The Angry Orts

Mix Six from Popdose!

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:19:02 -0400

Check it yo! bodyblood is featured on this week's Mix Six from Popdose!!! Plus another track that will blow your brains: City Morgue by Kelli Schaefer. Effing rad!!!

bloggers love us!

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 01:27:55 -0400

Check out the PDXPopNow review and Bodyblood comments at the LA based music blog Staires. It has a link to stream the song Bodyblood and a link to CDBaby to buy the compilation. (Which is entirely full of rad songs, BTW. And double BTW: go to the PDX Pop Now Festival itself next weekend. It's chock full of top notch bands who just happen to be local residents and besides that, the whole thing is 100% gol dern FREE!)

Local Cut's Gots What Ya Need!

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:37:55 -0400

Get a sneak peek at two tracks from our upcoming album! http://blogs.wweek.com/music/2010/07/14/leak-the-angry-orts-kiite-kurikaeshite-self-titled-self-release

you just got yr face rocked

Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:21:05 -0400

Holy Shit! Mississippi Ave Street Fair was aaaaaaaaaaaaaawesome! It was hotter than a mother and everyone still danced! Thanks to all the people who stood out in the crazy-hot sun and to Mississippi Studios for hosting us! We're playing a surprise show this Tuesday at the Roseland Grill with Hypernova, so come on out and get rocked again! Tickets are regularly $10, but we have some FREE TICKETS to give away, so send us an email and we can get some to ya before the show! Show starts at 8, Hypernova's on at 9 and we're on at 10!!! See you there!

New Website!

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 02:30:54 -0400

And you are seeing it--right now! Also, get ready to party at the Mississippi Street Fair this Saturday. It's the biggest street fair in all of Portland, all year. Last year 30,000 people showed up. That's like all of Klamath Falls (holla!) on a few blocks of one street at one time. It's going to be fun times, guaranteed. In fact, if you don't have fun at the MASF (miss. av. st. fair) I'll give you all your money back. (Ha, it's free, sucka!) Don't forget the sunscreen, and we'll see you at 3:30 Saturday.

MASTERED!

Wed, 19 May 2010 22:17:44 -0400

OK, so I just spent a grueling/pleasurable seven hours mastering the upcoming album with Portland mastering guru Ryan Foster at FREQ mastering studios. I am glad to report the album will undoubtedly melt your face off, and leaving you (in all probability) permanently crippled. Before leaving the studio I immediately downed two shots of Johnny Walker to celebrate and destroyed a small pinata. I was so tuckered out from the experience I had to run home and hold my chihuahua Ricardo "Pepe" Montalban. Much love to the Ort fans -Aaron

PDX Pop Now!

Tue, 04 May 2010 18:28:46 -0400

SUPER RAD ANNOUNCEMENT, YO!: bodyblood, a track off of our new album (due out on August 14), is going to be on the 2010 PDX Pop Now! compilation (sitting so pretty at lucky number 13)! To add some whipped cream and sprinkles to that banana split of awesome, we're also going to be playing the CD release show for the compilation, along with Deelay Ceelay, The Great Mundane and Tope! The show is on June 3rd at Holocene and cover is $10. Not only do you get a copy of the comp and get to shake your ass to some sweet Ptown sounds, but you can also feel great about supporting this incredible organization!

Eat Yr Heart Out

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:21:05 -0400

Sara's competing in a band bake-off throwdown this Thursday at Holocene!!! Check it, yo: DATE: Thursday 8 April TIME: 8pm COST: $3.00 day of show Holocene presents... EAT YR HEART OUT: A Culinary Music Festival Featuring live music by St. Frankie Lee Wampire A Food-themed DJ set by DJ Brokenwindow (Community Library) A live cooking demonstration by Guidance Counselor A screening of Brennan Novak's Cooking with... videos A poutine eating challenge, sponsored by Potato Champion Plus a bake-off by your favorite local bands, judged by Typhoon As Portland garners national and international praise for its vibrant music scene, it's also gaining an equally great reputation for its foodie sensibility. We are serious about great food. We love it. We live for it. Snacking, and snacking well, is a lifestyle in this town. We at Holocene are letting Portland's two favorite things, great food and great tunes, collide for an evening....and we expect delectable results! The tunes will be provided by synth poppers Wampire and utterly cuddly folk rockers St. Frankie Lee. DJ Brokenwindow of Community Library will be playing a set of 100% food-themed songs to set the mood for snacking. Come watch a live demo on making delicious vegan enchiladas by Guidance Counselor! Sign up with a partner for the DoubleDare-style poutine eating challenge, sponsored by that most beloved fry cart, Potato Champion! Experience cookies baked by your favorite local bands (The Angry Orts, White Fang, Breakfast Mountain, Reverse Dotty, Ocean Age, Blue Horns, DJs New Moon Poncho, Fleshtone, St. Frankie Lee and more), and see which cookie takes the prize....the epic panel of judges will be none other than your favorite orchestral pop ensemble: Typhoon! Throw in a screening of Brennan Novak/Potlach Presents' delightful song-and-a-recipe video series "Cooking with...", which will include the premiere of the Typhoon and Y La Bamba episodes, and you've got a most enthralling evening.

Media Exposure - A Concert For Open Government

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:25:59 -0400

Organized by the Society of Professional Journalists, the event is, in the words of board member Christian Gaston, "an effort to train journalists to do investigative and government accountability efforts." So stick it to the man, man! Come mingle, drink and shake your ass for transparency in government!

Studio!

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:29:49 -0500

So we're back at it recording again! We're working on all the stuff it takes to put together an indie album: tracking down artists, arranging for packaging, recording, writing, mixing, mastering blah blah blah... Right now it looks like we'll have the album out around August this year, hooray! Sara and Aaron are in the middle of a week long guitar and vocals stint (James and Matt banged it out in two days...), and when they're done we hope to get just a little taste out for all you excited peoples out there...

New Videos

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:40:54 -0500

Hey everybody! We've got new videos posted on YouTube from the show on Sunday at rontoms! You can check the rest of them out at: youtube.com

Great Show!

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:08:16 -0500

Last night was a really great show! We played with Worlds Greatest Ghosts, one of our very favorite bands! The turnout was awesome, we were pumped to see all you there representing on a rainy Sunday! Potlatch Presents and JQ Photography were filming the whole thing, and Rontoms recorded the night as well, so hopefully we can have some really good live footage of us posted in the near future!!

And We're Back in the Game!

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:50:48 -0500

Check out our lovely engineer: Skyler "The Hitmaker" Norwood. Aw, shucks, ain’t he dreamy? ON THAT NOTE: We’ve got some SUPER RAD NEWS, friendos! Last night, we scheduled all of our recording dates! That’s right – we’re heading back into the studio to record our second full-length album - OMG! Our first day of recording is January 30th, and we’re on schedule to finish up in the studio in mid March. We’ll be recording at Miracle Lake Studios with Skyler Norwood (the same engineer/studio we recorded with on our first album, The Purple Rhino Squad versus The Blue Whale Super Heavy Assault Troops). We are sooooo excited to be so close to getting all of our new songs out to you! No word on the release date or the album name yet, but we’ll be working diligently to getting this information out to you as soon as possible.

Show on Saturday!

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:23:22 -0500

get your dance on!

GRRRRRRZ! (Thieves are Jerks)

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:34:34 -0500

We've got some news that makes us want to beat somebody up - hence the GRRRRRRZ. This weekend, while we were in the process of moving to a new home, our old house was broken into (by total jerks) and some of our gear was stolen (both PA speakers, both mixers, 2 guitars, and various mics/cables). We called the cops (they even sent a fingerprinter!) but it looks like the possibility of getting our gear back is pretty slim. LUCKILY, all of the gear was insured, so we'll be getting new stuff here pretty quickly, even though we have to pay a big old deductible (THANKS AGAIN, DIRTY THIEVES!). And even MORE LUCKILY, all of the gear we regularly use for shows was already at our new home, so we're still going to MELT FACES on January 9th at Backspace. Even though we're going to get our gear replaced, everyone we walk by now looks like they might be the dirty thief who took our gear (even the little old ladies with eyeglasses and canes!) and we don't like it! This is terrible! The moral of the story: Don't steal from us or we will cry big salty tears of sadness (and then we will proceed to break your kneecaps as those tears are drying). Love always, the angry orts

Holla!-day CD Sale

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:07:09 -0500

Want to give your favorite people the gift of awesome this (insert your own favorite quasi-religious holiday here)?!? Well then head on over to CD Baby and pick up The Purple Rhino Squad versus The Blue Whale Super Heavy Assault Troops for just $5!!! According to Bitch Magazine, we're "scorching" and "mesmerizing", so just be sure to warn your loved ones that they might get all hot and bothered. Happy Holidays! $5 sale will end on December 25th Love, Ortsies

Indie's Top Ten!

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:05:21 -0500

Check out Mike Cameo's Indie's Top 10! Avoiding My Eyes is on the latest edition of the Pop Top 10, so download it from the website or I-Tunes and play it for your frenemies, office mates, kids or pets (and yes, Beth, your beloved collection of dead beetles in the freezer can count as pets). www.indiestop10.com Just two corrections to the info on the podcast: One: It's The Purple Rhino Squad versus The Blue Whale Super Heavy Assault Troops (not Purple Rain Squad... Prince may be a sex machine, but some Purple Rain just isnt as badass as an angry, charging Purple Rhino) Two: We ARE going to be hitting the studio again, but it won't be to record Summer Haircut (that track is already available FOR FREE AT OUR WEBSITE so head on over and get your sunshine on). We are heading into the studio to begin recording tracks for our upcoming album! Finally: if you'd like to become part of our super-wow-awesome email list (you'll be the first to get news about show and tour dates, the new album, any fun free downloads) send your name and email address to info@theangryorts.com with "Mailing List" in the subject line. And thanks to all the folks out there rocking socks to the orts! Heart, SaraSaraBoBaraBananaBanaMoMerraFeeFiFoFera...Sara!

Totally Bitchin!

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:04:57 -0500

Pick up the latest issue of Bitch magazine and check out Jim Burlingame's review of The Purple Rhino Squad versus The Blue Whale Super Heavy Assault Troops! Or just keep reading, cause we totally posted it below. Excerpt from Bitch Magazine: 'With a name that demands you grab a dictionary and an album that sounds like a Mad Libs fragment, Portland, Oregon's The Angry Orts shape your first impression with a feint, a false expectation of liberal-arts playfulness. And then they disabuse you of this notion with the scorching, Sleater-Kinney-esque "Avoiding My Eyes". Indeed, the band has an uncanny ability to cobble together disparate but familiar sounds into a seamless whole. It's a group effort, finding the door out of a house of pigeonholes, but the key that opens it is singer Sara Hernandez's chameleonlike voice. Sure, on their full-length debut, bassist James Puryear and drummer Matthew Hernandez comport themselves admirably, thumping out the rhythm on Blink-182-style numbers and keeping it subtle on quiet ones, and guitarist Aaron Ettlin switches nimbly between Jack-White-flavored freakouts and slowcore atmospherics. But the way Hernandez channels Concrete Blonde's Johnette Napolitano on one song ("Granville Island") and Belle and Sebastian-era Isobel Campbell on the next ("Vyvyan"), wielding a panoply of deja ecoute weapons, is simply astounding. Lyrically, The Angry Orts do hew close to the double-yellow cliche/redundancy line ("The leaves are changing again/So I will be leaving my friend" is followed, two tracks later, by the title "Leaving"), but you hardly notice details like these when the sounds they concoct elsewhere are so mesmerizing. - Jim Burlingame LISTEN TO WHEN: You're feeling both nostalgic and cutting edge.' Shout out to Mr. Burlingame for the review - hopefully we'll have another album to send your way soon!

Deer or the Doe

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:29:28 -0500

I caught Deer or the Doe playing at the Swim Swam Swum CD release and was particularly impressed with this song, so I thought I'd share it with you all.

I Love What You Love

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:32:05 -0500

Summer Haircut For Free!

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:36:03 -0400

Summer Haircut is up! Download it for free and recall the days of sunshine and summer drinks. Don't worry, mulled wine is just as good as a margarita, just in a different way.

House show Saturday!

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:23:04 -0400

Big party! 3821 SW Plum Street, in Portland. 10/10/09. 8:00. We've got a song for you that's so new it doesn't even have a title and we'll probably screw it up. Regardless, it'll be the most rockin'est ort song we've made in a while. You should come out, have yourself a beer from one of the kegs, and enjoy some chit chat. See you there.

twit twat tweet

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:25:28 -0400

We be twattin' fools if anybody cares. www.twitter.com/angryorts

RSS!

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:31:27 -0400

Just finished making our sweet blog extra sweetly RSS compliant. Anyone nerdy enough to know what that means can find our feed at http://www.theangryorts.com/includes/ort.xml Stick that in your aggregator and stay up to date with whatever it is we think is important (probably ourselves) or just check the website. Anyone know how you get that little orange RSS thing to show up in the address bar?

1st Music Video

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:13:00 -0700

Last week we attempted our first music video for Steel My Heart. Maddie Ettlin helped film and Sara edited it together in a couple days. Check it out!

Summer Haircut

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:11:42 -0700

So, over the last month or so, we've been recording a song in our basement "studio" (aka blankets draped over coats racks and doors) and we've finally finished it! right now, aaron's working on mixing it, and then we're going to get it mastered! AND THEN!!!!: you'll be able to download it from our website for FREE! Oh yeah, did I mention our super sweet new website layout? james worked his until his brain bled and the sun came up and then out popped our new pretty baby website - awww, how cute. soon, we'll have ringtones available, not to mention a ton of other rad stuff to download! hurray!