White Fang - Shit Happens

New vid and song by the one and only White Fang. "Shit Happens" is a song that appeared on Gnar Tapes' "Gnarcotics Unanimous" compilation that came out in Fall '11.

White Fang - Shit Happens from Gnar Tapes on Vimeo.

White Fang - Positive Feedback

White Fang is back with their 4th album "Positive Feedback" out on Gnar Tapes. You can name your price on the download, so do that and rock out with your cock out. DOWNLOAD HERE

Lifepartner 'Ecstasy Riddim'

Can't remember where I stumbled onto Portland based Lifepartner's 'Ecstasy Riddim', but its been in everyone of my sets as of late. Moombahtoning Jam City's 'Ecstasy' Refix, which updates the 1983 rare funk single by the Endgames out of the UK, giving it a fresh update. Dont hate the Sissy Nobby sample either. Take ya persons over to his Soundcloud page to hear some other bits. Refix and original also down below. Take some pillz and vibe out bra.

Ecstacy Riddim by lifepartner

Flyer Wars

Portlandia killing it still.

Champagne Champagne - Far From Home

Champagne Champagne performs “Four Horsemen” and “Sonic Shorty” at Dot’s Cafe.

While the cooks at Dot’s Cafe are just getting their kitchen fired up, the velvet paintings never sleep. We’re loading our gear into the main room of the restaurant, setting up for the day’s first shoot. It takes a few minutes for things to sink into our sleep-deprived brains, but the general consensus eventually prevails: we’re stoked this thing actually worked out. It’s 10:00AM, and a hip-hop group from Seattle are about to get down in the classic Portland restaurant, Dot’s Cafe. Life is good.

Champagne Champagne is making its way down the coast with Mad Rad, spraying their eccentric, genre-defying rap music to the masses. Having played to a full room at Mississippi Studios the night before, the tour is off to a solid start. The group (Sir Thomas Gray, Pearl Dragon, and DJ Gajamagic) are in good spirits, sipping coffee and mocking the narcissistic absurdities of Kanye West’s 30 minute-long music video. They bust through a couple takes of new, unreleased songs that find Pearl Dragon standing up on a spinning bar stool as he rhymes, and Gajamagic shedding epileptic fits of notes out of his guitar amp. Not a bad way to wake up.

Sure, Seattle is home to plenty of hip-hop weirdos, but Champagne Champagne are perhaps among the most unsuspecting of the bunch. Growing up in the Eastside suburbs of Seattle, DJ Gajamagic (better known as Mark Gajadhar) started making songs in middle school, around the same time he played in a band with Gossip drummer Hannah Blilie. From high school on, he spent a decade as a member of post-hardcore legends the Blood Brothers (fronted by Hannah’s twin brother, Jordan Blilie). When the band broke up in ‘07, he finally had the chance to find someone to rap over the aggressive, guitar-ridden beats he’d been working on since he was a kid (while at the same time staying busy as the drummer for post-post-hardcore outfit Past Lives). He got in touch with Pearl Dragon and Sir Thomas Gray soon afterward, and the group was born. Seattle’s hip-hop landscape has never been the same.

Portlandia

This couldn't be more true.

Reva Devito Art

Reva Devito is the sultry singer on the new DTS video and she hit me up after finalizing the Dark Time Sunshine album art and she really wanted me to do some work for her while keeping in mind the vibe of the DTS art. You can see both and see how they work together.

Learning Curve Ep #2 Buffalo Madonna of Mad Rad Teaches How To Freestyle

Buffalo Madonna came to Portland last week and we asked him to do an on the fly learning curve teaching how to freestyle. The result was some one take madness.

Learning Curve Ep #2 - Buffalo Maddona of Mad Rad from Into The Woods on Vimeo.

Keep your eye out for more videos this week from intothewoods.tv

Into the Woods - Wampire

Into the woods is an episodic music series where bands take a group of their close friends to a cabin in the woods for an intimate show. It premiers on the 27th at Holocene in Portland and will be available online on the 28th.

Watch the trailer below and be hyped:

Into The Woods Episode #1 Trailer Wampire from Into The Woods on Vimeo.

Come to the premier if you are in town.
Into the Woods loves you, and loves OFS even more.

White Fang: Portland Sucks

Quick little video the Fang put out. Check for their updates and all the Gnar Tapes and shit coming out soon HERE.

White Fang -Portland Sucks from Terror Eyezzz on Vimeo.

Pedalpalooza Portland

So this coming weekend, Mad Rad is playing the jumpoff party for Pedalpalooza. It is a 2 week celebration of bicycle riding, bicycle loving, and bicycle dancing. The World's Largest Naked Bike Ride follows right after the set at midnight. So it should be pretty joyous. Portland, let's do this!

Don't forget this Friday! (& Saturday)

The Stranger didn't.

Mad Rad, The Tempers, DJ Darwin
(Comet) This just in: The Comet is a great place to see a show, particularly if the act you're seeing has a reputation for being feral. Mad Rad weren't raised by wolves per se, but they do seem a little unable to play by the rules. Their hiphop only barely sounds like hiphop. Their songs have all sorts of extra stuff in them—airplanes flying overhead, Santigold-ish wailing that turns out to be one of the guys' falsetto. They are three white guys in colorful clothes. There will be jumping around. Tables will be stood on. Things will be spilled. CHRISTOPHER FRIZZELLE"

So I doodled this for us three white guys with colorful clothes.

Why does all the press keep focusing on us being white?? And do they NOT see Darwin?!

Then onto Portland where we play with Jaguar Love @The Rotture, and then onto afterparty with White Motherfuckin' Fang at The Meat Factory.


So much color!! Ahh the insanity!

JEDEDIAH BLACK IS BACK

Jed makes good beats.

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Jeffrey Jerusalem - My Heart Is Missing You (rough video cut)

Previously mentioned Jeffrey Jerusalem has a video:


MY HEART IS MISSING YOU! from JESSE MALMED on Vimeo.

Introducing

Alright, Jordan Strong here. Holding it down in Portland Oregon. Got some shit for you all to peep:



That there is disco electronic power house Jeffrey Jerusalem. He's only played a handful of shows but his following is spreading like wildfire. Seattle needs to know who he is.



If you haven't peeped this mother fucker you don't know what you're missing. Breakfast Mountain is currently producing the hottest beats in portland right now.

Droppin by to let my presence be known. I take photos and go to a lot of shows. I am a photo editor for a production/promotion company called Potlatch Presents. Website hasn't launched yet but you will be hearing about it when it does. I'm gonna be updating with some words and pictures a whole lot.

OFS is family.

White Fang : SpaceGemz

as soon as i get on this blog the link that erik sent me finally worked. so i must say i am honored to showcase their new video off marriage records as the first offical post. White Fang are the portland homiez