming to a head in gangland. Over the past few years, there has been a noticeable rise in not just visible gang activity, but violence as well. Most of the violence happens around the MAX lines (our city spanning pedestrian train) out on the east platforms or at/near downtown night clubs. Nasty enough as it sounds, the Zone (one of the only, if not the only, minor permitted clubs in town) recently got shut down for some killings, as well as some stabbings and other violence amongst high school aged dudes.
Kind of crazy, but here's some cool news. Our friend Dan White from Sacramento is planning on moving to Portland. If he does, we'll be having some really amazing Gnar Tapes & Shit and White Fang shirts made real soon. The kid LIVES screenprinting. His anticipated contributions to Gnar Tapes & Shit are really exciting.
We are planning to re-vamp the site and make more tapes available by the end of the week. That means the Argumentix and Timmy tapes will be sent out soon.
ALSO ALL MAIL ORDERS SHIP THIS WEEK. WE ARE SO SORRY IT HAS TAKEN US THIS LONG TO GIVE YOU YOUR MONEY'S WORTH. WE HOPE THAT YOU ENJOY THE EXTRA GOODIES WE'VE THROWN IN.
If you have any questions or tapes you'd like us to consider, please email me at gnartapes@gmail.com.
LOVE YOU!
Erik Gage
Portland, OR
White Fang just played a sick show with ...WORMS and Eternal Tapestry and this band called Paper/Upper/Cuts. If it had been just those four bands it would have been a pretty solid night of drunken noise. However, much to the chagrin of the majority of players, a young band comprised of members hailing from, get this, Oregon City AND Vancouver, Washington jumped the bill. Supposedly they had just shown up and somehow convinced the owner of the club to let them play, saying that they brought "twenty people willing to pay." They were fairly chubby and white (as you'd assume.) Their mode of dress suggested an interest in mallcore and bro/chad styles, as well as some dabbling in nu-metal and Juggalo throwbacks. They all had hilarious facial hair that made them look seriously creepy and one of their mothers was there. She was a trip. An older blond with sunken eye sockets and fading tan skin, her blank expression and bulging eyes made for one of the less attractive sights of the night. They were called Trulie and they unleashed a woefully uninspired set of Metalcore on a woefully uninspired audience of twenty-two.
Thankfully, they agreed to play first and no one had to watch them for long. Personally, I walked in and laughed. I couldn't stop laughing because the singer was trying to get really energetic, but he was kind of chubby and drunk and was mostly stumbling over the cables and the drums. I looked over to my friend Joel, who works the sound there at Satyricon, who gestured to the band before giving me and the rest of the world a big thumbs down. I couldn't help but sadly smile at him, who would have to sit, watch, AND listen to them for their entire set.
After the show the fat singer called over to some attractive young black ladies, referring to them as "brown sugar." I showed the dude my ass and he tried to create trouble, but we were rolling twelve deep and we were all very drunk; there would've have been little they could've done to beat us. We were already in Warrior mode after the show, some of us bleeding, all of us numb.
Funnily enough, shortly after leaving the Satyricon for the Hush down the street, a neighboring dance night had spilled out onto the street and a full-on street brawl went down in the parking lot across from the Satyricon. We saw most of it as we were walking back from the Hush. There was a lot of energy flowing through the streets and we could feel it. We walked around the corner to see around 300 or so kids our age, though black, full on screaming at each other from across the train tracks that happened to be in front of the Satyricon. We could hear the sirens coming as we started to cross the street into the roaring crowd, as we drunkenly asked each other and certain opinionated security guards what was going on. No sooner had the cop cars blocked all corners before the crowd dispersed back into Friday night in downtown Portland.
According to the ten or so people I talked to after, there were fifty or so people punching each other in the lot across the street from the club. A lot can be said about why the mostly young and black crowd happened to be fighting each other. There has been MASSIVE amounts of gentrification in Portland, especially in North Portland, a historically black neighborhood. Developers have basically moved out the generally poorer citizens of NoPo out to cheaper and, let's face it, gnarlier east Portland, as well as the neighboring city of Gresham, which is a horrifically class-divided hell hole of a town. All of this happened a lot faster than you'd imagine. Certain gangs, especially the Bloods, used to have almost all their territory restricted to North Portland. Now with new turf lines being drawn and more and more youngsters joining the ranks, things have been coming to a head in gangland. Over the past few years, there has been a noticeable rise in not just visible gang activity, but violence as well. Most of the violence happens around the MAX lines (our city spanning pedestrian train) out on the east platforms or at/near downtown night clubs. Nasty enough as it sounds, the Zone (one of the only, if not the only, minor permitted clubs in town) recently got shut down for some killings, as well as some stabbings and other violence amongst high school aged dudes.
Kind of crazy, but here's some cool news. Our friend Dan White from Sacramento is planning on moving to Portland. If he does, we'll be having some really amazing Gnar Tapes & Shit and White Fang shirts made real soon. The kid LIVES screenprinting. His anticipated contributions to Gnar Tapes & Shit are really exciting.
We are planning to re-vamp the site and make more tapes available by the end of the week. That means the Argumentix and Timmy tapes will be sent out soon.
ALSO ALL MAIL ORDERS SHIP THIS WEEK. WE ARE SO SORRY IT HAS TAKEN US THIS LONG TO GIVE YOU YOUR MONEY'S WORTH. WE HOPE THAT YOU ENJOY THE EXTRA GOODIES WE'VE THROWN IN.
If you have any questions or tapes you'd like us to consider, please email me at gnartapes@gmail.com.
LOVE YOU!
Erik Gage
Portland, OR
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Gnar Tapes & Shit
We're back!
Just last night I placed an order for our new tapes. I'm happy to announce that the following tapes will be released this month:
Argumentix - Quest for Faults
Recorded while on tour in the midwest/east coast last summer. Just like their travel in the heat of the summer, this tape is warm with friendship. Friendly noise. Run of 67. $3
White Fang - Mythology
Also recorded while on tour, though only last month and while on tour through California. Specifically recorded at KDVS in Davis, California. Featuring basically all the songs you'd expect at a White Fang show presented in divine clarity and accessability, which may or may not make it the best White Fang release to date. Run of 100. $3
Breakfast Mountain
The long awaited mini-mix tape from Breakfast Mountain features 5 of BM's greatest hits. This small run will blow up your summer AGAIN! Run of 38. $3
Feather Headdress - Wananana
This 12 minute tape will crush your mind into brain juice, which the two-member
Feather Headdress would most likely smoke and blow in to your face. Run of 69. $3
Timmy the Terror and the Winter Coats - Sicks Sicks Sicks Sicks
This band is the greatest band of all time, no joke. This tape is a must have and will completely rule your tape deck. Get ready for Timmy. No other band can stand up to their devastation. Run of 100. $3
Lucky Dragons
That's right. For the first time, Gnar Tapes & Shit is making a single tape. That means one song on each side. The songs are made by none other than Lucky Dragons, which is a band that would represent our reality if there was a battle of the bands against all the best bands in all the other realities of the Multiverse. I think you know what I'm talking about. Run of 100. $5
NEXT MONTH
Extreme Animals
Fortress of Amplitude
Dopesmoker
Super Destroy
A. Flint Jamison
GET YOUR MONEY READY!!!!
Erik
Just last night I placed an order for our new tapes. I'm happy to announce that the following tapes will be released this month:
Argumentix - Quest for Faults
Recorded while on tour in the midwest/east coast last summer. Just like their travel in the heat of the summer, this tape is warm with friendship. Friendly noise. Run of 67. $3
White Fang - Mythology
Also recorded while on tour, though only last month and while on tour through California. Specifically recorded at KDVS in Davis, California. Featuring basically all the songs you'd expect at a White Fang show presented in divine clarity and accessability, which may or may not make it the best White Fang release to date. Run of 100. $3
Breakfast Mountain
The long awaited mini-mix tape from Breakfast Mountain features 5 of BM's greatest hits. This small run will blow up your summer AGAIN! Run of 38. $3
Feather Headdress - Wananana
This 12 minute tape will crush your mind into brain juice, which the two-member
Feather Headdress would most likely smoke and blow in to your face. Run of 69. $3
Timmy the Terror and the Winter Coats - Sicks Sicks Sicks Sicks
This band is the greatest band of all time, no joke. This tape is a must have and will completely rule your tape deck. Get ready for Timmy. No other band can stand up to their devastation. Run of 100. $3
Lucky Dragons
That's right. For the first time, Gnar Tapes & Shit is making a single tape. That means one song on each side. The songs are made by none other than Lucky Dragons, which is a band that would represent our reality if there was a battle of the bands against all the best bands in all the other realities of the Multiverse. I think you know what I'm talking about. Run of 100. $5
NEXT MONTH
Extreme Animals
Fortress of Amplitude
Dopesmoker
Super Destroy
A. Flint Jamison
GET YOUR MONEY READY!!!!
Erik
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
WORK IN PROGRESS
Hello friends!
It's been awhile, I know.
We finally aren't homeless anymore. Can you believe it?
We moved into a loft/attic in Brooklyn again. That's right. We're like six blocks away from where we lived in a place known as SK8 & Rhone. We're also like a block from the original house used for our favorite all-ages venue The Artistery, but that was like five years ago or something.
AND we live a few blocks from the Reynold's House where I finally got my girlfriend Lana's number a year ago this Saturday.
Cool to be here. I have a roof-balcony to smoke on outside the window of my bed. There's also a sweet Maine Coon cat here named Turkey who can climb up and down the ladder into our room. She's fluffy and gray and looks a lot smaller than most Maine Coons I've known. She's sitting with me right now. I think we're the only ones in the house, which the kids who live here call the Meat Factory. I don't call it that.
BUT I DIGRESS.
The big news is that we can A.) we can practice here.
And B.) Gnar Tapes & Shit can finally have a workspace again.
We have at least three new tapes coming out next month.
1.Mythology by White Fang. A twenty minute set of songs recorded at KDVS in Davis, California. Widely considered by certain circles to be the cleanest and most well-produced WHT FNG release to date, this tape is a must have for fans of our songs, considering that almost all of our songs (minus a few GLARING exceptions) are contained within the plastic of our Mythology tape.
2. Sparkles by Super Destroy is by far the best. All recorded on tape from the beginning to the end of SK8 & Rhone, this tape is 30 jams featuring various line-ups and instruments. An anthology of a birth and a death, a rebirth and bag of weed, Sparkles traces the beginning of Super Destroy. Also released as a digital coupon w/zine by our favorite Marriage Records.
3. The very first self-titled Super Destroy tape is a classic. Found in the back of a store in a bin while on tour in San Francisco's Chinatown, this gem of a China-Pop Happy New Year jam will blow your mind and wet your panties.
So be ready.
DUH.
Erik
It's been awhile, I know.
We finally aren't homeless anymore. Can you believe it?
We moved into a loft/attic in Brooklyn again. That's right. We're like six blocks away from where we lived in a place known as SK8 & Rhone. We're also like a block from the original house used for our favorite all-ages venue The Artistery, but that was like five years ago or something.
AND we live a few blocks from the Reynold's House where I finally got my girlfriend Lana's number a year ago this Saturday.
Cool to be here. I have a roof-balcony to smoke on outside the window of my bed. There's also a sweet Maine Coon cat here named Turkey who can climb up and down the ladder into our room. She's fluffy and gray and looks a lot smaller than most Maine Coons I've known. She's sitting with me right now. I think we're the only ones in the house, which the kids who live here call the Meat Factory. I don't call it that.
BUT I DIGRESS.
The big news is that we can A.) we can practice here.
And B.) Gnar Tapes & Shit can finally have a workspace again.
We have at least three new tapes coming out next month.
1.Mythology by White Fang. A twenty minute set of songs recorded at KDVS in Davis, California. Widely considered by certain circles to be the cleanest and most well-produced WHT FNG release to date, this tape is a must have for fans of our songs, considering that almost all of our songs (minus a few GLARING exceptions) are contained within the plastic of our Mythology tape.
2. Sparkles by Super Destroy is by far the best. All recorded on tape from the beginning to the end of SK8 & Rhone, this tape is 30 jams featuring various line-ups and instruments. An anthology of a birth and a death, a rebirth and bag of weed, Sparkles traces the beginning of Super Destroy. Also released as a digital coupon w/zine by our favorite Marriage Records.
3. The very first self-titled Super Destroy tape is a classic. Found in the back of a store in a bin while on tour in San Francisco's Chinatown, this gem of a China-Pop Happy New Year jam will blow your mind and wet your panties.
So be ready.
DUH.
Erik
Thursday, March 5, 2009
BLACK METAL/GARBAGE
Hello all, again. It's me, Erik.
Gnar Tapes & Shit is, let's face it, seemingly dormant right now. I assure you with firm confidence and positive vibrations that it is far from inactive. I have made two new zines. One is called "Garbage" and the other is called "Black Metal." I made a limited run for each at the Kinko's. Those copies can be found around town at places like Microcosm Books in southeast on 9th & Main and Reading Frenzy downtown on 9th & Oak. Oh and Rad Summer on 28th & Burnside has some too maybe.
(I had made one with the help of Curtis Knapp & Marriage Records called "Totally" that you can get for cheap here: http://www.marriagerecs.com/shop2/493/white-fang as well as Grass Hut, Rad Summer, Microcosm, and Reading Frenzy.)
I would have pictures on here, but I don't have any yet.
Gnar Tapes & Shit is, let's face it, seemingly dormant right now. I assure you with firm confidence and positive vibrations that it is far from inactive. I have made two new zines. One is called "Garbage" and the other is called "Black Metal." I made a limited run for each at the Kinko's. Those copies can be found around town at places like Microcosm Books in southeast on 9th & Main and Reading Frenzy downtown on 9th & Oak. Oh and Rad Summer on 28th & Burnside has some too maybe.
(I had made one with the help of Curtis Knapp & Marriage Records called "Totally" that you can get for cheap here: http://www.marriagerecs.com/shop2/493/white-fang as well as Grass Hut, Rad Summer, Microcosm, and Reading Frenzy.)
I would have pictures on here, but I don't have any yet.
Monday, January 19, 2009
LONG GONE
Hey there dudes! Gnar Tapes & Shit is on a journey right now. As you may have heard, the famously cool SK8 & Rhone house (the fort where we hung our cap and socks up at the end of the day) is now forever gone.
I lived at 3626 SE 8th Avenue for more than a year and a half, but it feels like my whole life. We got evicted and now we are HOMELESS!
(This is where really tap-heavy metal riffs start playing.)
So while we're looking for a new building to house Gnar Tapes & Shit AND White Fang, we're going to have to lay low for a second.
This doesn't mean GT&S is "on a break" or "on hiatus", it just means we won't be making new merchandise for a few weeks. Anything you want can still be attained. Except for these exceptions.
I lived at 3626 SE 8th Avenue for more than a year and a half, but it feels like my whole life. We got evicted and now we are HOMELESS!
(This is where really tap-heavy metal riffs start playing.)
So while we're looking for a new building to house Gnar Tapes & Shit AND White Fang, we're going to have to lay low for a second.
This doesn't mean GT&S is "on a break" or "on hiatus", it just means we won't be making new merchandise for a few weeks. Anything you want can still be attained. Except for these exceptions.
Super Destroy - Evil Doers
$5
Dust Collector - Gnarcotix
$5
Cross Faded the Mixtape from WWJD
$5
Super Destroy - Las Blancas Mix
$5
Super Destroy - Gamma Ray 
Super Destroy - Cool Bros 
Super Destroy - Eat My Shred
I know, I know. You're probably saying "BUT DUDE! This is all your tapes!" and I'd be like "No, you can still get Death Eaters. And besides, this doesn't mean you CAN'T get these tapes."
As a matter of fact, here's a new deal.
When we get our new office, which I will make known when it happens, we will sell you any of these tapes as a CUSTOM ORDER. That means we charge you a dollar extra to handcraft you a new tape. Not too bad. You can also buy all these tapes in an AWESOME box set for an undetermined price.
MORE ON THAT LATER.
PEACE,
erik
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